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these various media sources, much that information was skewed to please particular constituents. This lead to false information to being spread and the epidemic being viewed as a bigger threat than it actually was. Large news networks such as CNN and BBC began to used various tactics to increase ratings. Consequently, it was hard for people to get the full picture of what was actually happening. In order to understand the effects of the Ebola epidemic, one must consider different…

Headless horseman Most of us know about the horseman who carries around a jackolantern, and who has no head and searches for one to replace his missing one (Hendricks 1). Well you may not know about that at all and you may be going “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” The Headless horseman has been a legend that has been around for many years and has had many appearances in our modern culture today. This essay will explore the legend of the Headless horseman. To start with, let's…

Buongiorno From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. (June 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Buongiorno, a DOCOMO Company, develops apps and services for mobile devices. On August 2012, after the settlement of a successful public tender offer,…

Question 1 The range is the simplest measure of variation; to obtain it, we subtract (the lowest value +1) from (the highest value). The pros of the range are that it gives us the full scope of extremes of a sample size. The cons of the range are that when the outliers are too dramatic and far away from the other numbers, they give us an inaccurate depiction of sample size. For example, due to the income inequality, the minimum wage should be at close to $25.00 per hour (Dalton, week 6). The…

to be able to battle their addiction. According to the substance abuse and mental health service administrations, 23.5 million people aged 12 and over needed treatment for a drug problem in 2009. James aged 21 from Manchester was interviewed by the BBC about his experience taking drugs and how talking to someone helped him. He started by taking Ecstasy with his friends at parties and then went on to become addicted to Heroin. He said in the interview, “i was only taking drugs to feel normal.” He…

Malala Yousafzai is a activist for women's education. Even a near death experience didn’t stop her from standing up and speaking out for what she believes in. Malala inspires girls all over the world to never give up no matter the consequences. She inspires me everyday to be brave and voice my opinions. Malala was born on July 12th 1997, in Mingora Pakistan. She lived with her parents, two younger brothers, Khushal and Atal and two pet chickens. Malala grew up a normal girl who enjoyed playing,…

To the folks at UFO Sightings Daily, NASA's archive of Mars images from its rovers is better than a candy shop. Every visit yields a new treat. "Alien critter found on Mars, gazing at rover," reads the headline on a post published recently. If you squint at the accompanying image, which is so zoomed-in that it's pixelated and fuzzy, you can almost see a tiny creature with spindly arms and a pumpkin-shaped head peering out from behind a rock. Also spotted: two alien ships, a reptile head, a…

only did they get along but she admired him too. “Her father being a school owner and teacher, Malala developed a deep passion for learning at an early age” (“I Am Malala” 1). Because Malala and her father got along, they wrote a blog together for BBC detailing her life and the life of others under Taliban rule, to show the world how they were living. Also by speaking out against the Taliban she became a spokesperson for…

The cries and screams are not your own, it’s the soul of your unborn. What do you do when you’re in fear and have no way out? What do you do when no one’s wants to listen and you are left all alone? What do you do when you’re ignored when help is most needed? Every day, these thought and concerns roam through a poor mother’s mind. What do you do when you are not ready to be a mother? Not wanting to be a mother is very common when one is just a teen. There is a solution however, it is not…

Africa’s longest-running civil war. This therefore led to the historic vote with over 98 percent of the South Sudanese population voting to separate from Sudan therefore creating the Republic of South Sudan an independent state on the 9th of July 2011 (BBC, 2011). Independence however has not brought peace any of the 10 states (UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2016). Violence continues to overwhelm members of the Sudanese public. In 2012, Sudan and Abyei the oil ruch…