Uganda College Essays Samples For Students

In this paper, the growth of contemporary Christianity in Uganda will be analyzed. Uganda, or Buganda (its original name dating back to the name of the ancient and independent kingdom that ruled the region, from the British missionaries and colonizers in the 1800s until Ugandan independence in 1962, and into the present-day, has been shaped primarily by three Christian groups: Anglicans, Catholics, and the wave of evangelical churches that have come to the country from the United States. Both Christianity and Islam are two major world religious influences in Uganda, and Islam had already been in the region for ...

The African continent, a region rich with resources and inundated by poverty is also one that has been the original location for the AIDS epidemic. The onset of the epidemic began in the 1970’s with ever increasing numbers of people catching this cureless disease that attacks one’s immune system. As the various nations in Africa continued to see a rise in deaths and new cases of the AIDS virus something interesting happened in the 1990’s in Uganda and Kagera. While other nations continued to see the surge of devastation that was occurring as a result of ...

Invisible Children

Introduction
‘Invisible Children: Discover the Unseen’ is a fifty-five minute documentary video-a masterpiece at the use of rhetorical appeal and the use of mass advocacy. The video is a an appeal made by the Invisible Children human rights and activism group to the citizens of the United States of America and other parts of the world to donate funds and create awareness in order to apprehend Kony. At this point, one may be led to ask who is Kony? Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army-a militarized faction that terrorizes parts of Northern Uganda in a bid ...

In the developed countries people often concentrate their lives around money and success, as their basic needs for food, shelter and safety are already satisfied. People tend to complain about the salaries that are too small or insurance that does not cover all the essential expenses they have. People live their lives and do not know about the atrocities and tragedies that are happening in the world every minute. The situation in Africa is the one everyone should be aware of to help those who suffer every day. Invisible Children is a 2006 documentary created by three young filmmakers ...

The child soldiers of Uganda-- introduced in the documentary discussed within this essay as “invisible children”--live vastly different lives than those of their counterparts in other parts of the world. These children have their childhood stolen from them, forced to take up the cause of the adults around them rather than growing up and slowly becoming adults. In Africa, high volumes of tribal and racial violence are a result of years of colonialism and the power vacuums that were left when colonial forces abandoned their colonies in Africa; the violence in Uganda and Sierra Leone is a direct result of ...

Child soldiers in Uganda

Introduction
Children in Uganda are facing a tremendous problem that has, and will affect their lives because of the war that has been ongoing in their country for the past 25 years. The children are being used as soldiers despite their young and tender ages while children in other parts of the world of the same age are enjoying and spending their childhoods in a more peaceful and creative way. Moreover, these children are fighting a war that should be fought by adults and not them. This child soldiers are affected in a number of ways but to be specific my focus ...

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1. Describe Ugandan cultural attributes that might affect the operations of a foreign company doing business there.
Uganda has a population of around 25 million people with English as its official language. However, the majority of people are not able to speak English as they are only well-versed in their native indigenous languages. Therefore, language is one of the barriers that many foreign firms face communication barrier. When it comes to religion, around two-third of Ugandan population are Christian with a huge minority of Muslims also. Therefore, a foreign company also needs to be careful ...

Although medical anthropology has existed for a number of decades, it has gained momentum within the recent past. As a discipline, medical anthropology seeks to explain human health from a panoramic ranging from human ecology, cultural to medical and subsequently exploring how interplays between culture and modern day medicine influence the overall societal health (Singer, 97).Different people across the world are subjected to dissimilar cultural environments that influence their thinking and consequently their perceptions pertaining to diseases and illnesses. Traditional medicine has equally been shaped by inherent cultural beliefs and practices that have been passed from one generation to the other. ...

The events and issues that were able to gain global focus during a particular period define history. Historians use social, economic and political events to describe history and how these events shaped the world. History can also be used to describe the relationship between the present day events and events that took place in the previous years. Historians can use history to define and link which is important in understanding issues that affect the society. Issues such as the world war and the cold war have continued defining the modern world years after they took place, technological innovations and inventions, ...

Introduction

The economic growth of a country is usually a very crucial part of the continuity of a nation. It is the key to a prosperous country and a country whose growth levels are positive in relation to initial level of real per that of the capital GDP. The food insecurities and imbalances that are present in the sector of agriculture pose a threat to the economy of Uganda, as this is where the majority of the Ugandans earn their living (Ellis, 53). The high levels of population growth and the regional market integration that bring about cross border purchase of food are the main contributors ...

