Ethiopia

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most lethal infectious disease among worldwide. This disease is known as white plague and as infected individuals for centuries. It was not until the mid 1800s that people discovered that the mode of transmission was spread from person to person, and not hereditary.1 During this time scientists found that TB was contagious and was caused by a specific bacterium. Although, treatment for TB would be introduced over 50 years later, and people who suffered with TB…

weeks. Every time I go home, I try to ask for it. Georgie: What is Ethiopian food? Nabil: That is a great questions. It has lots of different influences and it just depends. Most of the time when you ask for Ethiopian food and when you go to Ethiopia, there is actually little Ethiopian that I like, so if you can there. It is actually really vegan friendly. Georgie: I heard that and my friend who is Vegan went there and said it’s a plate full of veggies. Nabil: Yeah and we typically eat…

Every once in a while you hear about something happen in Africa somewhere. There one very special day that stood out for me and my family was about five years ago when we adopted a baby boy from Ethiopia named Bereket. It was a very long process for our family, but of course it was worth the wait. “Time to leave for Omaha!” exclaimed my grandparents. I had mixed feelings about adopting. The idea of bringing in a kid that we don’t even know was a little bit scary, but on the other side we are…

Did you know that a giraffe’s heart is 25 pounds and 2 feet long? A giraffe has a black-blue tongue that is 16-18 inches and it is black-blue so it doesn't get sunburnt. They are pregnant for 15-18 months. Giraffes eat 75 pounds of leaves in a daily basis that is a lot of leaves! A baby giraffe called a calf is 6 feet tall just when it is born! Giraffes only have to sleep 30 minutes in a 24 hour period. The Giraffe is interesting because of when it lives, how it survives, and how it has been…

was Lucy, and I had to take a picture of her because she was found in Ethiopia; which is my culture. In the museum it’s said to be the best-known earliest human species, which is now not true because of Sahelanthropus tchadensis. I’m pretty sure they know this they just don’t update their information. So Lucy is Australopithecus afarensis which is 3.85 million years old, they were found in 3 different places in East Africa; Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania. One of the cool things about…

As stated by Anderson, S., Peterson, M., & Tops, S., “ Africa is perhaps the least understood continent in the world. Misperceptions about African civilization and peoples have abandoned since European traders, slavers, and imperialists came into greater contact with Africans in the sixteenth century.” Africa located in a very special region, i.e. between Americans Continents, Europe, Asia, and Australia continents. It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, the Mediterranean Sea on the…

countries. There is also a somewhat sizable community of non-African immigrants moving to Kenya. The majority of non-refugee immigrants to Kenya come from the countries of Somalia (517,666), Uganda (271,149), South Sudan (41,721), Tanzania (32,441), and Ethiopia (21,857). Push…

Identity and its flexibility Everyday our minds change and develop. One will go through a series of life altering events, and not only will these events be life changing, but they will be identity changing as well. Ones identity is flexible and changes constantly. Change can be slight or change can be major, but identity is never fixed. We, as individuals, choose how to create our identity. That does not necessarily mean that we have many different identities, but they change as life changes.…

Benito Mussolini had a long and disastrous story on his way to become the leader of Italy. He become one of the most known leaders of WWII. He would put himself in history for what he did in Italy. How did Benito Mussolini make his mark in history? To learn the truth, you have to go back to when he was born. Benito Mussolini was born July 29, 1883 in Dovia di Predappio, Italy. His father was Alessandro Mussolini and his mother was Rosa Mussolini. He had one brother whose name was Arnaldo…

Others point to 1931, when Japan seized Manchuria from China. Others to Italy’s invasion and defeat of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in 1935, Adolf Hitler’s re-militarization of Germany’s Rhineland in 1936, the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), and Germany’s occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938 are sometimes cited. The two dates most often mentioned as “the beginning of World War…