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Benis Munganga EN101 F Professor Pacioianu November 8, 2016 Planting greens is the ultimate solution At the end of December 2014, I was texting my friend and complaining how it was very warm that night. As it usually doesn’t get warm at night back in my home country, the heat we experienced that day astonished us. While we kept complaining, I suddenly found a French article stating that 2014 has won the record of the warmest year. Despite the efforts of our President for the past ten years…

Sierra leone is a very poor country but it has a large amount of diamonds and these diamond should have brought wealth to the country and its people. Instead these diamond were used to fuel a war starting in 1991 to 2001.The people during the blood diamond civil war in sierra leone were used as slave by the R.U.F to mine diamonds and were put through very poor living conditions. This is similar to Wiesel 's experiences in the holocaust in night because he was put into a work camp and was also…

will then promote the idea of people being educated and the life expectancy rate will also increase (Literacy.) Along with these African countries, India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, account for almost three-quarters of the world's illiterate…

provisions created and carried out explicitly for refugees can often lead to broader utilization by the host countries population. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Uganda saw an influx of refugees from Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in its education sector. In specific, schools that were built for the refugee children served local students — who otherwise might not have gone to school at all — as well. The presence of the…

4. What is the climax of the play? Use rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution to explain and support your answer. Be specific. The heartbreaking, war-torn setting of Ruined provides a host of emotional and intense scenes. While we see the characters face many awful situations, the distinct climax of the play is the moment when Salima enters the already-traumatic situation covered in her own blood during act 2, scene 6. This climactic moment is preceded by an exposition that…

Ebola Rough Draft Ebola is one of the world’s most deadly diseases. So far Ebola has killed more than 30,215 people in the world and the number is going up by at least 15 people per day (“Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”). The Ebola virus has completely taken over Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Other countries such as Kayas, Spain, Lagos, Dallas Texas, New York City, Port Harcourt, and Dakar have the Ebola outbreak as well. Ebola is also known as the Hemorrhagic Fever (“Centers…

instances of conflict due to lack of regulation. The competition for resources in turn fuels the violence even more resulting in the prolonging of the conflict. A classic example of such economic motivation can be seen in the civil wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sierra Leone, and Angola where ‘blood diamonds’ played an immense role in sustaining the conflict as profits from the illegal sale of these resources were used to purchase more arms (Beswick & Jackson 2011). Moreover,…

oblivious to the genocide taking place right in front of them. Rwanda is a relatively small country, about the size of Maryland, and consists of about 7 million people. It is bordered by the countries of Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1854,…

How Refugees Became a Campaign Issue in Montana, featured in Mother Jones, is an article by Max J. Rosenthal centered on the Montana gubernatorial race of 2016. As well as discussing how refugees became a prominent issue in the Montana campaign, Rosenthal analyzes what causes people’s rejection to refugees. Starting with a reference to the Paris terrorist attacks in November, 2015 Rosenthal lays out the political and local sentiments on bringing refugees to Montana, and more specifically…

Zimbabwe is an African country located in southern Africa, just north of South Africa. The country is a republic, similar to the United States, this means that the people can vote for a leader, and everyone’s voice is heard. However, in Zimbabwe, that is not the case. Right now the president is a man named Robert Mugabe, he is 93 years old, and has been the leader of Zimbabwe since 1980. At first he was prime minister, and then in 1987 he became president, but the amount of power he had stayed…