Liberia

Peter Kolchin argues that although there has been extensive study of slavery, “we still lack a volume that pulls together what we have learned to present a coherent history of slavery in America” In American Slavery Kolchin wants to “synthesize and make sense of recent historical research on slavery.” He accomplishes this, first, by presenting a historiographical evolution of slavery while adding historical controversies that arise due to differing interpretation. Second, presenting a…

The issues of the European initial scramble of Africa still peaks historians interest today. It is understood that the initial scramble for Africa was a tremendous surge of European imperialism. From the mid-1800s to the early 1900s European powers had rule over Africa. European powers divided Africa up amongst each other without consent of the African citizens and without any knowledge of the continent they took over. “Many of the early explorers of Africa were geographers and scientists who…

that one of the key factors that exacerbated the spread of Ebola in West Africa was the lack of healthcare infrastructure that was associated with the extreme poverty in the area. According to the World Health Organization, countries like Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, often considered to be the most impoverished nations, has health infrastructure that was left decimated…

Emmeline, two of Legree’s slaves, escape and meet with Eliza, who turns out to be Cassy’s long-lost daughter, and her family. Cassy, Emmeline, Eliza, Eliza’s child Harry, Eliza’s husband George, and George’s sister travel to France and then later to Liberia to live out their lives in…

The Ebola Virus has affected many people across the across the world, specifically West Africa. In 2014, West Africa had a major outbreak, resulting in thousands of people dying. There are many health impacts on this disease, and many people have been trying to destroy this terrible disease, as well as ways to prevent it. In 1976, there were three outbakes of the Ebola Virus, one in Nzara, one in South Sudan and one in Yambuku. The Ebola virus got its name from the first outbreak occurring…

Race and Racism in IR A race is a group of people sharing a similar genetic makeup which enable them to be differentiated from others by biological aspects. Racism is the show of hostility or discriminating someone on the basis of their race. Other opinions outline racism as a belief of the inequality of races and that treatment of people should be according to their origin. Therefore, a racist is one believing in the superiority of their race over that of others. On the same note, racism may be…

Abraham Lincoln, along with other leaders we look up to like Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and George Washington were all influential people, all did something to change the world, and each one of these people also dealt with a considerable amount of flaws. Every one of them were ordinary people prone to good and bad intentions and making mistakes and learning from them. We are often told to ignore the wrong doings and look the other way. As humans, we enjoy focusing on the good these people…

A total of one hundred ninety-six countries (One-hundred ninety-five, if people don’t include Taiwan) in the world and they all use the metric system, except Burma, Liberia, and the United States. Gabriel Mouton is the “father” of the International System of Units because he proposed the idea of the decimal system of measurement in 1670. The decimal system was an easy concept to comprehend, and throughout many years scientists would revise his work and make it better. During the French…

+Adam Molani IQ is not affected by education or environment. "Negroid" is the official scientific namo of the black sub-saharan race who have an average IQ of 68. Stop pretending you know about this subject. For over a century the IQ of people in every country has been intensively studied and thousands of international IQ surveys have been averaged out by hundreds of Universities to give reliable average IQ figures for each country. The racial correlation with IQ has been confirmed by EVERY…

Immigrants come to the United States of America for economic opportunities, safer living conditions, etc. When immigrants travel to America, they experience a culture shock and several of them take years before they can feel integrated into society, and sometimes numerous of immigrants never completely adapt. In Everyday Illegal by Joanna Derby some immigrants are illegal and deal with other situations besides being an outsider in a foreign land. There are some negative consequences of parents…