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EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING Only a person who has been away from our planet for some time would claim that global warming is not happening. The evidence shows abundantly on all the continents of the world. Several aspects of climate have been affected. For instance, in the temperate zones, the summers are warmer and more humid. Droughts are more frequent, particularly in Africa. Rainfall and snowfall are more intense and, in some cases, quite destructive. Snow (or ice) cover on mountaintops is…

(God Loves Uganda). Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, the founder of the Makerere Community Church uses shocking tactics to paint homosexuality in a negative light, including screening gay porn during sermons. He has enough money to have homes in both n Kampala and Las Vegas. The anti-gay Evangelical preachers also gain popularity and attention through travelling to Uganda. By asserting their cultural hegemony in the region, these religious leaders disempower LGBT Ugandans and provide little to no…

Katwe, which is in Kampala Uganda, where the movie Queen of Katwe takes place, is one of the most crime ridden places in Uganda. This is one surprising fact in an area where there is little information to go by. In the film, Queen of Katwe, director Mira Nair kept some events of Phiona Mutesi’s life the same but changed some details because she wanted to add excitement and story depth. In the film Queen of Katwe, there are many similarities and differences between the movie and the real Phiona…

Throughout the 21st century Somali terrorists have terrorized the land and sea of the horn of Africa. Somalia is a country that has been plagued with civil war since 1986. In Somalia right now there are two major Islamic terrorist groups. Theses groups are known as Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda. From what these terrorist groups have done, Somalia is ;left with close to nothing to build it back up. Somalia cannot overcome this issue of terrorism because of Al-Shabaab, terrorists taking over the nation,…

People started escaping into Tanzania and Idi accused the President of Tanzania of his people fleeing his country. Idi was angered by this so he attacked Tanzania. In doing this a battle began between the two countries. “Amin was forced to flee when Kampala was captured” (59-60). He went into hiding in Libya but he later moved to Saudi Arabia, where he lived out his life until his death on August 16, 2003. He died of organ failure. His lust for power and wanting everything to be his way…

Ophthalmic Cysticercosis Ophthalmic cysticercosis is derived from cysticercosis which is an infection by eggs in the tissue caused by a parasite. This parasite is known as Taenia solium, or more commonly called pork tapeworm. It is also an emerging parasitic disease. People can become infected by this parasite if undercooked meat is consumed or eaten raw. The eggs go into the body and form cysts. It is usually found in the intestinal tract, skin, muscles, and areas of the brain in an infected…

All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu and ABC Antidote by Ishmael Beah both deal with education and it’s affect on war. All Our Names is about two college students in Kampala who get tied up in a revolution. ABC Antidote is a short story about two former child soldiers who have finally overcome adversity and managed to get into a university. Mengestu and Beah have both written stories about war and education, but the ways their characters experience these things are vastly different. The two works…

The neighborhood that she lived in was mostly families with kids and dogs. Every one was mainly international family. Evangeline is a shy misunderstood and insecure adopted African girl. She’s short with dark brown hair. She is originally from Kampala, a dry hot humid town in Uganda right next to the equator. She was abandoned at the age of 7…

of many financial products and services. However there are some functioning in SHG among women and also some social benefits from MEDP training. 5. Khurram Ajas Khan in the study “Financial Awareness and Investment Preference of working women in Kampala, Uganda” discovers that the working women’s financial literacy is quite satisfactory. But the working women segment is still very small and needs lots of improvement from the side of…

Halana Kaleel SOC 366 17 October 2014 Uganda Early Uganda and Colonization by Britain Before Uganda was colonialized in the late 1800’s, the area of Uganda was a variety of different ethnic and religious groups. However, the Bugandans who live in the southern part of present day Uganda were the largest. The northern part of present day Uganda was Sudanic and Nilotic tribes, and there was strain between the north and south. Uganda is on the great lakes of central Africa, and located on the…