Review of Monique and the Mango Rains Monique and the Mango Rains is a memoir about a friendship that develops between Kris Holloway‚ and a midwife in the village of Nampossela‚ Mali. Kris Holloway served in the Peace Corps and was assigned for 2 years to be stationed in Mali. Kris was trained to “give health demonstrations‚ repair wells‚ build fuel-conserving stoves‚ plant trees‚ and protect the shoots from the ever hungry mouths of goats” (11). Kris meets and assists Monique Dembele in her struggle
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“We arrived. Monique opened the door and an overpowering stench made me wince and pull back. Monique went straight in‚ but I needed to linger outside for a moment in the fresh air” (Holloway‚ 6). Monique having been trained as midwife and attended childbirths in Mali the birthing house and lingering smells were second nature and did not affect her being able to do her job. Kris however had to hold herself back because she had not experienced a birth in her lifetime. Even if she had she would not
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mechanism recognized as the Wittig Reaction. The Wittig Reaction allows the chemist to synthesize phosphoranes in the lab with relative ease. A more recent and inexpensive version of the reaction is the Wittig-Horner reaction (1). ABSTRACT Georg Wittig was a German chemist and Nobel Prize winner in 1979 for the Wittig reaction (1). He was born in Berlin‚ on June 16‚ 1897‚ and died August 26‚ 1987 (1). Wittig discovered the route to alkenes through ylide molecules (1). Wittig was educated originally
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The purpose of this experiment was to perform a wittig reaction‚ the horner-emmons wittig specifically‚ reacting an aldehyde with an ylide to make an alkene. This particular variation of the wittig reaction has several advantages: It gives only the trans product; it uses a much milder base that is easier to handle; and it gives a water soluble byproduct which is easy to separate from the product. The reason that these advantages occur is a change in the structure of the ylide. Instead of a tripheylphosphine
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away to make the mangoes sweet.” In some ways‚ Monique‚ the midwife‚ can be thought of as the rain. She is the Malian women’s hope for a successful childbirth and a healthy baby‚ as well as being the hope for them to have greater access to crucial health care that they do not have. Monique is there for the women in tough times and whenever they may need her‚ she will come‚ just as the rain will eventually come to make the mangoes sweet. Monique and the Mango Rains was written in 2007 by an author
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Holloway described them as “the brief rains that came when I least expected them” (p. 78). Monique and the Mango Rains is a story of the friendship that develops over time in between a local health care worker in the village of Nampossela‚ Mali and the author‚ Kris Holloway. Holloway is on a two-year assignment (1989 to 1991) with the Peace Corp. The book shows how the villagers eat‚ farm‚ socialize and celebrate but one of the most important themes of the book is health care and how it affects the lives
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Introduction Discovered by Georg Wittig in 1954‚ the Wittig reaction is a robust organic synthesis method for preparing stereospecific alkenes. In general‚ Wittig reactions involve an aldehyde or ketone and a Wittig reagent (triphenylphosphonium ylide) and result in the formation of an alkene product and triphenylphosphine oxide (side product). Stereospecific alkene products can be synthesized by adjusting the reaction reagents and conditions. In the 60 years since the Wittig reaction was discovered‚ many
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A lot of American women grow up under the saying a woman’s work is never done and in turn feel that saying to be true. One woman‚ Author Jessica Grose‚ who wrote “cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier”‚ which was published in 2013 in the New Republic‚ and in this article she argues that even though men in our lives have recently started to take on more of the responsibilities of child care and preparing meals somehow the cleaning is still left to the women of the house. She begins to build her credibility
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Experiment 5: Wittig Reaction Purpose The purpose of this experiment is to synthesize trans-9-(2-phenylethenyl) anthracene using a wittig reagent formed by reacting phosphonium chloride with base. Experimental In a reaction tube‚ (0.200g) benzyltriphenyl phosphonium chloride‚ (0.115g) anthraaldehyde‚ and (.6ml) dichloromethane (DCM) is mixed together with a stir bar. We stirred the mixture rapidly and added (0.26ml) of a 50% NaOH solution dropwise. The mixture was stirred for 20-30
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I enjoy reading your post and I also enjoy reading your respond Monique because I used to worked in a homeless shelter and in a domestic violence shelter as well. Yes its difficult because they carried out a big luggage of issue in their back and something that make it difficult to help them the way will would like to as a social worker. In my case‚ when I used listening to their history touch me but at the same time I constantly reminded me that I was there to help them and I was suppose to be strong
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