Dan West

as one of the poorest countries in the world in 2006 and remains among the world’s poorest countries, ranking 180th out of 187 countries in the HDI in 2011 . The civil war caused poverty to spread throughout Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is located in West Africa along the Atlantic Ocean. Its capital is Freetown. Poverty is heavily concentrated in rural areas, which is outside of Freetown. Its geography consists of four regions, plateaus, mountains, plains, and woodlands . These regions help support

East Germany is a mysterious environment, created by the yearning to camouflage into the greyness of ones surroundings. Intense control limits a human’s capacity to think, without ownership over your thoughts - determining a future and making sense of a tainted and oppressive environment can become paralysing. Therefore, throughout East Germany a truth did not exist as fear had given people the inability to formulate opinions to their full extent. Everyone had an idea as to what had occurred as

American Born Chinese was a book that I would have initially missed reading because it didn’t appeal to me then. However, it wasn’t until the three narratives intertwined at the end that I realized that this was a great read. Jin, Danny, and the Monkey King all have one thing in common; they try to become something they are not, and they lose their sense of identity until the realization of the truth that we cannot fight who we really are. Jin comes to America and desperately tries to fit in with

the great Ramayana. Similar to Lutung, Hanuman is also a son of a goddess. The different is that Lutung is actually born in a human form, while Hanuman is originally born as a monkey. Another story that has monkey as its character is “Journey to the West”. The character is a monkey, which is also named Monkey. Same with Lutung, Monkey in this story goes to a place which is not his origin place. Monkey is also shown to be a good leader in his society. Lutung is also a good leader for all other animals

INTRODUCTION Adidas Group consists of three major sportswear manufacturers: Adidas, Reebok and TaylorMade; however, the focus will be on Adidas. Adidas in particular, has been rapidly gaining popularity over the past several years after it began creating “trend-savvy” products with a diverse range of interests. (Green) For example, Adidas introduced new types of footwear: the NMD, Ultra Boost, Alpha Bounce and Yeezy. The release of these sneakers dramatically increased footwear sales for Adidas by

himself in. Through his memoir, Rocket Boys, Homer Hickam retells the story of his youth as a boy struggling through life trying to become who he wants to be while his father tries to push him to be who he is expected to be. In the small coal towns of West Virginia, the youth was expected to primarily do one of two things. Which one you were expected of depended upon your gender, if you were male you were expected to graduate high school, maybe, and then go into the mines to dig coal like your father

Martin Luther King Jr was the most important leader of the American Civil Rights movement because he knew how to go out and use his words instead of violence when protesting. He used nonviolent tactics for overcoming injustice such as segregation that didn't allow blacks to go to certain places or do certain stuff. King Jr never gave up on trying to convince people that “All Men Are Created Equal” no matter their race. King Jr led very popular marches such as the Albany movement, Birmingham Campaign

Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake (2003) is a culture-oriented, more precisely, a Bengali diasporic culture-oriented novel. As a diasporic novel it represents the diasporic themes like displaced, dislocated and deterritorised feelings of the first generation expatriates like Ashima Ganguli, the female protagonist of the novel; assimilated, translational and transcultural tendency among the diasporic people, especially among the second generation immigrants in the novel like Gogol Ganguli, Sonali

Who Moved My Cheese “Who Moved My Cheese?” written by Spencer Johnson is a philosophical book directed to the people who find difficulty in finding their ultimate destiny in life, or in this case, their “Cheese”. The story starts with a high school reunion, where several former schoolmates gather for lunch. After lunch, they start exchanging their stories of how far they have succeeded in their careers, and it turns out that all of them had some sort of fear of changes that have taken place in their

From northern Africa, leather goods, kola nuts, cotton cloth, and enslaved people were brought. From western Africa, merchants brought silk, metal, beads, and horses. However, the two products that dominated the Sahara trade were gold and salt. In West Africa, gold was an abundance. However, an equally valuable product was found North, salt. These two valuable products became the leading trade products throughout the Sahara. However, the Sahara was not the only trade system. In East Africa, near