The Current Effects of Colonialism in Kenya

Kenya was a British colony since the Berlin Conference held in 1885. By 1920, Kenya was fully declared a British colony and the Briton settlers occupied the territory, though the Asians and Africans were banned from any political activities until the year 1944. In the colonial period, Indians were brought to the country to build the Uganda-Kenya Railway Line, which made some of them to settle there, and continued with their trade activities (Berman, 1977). Mau Mau was formed after the year 1942, and started the resisting the colonial rule. As the rebellions continued, multiple Mau Mau leaders were ...

Persistent controversy over LGBTQ rights has called for several activisms at the local, national and global level. In modern parlance, demand of equality for the homosexuals is gaining immense prominence, as many NGO’s, human rights activists and youths are insisting for a legal transformation towards the sexual minorities. Western countries have shown more tolerance or even accepted same-sex marriages; but, Eastern societies rigorously jostle with this issue owing to its influence upon society. This paper identifies the main dilemma in granting equality to the LGBTQ community and how human rights activists are gradually exerting pressure for social acceptance of ...

The countries of Africa have been divided among European Powers in the later part of the 19th century. Among the countries that at the British Empire had colonized was Uganda. Here, the British established schools, churches, but also exploited the country’s resources. As foreign ideals were inculcated into the minds of the people through education and government, representations of the African culture were brought into the Western nations in the form of “cultural items and Black slaves” (Artist, 15). It was the colonial powers who decided what culture was back then.
Post-colonial theory examines the issues of ...

Which conflicts are ethnic and which conflicts are protracted?

Mauritania (ethnic, protracted)
Government of Mauritania against Polisario; Senegalese against Mauritanian
Guinea (ethnic)
The Rally of Democratic Forces of Guinea fights against the government of Guinea-Bisau.
Mali (ethnic, protracted)
This is an ethnic conflict occurring for a long period of time. Conflict in Mali involves a number of ethnic groups and the conflict has become protracted. The government of Mali fights several ethnic groups, including governments of neighboring countries. These groups include the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia/Union of Islamic Courts (ARS/UIC), North Mali Tuareg Alliance for Change, Government of Somalia; factions like Malinke, the MNLF – HM (Moro ...

Health professionals have recognized and embraced the importance of tailored health messages and health campaigns that are based on social support groups that target populations and help to reduce the gaps in delivering health information to different groups. In the attempt to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in developing countries such as Uganda, study findings indicate that issues such as perception of risk, individual knowledge, attitudes and emotions, and policy issues have been critical in the HIV-related campaigns that seek to promote behavioral change (Kaufman, Cornish, Zimmerman, & Johnson, 2014). In addition, the HIV/AIDS infection rate in the country remains ...

Introduction

The Zika virus causes an illness known as Zika virus disease (Zika). The transmission of Zika virus occurs via the bite of an Aedes mosquito that is infected (CDC, 2016). Zika belongs to the genre Flavivirus and the WHO (2015) has identified it as “an emerging mosquito-borne virus.” The virus causes a mild illness that lasts a few days to a week (CDC, 2016; WHO, 2016). Thus, many people with the disease do not seek medical help. However, the greatest concern associated with Zika is microcephaly. This birth defect results from a Zika infection during pregnancy. This defect is ...

Witchcraft can be defined as the use and application of magical powers typically obtained from sorcery or evil spirits in performing unbelievable things. Or it can as well be defined as the invocation and exercise of alleged powers which are supernatural in nature in controlling events or people with the involvement of magic or sorcery. Therefore, a witch can be described as an individual who performs these supernatural scenes. In most cases, the unavoidable element of witchcraft is the infliction of painful feeling to one party in efforts of satisfying the wants of the other party. These painful inflictions ...

The current Ebola outbreak has been termed as the largest outbreak in West Africa posing a threat to the public health not only locally, but also internationally. The latest outbreak began in late 2013 in Guinea and later dispersed in Liberia in March 2014. By August 14, 19 case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported in Liberal, which was 12 percent of 810 cases of the diseases reported globally (Arwady et al. 2015). In 1976, the outbreak was associated with 318 cases. However, the prevalence of the disease throughout 2014 revealed the lack of preparedness procedures and ...

Developing Countries in the International System

In our contemporary world, there still remain many countries that are in the bottom billion. They continue to face extreme poverty and unemployment because of the lack of industries and jobs. The biggest problem most of these countries face is that they have limited financial assistance to enhance their economy and industry and play into the hands of developed nations, who dictate what and how they should run their economy. We all know that in advanced and economically sound countries, the quality of life of the people is much higher than that of those in economically weak and poor ...

