Essays Tagged: "poor hygiene"

Paper on the atlantic slave trade and the benefits of the traingle trade

African Americans have been exchanged for goods and money. The blacks are treated as property, are poorly fed, are not given the chance to keep good hygiene, and are transported from Africa to the Am ... he Middle Passage because of the environment on the slave boats. People are not well fed, they have poor hygiene, and when one person gets sick, so do all the rest. In the triangle trade, the blacks a ...

(2 pages) 91 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Diseases during 18th century Britain

h (particularly lower classes but also some of the upper class) between 1760 and 1870, due to their poor living conditions and poor hygiene. These diseases included Typhus, Influenza, Pneumonia and Tu ... inal infection, which spread throughout the industrial cities through their water supply, as it was poorly kept - sewage was being allowed to come into contact with drinking water and contaminating it ...

(2 pages) 51 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Explain the spatial variations in the world patterns of fertility and mortality

rank among the highest in the developing countries. Most people in developing countries are usually poorly educated about hygiene and family planning matters. With poor hygiene, people tend to fall si ... ases are also another major contributing factor to the high mortality rate in developing countries. Poor hygiene and the lack of education on the prevention of the spread of these diseases cause many ...

(4 pages) 28 0 2.3 Jun/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Personal Hygiene

ts bad breath or body odor is very offensive. We all want to feel likepart of a group, but when our poor hygiene gets in the way, you may find you do nothave very many friends.As parents, we need to e ...

(1 pages) 35 0 5.0 Jan/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Dr. Jack-O-Lantern, by Richard Yates

rolled in a new school, and had to make new friends. Vincent can be described as a quiet child with poor hygiene who became lonely and rebellious after moving to his new school.Coming from an orphanag ...

(2 pages) 13 0 0.0 Mar/2008

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

Child Maltreatment

e, 2008). There are numerous indicators that can be observed in this type of maltreatment including poor hygiene, untreated injuries, school absenteeism, and chronic hunger. These signs can lead to ma ...

(2 pages) 30 1 3.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters > Child Abuse

Industrial Revolution

r than before, and diseases were more widely spread because of the congregation of people and their poor hygiene in crowded cities. Some critics marked this era as the beginning of environment devasta ... methods was marling; it was a way of producing better crops to earn more profit by mixing rich and poor soils together. On the other hand, the Potato Act advocated the eating of potatoes to resolve f ...

(8 pages) 48 1 4.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Water Borne in Diseases in Developing Countries During the Summer

ing heat, but when it comes to contamination of water, the inevitable puddles, thanks to the city's poor drainage system, the risks go up with every fresh shower. Drains are overflowing at many areas. ... so that dirty water and often sewage is sucked in, leading to contamination. This, coupled with the poor hygiene standards causes diseases like typhoid and cholera that are transmitted both by the fec ...

(2 pages) 2408 0 5.0 May/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Schizophrenia

lusions•Hallucinations•Disorganized Thinking and or Speech•Negative Symptoms such as poor hygiene and grooming habits, social withdrawal, absence of emotion•Catatonia which is when ... . Different elements in one environment can play an important role in this disease; "family stress, poor social interactions, infections of viruses at an early age, or trauma at an early age: (Schizop ...

(4 pages) 32 0 4.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Key Historical Developments in Nursing Research

and emotional well-being of the patient (Polit & Beck, 2003).She researched the ill effects of poor hygiene and sanitation among the military in the war. She began to collect statistical informat ...

(4 pages) 79 0 0.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine