This is not to say that each individual man, woman, and child has, but rather to say that each group has experienced it. ... Then they had given this vaccine, known as CHAT to almost one million Africans between 1957 and 1960, before they ever gave it to a White man. ... I have read and seen on the World News Tonight with Dan Rather, that the government of Africa for the longest time had denied that AIDS was a big issue in their country. ... Suzanne asked some of the men as to why they believe that young virgins can rid them of the disease, and they said because of the purity of the little ...

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Often performed without anesthetic under septic conditions by lay practitioners with little or no knowledge of human anatomy or medicine, female circumcision can cause death or permanent health problems as well as severe pain. ... When (it) began, I put up a big fight. ... It is not required by the Qur"an or the Bible (Little, 1988)." ... "The West asserts that female circumcision is practiced in Africa to prove a man's masculinity and virility by achieving the difficult act of penetrating a circumcised women (Perry, 1998)." ... Although the societies that practice circumcision vary ...

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Most contemporary foraging groups, such as the !Kung and other Bushman tribes, are viewed as a "primitive- people. Some have even gone as far to say that they are "the last representatives of the Stone Age."" While it is true that these people have the most similar culture to what we believe primitive persons to have had, the analogies they can provide us with the people of the past are very inaccurate. These comparisons are so unrivaled due to factors such as time and the wrong sense of view many people have on them. ...

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With the abolition of the slave trade within the British Empire in 1803 and a complete abolition of slavery across the empire in 1834 there was little interest in Africa by Britain until the end of the century. ... Advances inland were becoming a little more practicable because of advances in technology; People had known for centuries that quinine was a useful drug for tropical diseases, but it was really not until an expedition up the river Niger in 1854 succeeded in keeping its death rate very low by laying down that everybody must take a regular dose of quinine that the drugs value comprehe...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When European settlers came to the new world hoping to escape religious persecution, amass great wealth, or escape the poverty they experienced in their home countries. They came into contact with a race of people completely alien to them. Likewise, the arrival of the Dutch in Africa sent out shoc...

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On August 4, 1950, Mau Mau was declared illegal, even though the government knew little about it except that militant Kikuyus were winning over, coercing, or forcing other Kikuyus to take an oath against foreign rule. ...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on the Black community. The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ...

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BIOMES OF THE WORLD RATIONALE FOR HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE WORLD'S ENVIRONMENTS Life on Earth is extremely interesting, as most of us already know from television, if not from our own travels, and it becomes more so when each piece of the complex pattern fits understandably into the whole. One important goal of a biology curriculum should be to educate students about nature, in order to promote empathy and support for the natural world around us, and the interrelationship of all aspects of nature must be an integral part of the message delivered. Biomes (bioclimatic zones) ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate