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considering they were “God’s creation” as some will say (Monamy 10). On the contrary, British Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon thought that animal testing is an excellent way to learn more about our bodies and how it works (Monamy 10). However, this controversy made animal testing rise. An additional amount of scientists started using different types of animals such as monkeys, rats, birds, dogs, cats, and the list goes on and on. With animal testing in use, scientist found out how the digestive,…

Cameroon, also known as the Republic of Cameroon is an exquisite country located in western Africa. It was colonized by the Germans in 1884, they ruled until 1916. It is sometimes referred to as “Africa in miniature” because of the many different varieties of cultures and societies. Cameroon has over 250 languages, but the main two languages are French and English. Before the Cameroonians spoke French and English they were separate in distinct groups. Did you know that the French-speaking…

Global Pattern- Malaria Figure 1: global malaria distribution figure 2: global distribution of malaria mosquito Geographic Distribution of Malaria As shown on figure 1, the risk of malaria disease is concentrated between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, such as Sub-Sahara in Africa, north of South America and Southeast of Asia. Malaria is more concentrated here because these areas have similar patterns such breeding of Anopheles mosquito. This is due to…

THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT The Tuskegee syphilis study was one of the most disgraceful, immoral and unethical experiment known to mankind and to the public health system. However, it played a critical role in establishing new research regulations and guidelines in the United States. The Tuskegee syphilis study took place in Macon County, Alabama in 1932 on a large group of African American men who were unknowingly being studied. The participants were mostly uneducated sharecroppers who…

the events of his life. He hopes that his work, even if less than scintillating, will serve the purpose of helping his enslaved brethren. He begins with a history of the district where he was born: Eboe, in the kingdom of Benin, which was part of Guinea. Equiano was born in 1745 in Essaka, a small province so far from the sea that he had never heard of it or of white people. Eboe had an established system of law and marriage. Equiano's father was an elder – called an Embrenché in his society –…

Benin is a country in West Africa. The official name of the country is the Republic of Benin. As of 1 January 2017, the population of Benin was estimated to be 11,324,032 people. The Benin Republic is a West African country on the Gulf of Guinea. Bordered by Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger and Nigeria. The official language of Benin is French. They use other indigenous languages such as Fon and Yoruba The largest religious group in Benin is Roman Catholicism, followed closely by Islam, Vodun and…

facts stating, “Of the 168 countries on which I collected data-for Harvard University’s Project on Global Working Families and at Mc Gill University-164 have found a way to guarantee paid maternity leave. The only ones that haven’t are Papua, New Guinea, Swaziland, Lesotho and the United States.” Not only does this statement provide specific facts and information pertaining the topic of maternity leave, it also displays the credibility of the information she, herself, researched for Harvard and…

unaware, Liberia remains a nation in West Africa that remained devastated by the Ebola outbreak of 2014. Not only did the outbreak bring the nation's economy to a halt, it also killed thousands of people. In addition, countries such as Sierra Leone and Guinea also faced the…

Yes, animal testing is a everyday thing. Things we use all the time were at one point tested on an animal. Animal testing has been present in our lives for centuries. It started in the fifth century B.C. Every medicine, body products, prescription drugs, and a whole lot of more are used on animals before people start to sell them in stores. The reason animals are tested is because the owners need to make sure the product is safe for other people to use. When animals are tested and something goes…

Animal experimentation has made many breakthroughs in modern medicine since it’s been used, but is it really worth the millions and millions of helpless animals that scientists imprison, test on, and murder every year? As many as a million animals are stuck inside of small cages in American laboratories at this moment, scared for their lives after watching the previous animals get tortured and then immediately killed after they were tested on. Almost every animal that goes through the testing…