Guinea

BBC news recently published an article covering eight health care workers that were murdered in Guinea. The BBC article went on to say that these healthcare workers were persecuted because the people of Guinea postulated that these workers were in their country spreading the disease as a way for the white man to kill the black man. Some villagers even believed that Ebola did not exist (BBC, 2014). FoxNews…

Jared Diamond went to New Guinea to originally research birds that lived there. Along his travels he met a man named Yali who he spent some time talking to, who then asked Jared the question Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own? Jared at the time had no answer to Yali’s question, so he decided to do research on the question and wrote a book about it. His theory to Yali’s question was it’s not the…

In ancient societies rituals played a key role in the structure of the community. Because lifespans were much shorter, boys needed to come of age quicker in order to replenish the supply of adults to lead the group. Today, many rituals for coming of age are based off our ancestors, however, they have lost their importance and become an empty process. Modern writers, like T.S. Eliot, Jeffery Eugenides, and William Maxwell, now talk of how this loss of ritual and thus the loss of a spiritual and…

Several cosmetic tests are usually performed on the smaller animals like mice, and guinea pigs. Tests are performed by the chemical or product being applied to shaved skin and then it’s covered in plastic just to sit and wait to see if something happens in either a couple hours of just minutes after they apply it. Or if it’s for eyes…

commit a crime that is, and you aren't’ a slave or just another object or resource to someone. Its safe to assume that you’re happy about that right? Because some others aren’t so lucky. Tens of thousands, even a 100000 or more animals, like rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, and rats are subjected to painful, even lethal tests each year in the U.S. these tests are done just to bring the american citizens things like eyeshadow, shaving cream, and other cosmetics. These animals have committed no crime,…

On average, about 26 million animals are taken and used as little test subjects for big corporations to test their possibly harmful, and occasionally lethal, products before they release them to the public's use. This testing on animals began in 500 B.C and many corporations that participate in it see no harm, and have absolutely no intentions of stopping it anytime soon. There are many people that think testing these possibly dangerous products on innocent animals is not a big deal, but this…

classifications of animals. One side was the Patriots, who were in favor of Garth, and the other side was the royalists, who respected Garth and would support all his decisions. Some of the foremost animals on the Patriots side was Jake the dog, Susie the guinea pig, Polly the parrot, Wheely the hamster, Boots the dog, Big Lizard the bearded dragon, and Diablo the chiwawa. Jake was great at leading the animals through the struggles they faced, who followed him willing and decided silently that…

Robinson Crusoe is a novel that took place about the times of the the 17th century and even earlier. Robinson Crusoe was born into a wealthy family and was born in Great Britain. Robinson Crusoe was widely liked and well respected, but not just to his people, but the whole town that knew of him really enjoyed having him around. Crusoe was always wanting to becoming an explorer that travels the seven seas and tries to make a living out of it. Although his father didn’t approve of it he still…

Benedict was able to group the whole personalities of a culture into two; Apollonian and Dionysian. Apollonian maintain stability in behavior and have control which usually is consider as normal. Apollo refers to God of sun, light which represent maturity, power and control. Unlike, Dionysus is God of wine, agriculture and nature. So personality that falls under Dionysian is ruminate loss control and engaging in unexpected activities and more (lecture, 02/16/16). It is the normal vs abnormal.…

and environments differ and makes diamond wonder how unity came through. China has over 130 little languages and four linguistic families and explains them and their cultures. Chapter 17: The movement that brought ancient people to Australia and New Guinea also brought people to the Polynesian islands and this causes him to look at the direction it happened in. Today in the Polynesian islands is homogenous in terms of language and genetics and is surprising because not many humans occupied the…