The United States of America is a huge superpower that has a wide variety of interests around the world and has intervened in many countries since World War II. It claims to represent freedom, human rights and democracy but in reality its main concerns are political, economic and military power. When it invades countries or overthrows governments in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, its main goal is to control the labor, raw materials and natural resources of those areas. Of course, it also has a very powerful media and propaganda machine that diverts people’s attention, deceives and misleads ...

The United States of America is a huge superpower that has a wide variety of interests around the world and has intervened in many countries since World War II. It claims to represent freedom, human rights and democracy but in reality its main concerns are political, economic and military power. When it invades countries or overthrows governments in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, its main goal is to control the labor, raw materials and natural resources of those areas. Of course, it also has a very powerful media and propaganda machine that diverts people’s attention, deceives and misleads ...

The 1994 Rwandan genocide is perhaps one of the most important events to the African continent. In this event, a nation with one of the smallest land mass in the continent suffered the biggest loss of human lives in its history. Within a short time, about a million people had lost their lives within a span of just one hundred days. Other scholars have argued that number of people murdered in the genocide far exceeds the 1 million mark, about one fifth of the country’s total population. Several governments and human rights groups have taken keen interest in studying the Rwandan case so ...

Introduction

Human sexuality refers to the capacity for one to have sexual feelings. It can be expressed in differently including same-sex relationships, heterosexual interactions and even relationships among different partners. The form of sexuality one follows is guided by their life teachings and influences by culture, global interaction, and religion. These factors determine how one would choose to live their life. Over time sexuality has changed especially in the past century. Freedom to express one’s sexuality has increased, and people are more willing to transform due to reduced fear of persecution and reproductive limitations. This paper will explore the ...

Natural History of Tuberculosis

Zika virus was first isolated in the late 1940s from a sentinel rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta, in Zika forest, Uganda. The name of the virus is thus associated with its first place of isolation. Later, the virus was recovered from mosquitos and humans in Uganda, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Senegal, Malaysia, and Cote d’Ivoire. As the years progress, serological surveys continue to confirm the distribution of the virus infection in other countries such Tanzania, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Egypt, India, Thailand, Borneo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Liberia, Vietnam, and the United States. Today, Zika virus infection, at times ...

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The four expectations of religion and healing, as explained by Martin E. Marty, are attempts to give answers to what believers have in their minds as they show hope by claiming that the faith which they have could be used to explain matters concerning their health. These four expectations are monergism, synergism, autogenesis and Empathy (Barnes & Sered, 2005). Simply summarized by Marty as being in union with something of infinity, synergism in religious terms alludes to humanity or believers acting in cooperation with activities that are superior to the abilities of human beings. This is borrowed from the ...

The role and regulation of Mauritius financial institutions

Mauritius is the largest island in the world. It is one of Africa’s economy that is stable, competitive and success. The state of the economy has enabled the country to be both vibrant and thriving in sectors such as the export sector, offshore financial sector, and manufacturing. The success has allowed the country to attain a Gross Domestic Product of $11.9b. Also, its convenient position has enabled it to be an established international financial center with easy access to Asia, Europe Middle East and South Africa enabling active investment. The report aims to understand the roles and regulation ...

Introduction

“Neo” generally means the new ways of doing things. Neoliberalism will therefore refer to new strategies which are used to improve the economic, political or social status. This paper examines how different women from different races are used to bring about an image perceived by the implementers to be positive and in line with improving the social and economic status of the society. The paper portrays an image of poor women from developing countries, how they are used as a tool in achieving neoliberalism and how most of them become passive victims of the circumstances. The paper also focuses ...

Colonialism is one of the most actual issues of the modern historical science. The formation of colonial regimes entailed profound changes in the economic situation of the African population and reflected in the nature and way of their management. The British and French colonial models were quite different, but I am not sure whether it will be correct to say that colonies were only raw appendages of the empires and got nothing in exchange.
The process of colonization of Africa has become widespread in the second half of the XIX century, especially after 1885 and the beginning of the ...

Justice is the principle and the process of being fair, righteous and equitable (Tonry, M. H., 2011). It is concerned with the result of using the law somewhat so as to punish and judge criminals and their crimes. Justice comes in different types. These are customary adversarial, retributive justice, and restorative justice. Retributive justice emphasizes on finding a wrongdoing and punishing it. It stresses that a crime deserves a penalty as long as it is an equal reaction to the offense committed (Van, Strong, 2013). Conversely, restorative justice aims at rehabilitating the victim, the offenders and the community that ...

