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Aids Epidemic Aids Victims
607 wordsAfrica is a continent with many social issues and problems. These social issues range from overpopulation, racism, and a countless number of disease epidemics. One of the most deadly and uncontrollable of these diseases is the HIV virus, or AIDS. AIDS is an illness that involves several phases. It is caused by a virus that can be passed from person to person. AIDS impairs the human body's immune system the system responsible for warding off disease and leaves the victim susceptible to various in...
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Gold Rush San Francisco
1,728 words... siting blanket-wrapped corpses in hurriedly dug holes on river bars. At least fifteen hundred travelers died along the Oregon Trail in 1949. (Mark 56, 57) Nearly all the routes on the trail led the traveler to the Sierra Nevada's. The ones that didnt led through Death Valley. Either the mountain range or the desert had to be crossed in order to get to the Sacramento Valley or Los Angeles, respectively. Both routes had their challenges, and climatic changes were always a factor in which the t...
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Late 19 Th Century Roman Catholic
1,899 wordsAfrikaans and English are the official languages. Afrikaans, derived from Dutch, is the mother tongue of the Afrikaners and the principal language of the Coloreds. More Afrikaners are bilingual than English-speakers. Most urban blacks speak English and Afrikaans in addition to their native language. The Bantu languages are not mutually intelligible. Many blacks speak Fanakalo, a lingua franca that developed among black workers in the mines. The politically influential Dutch Reformed church, whic...
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South Africa West Africa
707 wordsBy 1875 European possessions in Africa consisted of some forts and trading posts along the coast and a few tiny colonies. Between 1880 and 1910, however, Africa was divided up among the Europeans. For the next 50 years decisions affecting Africa and its people were made not in Africa, but in London, Paris, Lisbon and other European capitals. France acquired a huge empire in North and West Africa. Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Mali and other areas in West Africa came under Fren...
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Liquid Fueled Rockets Liquid Fueled Rocket Fuel
901 wordsA rocket is a device that does not need atmospheric oxygen to burn its fuel, since it carries its own, either separately or in chemical combination with fuel. Rockets are propelled forward by gas or liquid being expelled backwards. Rockets work on a fundamental law of motion by Sir Isaac Newton that states, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This helps explain how rockets fly on earth and in space. For example, the rocket fuel is exploded in a controlled way so that the ex...
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Boer War British People
1,054 wordsEurope's colonization of Africa ended in the rape of the Dark Continent for its natural resources to support their continuing and growing industrialization. They divvied the land with no regards for the cultural, religious, or linguistic divisions between people living there, forming incredibly powerful tensions throughout the populace. The European leaders committed these questionable acts under the guise of bringing civilization to the backward and unenlightened natives, freeing them from slav...
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Cape Cod Susan Glaspell
622 wordsProvincetown town (township), Barnstable county, eastern Massachusetts, U. S. , at the northern tip of Cape Cod. It is located among sand dunes within a fishhook-shaped harbour that was visited by the explorers Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602 and Henry Hudson in 1609. Before the Pilgrims founded Plymouth, they landed there. An event that is now commemorated on Nov. 21. It was on board the Mayflower in Provincetown harbour where the first European child in New England (Peregrine White) was born. The ...
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Coalwood Homer Hickam Jr
1,769 wordsHomer Hickam, Jr. had a dream too big for his small coal mining town of West Virginia, however, with the collective will of he and close friends, he fulfilled his dream. Coalwood is located in the southern most tip of West Virginia in McDowell County. It was a coal mining town founded by George Lafayette Carter in the early 1900 s. Carter built the model town of his time, if a man was willing to come to Coalwood and offer his complete and utter loyalty to the coal company, he would receive in re...
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Poverty Stricken South Africa
1,189 words... those in poor rural areas of the country, are drawn to Japan. One of the causes of the increase in international trafficking and prostitution in women is the economic development in Asian countries. In Thailand, economic development has been remarkable since the late 1980 s; Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is showing prosperity. On the other hand, the rural areas have fallen behind in development, or rather, have been victimized. Forests have been destroyed and farmers are indebted and suf...
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U S History Panama Canal
1,260 wordsAfter the war with Spain at Cuba, the United Stats realized that a faster route was necessary in order to deploy its warships from Pacific Ocean to Atlantic Ocean. It was because the warships in Pacific Ocean had to take a detour around Cape Horn, which is located at the extreme South end of South America, in order to go to the sea area of Cuba. The total distance amounted to 224, 000 kilometers, and this great distance caused great amount of wasted time during the war. (web) Panama Canal was th...
