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APPENDICES Appendix 1: CONSENT FORM My names are Lucy Wairimu Mugo. I am a student at Aga- Khan University. I am conducting a research study on awareness of danger signs during pregnancy among pregnant women attending Antenatal Care at Gatundu District Hospital. The study is a partial fulfillment for the award of Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and I can only achieve this through your participation. I will be using a questionnaire to collect data. If you choose to participate in the study, please…

failed to do and this resulted in her being beaten by her grandmother. The setting of the books is always changing, as her mother was doing the best she could to raise her children the proper Islamic way. Examples of some settings are Saudi Arabia, Nairobi, and Ethiopia. During her childhood she describes the different treatments she and her sister, Haweya, would receive from being girls. Mahad, her bother was allowed to play outside while the girls were learning baarri, which is a concept of…

I was born in the second biggest continent. Africa, in the city of Nairobi, Kenya, and was raised in the United States since the age of seven. My family is unbelievably big. I live with both my parents, my four brothers and my four sisters. Since elementary school to my sophomore year in high school. I've lived in a three bedroom apartment, where my siblings and I shared the same room, bed and space. My apartment complex was a lot different from where my family and I had originally lived when…

Week 5: The Imagined Community: Nationalism: • The concept of nationalism can be defined as a common identity formed between people (Okoth, 2006: 1). • Nationalism was previously viewed as an unpredictable and dangerous force (Chaterjee, 1993: 3). • Nationalism is a product of the political history of Europe (Chaterjee, 1993: 4). • CLASS QUESTION: Do you think that the Western countries had a reason to fear the phenomenon of nationalism? Imagined Community: • A nation is a socially…

A hero is someone that you can trust to do good things for people,knowing they don’t need the recognition they deserve for their hard work and determination. Most people in the world think that heroes are people that are special or have a great talent that normal people don’t, but to be honest with you, most heroes are ordinary people. These regular people’s acts make them heroes.These ordinary people can be anyone, the mailman, a grocery clerk, or a sports psychiatrist. All of these people are…

I was in Pohnpei in April for four weeks, during which time I taught in the Bible school four hours a day, five days a week; taught a cell group Bible study one evening in town each week; as well as preached in the church on Sundays (I was preaching six days a week with one day to rest). I have been returning frequently to Pohnpei, and this year was my tenth anniversary since my first visit to Pohnpei in 2002! They have been like my spiritual children in the Lord. (I returned again to Pohnpei in…

Unit 9 Project Name Institution Unit 9 Project. The term religion is derived from Latin word religio which means awe or fear in the presence of a supernatural being or God. In Indo European language, the root word lig, or leg in the term religion means “to be concerned”. This root has a connection with the Greek word alegein which means “to pay homage”. Religion has therefore to do with concern and paying heed to. (Mugambi, 2010). According to the New Webster’s concise Dictionary, Religion…

It was the year 1958. Frank Sinatra’s “Come Fly With Me” was the best-selling album in the United States, if not, the world! But weirdly enough, the irony was that most people at the time were not able to take up the offer to “glide, starry-eyed” on an aircraft with anybody. A statistic of 80 percent of the country had never once been air bound. Hard to imagine, isn’t it? There was one easy reason for this – an airline ticket was just too expensive thanks to the law. One of the major…

passenger planes, converting them into offensive weapons by flying them into key infrastructure. Additionally, Al Qaeda conducted the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the August 08, 1998 attack against the American embassy in Nairobi, in which a truck bombs killed approximately 240 people, and the October 12, 2002 bombing in Bali, which resulted in the death of 202 people and hundreds more…

many questions later the man that sat next to me assaulted me. It felt like a bad dream. My body froze up. I was screaming inside but nothing would come out. With lots of details that are not necessary to share. The flight about 9-10 hours long from Nairobi to…