...Africa the Birthplace and Gateway Many have stated that Christianity was founded in what is today Israel and Palestine. Christianity is based on the person and the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, a Jewish prophet. With Palestine being so close to Egypt, I can understand why Africa can be called the birthplace of Christianity. In the beginning, Christianity had spread throughout Egypt and North Africa. I believe that many people will not associate Christianity with Africa because Jesus was called Jesus of Nazareth. When many people think of Jesus, they think of Israel. Israel is not the only place that Jesus spread the word of God. Jesus’ family also spent time in Egypt. Many biblical events took place in Africa. When King Herod sought to kill Jesus, he was in Egypt for safekeeping. Before Paul's first European convert was made, God specifically called Philip to preach to a seeking Ethiopian, a servant from the royal court. The Ethiopian was converted and baptized that day and returned to his own country telling everybody what happened sharing his story. In Islam, The prophet Muhammad spent a lot of time in Egypt as well. The Muslims respect Mohammed as the greatest of prophets, yet Jesus clearly demonstrated greater authority, teaching, and miracles than Mohammed ever did. The Muslims in North and West Africa had no teachings but the Quran. The Quran guided Muslims after the death of Muhammad. Islam also began to expand in Egypt and North Africa. I believe that Africa was...
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...Travel Poster Betty Kapasa Nur/408 Professor: Jacqueline Paik June 8, 2011 University of Phoenix This writer’s country of choice is Zambia located in the southern part of Africa. Zambia’s history goes back to the debut of Homo sapiens: evidence of human habitation going back 100,000 years has been found at Kabwe, north of Lusaka. Beginning around 1000 AD, Swahili-Arab slave-traders gradually penetrated the region from their city-states on the eastern coast of Africa. Between the 14th and 16th centuries a Bantu-speaking group known as the Maravi migrated from present-day Congo (Zaïre) and established kingdoms in eastern and southeastern Zambia. In the 18th century, Portuguese explorers following the routes of Swahili-Arab slavers from the coast into the interior became the first known European visitors. After the Zulu nation to the south began scattering its neighbors, victims of the Difaqane (forced migration) began arriving in Zambia in the early 19th century. Squeezed out of Zimbabwe, the Makalolo people moved into southern Zambia, pushing the Tonga out of the way and grabbing Lozi territory on the upper Zambezi River. Zambia is a land locked country with a population 12,935,368. Kenneth Kaunda, a militant former schoolteacher, took over the leadership of the Africans from the more moderate Nkumbula and in 1959 formed a new party, the United National Independence Party (UNIP). Following a massive civil disobedience campaign in 1962, Africans were given...
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...Ideally, set one up 4 to 6 weeks before your trip. Most vaccines take time to become effective in your body and some vaccines must be given in a series over a period of days or sometimes weeks. If it is less than 4 weeks before you leave, you should still see your doctor. You might still benefit from shots or medications and other information about how to protect yourself from illness and injury while traveling. CDC divides vaccines for travel into three categories: routine, recommended, and required. While your doctor will tell you which ones you should have, it's best to be aware of them ahead of time. Before visiting Nigeria, you may need to get the following vaccinations and medications for vaccine-preventable diseases and other diseases you might be at risk for at your destination: (Note: Your doctor or health-care provider will determine what you will need, depending on factors such as your health and immunization history, areas of the country you will be visiting, and planned activities.) To have the most benefit, see a health-care provider at least 4–6 weeks before your trip to allow time for your vaccines to take effect and to start taking medicine to prevent malaria, if you need it. Even if you have less than 4 weeks before you leave, you should still see a health-care provider for needed vaccines, anti-malaria drugs and other medications and information about how to protect yourself from illness and injury while traveling. CDC recommends that you see a health-care...
