Lit. 329 Imagining Trauma Ebola Extra Credit Essay The Ebola Outbreak The Ebola outbreak has took a huge toll on the world‚ however it is primarily in the African countries Sierra Leone and Liberia. It spreads through bodily fluids including sweat which is one reason it spreads so fast there. In African culture people are allowed to embrace the dead person and may have to carry a sick person to a medical area. This causes the virus to spread without them even realizing it. Ebola has a 90%
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Southern California Medical Center. Knowing she wanted to work on a biomedical engineer research assignment‚ she quickly determined to apply to serve as a volunteer at a Peace Corps. From 1983 to 1985‚ Jemison became a volunteer in Sierra Leone and Liberia (Jemison 2). She says this job was the most difficult because “I was on call seven days a week‚ twenty- four hours a day‚ 365
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David Sengeh was born in Sierra Leone in 1987. He grew up in the city of Bol where his father was an executive at UNICEF‚ serving as the agencies Planning‚ Monitoring and Evaluation specialist as well as the Deputy Country Representative for Sierra Leone. Growing up in a family of privilege‚ at least by Sierra Leone standards‚ David Sengeh attended private school as a young man‚ but that does not mean he was immune from the atrocities of the civil war raging in Sierra Leone from 1991-2001. Two
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Peng Zhan‚ a Chinese born Global Business Management graduate of Central Lancashire University has had twenty years experience working in large mining projects at a senior level of big companies in Cameroon and Niger. His long term friend and mining entrepreneur‚ Abigail Jallow‚ who has made a fortune mining copper has contacted him about a new opportunity. The proposition is that he could set up his own company and take over a proposed gold mining opportunity in Sierra Leone. At present the
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The Bite of the Mango is the true story of Mariatu Kamara‚ a girl born in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone‚ an impoverished country on the west coast of Africa‚ was in a horrific civil war while Mariatu was a child. Despite the poverty in her tiny rural village‚ Mariatu’s first few years are happy ones‚ filled with friends‚ games and chores. Mariatu’s father has two wives‚ neither of whom seems very pleasant. Mariatu is given to an auntie to raise‚ which likely would have been a great idea had the village
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To start out‚ Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa whose history for a long time has not been good. The West African country was established by the Temne and Mende local tribes in the area but soon after it flourished the Scramble of Africa took place and Britain took control in 1787. From then on the European imposed a hut tax and would utilize most of Sierra Leone’s natural resources to make themselves wealthy. This caused the government today to even be weak and Africans to be anti-european
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Introduction Guinea‚ or The Republic of Guinea‚ is a country located in South Africa that possesses major mineral wealth and agricultural resources‚ making it one of Africa’s potentially richest countries (BBC News‚ 2010). Yet‚ the country is still an undeveloped nation allowing for its people being amongst the poorest in West Africa. Flag of Guinea Background The area that occupies Guinea today once belonged to various West African civilizations such as the Ghana‚ Mali‚ and Songhai Empires
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looked up to by many women and children and men should also look up to her strength. While doing some research on Sirleaf I found out some very surprising information about her. I would have never known that Sirleaf was able to become president of Liberia being technically multiracial and because of that many people would call her Americo-Liberian even though she does not identify herself in that way. When she was just 17 in 1956 she married James Sirleaf who is now deceased and they had four children
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Cross-Cultural Realities at Work Individual Assignment For my cross-cultural assignment I interviewed Wally who is from The Ivory Coast located in West Africa. Wally moved to America when he was 14 years old. He is a soccer coach at the Roswell Rd Recreational Center at the current age of 18‚ which he has been doing for 2 years now. The typical work day as Wally described is like a party because he is constantly around kids who are full of energy. I asked Wally what encouraged him to do this
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Africa as the Centerpiece of Nigeria’s Foreign Policy Upon independence in 1960 Nigeria’s major foreign policy aim has been in the restoration of the African dignity and this became the centerpiece of the countries foreign policy. Africa has remained the centerpiece of the Nigerian foreign policy since independence when it was adopted under President Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. In his acceptance speech at the United Nations on October 8‚ 1960‚ Balewa clearly portrayed Africa as the foremost concern
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