One of the major health issues in Sub-Saharan Africa is the infant mortality rate. An infant mortality rate is the rate at which children die before they reach the age of one. In the United States the infant mortality rate is 6.1 deaths per live 1‚000 births (2017). This is even higher than Finland‚ who has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world at 2.3 deaths per 1‚000 live births (2017). At 154.4 deaths per 1‚00 live births‚ Sierra Leone is the highest in the world (2017). This number should
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Janelle Mae C. Margallo III-Sodium Asia There are 27 countries in Asia; Asia stretches from former "stans" of the USSR to the Pacific Ocean. Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China India Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kyrgyzstan Laos Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Vietnam Middle East‚ North Africa‚ and Greater Arabia The 23 countries of the Middle East
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to memory‚ and can sometimes follow you throughout your entire life. The grief and the sorrow‚ is just one theme among others‚ touched in Skye Brannon’s short story »Fireweed«. The main character in the short story is Baluta. He once lived in Liberia‚ but is somehow living in America at the time being. He lives with his brother‚ Jato‚ and his sister-in-law. Every morning Baluta goes to work by car‚ whilst his brother and sister-in-law must get up extremely early to catch the initial bus every
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they were not accepted as Africans and were rejected‚ as Angelou states “Despite our sincerity and eagerness‚ we were often rebuffed” (110). When Maya comes into contact with the Africans‚ they mistake her for being Bambara‚ a type of African from Liberia. Because of her fear of rejection and pleasure of acceptance‚ Angelou decides not to correct their inference and leaves them to believe she is African‚ she states “for the first time since my arrival‚ I was very nearly home‚ not a Ghanaian‚ but at
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around her mouth‚ and on her chin refer to the hearth and domesticity. Another mask dealing with femininity is the “Helmet mask for woman’s secret society” (inventory #5-16500) created sometime before 1948 by the Mende people of Sierra Leone/Liberia. These masks were used in a secret female society on the Guinea coast known as the Bundo/Sande society. It gains its glossy black brown color from the river bottom mud it was crafted from. In order for girls to learn the
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Martin Delaney Alexa Roy Martin Delany was born in West Virginia a free man‚ the son of Pati and Samuel Delany. He was considered free because his Mother Pati was a free women. In his growing years he and his siblings were taught to read using the New York primer to learn to read. To keep from being arrested his mother moved the children to Pennsylvania a free state. He did have to leave school occasionally to help on the family farm but eventually he did migrate to Pittsburgh where
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Americans are inferior people‚ hip-hoppers‚ drugs addicts & dealers‚ felons‚ uneducated‚ and just plain ignorant. Afro- Americans are direct descendents of West African countries such as‚ Senegal‚ Benin‚ Togo‚ Nigeria‚ Ghana‚ Sierra Leon‚ and Liberia to name a few. These people we taken from their homes strip of their religion‚ culture‚ language‚ and land. Many could have been nobility in their own right. They were brought to the America’s and sold
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Blood Diamonds: The Conflict in Sierra Leone History of Diamonds: The name "diamond" comes from the Greek word‚ "adamas" meaning unconquerable. Fittingly diamonds are made of pure carbon‚ and diamonds are the hardest natural substance known to man.[1][1] Diamonds have long been a sign of wealth and fortune. Kings and queens have worn these forms of concentrated carbon and even more countless millions people over time have lusted after them. These gems can be transparent‚ truculent white
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Years of degrading and hating the Black race ended up bringing the thought of “colonization”. Colonization was a thought or idea which would send all blacks in America back to Africa in a small civilization called “Liberia”. This idea swept up many minds that agreed with colonization‚ but before reaching the dustpan no one ever thought of what the black race contributed to America. “Indeed‚ it is impossible to conceive of what our political system would have become
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