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...While the presence of Islam in West Africa some economic motivations, highlight the draw of Islam’s spiritual message. The presence of Islam in West Africa was related to trade and commerce in West Africa. Trade between West Africa and the Mediterranean preexisted Islam, however, North African Muslims strengthened the Trans-Saharan trade. North African traders were major factors in introducing Islam into West Africa. The past of Islam in West Africa can be explained in three stages, control, socializing, and reform. In the first stage, African kings controlled Muslim influence by segregating Muslim communities, in the second stage African leaders merged Islam with local traditions as the population selectively appropriated Islamic practices, and finally in the third stage, African Muslims forced for change in an effort to free their societies. Several factors led to the growth of the Muslim merchant-scholar class. Islam facilitated long distance trade by offering valuable tools for merchants for example the contract law, recognition, and information networks. They had the important ability of written script, which helped in the administration of kingdoms. Muslim communities in the forest zones were minority communities often linked to trading Diasporas. Many of the traditions in the forest zones still reflect the tradition of Saurian which focused on responsibilities of Muslims in a non-Muslim society. The boundaries of the ancient Kingdom encompassed the Middle Niger Delta region...
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...(CDC, n.d.). There were top 3 states of malaria outbreak cases in the US. There were 238 cases in New York City, 126 in Maryland, and 104 in New Jersey. The overall number of cases represents an increase of 14 percent from the 1,691 cases reported for 2010 and the largest number of reported cases since 1971. Many malaria cases were reported diagnosed each year in the United States are imported from regions where mosquito borne malaria transmission is known to occur. 75 percent occurred among U.S. residents and 25 percent among residents of other countries. 69 percent of U.S. residents were required malaria from Africa, 18 percent in Asia, and 10 percent in the Americas. Every year, millions of U.S. residents who visit malaria endemic countries take minimal or none for malaria prophylaxis medications. Report from malaria surveillance summary showed, most travelers who contract malaria either did not take an antimalarial drug...
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...That being said, according to scientific professionals, the actual virus does not pose much of a danger to Americans at the moment. Right now, U.S. citizens need to be educated about where the virus currently is and what they can do to prevent contracting it if they are traveling to West Africa. Those citizens who have been in contact with infected individuals need to know that they have support and the availability to quarantine for the first 21 days they are back in the country. Anybody, regardless of their citizenship, coming into this country through Newark airport should be educated about the disease, the symptoms and their options in regard to possible contraction. Enacting legislation to support a voluntary 21-day quarantine is in the best interest of our citizens. Making it optional and reiterating to the public the facts about the disease will lessen the hysteria surrounding the virus. Making sure that there are health services available to all people who may be infected and that all people know that the health services...
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...Travel to and from Africa should be restricted Charles M Hilbers ITT Tech Abstract On October 19, 2014, the evening news announced the return of two Poplarville, Mississippi residents from West Africa. Their neighbors expressed major concern, especially since one of them was a preacher and a school bus driver. The other one said that what should have been a lifetime opportunity for her had been spoiled by phone calls from concerned neighbors. She maintained that they had done their research and concerns over their return were unfounded, based on fear not fact (Grace, 2014). I found her attitude not only ambiguous, but self-centered and showing little concern for her friends, family, and neighbors. Living in South Mississippi myself, and in light of recent cases of travel related Ebola in the United States, I wanted to know if these concerns are truly founded or not. I used Local TV and newspaper articles, CDC website, and various articles I found on the Virtual Library to research the situation. In my opinion, based on my research, these people did not research well enough or reached a decision based on their personal bias rather than fact. My research shows that although there has not been any cases reported in Ghana, where they actually went, there have been cases in the neighboring countries of Sierra Leonne, Liberia, Guinea, Senegal, and Nigeria, with travel related cases popping up all over the world. Therefore, there is some danger of being exposed to Ebola, and in...
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...5.3.3 5.3.4 5.3.5 5.4 5.4.1 5.4.2 1 2 2 4 6 7 11 STUDY OBJECTIVES Primary Objective Secondary Objectives 1.1 Contents BACKGROUND Tourism Outlook Tourism Outlook – Global Tourism Outlook – Asia Tourism Outlook – Forecast Indian Economy Tourism Outlook – India 14 15 16 RESEARCH DESIGN Segments identified Segment definition Travelers Segment Trade Partners Directors of Tourism Office Methodology Sample Travelers Segment – Sample Split Trade Partners Segment – Sample Split 17 18 20 20 22 22 23 24 25 26 FINDINGS – TOURISM OFFICE EFFECTIVENESS Executive Summary Detailed Findings – Tourism Office Effectiveness – Travelers Awareness of India Tourism Offices Detailed Findings – Tourism Office Effectiveness – Trade Partners Key marketing Challenges Trade Partners Not dealing with India Disposition to deal with India in Future Efforts required on part of the India tourism office Tourism Office Interaction 28 29 30 30 32 32 33 34 35 36 FINDINGS – TRAVEL BEHAVIOR Key terms used Executive Summary Detailed findings – Travel Behavior – Travelers Past Travel Behavior Future Travel Behavior Source of Destination awareness India Travel – Future Recent Travel Experience Detailed Findings – Travel Behavior –...
