Kenya

11-15. Citation Tarshis,Lauren ¨Attack of the Man-Eaters.¨ Scholastic Scope, Vol. 64,No.2, Nov. 2015,pp. 16-19. Summary In March 1898 Mombasa,Kenya Colonel J.H. Patterson was a British Engineer who went to construct a Uganda railroad but they had to camp out. As the campers slept lions came and ate the men at night. The lions killed a total of 75 men. Patterson Wondered why the lions didn't…

Good evening, everyone. We made it! First, I would like to express gratitude for my unusual presence on this podium today, it’s an honor. I came to Kansas City from Kenya about 3 years, when I first arrived I was very confused, I remember trying to figure out the workings of a vending machine, I thought the Big House was a prison and I could not wait to meet the uncle Sam everyone talked about. As it turns out, I do not want to meet uncle Sam. However, in the midst of all this confusion I…

Things take a huge turn when the events of 9/11 unfold and make everyone's life much more difficult, especially Fadi’s when two boys start bullying him. Later on, Fadi takes interest in a photography contest that will give the winner a flight to China, Kenya, or India, and if he won, he could fly to India which is near Peshawar where he could go to find Mariam. With the help of his elder sister Noor, he gets enough money to join, but then the problem of what to take a picture of hits him. Once…

Terrorism is something that happens so often in many different countries. Terrorism is the act of violence from a person or group to another country. It happens more often than people realize. Many terrorists live in different countries than they were born in. One of the most hated terrorist is Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden was born in 1957 in Saudi Arabia and was one of 50 children in his family. When bin Laden was 11 years old, his father died in a helicopter accident (“Terrorism research,”…

When we think of giving aid, most of our underlying intentions are to help people by giving them resources that would help improved the current situation. But what really happens when we give aid is that it just temporarily relief the problem instead of providing resources to help improve development for the people. I think most of the time when we are donating clothes and giving money to help a country in need, we think we are actually helping to improve and we assume that we are making it…

life for himself through his desire to achieve within the classroom. Similarly, Njoroge from James Ngugi’s novel Weep Not, Child tells a similar story as a young black boy attains maturity in the face of anti-colonialism and the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya during the decolonization of Africa in the 1950s-1960s. Njoroge’s views and perspectives on education transform as Africa shifts from a familiar land to one conquered by violence…

Age difference existing between children may affect the quality and quantity of their interactions even when they are well acquainted, and bullying of younger peer can appear as well as rejection by own peers (Ratrup, 1983). Friendship and social interaction become better and stable with age: 2-3 year children old flirt with different playmates, while five years olds are faithful to one or two peers sometime (Brierman and Furman, 1984). This is because younger children are less differentiated in…

'In the book, A Long Walk To Water, a sudanese boy named Salva had to overcome hundreds of deadly challenges, survive a war, walk for over one thousand miles in harsh terrain with unknown dangers, lead thousands of boys to safety, and even live in an entirely new country but no matter how hard the challenge was Salva always came through. In this essay I will talk about how Salva overcame all his challenges with his persistence, help from his his uncle, and memories of his family. Salva’s Uncle…

United States have not fully addressed the need or want for paid maternity/ paternity leave or to take it one step further to include paid family leave. She states that many other countries such as “Sweden (480 days), Germany (365 days), Italy (90), Kenya (14), Switzerland (3), and Indonesia (2) provide paternity leave (Belkin). However, among these, the United States are not required and often don’t provide the same entities of other countries. Lisa Belkin dives into the controversy of paid…

around the world but what they do not know is how extreme it can be in certain places. If people in our society would take a chance to see this film they might not take for granted everything they have in life because compared to how people live in Kenya, they definitely live a lavished lifestyle. In my opinion it was eye opening to discover that this poverty that millions of people live in today dates back to hundreds of years and how if we do not fix this unequal gap between the rich and poor,…