According toUNESCO, around 2,000 buildings, many four stories tall, were packed into just over 50 acres of loose, sandy land and were filled by somewhere between 6,500 and 7,000 inhabitants (2,500 of whom were slaves). One account of the thriving city from the ...
There are two strands to this issue: firstly, in general terms girls in Sierra Leone depended directly on skills training programmes, centres and trainers to extract them from extreme vulnerability and economic precarity. In Cameroon, many girls were stuck having dropped out of school, college or...
InThe Logic of Racism, Cashmore demonstrated how class, age, sex, and place determined how White people felt about, and experienced, living near Black and South Asian residents. While invoking the structure of racist feelings among some of Birmingham’s inhabitants, he focused more on the percept...
For example, the US-military's use of Vieques, a small island close to Puerto Rico, led to the relocation of its inhabitants and is a showcase for the impacts of military activities on environmental justice (Yelin & Miller, 2009; see also Alvarez, 2021). Beyond local damage, the ...
we watched one of the closest finishes in Olympic history. The final winning time was 9.784 seconds. Just 0.005 seconds separated U.S.A.'s Noah Lyles gold medal run and Kishane Thompson of Jamaica. Five milliseconds. It takes an human one TENTH of a second to blink. That’s wild. And...
How many countries are there in the world.Source: CIA World Factbook Before we can discuss how many countries there are in the world, we shoulddefine what is understood as a country. The definition of the word country is simple, but the agreement around what actually makes a part of the ...
Canada’s Prairies lay within 1.5 m square miles to the north and west of colonial Canada, comprising Prince Rupert’s Land, granted originally to the Hudson’s Bay Company by Charles II in 1670, and the North-Western Territory. The Indigenous inhabitants, living there since time immemorial, ...
These range from a monthly bonus as a percentage of the base pay (in Honduras, Lesotho, and the Philippines, among many others), to a rise of a couple of steps in the standard pay scale (in Jamaica), to a pay raise as a reward after a certain number of years of rural service (...