Economic Community of West African States

builder. In the November 1964 election, the president received the majority of votes, and Goldwater could only obtain the support of his home state. The Medicare program, established in 1965, provided federal aid to the elderly for medical expenses.However, those who denounced it called it a “socialized medicine”. To defuse the opposition of the medical community, doctors were allowed to serve Medicare patients privately.In 1966, Johnson lead the passage…

The history of African Americans has always been limited in many school systems creating an ignorance to many people on the construction of this race. To truly understand why a race of people do things you need to know their history and where they came from. The African American Experience is often considered one of the most interesting pieces in history. Africa, the world’s oldest populated area and also considered the beginning of humanity was comprised up to 10,000 different states and groups…

in general United States History classes. However, there has been a fair amount of documentation and research on tribal participation with bands ranging from the Seminoles of the southernmost Florida region to the Delaware tribes of the Northeastern territory. Many people are unaware of the loss of life that the Native Americans suffered as participants of a war they did not have an overwhelming amount of interest in. When the Civil War, commonly known as The War Between The States, broke out in…

many different villages. The Simulium adult female bites humans during the day, from dawn to dusk. If the bitten person is infected with onchocerciasis, O. volvulus microfilariae are ingested with the blood and then mature into the infected larvae state in one to three weeks. The infective larvae are then passed on to other people and mature into adult worms when the fly takes another blood meal (CDC, 2013). Thus, the Simulium blackfly acts an intermediate host for the parasite’s life…

Throughout chapter eight, the audience is exposed to different examples of globalization. Globalization is referred to as “a contemporary form of cultural and economic integration facilitated by electronic media, international financial institutes, trade agreements, and national immigration policies” according to Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey (Kirk and Okazawa 2013,G-3). In other words, globalization is how different nations interact, exploring each other’s cultures, and sometimes adopting…

Presidential administrations. However, we can speculate that Trump will carry forth his America First approach to how he conducts relations with Africa. A result is the U.S. government turning away from general foreign aid with intentions to help African social development and instead alter it to help promote U.S. interests in Africa. It can be argued that this is already done, but the shift could be more outright and not have the rhetoric that many in Africa…

and to expand trade. Whether people were enslaved for economic benefit or a matter of racism is the question at hand. One could assemble many arguments that the enslaved community was solely suppressed for reasons concerning racism, however slavery was economically beneficial to landowners and plantation development. Even though, slaves were thought as subhuman, lesser than the common man these thoughts could have been driven by the economic impact such people had on societies. Robin Osborne, in…

all drug-related violence consisting inside Mexico’s borders, leaving drug trafficking a problem to the United States. The ongoing fight against drug cartels has been hampered by rampant corruption among local and federal police and politicians, some of whom have actively worked with cartels for their own benefit.₁ Recently, Mexico’s continuation of drug trafficking to the United States has been increasing drug use for minors and has caused more violence. According to the National Survey on…

A Case of Gentrification The reduction of black housing in the inner city of New Orleans is in a staggering position for a city having, record-setting economic growth post Hurricane Katrina. The longtime historically African-American lower to middle class warded off territories of New Orleans’ inner city, whether it may be uptown, downtown or in between are increasingly being overrun by a younger, more affluent race of white upper and middle class investors, eager with thoughts of redevelopment…

The Civil War; The Causes, The Comparisons, and The predictions The American Civil War was a war fought within the United States of America between the North and South Colonies starting from 1861 and ending in 1865. This war was one of the Deadliest events in American history, costing more than 600,000 Americans their lives. From the South’s point of view, this war was a War for Southern Independence, whereas the North saw it as a Revolt to the Union. This war started as a result of many years…