1986

As an immigrant, I’ve heard the history of South Africa recounted countless times. While I can report the events of the apartheid era and describe Nelson Mandela’s role in the journey to reconciliation, the history textbooks I’ve read are purely factual, lacking emotion and true human sentiment. I’ve always wondered how South Africans felt amidst these tensions and how day-to-day interactions were affected by such intense political turmoil; that’s when my mom introduced me to Fiela’s Child, a…

Failed Schemes and Projects. Ganga action plan: - Route in 1986, the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi dispatched Rs 462-crore venture to clean the Ganga in Varanasi. Under this plan sewage treatment plants were situated up, crude sewage was cut off and occupied, electric and wood crematoria was situated up and…

and 56 MJ are the amounts of energy need for retention of protein and lipids (g/d), respectively. 0.025×YW, 0.0036×AW and 0.0012×SW are the energy required to produce each gram of yolk, albumen, and shell (MJ / g), respectively (Emmans and Fisher, 1986). The same concept is used to calculate the requirement of amino acids considering maintenance, growth (Eq.3) and egg production in the case of laying hens and breeders…

the fund source for MWR Panel. The lawmaker had argued raise tobacco prices reasoned that will violate the law and diverge from congressional control. Some of the Congress representatives have considered the restriction policy contradicted the law in 1986. Some members from the Congress and the MWR Panel members were getting money from the tobacco industry (Offen et al.,…

stated to become a real competitor in international athletics. His next big achievements were in 1984 Summer Olympics where he also received 2 bronze medals in 100 and the 4 × 100 He finally won gold medals in the 100 metre and 4 x 100 events at the 1986…

Vietnam War, for some regarded even as one of the most important conflict after the Second World War must have had a great impact on American economy, culture, politics and more importantly society. More than 58,000 American soldiers were killed while more than 150,000 others wounded. A disastrous effect had not only the fight with Vietnamese soldiers but also herbicides – “Agent Orange”, which increased rates of i.e. cancers, nerve, digestive, skin, and respiratory disorders among the veterans.…

Showing readers a glimpse of the life of an African American man in the year 1986, Brent Staples’s memoir, “Black Men and Public Space” unmasks the racism embedded in American society even to this day. Staples’s experiences during his life, more specifically in 1968, show the oppression fixed upon the minority of Africans in America. The first line of the article ‘My first victim was a white woman’ (Staples) starts off forcing the believer to think he a rapist or a murderer. He puts you in this…

two and a half thousand years have passed; however, the problem is still relevant. Even after women joined the military or worked as Rosie the Riveters during World War II, the gender equality still takes place in modern society. O’Kelly and Carney (1986) note that many women of all ages had replaced men…

Our hearts are Bigger, our bonds are STRONGER, our hits are HARDER, our traditions OLDER, but our weaknesses… FEWER. The New York Giants are a professional American football team located in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team plays its home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey, at MetLife Stadium, which it shares with the New York Jets in a unique…

NAACP. Another one of Oprah's major accomplishments is that she was awarded the ‘Presidential Medal’ of freedom. Oprah became the first African-American female billionaire in 2003. She is best-known for hosting her own worldwide popular talk show from 1986-2011. She is also a producer, actress, philanthropist, and publisher. Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on an isolated farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Her parents Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey were separated, as a result, she lived with her…