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Human blood is shed on almost every diamond mined in Africa, bought from Africa, or traded out of Africa. In the beginning of Aryn Baker’s article “Dirty Diamonds” in TIME magazine, Baker presents a man conflicted with his decision to buy an engagement ring, because he does not want “. . . a symbol of our union to also be associated with chaos and controversy and pain.” (Baker 64). This man in the example, Max Rodriguez, undoubtedly knew of the backbreaking work that children are subjected to,

way, the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) attacks the immune systems of monkeys and apes. There is even a theory on hunters, in the Democratic Republic of Congo eating monkey and transfer the virus. These well-known diseases, travel from Africa, Kinshasa to the United States. Started off being called GRID also known as gay-related immune deficiency introduced to united state in 1981. This disease has taken 121 healthy gay man lives in the U.S. since the mid-1970s. Scientists began to notice clusters

Intro There has been an increase of gays all over the world in the last few generations. Some countries have become accepting it, but others are not having any of it and Uganda, a country in East Africa, is one of them. Uganda has passed serious laws for an anti- gay country. Some laws as severe as life in prison or death sentence. Outline Firstly, I would like to inform you that I will be talking a lot on LGBTQI: This means lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and intersex

Since the nineteen hundreds, Africa coped with countless problems related to HIV and AIDS. Anthropologists, scientists, doctors, and psychologists discussed theories related to the issues presented by HIV/AIDS. Researchers study the effects of poverty, polygamy, geography, and social relationships on HIV/AIDS. One of the prevalent theories on how the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) spread is through the increase of sex workers in Africa. An increase in sex work correlates to an increase in poverty

A.I. is going to help the human race. A.I. will be able to pick up where humans lack. There isn’t any denying that it might have some setbacks, but the good outweighs the bad in this conversation. I don't agree that A.I is taking over our lives because A.I. has helped us more than ever and it helps us become more educated. I believe this because it can improve scientific advancements, help developing countries, and help people in their everyday lives. A.i. has already helped us with space excursions

Reflection #1 Nearly all the sailors traveling from the Black Sea were infected with what was called, The Black Death. The Black Death spread through the trading network during the middle of the 14th century. According to the French Biologist, Alexandre Yersin, the Black Death originated from the germ, Yersina pestis. This bacillus spreads by droplets, air, and from infected fleas and rats. These infected fleas and rats lived on ships which caused the sailors who were traveling on the Black Sea

The Famous Jazz Musician If somebody talking about jazz,people maybe think of a man who like clown image and lovely in the first time.He is a singer voice hoarse and often holding a small hand. He jazz music is in New Orleans jazz style.This person is Louis Armstrong.Louis Armstrong is a famous jazz musician in US,maybe can say if you listen jazz music ,I am sure that you must know him. His significance of jazz music ,like classical music of Bach rock music of Presley.He was born on August

People all over the world avoid talking about diseases specially sexually transmitted diseases because they think that if people do not speak about it, it will disappear or it does not exist and that is not true. HIV and other disease have been in the world for more than three decades. I like reading books that interest me and Africa is one of many topics I want to learn more about. In the first book I read A story the African Aids Epidemic by John Iliffe the author talks about why the Aids epidemic

develops rapidly in the first few months affecting the immune system and preventing the body from fighting infections. The sex trade began to grow around the same time AIDS started to spread. Many say that, “most of the first AIDS cases were recorded in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1920, and by 1980 the disease was spreading in different parts of Africa” (Origin of HIV and AIDS). While both women and men are affected by AIDS, younger women have a higher risk of getting infected “rates of

During the course of history there has been many pandemics and epidemics, which have threatened human existence. Various threats such as smallpox, the black plague, measles and influenza can be dated back as early as the 1300’s. Now there is a similar threat, Human Immune deficiency virus (HIV) and Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The severity of the HIV and AIDS pandemic has affected at least 36.7 million people and at least 1.1 million people have died from AIDS in the United States and