Tanzania

Watching the film I realized that the film is separated into a number of segments that are dedicated to separate cases in four different countries. The first set is in Tanzania where a woman who is pregnant with her third child undergoes through some hitches while being treated in a dilapidated clinic. These are some of the problems that a majority of women undergo mainly those who live in developing countries and are faced…

I am applying for the Sociology and Education program at Columbia’s Teachers College because I feel that many attempts at making education better for marginalized communities, though well-intentioned, haven’t been able to reach their full potential. In India, for example, efforts like the Right to Education Act or teacher performance incentives in Andhra Pradesh have been ambitious ideas. And yet, because they haven’t been informed by the needs of the communities they hope to address, many…

water supply will be the Nile. Although the Nile river is the longest river in the world it’s water supply is limited and so the water supply is governed by the water-sharing treaty act with the number of upstream countries it flows through like Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, DRC, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Congo, South Sudan and Sudan. The White Nile is the primary source of the Nile River and it begins out of the Great Lakes region, the Blue Nile is the second major source of the river and it…

The idea of an ecological footprint is becoming a popular topic among advocates of sustainability. An individual’s ecological footprint is the coined phrase that relates their use of the Earth’s natural resources to the amount of land needed to support their current lifestyle. When calculating ecological footprint, there are several different factors that are taken into account. These factors can range from the amount of locally grown foods consumed to the average number of miles driven on a…

Iman Rahimi Public Speaking The Health Effects of Smoking Hookah INTRODUCTION Attention Getter: Tradition plays a big role in the human experience. Regardless of whether the tradition is beneficial or detrimental, often times people continue to carry them out in order feel that the period of time they live in is connected to all other periods of time, that they can become part of something larger than themselves. There are many traditions taking place today that can be traced back to…

Positive Economic Impacts Refugees of any country can often bring positive economic impacts to the countries that give them asylum. Existing literature on this topic discusses multiple ways in which these positive impacts can occur; five of which are discussed below. To start with, provisions created and carried out explicitly for refugees can often lead to broader utilization by the host countries population. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Uganda saw an influx of refugees from Kenya,…

Miriam Aburmaieleh Professor Jason Keiber Terrorism and Genocide 16th November 2016 Rwandan Genocide The Rwandan genocide was a mass slaughter of the Tutsi population in Rwanda. It was carried out by the Hutu majority government. The roots to this genocide leads back to the colonial era. During the colonial era, Belgium had control over Rwanda during World War I. During this time, Belgium issued identity cards for the Hutu and Tutsi community. This help create barriers between the two…

In 1993, mountaineer and nurse Greg Mortenson wandered into the Karakoram mountains of Pakistan after a failed attempt to climb K2, the world’s second-tallest mountain. After many weeks spent in the mountains, and struggling with bad health and weakness, Mortenson finds himself in the Korphe village. He spends weeks there as the village people nursed him back to full health and strength. Inspired by the village’s hospitality and anguished by their hardships and poverty, Mortenson promises that…

of deaths, but they kept the world oblivious to the genocide taking place right in front of them. Rwanda is a relatively small country, about the size of Maryland, and consists of about 7 million people. It is bordered by the countries of Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1854,…

Rodriquez, Jason.(2006). “Color-Blind Ideology and the Cultural Appropriation of Hip- Hop.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35, no. 6 (2006): 645–68. By using ethnographic methods and interviews, Roriquez investigates how Caucasian youths culturally appropriate the hip-hop culture by maintaining the color-blind ideology in this article. Rodriquez (2007) maintains that “colour-blindness” is such a powerful ideological framework that in regards to hip-hop, it provides Caucasian…