Sierra Leone

Mae Carol Jemison is an African-American physician and NASA astronaut. On June 4, 1987, she became the first African American woman to be admitted into the astronaut-training program. On September 12, 1992, Jemison flew into space with 6 other astronauts aboard the Endeavour on mission STS47. On that day, she became the first African-American woman in space. Mae Jemison was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. She grew up in an extended family home with both of her biological parents;…

Even though Sierra Leone is more than 9,100 km away from Somalia, the two countries face similar problems of poverty and civil warfare brought on by severely limited natural resources, dramatically low wages, and environmental hardship. Throughout the arid continent, there…

CACAO The Social Consequences of Cacao Trading on West Africa in the 21st Century INTRODUCTION Since the last century, West African countries (Cote d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, plus others.) have seen an increment of what is nowadays one of their major exports: Cacao, bean-like seeds used in the production of cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate (Oxford Dictionary, 2015). This helped them become the largest cacao producer in the world today, harvesting a…

Dr. Ian Goodfellow, a virologist, traveled to Sierra Leone to help out at an Ebola diagnostic facility, in hopes of catching this disease in its earliest stages. “With the aid of portable DNA testing equipment, the medical team can reduce the impacts of mixing positive and negative patients of Ebola, because…

Even through all of the pain he experienced Beah persisted and survived to tell his story of being a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Beah’s perseverance was something that shines throughout the novel, later in the book he discusses part of his motivation, saying,“When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to…

Two different things that can seem completely different, sometimes can end up being the same. With people, there can be a boy and girl. One will brown hair, and one with blonde. One will blue eyes, and one with green. One will a high-pitched southern accent, and one with a low monotone british accent. They look and seem like opposites, but when you look under the surface they may be the exact same. They may have the exact same interests, and talk about the same topics. In 1984, by George Orwell,…

2 million copies in the United States and top 1 in charts in 2001 (Seth). Kanye would use old classic R&B melodies into his music and form of introducing his pace of the song but changed it up with other types of beats. In hs song “Diamond from Sierra Leone” he uses a sample from the “Diamonds are Forever” by Shirley Bassey (Flowers). Many artist started picking up his way of using other samples into his music such as…

protesting for the protection of animals against the experimentation of unapproved products. Their motivation stems from the belief that animals are capable of suffering. For example, two chimpanzees, Hisal and Riso, were “captured as babies in Sierra Leone in 1982 and smuggled in a crate to Austria for use in pharmaceutical experiments”(8) conveys the notion that the cruelty of animal abuse is still apparent. Overall, people feel passionately about this controversial subject, and that they…

“Life of a soldier, looking at the glass ceiling” Taj Atkinson Teaser: I hear and see dead people all the time, can you imagine seeing hundreds of dead faces every day for the rest of your day. I see the children running to random villagers asking for help and the pain in all their faces is painted in red. Well I couldn’t either until now of course, I see them when I’m sleep, and even when I eat, I wake up and sleep in an infinite nightmare. Maybe the…

of Congo have been notorious for sexual misconduct since 2005 and the most recent case was on September 25, 2015. Other reported cases of abuse by peacekeepers during the 21st century were from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, East Timor, and Mozambique. Some countries are heavily involved in UN peacekeeping while others are not involved at all. Bangladesh is the largest contributor of peacekeeping troops, so they have a major effect on their behavior. They have…