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Nude Descending A Staircase Poem Analysis
893 wordsX. J. Kennedy was born in Dover, New Jersey in 1929. Named Joseph Charles Kennedy by his parents, X. J. started writing at a very early age. At only twelve years old, he had published his very own sci-fi magazine titled The Terrifying Test-Tube Tales. At the age of 22, he had already graduated from Seton Hall University, and had earned a Master of the Arts degree from the University of Columbia. X. J. spent the next four years of his life enlisted in the U. S. Navy. Out at sea, he published a ne...
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Amerigo Vespucci Biography Founder Of America
861 wordsVespucci was the one person for whom North and South America was named after. Vespucci had a wonderful life and found many things on his voyages. Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy in March of 1451, and grew up in a considerable mansion near the river. As a young boy, Amerigo's happiest moments studying the stars. He excelled in mathematics and his hobby was copying maps. His dream as a young boy was to travel and get a better picture about what the Earth looked like. Amerigo spent hal...
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Ping Pong South Africa
1,666 wordsAnthropology/ Contemporary scientific Racism Sara Bartmann is known as Hottentot Venus. Her story is a symbol of suppression and disgrace. Her appearing was a religious thing. Sara is the short name used nowadays for a woman originally named Saartjie Bartmann. She was a Khoisan slave who at the early age of twenty was taken from Cape Town to London and then on to Paris to be shown naked in their streets and at their spectacle like a mammal creature (as her European spectators observed her to be)...
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Sir Francis Drake Spanish Armada
1,715 wordsSir Francis Drake Francis Drake was an experienced and daring seafarer. Among many adventures, the famous voyage, his successful circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580 ensured that he would be one of the best remembered figures of Tudor England. In his own lifetime, he was thought of with mixed feelings, both at home and abroad. Some English people regarded him as a hero, but he was distrusted by others, who saw him as having risen above his station. Although he was feared and hated...
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Ahead Of His Time Facial Expressions
2,092 wordsDonatello was quoted saying? I was the first revolutionary. I was creating a new kind of sculpture before the others were even born? (web). Donatello was wise beyond his years. Little did he know that he was so right. He had many of breakthroughs in marble, bronze, and wood sculpture, including the first male nude since the Romans and the very first equestrian (horse and rider) statue. Donatello can be considered a genius. He rediscovered the classical past and at the same time he took sculpting...
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Caboto Returned Set Sail North
777 wordsGiovanni Caboto, or John Cabot as he is known in English, was born most likely around 1451 in Genoa, Italy. In 1461 he relocated to Venice and eventually became a Venetian citizen on March 28, 1476 after fulfilling the fifteen year residency requirement. As an employee of a mercantile firm, Caboto frequently traveled to the shores of the Mediterranean and Mecca which was a great trading post at the time. As an experienced seamen, Caboto envisioned a great voyage of discovery for himself. In 1484...
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Air Force Base United States Senate
3,073 wordsJohn Herschel Glenn Jr. was born on July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio. He was named after his father John Glenn Sr. John Glenn Sr. had fought in France during World War I, and his hearing had been impaired as a result of the fighting. After the war he started a plumbing business and managed to make a comfortable living for himself and his family. John s mother Clara Sport Glenn wanted a large family, two of her children died while they were infants. After John was born, the family adopted a young...
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Place In Society Racial Segregation
1,913 wordsSocieties have always had different classes, or subdivisions of economic and political standing. Ancient Greece was divided into the educated upper class, the middle working class, and slaves. Europe in the Middle Ages had an upper ruling class, and a poor working class. Africa in the past on hundred years had two classes, colonists and native Africans. Each class had a strict place in society and each person in that society was expected to conform to the behavior expected of their class. In the...
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Primary And Secondary South Africa
1,670 wordsSouth Africa is the southernmost part of the continent of Africa. It is one of the earths oldest and stable landmasses. This is why there are no folded mountain ranges. The only mountain ranges that are similar to that kind of range, would be those in the southern tip. The rest of the country has been slightly pitted so that interior lakes like the Okovango Delta have no outlet to the sea. Most of the country is at an elevation of 3, 000 to 6, 500 feet above sea level. South Africa lies north of...
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Sun Also Rises Members Of The Group
1,335 wordsIn Hemingway s The Sun Also Rises, each character is caught up in an elaborate social dynamic in which their manner of acting, or their style, dictates how they view and value one another. This proscribed right way of doing things shapes how Jake describes his friends, and in turn shapes the reader s view of the characters. Each character has specific attributes that either fall into the right or wrong category that help shape the reader s conception of the character. When Jake reflects on his p...
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