Sierra Leone

“During the last ten years, at least 200,000 young people have been involved in wars in different parts of the world. Some of these areas might include Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan and the Former Yugoslavia” (Skinner3). In most previous states like Afghanistan, this makes issues since it is destroying children knowing they won't have the capacity to carry on with a typical life and the war will…

Why can't the LGBT community be accepted It's estimated that there is only two hundred and twenty nine million gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people in the world, that’s 5 percent of the seven billion people who inhabit this earth; however this number doesn’t stop hateful, disgusting bigots from saying that there is a "gay agenda" to turn their children gay and use this as an excuse campaign to make it illegal worldwide. Egypt, Nigeria and Sudan are only three of the seventy nine…

Many of the unemployed workers were unable to afford that hefty price so they began to sign up for indentured servitude. African slaves from the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Wolof, Yoruba, Hausa Ibo, and Bantu began to make their way from Africa to help build up the settlements of North America for the Virginia Company of London and The United Kingdom. In 1619, Dutch traders would exchange the Africans for foods…

The issues of the European initial scramble of Africa still peaks historians interest today. It is understood that the initial scramble for Africa was a tremendous surge of European imperialism. From the mid-1800s to the early 1900s European powers had rule over Africa. European powers divided Africa up amongst each other without consent of the African citizens and without any knowledge of the continent they took over. “Many of the early explorers of Africa were geographers and scientists who…

key factors that exacerbated the spread of Ebola in West Africa was the lack of healthcare infrastructure that was associated with the extreme poverty in the area. According to the World Health Organization, countries like Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, often considered to be the most impoverished nations, has health infrastructure that was left decimated…

The Ebola Virus has affected many people across the across the world, specifically West Africa. In 2014, West Africa had a major outbreak, resulting in thousands of people dying. There are many health impacts on this disease, and many people have been trying to destroy this terrible disease, as well as ways to prevent it. In 1976, there were three outbakes of the Ebola Virus, one in Nzara, one in South Sudan and one in Yambuku. The Ebola virus got its name from the first outbreak occurring…

Ferdinand Magellan was the first to circumnavigate around the world in 1522. He was a Spanish explorer that sailed from 1519-1522. He enlisted under the Spanish King Manuel, and set forth his project for a trip around the world. The expedition set sail August 10, 1519. Magellan was killed in April 1521 in the Philippines, but they had already reached the eastern edge of the known world, and his men completed the voyage to Spain. The voyage proved that the earth is round. Sir Francis Drake was an…

Consumer decisions to purchase certain good or services influence trafficking. For example, diamond-mining in Angola and Sierra Leone have led to millions of deaths that has been fueled by the worldwide appeal to the stone (United States Department of Labor, 2016). Similarly, the American demand in electronics such as Apple mobile phones have led to workers’ suicides and other…

Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay are the children of villains in the Disney franchise. These characters are the product and embodiment of their parents’ evil ways due to them being taught these conceptions from adolescence. Due to one’s family being everything they’ve ever known, negative vices are taught from one’s parents stemming from childhood, which lead to one’s perspective of the world being negatively influenced in accordance with these immoralities. The outlook of children in differing…

successful in war but survive it as well. Baumer feels it is not a fight against the enemy, rather death himself, and that they must do whatever possible to endure the terrible conditions of combat. In the memoir A Long Way Gone the boy soldiers of Sierra Leone experience this same act of dehumanization, stripping themselves of their emotions in order to kill the enemy. We see this in the quote “The idea of death didn't cross my mind at all and killing had become as easy as drinking water. My…