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    commonly practiced in Africa. FGM is an illegal practice and also gives a good example of the public opinions power. About 80% of young females go through this process that has caused high rates of maternal deaths during delivery. Most parents in Gambia are against this practice for fear of their daughter’s life, but the social exclusion risk outweighs risks (Glenn 2010). As a result, this has increased the rate at which forced FGM are imposed on young…

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    Community policing was introduced in korea during the Grand Reform in 1999(Kang, Nalla, Chun 2014). Community policing has been implemented throughout the world like the Middle East(Lebanon), Africa(South Africa, Gambia, Nigeria, and Asia(Afghanistan, Indonesia, India) but different definitions, philosophies, and strategies of community policing but share the core principles like South Korea which are created relations that communicate with the community, respond…

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    sector, which further allowed European powers to take control of the market (Zurayk 40). This did not happen in the Arab world alone. Indeed, Lappe argues that colonial powers have also forced production of cash crops meant for exportation in Ghana, Gambia, Java, Sri Lanka, and the West Indies. Sometimes this involved taking hold of land so it could not be used to grow food crops (Lappe…

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    Having been brought to the Massachusetts Colony without her permission when she was but a girl of 7 on “The Phillis, a slave ship that had traveled from an area near the Gambia in West Africa” (Casey, pg. 14). Bought by the Wheatley family, her true name was forgotten, and she was instead named Phillis Wheatley. Phillis for the ship, and Wheatley to match the Wheatley Family Surname. Her mistress Susanna Wheatley describes…

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    Creole Pidgins and creoles are used in third world nation. Both of them are occurred in response in order to change in the political and social environment of the community where they are spoken in. Nowadays, over one hundred pidgins and creoles are spoken around the world, but different languages. Actually, most pidgins and creoles are based on European languages, mostly on English, Spanish and French. Also, in Egypt and Arab countries there are some groups of people whom spoke mixed of…

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    in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Education, which has had its fundamental roots all throughout history, has not been kept to the standards presented in Article 26 of the UDHR by the countries of Ethiopia, Pakistan, Angola, and Gambia due to their absence of gender equalities in schools, lack of educational resources, and lack of a compulsory…

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    follow its intentions in Morocco. The Los Islands, off Guinée Française (French Guinea), were ceded to France by Britain, and the border of Nigeria with Afrique Occidentale Française (French West Africa), and gave France some control over the Upper Gambia. The Entente Cordiale was an effective end to the mutual resentment that the France and Britain had shown over their strategy of colonization in Africa. It did, however, provoke Germany, which reacted by interfering in France's acquisition of…

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    Thousands of muslims rohingya have escape from Myanmar, many of them are crossing by land into the border of Bangladesh. while some others choose to take the sea to reach others countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The discriminatory policies of the myanmar government in rakhin state, which have caused hundred of thousands of rohingya to flee sinced the late 1970s. Their plight has been compounded by the responses of many of Myanmar’s neighbors, which have been slow to take in…

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    alone, the BI has helped ensure access to affordable and sustainable primary health services “for approximately more than 60 million people which is mainly managed and partially funded by local communities or districts in countries like Cameroon, the Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Togo”. The access of the poorest people in the community towards utilizing health care services depends on factors such as their “ability to pay for drugs and for other health services”, and their…

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    Sickle Cellular Adaptation

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    which gives more support on the malaria hypothesis. Because of the common ancestries, languages are genetically related and possess different conditions for each groups based on their geographic regions. For example, Livingstone (1958) noted that Gambia and Sierra Leone has the highest frequencies of the sickle gene cell (p. 546). The Mande people moved in large numbers and seemed to introduce the particular gene into parts of Africa (Livingstone, 1958, p. 547). This large-scale migration led to…

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