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a. Describe the Simondou iron ore exploration and mining project. The Simondou project is a mining and ore exploration project in Southeast Guinea, managed by the Rio Tinto Company. The mining camp is located between the cities of Dandano, Boola and Beyla. The surrounding communities are composed by many of the poorest people of the Republic of Guinea. There is lack of adequate sanitation and safe drinking water. The existing health system is weak and overwhelmed. Avid to explore the iron of…

IDA TARBELL 3 Ida Tarbell: A Muckraking Investigator Ida Tarbell was a woman who had a whole bunch of ambition. She achieved a lot of accomplishments in her life. She didn’t let anything get in her way. Ida Tarbell was a strong willed woman who revealed the monopoly of the Standard Oil Company, created a new type of journalism, and became famous for doing something she…

the development of clubs, organizations, and other developmental media that gave African Americans structure in the organization of their case against racial discrimination and inequality. Among those leaders influencing this development was Ida B. Wells. Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862, to her father Jim Wells, a trustee on the board of Shaw University, later called Rust College, and her mother Elisabeth Wells. Her parents taught her the importance of an education…

Darlene Maciel Women Studies This altar is dedicated to Ida Barnett Wells, Civil Activist, and Journalist 1862-1931 Ida Barnett Wells was courage’s women who fought for what she believed in; her beliefs were strong and powerful. Her background shaped who she was and had become. Wells was the daughter of James and Lizze Wells, slaves who were living in Mississippi, whom which were freed a couple months after Ida was born. Even though they were freed salves, they still encountered injustice…

Originating from a small town was unquestionably discouraging for the reason that I was surrounded by shiftless, narrow-minded people who let life get in the way of their success. My community had reachable goals and realistic dreams, but it was rare for someone to actually achieve then. Gradually I noticed the stress of work and life itself taking away the hope and perseverance of the ones willing to succeed. Therefore being around abandoned dreams made me believe that life offered few…

When black Wacoans tell God, they tell the weather and the land. On May 11, 1953, divine violence upset the natural weather patterns in the central Texas landscape. Mary Denkins recalls in detail her father rushing to pick her up from the all-black Moore High School. She remembers hearing on the radio the threat of a massive tornado. When Mary arrived home, her mother gave a cautious, deliberate prophecy to her and her siblings: “God is fixin’ to work, so you all be quiet.” Late afternoon, the…

Invetigative reporting has been taking place since the first American newspaper in 1690 but only recently has it become associated with more fringe media than the mainstream media sources. James L. Aucoin’s book provides 300 years of reporting; including exposes,watchdog articles, hard-hitting investigative pieces and everything in between. The book does a solid job of looking closesly at how investigative reporting has taken on the the qualities of a lasting social institution, specifically…

The progressive movement in the United States was one of the most successful political movements in the country’s history, starting reform movements throughout the nation. Beginning in the 19th century, the Progressive movement looked to make changes to some of the issues within the country, such as monopolies and the issues within the urban movement, like poverty and drunkenness. The progressive movement was typically made up of intellectuals, muckrakers, and middle class women. The movement…

of the nation. However, there were no shortage of individuals and groups that worked towards equal rights and justice for all. For African-Americans, and women in some respect, one of the trailblazers who fought racism, inequality, and injustice was Ida B. Wells. Born into slavery six months before President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Wells was a fierce civil rights leader, activist, suffragist, and journalist; but was best known as a fearless anti-lynching crusader. Wells was…

the tragic lynching was Ida B Wells-Barnett, “There was the pioneer organizer of the crusade against lynching, an African-American woman named Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Almost alone, she rallied anti-lynching sentiment in the United States, exposing the barbarity of lynching.”(“Duluth’s Shameful” n.pag.)Wells-Barnett spoke out against lynchings and got supporters to create an anti lynching law. Since the law was passed people cannot legally lynch people anymore thanks to Ida B Wells- Barnett and her…