Hookworm

importance of building sustainability and has led to continued evolution of its giving efforts (Mazzoni, 2013). Beyond One for One, in the past eight years over 10 million pair of shoes has been donated, children in poor countries have been protected from hookworm with medication and increase the student enrollment after the One for One movement. TOMS has now expanded to production plants in Argrentina, Ethiopia and China (TOMS.com, 2015). TOMS’ different business model and strategy allows it…

and they all know that the Cunninghams are very poor and can’t afford to bring lunch. “Walter Cunningham didn’t forget his lunch, he didn’t have any. He had none today nor would he have any tomorrow or the next day.” (Chapter 2, p. 26) Walter has hookworms because he doesn't wear any shoes. He is portrayed as a poor person of low social status. This makes the readers feel sorry for Walter Cunningham. It also makes the readers think that Maycomb is quite a poor town because a student can’t afford…

The Need for Animal Research A woman gets up early in the morning. She enters her bathroom, takes a shower, puts on makeup, eats breakfast, takes her medication, and heads out the door to her job. In this scenario, the woman uses an assortment of goods, all of which have been deemed appropriate for human use. People go through life using various products on a daily basis. In this case, the woman washed her body with soap, applied a red lipstick, used an oil substitute to cook with, and took a…

Malnutrition is the insufficient, excessive, or imbalanced consumption of nutrients—it means literally “bad nutrition”. This was the concern of anthropologist Katherine A. Dettwyler in her book Dancing Skeletons. An ethnography set in Mali, a West African country, the book is Dettwyler’s account as she attempts to measure and document the effects of malnutrition on Malian children. Her ultimate goal is to develop “culturally appropriate nutrition education programs” (Dettwyler 1994, 7). This is…

1901 Rockefeller founded the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research for discovering diseases and cures. (The Rockefeller Archive Center) “The Foundation's International Health Division its early field research on hookworm, malaria and yellow fever provided the basic techniques to control these diseases and established the pattern of modern public health services.” (The Rockefeller Archive Center) Later on the Foundation’s International Health Division expanded the…

Imagine having to walk 5 miles to a somewhat mediocre education every day because you can’t afford a car. Now imagine doing that barefoot along bacteria infested ground. Many kids must go through this. The absence of proper footwear perpetuates the cycle of poverty through generations that is harmful due to the lifelong physical problems, school and job acceptance rate, and diseases. There are an estimated 300 million people worldwide who can’t afford a simple pair of shoes. (Goldberg, “Man…

White trash has become a massive history in America dating back from the colonial period in Jamestown to the present day. Isenberg, in her book about the ‘white trash’ and as ‘the face of a white trash’, explains the unpleasant fine points of our national identity, tying to the America’s social hierarchy and how America has never offered an equal opportunity to all white comers. She gives us a very powerful insight about how the imagery of the class system and the consistency of prejudice is…

When thinking about the Mayan civilization in the common mind, anemia is most likely not even a thought associated with the Maya. Instead, one may think of the architecture, culture, and reputation. In a 2011 article published by Katie Whitaker for the University of Ontario Journal of Anthropology, she explains the correlation between the Maya population and the evidence of anemia that was often overlooked since it was not a life-threatening disease such as the more common diseases like syphilis…

There was a low prevalence of intestinal parasites infection with 2% or less. for Ascaris lumbricoides (1.3%), Hookworm (0.9%) and intestinal protozoa (2%).The prevalence of Schistosoma haemtobium was 10%. • Total polyparasitic infection was 11% with Plasmodium falciparum and Schistosoma haemtobium co-infection (8.4%) being the most significant polyparasitic infections…

Prestige, Petroleum, Power American tycoon John D. Rockefeller started from the bottom and worked his way to the top. He was a very intellectual individual who greatly influenced American Society. Using his brains and resources wisely, John Rockefeller became one of the smartest and richest people in the country. Throughout his life, John achieved several outstanding achievements that most Americans strive for. Rockefeller grew up in a middle class family who helped shape him. One main influence…