Republic of the Congo

Introduction and Background In 1988, the forty-first World Health Assembly passed a historic resolution pledging to make the world polio-free. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) headed by national governments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA), UNICEF, Rotary International and WHO was launched as a consequence. The initiative is supported by key partners including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation1. The GPEI target was to eradicate polio from the world by year…

Is it fair to be treated unequally, because of your gender? In today’s society, gender inequality happens everyday. This even happens at very young age. It starts in education. Gender inequality is unequal actions made on anyone based on their gender. If all men and women are treated equally, this will improve the value of women. Men will benefit by being informed of strengths, contributions, and capabilities of the opposite sex. Then this will possibly cause men to feel less pressure into…

With so many political problems around the world that range from an unstable market to natural disasters, it is safe to say that they are all connected. Hunger, is a problem that everyone can sympathize with. Whether a country is developed or is developing, hunger strikes everywhere. By investigating key political actors, we can interpret data while meeting further research of countries with the highest percentage of people that are malnourished. When the world analyzes data from the past, it…

At the end of the cold war in 1992, Peacekeepers arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia to combat the Somali warlords who were causing havoc in the country. Unfortunately, the blue helmet forces of the UN were not welcomed as some were killed while the bodies of the US soldiers were displayed on the streets of Mogadishu. Eventually, the US decided to withdraw its troops when a US helicopter was shot down by Somali warlords. In 1995, the UN also withdrew its troops due to failure as confessed. Similarly…

Leopold wanted to open trade with Africa for cocoa to build a monopoly on chocolate, not industrial materials. b. King Leopold annexed the Congo as his personal colony, not for the Belgian state.* c. King Leopold was more interested in scientific exploration than in economic colonialism. d. King Leopold established a constitutional federation in the Congo River Valley. e. King Leopold was the first European monarch to travel by gunboat up an African river. 25. The major decision of the…

Mercy Corps is a humanitarian aid agency whose main goal is help those struck by disaster. Mercy Corps is all over the world. They are stationed in places like South Sudan, Libya, Lebanon, Haiti, Myanmar, India, Uganda, United States, and Syria, just to name a few. (Mercy Corps website CITE) The reasons for needing aid in these countries include natural disasters and man-made disasters. Natural disasters include earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, avalanches, droughts, storms…

Richard Reyes June 6,2015 Living Environment period : 6B-7 4th Quarter Project Throughout history humans have been at the top of the food chain , we have adapted to be able to live in a certain environment without dying. While everything seems fine , there are things that are lethal to humans and those things are diseases. While we have made some…

There was a stage in my life, maybe between grades 11 and 12, where I drank Med-lemon every single morning for a good year. Not because I was sick or feeling a sickness coming on, but because I did not want to get sick. My mentality was that prevention is better than cure; and my parents who love me so much and just want me to be happy would go out of their way after work and buy me a box of Med-Lemon from Clicks which would cost roughly around R70. I didn’t really even begin to consider the…

1. Introduction: Nowadays several contemporary countries are described by multiculturalism (cultural varieties), multilingualism, and different ethnic and confessional views. Regarding the fact that the population has multi religious, multiethnic, and multicultural views, many efforts have been made to manage the mutual diversities and the differences linked with the identity of public and political unity. It denotes to the cultural diversities that originate from the presence of two or more…

Social stratification is a system that organizes people and groups and place them within a hierarchy based on factors such as; social class, age, race/ethnicity, and gender. Social class is determined based on the social and economic status one holds, for example, a McDonalds cashier would be part of the working class while a CEO of a mining company would be in the upper class. Race is another factor that places people either higher or lower based on their skin colour and their nationality. For…