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...that the color “Black” has negative meanings, there was a strong belief which was that black was dirty, ugly, evil and a symbol of the devil. He suggests that maybe because white men came to know black men around the same time they encountered the great ape that these men believed that there was a connection between the two. This came about because Africa served as a good habitat for apes (gorillas, monkeys). They also felt that black men were sexually aggressive as were apes in Africa. Jordan also noted that Thomas Jefferson felt that black and white men were human beings that were created equal, but he also questioned the black man’s intelligence, but why did he still own slaves. In the beginning the Englishmen found that African’s were very different from them. Due to their skin color and features “Negros looked different to Englishmen”. They felt because of their supposed likeness to the apes and their savage behavior, this convinced the British that the Africans were more like animals than humans. This brought them to the conclusion that like animals the Africans should be captured and contained. Slave traders in Africa handled Negros the same way men in England handled beast, herding, examining and buying, as with any other animals which were products of commerce. African’s were not only startling, but extremely puzzling (157), to the English men. It was thought that the Negro’s skin color and wooly hair was caused by the sun. This theory could not be proven...
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...Nafisatou Cisse Little Blue Traveler Once upon a time there was a little boy named Assan from a village in West Africa. A very quiet little boy who was well known in their little village. Everyone knew the little boy by the little blue traveler being that his mother would send him every day to his sick aunt’s house to bring her lunch and dinner. The village people would see him going and coming every day with his blue sweater. Every one wondered where he was going back and forth. One warm afternoon his mother, prepared food for his sick aunt. “Son, go check on your aunt, bring her the food as well make sure she has taken her medication.” As he was told, little blue traveler picked up his blue sweater and the food for his aunt and went on his was to his aunt’s hut on the other side of the village. As he walked through the walk way he ran into a village women named Penda the witch who wanted to capture him for her witch craft; but something made her decide not to. Little blue traveler did not know that Penda was a witch because she was camouflage as a villager. Penda started talking to the quite little boy to see where he was heading. “And where are you going little blue Traveler.” “Mmhmh…… (He whispered quietly) “I cannot hear you little boy.” “I am going to my sick aunt’s house to bring her food” Penda the witch became very interested in where his sick aunt lived so that she can capture them both for her witch craft. “And where dose she live” said the Witch...
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...most common infectious diseases worldwide, particularly in Africa and South Asia. There are four types of Malaria. The most severe type is a microscopic parasite called Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria-like symptoms were first described in ancient Chinese medical writing, then in 2700 BC, malaria was described in the Nei Ching, The Canon of Medicine. Malaria became widely spread in Greece by the 4th century BC. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French army surgeon was the first to notice parasites in the blood when stationed in Algeria in 1880 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907 for his findings (CDC). The United States eliminated malaria in the early 1950’s, but up to 2,000 cases of malaria are reported annually, mainly due to foreign travelers. The transmission and risk factors are epidemiological determinants of this outbreak of malaria. First, malaria is transmitted primarily by Anopheles mosquito bites. It is transmitted in most cases by an infected female mosquito. The parasites are transmitted to humans from the mosquito’s saliva to the blood stream of the bitten human or animal (Wikipedia). The parasite then travels to the liver to mature and reproduce. The risk factors of this outbreak come from foreign travelers, neglect due to delayed symptoms, and death if left untreated. Despite the U.S.’s elimination of the disease, 2011 had a record high 1,925 cases of malaria reported (CDC). This is due to travelers becoming infected...
