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Zimbabwe: A Ravaged Country A country burdened with economic instability, a high number of AIDS/HIV cases, and a history of British colonization, Zimbabwe is an uncommon nation for current anthropological research. The most recent article found in American Anthropologist that relates to Zimbabwe is from 1937, when the country was still known as Southern Rhodesia. Additional research published in other academic journals also lists the country as Southern Rhodesia rather than Zimbabwe. Over the…

Cross Country The Coral Springs Cross Country team finished the season with county championships; boys finished 2nd and girls finished 3rd. They were the top public schools in Broward County. At the district meet, boys were champions for the 2nd year in a row. The girls finished 2nd but only lost by one point to Stoneman Douglas High School. At regionals, the following week after districts, boys finished 5th. Individual runner Issac Louigene finished 2nd and Khiro Hoilett finished 3rd,…

I was born in North Carolina on April 4th 1998. Where I grew up listening to an album titled Patriotic Country it is full of various artists such as Lee Greenwood, Martina McBride, Kenny Chesney and others. It was a compilation produced in response to the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. I also grew up going to visit my cousins and grandmother in Northern Virginia where almost every time my family would visit our nation’s capital. I have also been on various trips to twenty-six out of the…

There are multiple developing countries that need help for similar or different reasons. Developing countries are important to the success of the world for many reasons. A lot of reasons can come from resources and from the people that each country gives. A country that I decided to dive into and dissect is Tanzania. Tanzania has a great history, but has health and educational issues that programs are trying to help improve. Tanzania, formally know as the Tanganyika region, has been through…

idea in “A Country Divided” is talking about troubles in Northern Ireland having a civil war with the Catholics and Protestants. They had problems with each other because they had different understandings of what they should be able to do in their daily life. The main idea in “Lives in the Crossfire” is talking about a family that goes through the life of having a civil war in the authors teenage years. The author's life wasn't the best thing to go through because in just one country there were…

Soccer Paper The Country Of Football produced by editors Paulo Fontes, and Bernardo Buarque compliles some of the most recent research on football (soccer) in the diverse country of Brazil. From the cultural impact, to the political significance of the role soccer played throughout Brazil, and the rest of South America, The Country Of Football details and explores many topics such as upward mobility through soccer, racism and miscegenation, the role in industrialization and workers rights, as…

feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” (Brian Tracy) Cross country is a sport where you can either work as a team or work as an individual. Cross country, sometimes makes you as a runner work with someone you’ve never expected to worked with before because we all have our good days and bad days as runners. Cross country is not an easy sport, and neither are the practices; practicing in cross country can range from individual work to teamwork. Indian run is an exercise…

Fertility has become a universal issue within the last few decades. Fertility today is at both an all time high and low within several regions around the world. Countries such as Niger, Mali, Somalia, Uganda etc, now all have on average have six kids per family. Compared to nations such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Egypt; where the average birth rate is as low as one child per family. Global impacts, varying from increased poverty level, overcrowded homes and cities are now…

in South Africa did not only split the country in two, but left the people unwilling to pursue a change. Amidst the adversity, courageous black and white South Africans such as Alan Paton and Chief Meligqili have spoken out against the madness and have been determined to close the nation’s gap. Without the strength to administer a change, South Africa would have stayed in a lost state of confusion, misery, and hatred. In Paton’s novel, Cry, The Beloved Country, humanity is not only provided with…

A Month in the Country was written by J. L. Carr. The writer of the book whose name is J. L. Carr has the main character called as Tom Birkin. Tom Birkin was a damaged survivor of the First World War and he was tasked with uncovering the huge wall painting of the church. He went to the place that was called as Oxgodby to be able to earn money even if it was a less amount of money because he needed money to make a new beginning to get rid of the effects of the First World War. The main character…