Essays Tagged: "Sierra Leone"

Amistad.

been raised they could sail home. The surviving thirty-five Africans would take the long journey to Sierra Leone. Before the ship left, Lewis Tappan talked to the passengers and thanked them. It was a ...

(5 pages) 75 0 3.5 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

This essay is about west africa's civil conflics.

West Africa's civil rightsFor more than a decade, the West African countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone have been roiled by civil conflicts that have caused millions to flee their homes and l ... spilled across borders, drawing in neighboring Guinea and raising tensions in Cote d'Ivoire.Today, Sierra Leone is emerging from more than ten years of civil war between the government and a Liberian ...

(2 pages) 45 0 1.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

The development of Sierre Leone.

Sierra Leone was a British colony to which freed slaves returned in the late 1700's. They formed a s ... bring peace, but progress has been slow. Poverty, war and violence has become such a big problem in Sierra Leone that living there is very hard and hopeless.In July 1999 all parties agreed to a cease- ... ave surrendered and few of the 10,000 children who were abducted during the war have been released. Sierra Leone is still a very dangerous place to live.(3)Population5,732,681Population growth rate2.9 ...

(3 pages) 95 1 3.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Advantages and Disadvantages of Refugee Movements to both Recieving and Losing Countries

d civilians and led to enforced migration. No area of the world has been spared - from Indonesia to Sierra Leone, Bosnia to Nicaragua - forming groups of people that we now called Refugees.A Refugee i ... g resistance. The impact of extensive sexual violence documented in the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Sierra Leone, and Rwanda has been compounded by the rapid spread of HIV and AIDS. Meanwhile, more th ...

(8 pages) 64 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Colonial Policies: A focus on British Colonial Policy Concerning The Lucrative Palm Oil industry in Nigeria

sion of the colonial Government not endorse the plan. In fact, the failure of plantation schemes in Sierra-Leone and the Goldcoast (Ghana) where government opposition was not as pronounced as in Niger ...

(19 pages) 66 0 4.6 Sep/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

CHILD SOLDIERS

ly just beginning to be understood.A 14-year-old girl abducted by the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone in January 1999 said, "I've seen people get their hands cut off, a ten-year-old girl ra ...

(4 pages) 58 0 3.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

American Foreign Policy Position Paper: Trade, Sanctions, Debt, and Investment

the poorest and more underdeveloped nations in the world, such as Angola, Burma, Liberia, Cuba and Sierra Leone. The sanctions against these nations are justified by the punishment of the inhumane an ... erica's foreign sanctions is to improve human rights conditions abroad. In nations such as Liberia, Sierra Leone, Burma and Angola, sanctions have unsuccessfully attempted to change the actions of gov ...

(24 pages) 185 0 2.6 Apr/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

Resource Wars : Consumer Commodities

your wedding day, that the diamonds in the ring may well have come from the war fields of Angola or Sierra Leone, where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in order for regional groups to ... GoldLiberia 1989-present Diamonds, timberNigeria 1990s-present OilPapua New Guinea 1988-1998 CopperSierra Leone 1991-2001 DiamondsThe war in Sierra Leone.Sierra Leone is a prominent example of a coun ...

(10 pages) 122 1 4.3 Jul/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

How can globalisation affect an economy and country?

de involving some of the worst brutality ever seen. This is the task which now faces the country of Sierra Leone. After ending the conflict in 2002, Sierra Leone has awoken to the new world where glob ... ational scale. There are many implications that globalisation can have as each country is different.Sierra Leone has experienced a significant growth within its economy due to globalisation conveyed i ...

(8 pages) 92 0 4.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

The Blind and Disheartened.

g Liberia. But I didn't want my impatience to affect others, not like how the Liberian war affected Sierra Leone. "We need to perform this surgery swiftly and efficiently! We don't have much time on o ... s possible! We're behind schedule, the helicopter has arrived, and there must be at least a hundred Sierra Leoneans waiting for our aid over there!"It's becoming almost impossible to bear. Another poo ...

(4 pages) 14 0 3.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Life Of A Wonderful Women

g to my step-mom tell about her day, constantly joking about everything anyone says. From living in Sierra Leone playing with monkeys and helping Africans, to living in Keymar, Frederick, with four ki ... over to Africa to attend to Africans that were in need. While they were living in a small house in Sierra Leone, my step-mom was born on August 2nd, 1945. "All I remember from living in Africa was ea ...

(4 pages) 1250 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"A Review Of Amistad"

g the whole process is. Joseph Cinque, played by Djimon Hounsou, is a father and husband, living in Sierra Leone in West Africa. Cinque did not even come from primitive or simplistic origins. Sierra L ...

(4 pages) 23 0 0.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

"Blood Diamond"

Leonardo Dicaprio, moved me enough for me to write an essay on the ongoing trouble and struggle in Sierra Leone which is located in West Africa. Conflict diamonds were used to fund wars in West Afric ...

(3 pages) 74 0 4.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Wir haben es nicht gewusst

de jaren negentig zijn ruim twee miljoen Tutsi's afgeslacht in Rwanda, de oorlog tussen Liberia en Sierra Leone was een bloedbad. Irak is dat nog steeds, en dit zijn nog maar drie voorbeelden van de ...

(3 pages) 2125 0 0.0 Dec/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

The Black Loyalists

their new home of Nova Scotia, the trials and tribulations of everyday life, to their departure for Sierra Leone, the black loyalists endured many harsh times in their daily lives that brought back me ... ers such as David George, Boston King and Moses Wilkinson, left Halifax harbor in fifteen ships for Sierra Leone on the West African Coast. It was almost two thirds of the total number of black Loyali ...

(7 pages) 32 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

Amistad Movie Review

" is a brilliant portrayal of the trials and tribulations of a group of illegally taken slaves from Sierra Leone. The movie covers the capture, the revolt aboard "La Amistad", and all the trials (Circ ...

(2 pages) 11 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Effects of Third World Diseases on the US

e a few. But the diseases that constantly plague third world countries, such as Rwanda, Uganda, and Sierra Leone, seems to me to be the most devastating issue and will have the most impact upon the Un ...

(3 pages) 1574 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Blood Diamond Crisis in Africa

in the past and continue to do so today. In western Africa in countries such as Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Angola, and Ivory Coast, the people have been surrounded by violence. While the civil ...

(2 pages) 61 1 2.5 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Made up Diary of a Slave

akes my mind of the smell and the food.I should tell you my story form the start: I used to live in Sierra Leone in the Chamba Tribe. It was great there, we all had things to do, we had food and water ... 203 Men, 91 Boys129 Women and 83 Girls.Arrived on board the ship ‘Brookes’Coming from the Sierra Leon region.Sold at the new auction house.pulling me roughly and hurting my arms as he did so ...

(9 pages) 16 1 3.7 Sep/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers

Outline and Literature Review on Management

plication for EmployeeRetention within Organizations, Ramlall (2004)Management style of managers in Sierra Leone is based on autocratic-democratic approachEmployee can be motivated and retained with c ... mployees is a crucial task withinmanagement, Mark and Robert (1998)Western theories are relevant to Sierra Leone practice of motivation, which has proved usefulEmployee RetentionA stable workforce can ...

(3 pages) 25 0 0.0 Jun/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making