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...patients with infectious tuberculosis. Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. These people may have been exposed to a disease and do not know it, or they may have the disease but do not show symptoms. Quarantine can also help limit the spread of communicable disease. The issues I chose was yellow fever. Yellow fever is a viral disease that is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes. Yellow fever occurs in tropical regions of Africa and in parts of South America. Although yellow fever is rare here in the US I feel it is important for it to be regulated by US public health law because with the laws in place it could make it mandatory for US travelers to get vaccinated against it instead of just having it highly recommended for travelers. If this vaccination was mandatory not only for US travelers but also for those individuals residing in the area were yellow fever is prone we could prevent this disease from becoming an epidemic. This is important because without knowledge and education and a standard put into place we could be affecting more people with the unknown without even knowing it. I feel very strongly about having these things in place because we are in a sense protecting everyone from what we don’t know is out there. With a simple vaccine being able to prevent such a terrible disease I don’t see why these standards aren’t mandatory instead...
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...Malaria Malaria is a potentially fatal illness of tropical and subtropical regions. The disease is caused by a parasite which is transmitted to human beings bitten by infected mosquitoes. The disease is widespread in Africa, and over one million people die of malaria every year on the continent. Symptoms of malaria may include a generalized body ache, tiredness, headache, sore throat, diarrhea, and fever. It is worth mentioning that these symptoms may not be dramatic, and can easily be mistaken for an attack of influenza or similar non-life threatening illness. A decline can then be sudden and dramatic, with a rapid increase in the number of parasites in the victim's blood stream. A high wavering fever may develop, with shivering and dramatic perspiration. Complications of a serious nature, such as involvement of the kidneys or brain may then follow. Cerebral malaria is extremely serious, with the victim becoming delirious and entering a coma. Cerebral malaria is frequently fatal, and it is extremely important that all suspected cases of malaria should receive medical attention as soon as is possible. All persons possibly exposed to malaria that develop any influenza like illness or fever within seven days of entering, or three months of departing a malarious area should seek medical attention, and have blood tests taken to check for possible malaria infection. It is preferable for such blood tests to be taken during a bout of fever. It may be sensible to have a second...
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...Marriott International Founded in 1927 by J.Willard ,originally called Hot Shoppes,Inc.During the 1930s and 1940s,Marriott established his own chain of “Hot Shoppes” cafeteria-style restaurants. In 1953 Marriott went public,selling one-third of its shares in its Initial Public Offering.Although they continued to sell public stock, the Marriott family always kept 25% ownership over the business. Willard’s son ,J.W.Marriott Jr, took over the corpporate reins in the 1960s and refocused the business on lodging.In the 1970s Marriott began to use bank credit and unsecured debt instead of martgages to the finance development which was considered beneficial at that time due to substantial higher cash flows than the interest charges.Later,Marriott experienced two financial crises,which were due to limited partnerships in 1989,where Mariott experienced a sharp drop in income and the 1990 real estate market crash.This resulted in Marriott’s stock prices to fall more than two-third,which means a drop of $2 billion in market capitalization. This was the first time that investor-owned Marriott hotels went bankrupt. In order to improve and bring back the financial stability and also inprove the financial condition of Marriott, the CFO proposed restructuring the company under a project named Project Chariot.Due to the economic downturn in the early 90s and the Tax Reform Act of 1986,Marriott had limited ability to raise funds.This resulted in large interest payments...
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...BRIEFING ON THE THREAT OF TERRORISM POSED TOWARDS TELECOMS ORGANISATIONS OPERATING IN AFRICA Purpose: The purpose of this briefing note is to present an overview of terrorist threats within Africa, spesifically towards the ... organisation operating in Africa and to make recommendations on how to mitigate the risk. Background: Terrorism: “the United Nations General Assembly has condemned terrorist acts using the following political description of terrorism: "Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_terrorism Terrorism has become a global threat and is not just confined to the theatre of war, it is also not only targeted at nations involved in those conflicts like the United States (9/11) and Great Britain (the July 7 London Bombings) but also with any nation and organization that is seen as an ally of such nations. ESICS Briefing on THE TERRORISM THREAT LINKED TO THE LIBYAN CRISIS states “obviously on the top of the list of likely targets for Colonel Gaddafi are the United Kingdom and France, they are closely followed by the United States (an old and usual enemy of Libya but also by the Arab countries taking part in the coalition...
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