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- 341: AIDS and You: The Lethal Relation
- ... are things that have been PROVEN immensely effective in slowing the spread of this hideously lethal disease. AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Defficiency Disease. It is caused by a virus. The disease originated somewhere in Africa about 20 years ago. There it first appeared as a mysterious ailment afflicting primarily heterosexuals of both sexes. It probably was spread especially fast by primarily female prostitutes there. AIDS has already become a crisis of STAGGERING proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated that over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. That figure is increasing. And what occurred there will, if no cure is found, most likely occur here among ...
- 342: Nuclear Power Plant
- New form of Energy for Capetown Capetown is considered to be the largest city in South Africa, having a population of over 2,727,000 inhabits. The energy form used in Capetown at the moment, is Gas Turbine, wich provides most of the city´s electricity. The use of electricity in Capetown ... then it comes back into the reactor. Fuel used in this process is riched Uranium wich is bought from France. The waste wich is produced will be trans fered to the deep mins in South Africa. The transportation will happen by IVO power company from Finland.
- 343: Natco
- ... their company history, manufacturing process and facilities, inventory control, quality control, just in time and forecasting. The helpful staff of NATCO kindly provided this information. Historical Review T.Choitram although an Indian migrated to West Africa in 1942. At the age of 17, he began his enderpreneurial career by selling seeds fruits magazines. He was a man who was always motivated with the dream to be a very successful businessman. He ... Nuts, Pappadums and much more. NATCO brand today is known for its superior quality standards. NATCO products are exported through a network of distributors to U.S.A, Canada, European Community, Middle East, and West Africa and they are continuing to develop these export markets. Papa is the other brand name for NATCO. T. Choithram and sons came up with this other brand name because in many countries, government regulations allow ...
- 344: Octavian Augustus
- ... the leader of a great army ready to follow the commands of Caesar's heir. The three leaders divided the land that Rome had conquered. Antony controlled the East and Octavian the West. Lepidus controlled Africa. The leaders led a ruthless campaign to punish Caesar's assassins but soon turned on each other. Octavian first attacked Lepidus and took control of Africa and all of Italy. Antony strained relations between Octavian and himself by divorcing Octavian's sister, in favor of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Finally, in 31 B.C.E., war broke out between Octavian and ...
- 345: Origins of Louis Leakey
- Origins of Louis Leakey Few people have had more impact on the study of human origins than Louis Leakey. "Leakey made fossil discoveries in East Africa that proved man was far older than had previously been believed." He was born on August 7, 1903 just outside of Nairobi, Kenya. His parents, Harold and Mary Leakey were in Kenya as English missionaries ... Olduvai Gorge site in 1931. He dug five different beds finding an array of hand tools. In addition, he " analyzed the site of the original skeleton and concluded it was the oldest Homo Sapien in Africa and probably anywhere else." Upon returning from the excavation, Leakey got a lot of fame from the discovery, but it wouldn't last. After a while, he began to hear of people questioning the true ...
- 346: Mercantilism Helped To Shape The American Nation
- ... were spices, sugar, precious metals, and silk. These goods were found primarily in the West Indies. In 1497, a Portuguese explorer named Vasco da Gama became the first European to sail around the Cape of Africa, allowing the Portuguese to establish colonies in East Africa and open new trade routes. By 1513, the Portuguese had established trade with much of the West Indies as far as the Spice Islands. In the late 1400's, a man by the name of ...
- 347: Phyllis Wheatley
- ... at times seems as empty as the faith that can be commercialized and sold by dramatists on television. In analyzing “Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House” and “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” I will consider Christian faith as means of coping with nothingness, rather than a pious way of life. While making references to Anne Bradstreet’s similar development of faith, I will contend that ... nullity rather than a confident belief or trust in God and the acceptance of God’s will. Phyllis Wheatley’s first appeals to Christianity emerge as she is transported on a slave ship from West Africa to Boston in July 1761, which begins the poem under analysis. In this voyage, she is still indentured into slavery, indicating that she has no material possessions of her own. Slavery has also stripped her ...
- 348: Poetry In Motion - Langston Hu
- ... people, we are still beautiful and mysterious people. He displays the mysteriousness of the black people in his poem, Negro: I am a negro Black as the night is black Black as the depths of Africa (lines 1-3) This poem shows that he has depths about as deep and fathomless as Africa itself. His poetry "echoes the voices of ordinary African Americans and the rythms of their music." (The Bedford Introduction to Literature 1101) The blues can be dected very easily in his poems, and throughout most ...
- 349: Ebola
- ... natural reservoir for the virus, or organism that is immune to it and carries it is also unknown. A search for the reservoir will take a long time because there are so many possibilities, since Africa is in the tropics. Another way that humans can get Ebola is by eating an infected animal or drinking the milk of an infected animal. Ebola is spread from human to human by contact with ... Ebola was called Ebola Tai. The most recent Ebola outbreak was officially declared over after two incubation periods without any other new cases on April 23, 1996. This outbreak of the disease occurred in Gabon, Africa. This outbreak resulted in 21 deaths out of 37 cases, a 57% fatality rate. An interesting side-note to the history of Ebola is that from 430-425 BC a deadly plague killed 300,000 ...
- 350: AIDS
- ... have acquired the virus during the last 15 years; 6.4 million of them have died of AIDS. Behind this mounting death count are the signs of growing social disruption. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa, more than 1 million children have lost their parents to AIDS. And within four years, there will be more than 2 million AIDS orphans in the following seven countries combined: Dominican Republic, Kenya, Rwanda, Thailand ... than 10 percent. -In the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Nikolayev, HIV-infection rates among narcotics users exploded in 1995, jumping from a 1.7 percent in January to 56.5 percent in November. -South Africa, long spared, is now being overrun. Tests of pregnant women in the province of Kwazulu/Natal show a jump from 9.6 percent to 18 percent. In my opinion, I think that all the scientists ...
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