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Water is a colourless and odourless liquid, and is very important for human development and survival. It covers 75% of the earth's surface and is mostly found in lakes, rivers and seas. In addition, the human body comprises 78% of water. Water is an interesting molecule and consists of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms. It is covalently bonded and possesses a very interesting characteristic, i.e. polarity. Polarity ensures that water is an effective medium for the dissolution of other polar compounds. In so doing, water is an enabler for many biological reactions (“The Chemistry of ...

Rainfall is available to everyone in most areas of the planet. In the tropical rain forests for example, the main source of rain as many are taught in high school, is the rain forest: therefore the more the forest coverage, the more the rain. If the forest cover were to diminish for a particular reason, say natural processes, then the amount of rainfall will reduce consequently and recover during another season: and if the reduction of forest over reduced to excessive logging, then the problem persists until action is taken to control the logging. The rainfall in this case ...

The HIV and AIDS epidemic has been an issue in the world for more than 30 years. The spread of the disease can cone in many forms including sexual contact. There are some countries who have a higher rate of the HIV or AIDS virus than in other countries. This could be due to the concurrency in that country. “Concurrency is when one person sleeps with multiple or several partners” (Kinchlowsky, 2015). Those partners also have sexual relations with other partners. This can be a factor in the high rate of the virus being spread from person to person. ...

My research covers on the topic about overpopulation in sub-Saharan Africa. Overpopulation is a condition whereby the number of the existing human population supersedes the carrying capacity of the planet. This condition is usually undesirable in nature. All over human history, birth rates have always equaled death rates maintaining a sustainable growth rate.
My intention to research on overpopulation is based on how serious this issue is especially on the African continent. Overall, overpopulation poses a big problem in different fronts. It is a major cause of poverty, malnutrition and underdevelopment (Logan, 1991). This is especially so in Sub-Saharan ...

One of the most awe-provoking aspects of humanity is its richness in diversity. Humanity if characterized by diverse cultural, economic, social, political as well as cocktails of various walks of life. It is this degree of richness and diversity that makes the world unique, and life worth living. Right in the complexity of the differentiating aspects, life has found a way of uniting people from all walks of life. However, man has found a way of being used to his own way of doing things so much so that they assume a false conviction of righteousness. This is the genesis of acts ...

Animal's Common Name: Chimpanzee

Genus & species: Pan Troglodytes
The specific behavior (describe):
Chimpanzees exhibit differences in feeding behavior in a single day. The chimpanzees show more consumption of the leaves from Pterygota mildbraedii and Celtis Africana in the afternoon compared to the morning (Carlson, Rothman and Mitani 344). This is categorized as diurnal variation in feeding behavior.
Is this behavior shown only in certain behavioral contexts, such as in communication, getting food, competition, social behavior, attracting mates, mating behavior, parental behavior, or some other area of activity?
This behavior occurs only in a specific context namely the foraging (getting food) ...

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Personal, Psychological, and Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual
4. Discuss the philosophy of the individual that underlies Thich Nhat Hahn’s “Call Me by My True Names” and compare it to that expressed by Rumi in his poem “Only Breath” or “Where Everything is Music.”
In Thich Nhat Hahn’s “Call Me by My True Name” and Rumi’s “Only Breath” illustrate the interconnectedness of the individual with other individuals outside of his or her personal sphere. For instance, Hahn shows the relationship between the malnourished child in Uganda and the arms merchant “ ...

Homosexuality is a current controversial issue that has hit the media. One cannot avoid the topic of homosexuality in the news, movies, books, social media, newspapers, and even in politics. Homosexuality has become a controversial issue around the globe today. After Uganda outlawed homosexuality in its country, the topic has been trending everywhere in the mainstream media, and the social media. Some nations like the US have legalized homosexuality, and this is why there has been uproar after the president of Uganda signed a bill in parliament outlawing homosexuality. The media has always been blamed of being bias while reporting on gay ...

12. 3. 2014

Banning Mini-skirt in Kenya

Beginning in March 2014, there is a heated discussion on wearing mini-skirts in public has been questioned. Many Kenyans are claiming that aside from being a violation of a women’s right and curtailing their freedom to wear what they want, for many people, it was a direct discrimination. However, what drew people especially for women to even the greater disgust and fury was the public humiliation. The women who experienced the hands of some people after they have been stripped and assaulted for the clothing article of wearing. After the incident, women and human rights activists protested on the ...

