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    Ebola Outbreak Timeline

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    2014: disease’s early growth      May 26th‚ 2014: Sierra Leone confirmed its first deaths from the virus.                JUNE 17‚2014: Ebola has spread to Liberia’s capital of Monrovia‚ with a health official saying  seven people have died there. People demonstrate  JUNE 18‚2014: A World Health Organization report attributes 337 deaths to the Ebola virus‚  making this outbreak the worst recorded in history.                 July 29‚2014:Doctor leading Sierra Leone’s Ebola fight dies            9. JULY 31

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    The Amistad

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    The Amistad With any movie there is always a purpose and objective. The viewing process of the movie is to support literacy and to asses personal strengths and inspire personal growth. With the movie The Amistad the objective of the movie was to remind individuals of the progress that has been made since the slavery times of the past. It helps to remind people that there is much more change still to be made when it comes to situations that directly deal with the issue of race. Intentionally or not

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    Blood Diamond

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    Mozambique to give off the scenery of Sierra Leone. The movie shows different villages in different scenarios‚ with rich natural colors like brown‚ green‚ red etc. The cities are portrayed as hectic and intimidating‚ dirty and poor. The actors in the movie are dressed in neutral colored clothes which are dirty and torn. The clothes give off the sign that the people are having a hard time in the country. The lighting in the movie is very bright. It portrays Sierra Leona in a way that makes the audience

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    A Princess Found Analysis

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    Courage and Discovery: Analysis of A Princess Found “YOU ARE A PRINCESS!!” screamed her uncle. “You can be a Paramount Chief one day! Your grandfather was one and your uncle is one!”.For a twenty eight year old American biracial woman who just wanted to find her birth father‚ that is a lot to swallow! The two tales across 7548 kilometers that eventually become one‚ is the memoir of Sarah Culberson’s‚ A Princess Found‚ is about the longing for an identity beyond skin color that is well

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    In the third section of John McPhee’s Encounters with the Archdruid‚ the author observes the discourse between conservationist David Brower and Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation‚ Floyd Dominy‚ on the merits of dams in the southwestern United States. Brower "hates all dams‚ large and small‚" while Dominy sees dams as essential to our civilization. The Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell‚ which Dominy created‚ are the main issue of debate between the two men. Floyd Dominy graduated from the University

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    Mae Jemison

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    she obtained her M.D. in 1981‚ Jemison interned at Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center and later worked as a general practitioner. For the next two and a half years‚ she was the area Peace Corps medical officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia where she also taught and did medical research. • Following her return to the United States in 1985‚ Jemison made a career change and decided to follow a dream she had nurtured for a long time. In October of that year‚ she applied

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    Money is the root of evil. A Long Way Gone and The Bite of the Mango are both memoirs of the Sierra Leone Civil War. Although the book does not touch upon the causes of the civil war‚ through research diamonds were a main contributor and a cause of the war. Sierra Leone was embedded with diamonds and other luxurious stones‚ thus making it a gargantuan mining center. Diamonds caused tensions between the government and rebellious citizens‚ contributed to the emergence of the Revolutionary United

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    Summary of Blood Diamond

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    process. Solomon was a fisherman but was later caught by the radical to be a diamond miner. He has always dreamed that his son‚ Dia Vandy will be a doctor. Unfortunately‚ it was shattered when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF)‚ a rebel group in Sierra Lone invaded his village. While working in the mine‚ Solomon found a huge pink diamond and hides it. Solomon’s action was later saw by the commandant but before he could capture Solomon‚ the rebels were attacked and arrested by the African army. During

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    a long way gone

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    A Long Way Gone “A Long Way Gone”‚ a memoir about a Sierra Leonean young boy who is a “child of war” has many themes in the novel but what is the most important? Relationship‚ I believe that this is the most important theme because without relationship‚ Ishmeal Beah‚ the author of “A long Way Gone” and a human rights activist would not have survived nor would he have recuperated from the war in Sierra Leone. Relationship with the lieutenant‚ Ishmeal looked up to his lieutenant as a father figure

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    Blood Diamond Outline

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    Blood Diamonds outline i. Title (critical analysis of Blood diamonds) a. Blood diamonds refers how the collection of diamonds are possessed from rebels who murder and enslave their own innocent people to mine the diamonds in Sierra Leone. The diamonds are later sold illegally for ammunition for the rebel known as RUF. The title of relates to the film by the presenting how corrupt businesses and leaders use their powers to excavate diamonds from a country’s ongoing civil war and only escalate

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