Megafauna of Africa

Elephant Poaching In the early 20th century there were 3-5 million elephants throughout Africa, India, and Asia, but numbers are rapidly dropping leaving only 472,000-640,000 left in the wild. So what happened? Like most problems, you can find a way to trace it back to humans and in this case it is almost entirely our fault. Because of excessive poaching, agricultural expansion, and many other factors humans are slowly killing off these beautiful and sophic creatures. China is the leading…

Due its horrific role in the history of the United States the concept of slavery has an extremely negative connotation in the modern mind. This association leads to an entirely justified denouncement of all slavery, including that of the ancient world. However, the ancient world was a much harsher reality than our modern society and to view both systems of slavery through the same lens would only lead to a misinterpretation and false judgment of ancient culture and practices. Slavery in the…

There are a lot of stories mentioned in the book about the reality that there are people that needs our help and stories about people doing something to attend to those needs. These stories somehow reached and touched my heart just like the story of Lauren Bush. She started a social enterprise with a similar business model as of the TOMS shoes. The main mission of her business is to be able to provide a meal for students because she had the opportunity to see firsthand the effects of…

Hunter Gatherers vs Modern Man When the first modern humans appeared in Africa 200,000 ago no doubt was our species a longshot, and by some stroke of luck we survived ice ages, being hunted by dominant species, hunting & gathering, famines, plagues, genocides, and countless other potential extinction events. Our species evolved from hunter gatherers to the species we live as today, but in which lifestyle do we live better at. Clearly the modern man is far superior to hunter gatherers due to the…

On the 19th of August in 1992, Mary Fisher delivered a speech regarding the growing epidemic, AIDS. She presented this speech at the Republican National Convention Address in Houston, Texas. During the early 1990s HIV was spreading rapidly and affected millions of people across the nation. Fisher made a point that having AIDS is not something to hide, it is a growing issue that people need to be aware of and society should help those with the disease (Par. 1). “The reality of AIDS is…

In the Pulitzer prize winning novel by Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel is written to answer a question posed by a New Guinea man named Yali. Yali’s question was “Why is it that you whites people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” 1 (GGS page 14). Basicly this question in asking why the white Europeans able to have all the cargo1 (What is Cargo) when blacks from New Guinea did not make or have much cargo. Diamond writes…

Every year, there are millions of people at risk of going hungry. We as a nation should be able to help everyone. There are wealthy nations that have high poverty rates. Those poverty rates have risen but with the help of the wealthy in the United States poverty can decrease. I am not saying the wealthy should have to help. I am saying the wealthy should morally want to help. The rich should morally help the poor because it makes the nation better overall. The rich should not be forced to help…

One of the most interesting and life-threatening epidemic that is happening in the world both in developing and developed nations is the spread of the HIV virus. This virus has very quiet approach once it is contracted by the individual however, it can begin to have an outward symptom as the virus begins to develop in the body. The HIV virus in the beginning is very quiet in the body, it doesn't attack quickly until a person begins to feel flulike symptoms. The populations that are most…

of the colonial triangle, was far from the brutal reality of chattel slavery in the Caribbean colonies and Africa.…

Over Fall Break, on October 15th, I watched a video called “Poverty, Incorporated”. The video demonstrated different challenges from current charities and how one can promote alternative solutions to the world in an effective way. While watching the documentary of the film made viewers think of some insight on how one can help or hurt poverty through charities or companies. Throughout the film it discusses several ideas of how poverty can be used essentially for money. This means that one can…