The name of the essay is “The Bioterrorist Threat of Ebola in East Africa and Implications for Global Health and Security” by Amanda M. Teckman. The author writes on the outbreak of Ebola in Africa which alarmed the global health. The disease made its appearance in East and central Africa according to the virus. The essay also alleges that terrorist groups use the virus to infect people who then move in the countries and cause a high human casualty in these countries (Teckman). The essay alleges that the virus is spread by terrorists who infect some of their soldiers, mostly ...

AIDS

Research carried out has provided an enormous amount of information available for both patient and clinicians on HIV and AIDS. Mechanisms to prevent the transmission of the disease have been outline. However, the methods of preventing its transmission will differ as per the background of the individual. A few nations are even now falling behind in education and thus their strategy for keeping the transmission of the illness will be unique in relation to that of the developed nations, for example, the United States. United States is a developed country, and much of its populace is very much educated. Therefore, ...

Introduction

African trypanosomiasis or simply sleeping sickness is a vector-borne parasitic disease. It is also abbreviated as HAT, which stands for Human African trypanosomiasis. Sleeping sickness has two forms, depending on the type of the parasite that caused the infection (WHO, 2014).
The first type is Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. It is found in 24 countries in west and central Africa. It accounts for over 98% of the reported cases. It is possible for someone to be infected with this type of the sleeping sickness for long durations without major signs or symptoms. When major symptoms do emerge, the patient would ...

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Tourism is one of the factors that contribute to economic progress and recreation facilities are the most visited parts of every cities and state. This paper posits that recreation facilities contribute to tourism thereby contributing to economic development. Further, this paper suggests taking into consideration the elements to consider in putting up recreational facilities. Along with this, this paper discusses the roles of the public sector in the construction of recreation facilities to enhance tourism as well as the negative effects of land-based transportation on rural tourism and how these effects are alleviated.
Tourism performs a ...

Many African people loved and even cherished as well as valued their traditional foods and drinks. They always adored their culture more than foreign culture. For instance, in the mid 1930s in Gold Coast a traditional drink known as akpeteshie was introduced and distilled from sugar cane juice. Additionally, the distillation of local akpeteshie drink spread across the Gold Coast region in Ghana at a faster pace (Akyeampong 216).
After the invasion of Europeans colonialism in African states, the colonists took over everything which made them to mistreat the native in their own land. They exploited Africans mercilessly in terms ...

Introduction

The insecticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) has been very successfully used for many years in the prevention and control programmes of malaria all around the world. However, it is one of the drugs that has been facing an immense level of controversy since its discovery back in the year 1874 (Casman and Hadi 17). It has been previously banned for human use, then reaccepted for continued use and still its survival is not guaranteed. Generally, DDT is an organochlorine insecticide that has been used as a pesticide for pests and insect control in the United States until it was banned in 1972 ...

Introduction

Teenage pregnancy and childbirth is a burning issue in Australia. Statistical data showcase detrimental effects of being an adolescent mother, since young mothers appear to experience long-term psychological impairments, serious developmental crisis and physical problems (Bishop, 2007). The Australian teenage pregnancy rates are not as high as the American, yet, they are four times higher than Spain, Italy, Japan and the Netherlands (Bishop, 2007). Based on the United Nations Population Fund handout that was released in December 2012, 16 million adolescent girls give birth annually, which is approximately 11 percent of all worldwide births, and thousands of teenage girls between ...

Kony 2012

Social movements emerge out of suppression of certain social necessities of the citizens, which has besieged the nation during need. Some social movements are reformative while some are revolutionary. This depends on the requisites placed by the protestors in the movement.
Reformative movements are those that demand an improvement in the affairs of the government or the ways of the state in running the administrative matters of the nation. Revolutionary movement features certain social and organizational demands put forth by certain sectarian or secular sections of the society which favour their affairs or rights in the protocol of ...

POWER

Power can be defined as the measure of a given person’s ability in controlling the immediate environment or social surrounding. The ultimate control referred to here is also directly related to the influence on other people’s conduct. On the other hand, authority refers to the overall claim of legitimacy and the moral justification of exercising one’s respective power. Converting power into authority is a desirable conduct in numerous aspects.

Political philosophy, the borderlines of political authority, the centre of sovereignty, and other political obligations have been the context of thought and reference of major world renowned philosophers. Plato ...