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    The Black Plague is known to be one of the most significant diseases. It took place during the 14th century causing many deadly scenes, with an estimate of 75 to 200 million deaths and had a major impact on England’s social structure. Daniel Defoe the author of the “Journal of the Plague” was able to experience this tragic era of the plague and later wrote about the tragic moments he witnessed. Through the use of anecdotes he creates graphic images which describe the horror and gruesome scenes…

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    When reading “The American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World” by David E. Stannard I was horrified at the living conditions of Europe in the fifteenth through seventeenth century. Epidemic outbreaks of plague and smallpox frequently comb the area. Every twenty-five to thirty years the Europe was engulfed in great epidemics. In a span of several months, more than 80,000 Londoners had died from plague. As time went by the plague had materialize again and again, the Black Death…

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    The Dreamer Analysis

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    dream of a young girl, to become a nurse, never came to fruition, her struggles and sacrifices enabled her to move out of a Third World country. Even if in the end the final dream is not wholly fulfilled, with strength, determination, and sacrifice, making a better life for oneself is achievable. In The Dreamer, Diaz writes about his mother’s rough childhood in a poor Third World country, before moving to the United States. “See her in New Jersey, in the house with the squirrels in the…

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    Poverty is a common topic brought up in conversations relating to second or third world countries. Poverty is never really a common subject when discussing countries like the United States or the United Kingdom, because they are first world countries. However, poverty is a real problem in the United States and is devastating more lives as time goes on. U.S citizens facing poverty face many issues besides the simple fact of being poor, many of which are not clearly understood. The feeling of…

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    Social Networking in Third World Countries Many people assume that third world countries have little, if any, modern technology. It is thought that developing countries like these are more like Cuba, stuck in a past decade or era. These thoughts are caused by the great increase in extreme poverty commercials and documentaries depicting people with no technological advancements or seem incapable of using these advancements if available. Scores of people are shocked that Arabians, Africans, rural…

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    that the alternatives to sweatshops are much more brutal and impoverished individuals gladly choose sweatshops over their other options such as sex work. That is the ugly reality of developing countries. To truly boost the lackluster economies of the third world and in turn increase quality of life, hard labor is needed. Sweatshops are the stepping stones to a brighter future for developing countries to achieve social…

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    world countries can be worse for the environment than third world countries. Even though the population can be bigger in third world countries, one person in a first would country produces more waste than one person in a third world country. Since many people in first world countries can afford extra things, the always more material things. This causes them to produce more waste, which causes more environment degradation. While people in third world countries cannot…

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    Acculturation Analysis

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    may be true; a lot of light has been shed for me, personally, with regard to nutrition and the struggle of food insecurity. Through my volunteer sessions I’ve learned that those that are in need of nourishment are not just inhabitants of, far away, third world countries, but live in poverty right in our own local communities. I also see positive world evolution, witnessed through instantaneous sharing of information and feelings, motivated by our ability to travel, and promoted by our access…

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    Electronic Waste In Ghana

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    “Waste: damaged, defective, or superfluous material produced by a manufacturing process…” (Merriam-Webster, Waste). Using this above definition, it is possible to break into the sub-branch known as electronic waste or E-waste. Due to the current large consumerism culture, many first world countries find themselves producing an unstable amount of E-waste from the constant “upgrading” or destruction of older electronics. Further in this paper, examples of how this waste is dealt with shall be…

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    and decided to work together instead of separately, and we all happy with that. And then we practiced Habit 5. We talked to each other to decide what everyone good at, and who doing what. At last, we moved to Habit 6, we worked together and produce third alternative solution that good for all of us and make it a Win/Win…

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