Miswak and toothbrush are both known as oral cleansing aids. Both have same role in oral hygiene and oral health because Miswak and toothbrush has chemical that can be use to overcome the dental disease. Each tool has their own advantages and disadvantages especially in their effectiveness to cure the dental disease. Miswak do not need any dentrifices with them when the user want to use it. As mentioned in previous part‚ the reason is because the roots‚ twigs and stems of Salvadora Persica sticks
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The history of South Africa encompasses over three million years. Ape-like hominids who migrated to South Africa around three million years ago became the first human-like inhabitants of the area now known as South Africa. Representatives of homo erectus gradually replaced them around a million years ago when they also spread across Africa and into Europe and Asia. Homo erectus gave way to homo sapiens around 100‚000 years ago. The first homo sapiens formed the Bushman culture of skilled hunter-gatherers
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The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality test used both in professional and personal life to identify the psychological type an individual. It is used by the vast majority of employers‚ and is known as the world’s most popular personality tool. The MBTI test was first published in 1943‚ and initially established by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. Briggs and Myers’ model is based on personality theories and ideas of Carl Jung‚ a well-known Swiss psychologist
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Slavery in Africa has existed for many centuries. It began in the mid-fifteenth century. It depopulated many parts of Africa. The slave trade continued to grow. Multiple types of slavery existed throughout Africa during the slave trade. Before the nineteenth century‚ European slavers could not survive in the Africans’ rivalries. Using firearms controlled capturing slaves. Before Europeans arrived‚ Africa had a system of slave commerce. Muslim and Hindu merchants shipped slaves to ports around
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Megan Penney E110 10/24/10 Religion in Africa In Africa‚ before the white missionaries came‚ religion involved spiritually worshiping ancestors. Once these whites came though‚ western religion like Christianity was pressed onto the Africans. While some say that this pressure of western religion on the Africans was for their salvation‚ or even for power‚ it was really just pure ignorance on the side of the whites. The people who invaded Africa meant well at first and were supported by the government
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LITERATURE 2.0 INTRODUCTION HIV/AIDs has been ranked among the common disease of all times that is threatening us with the extinction of youths and adults. It is not only terrorizing the entire generation but also kills and leaves millions of orphans for the oldest grandparent to carter for. 2.1 HIV/AIDS IN NIGERIA According to USAID brief (2004)‚ Nigerian epidemic is characterized by one of the most rapidly increasing rates of new HIV/AIDS cases in West Africa. Adult HIV prevalence increased
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Develop a Country with AIDS One often hears that the drug is a ladder to be a developed country. When every illness has its own cure‚ there will be no health problems that we have to consider. Therefore‚ everyone can work hard‚ achieve his or her own success‚ and juxtapose the welfare of the country. But‚ is it true that drug will only bring favorable effects to the society? Is it true that drug is the heavenly way to achieve prosperity? When we talk about drugs‚ we cannot ignore one of the deadliest
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Africa In Hollywood movies‚ Africa is not depicted to be a safe or pleasant place to live and the people are stereotyped to be uncivilized or a warlord. In one of the scenes at the end of Independence Day‚ when we see that the invading army of aliens has finally been defeated by a collaborative effort by the entire world (but the film mostly focusses on the US)‚ and we get a montage of the wreckage on different continents. America gets a high-tech military base‚ Australia gets a modern city scape
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Three species of zebra still occur in Africa‚ two of which are found in East Africa. The most numerous and widespread species in the east is Burchell’s‚ also known as the common or plains zebra. The other is Grevy’s zebra‚ named for Jules Grevy‚ a president of France in the 1880s who received one from Abyssinia as a gift‚ and now found mostly in northern Kenya. (The third species‚ Equus zebra‚ is the mountain zebra‚ found in southern and southwestern Africa.) Physical Characteristics The long-legged
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following entry presents an overview of Ngugi’s career through 2002. See also Ngugi wa Thiong’o Criticism. As a spokesman for his people and a chronicler of Kenya’s modern history‚ Ngugi is widely regarded as one of the most significant writers of East Africa. His first novel‚ Weep Not‚ Child (1964)‚ was the first English-language novel to be published by an East African‚ and his account of the Mau Mau Emergency in A Grain of Wheat (1967; revised‚ 1986) presented for the first time an African perspective
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