pt 8

Malaria

Malaria

disease caused by mosquitoes implanting parasites in the blood

Polio Vaccine

(1995) created by Dr. Jonas Salk. worked by introducing killed or weak pieces of the virus to allow body to develop antibodies

AIDS/HIV

Virus that destroys the immune system that should protect the body from diseases. The disease is passed from person to person through sexual acts, blood transfusions, used hypodermic needles, or from mother to child during birth.

Ebola

A contagious viral disease originating in Africa. It is transmitted by blood and body fluids and causes body organs and vessels to leak blood, usually resulting in death.

Green Party

A formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence. Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation for world peace.

Deforestation

the clearing of trees, transforming a forest into cleared land.

Desertification

the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.

Greenhouse gases

Gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere which are involved in the greenhouse effect.

Global Warming

an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)

Kyoto Protocol

An International agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to slow global warming; as of November 2007, 174 countries had subscribed to the agreement.

Asian Tigers

small Asian countries that are growing in economic power; South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore.

NAFTA

An organization that prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Organization formed in 1960 by oil producing countries to regulate oil supplies and prices.

WTO

International body representing 149 nations that negotiates the rules for global commerce and is dedicated to the promotion of free trade.

Margaret Thatcher

Conservative British prime minister from 1979 to 1991; held that office longer than any other person; worked to cut welfare and housing expenses, promote free enterprise.

Deng Xiaoping

He was a leader in the Communist Party of China (CCP). He held office as the head of state or the head of government but served as the de facto ("in practice" but not spelled out by law) leader of the People's Republic of China from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.

Tiananmen Square

In 1989, demonstrators peacefully assembled to push for greater democracy in China; when the demonstrators refused to disperse the government sent in troops and tanks Korean War

Desmond Tutu

South African activist and Christian cleric who rose to worldwide fame as an opponent of apartheid. He was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. He has also been active in defense of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, homophobia, transphobia, poverty and racism

WEB DuBois

First African American to receive a doctorate. America's foremost black intellectual at the turn of the twentieth century, and an outspoken leader of the black cause. He disagreed with Booker T. Washington's accommodationist posture and called upon blacks to insist on equal rights. He was a founder of the NAACP and editor of its journal, "The Crisis."

Green Peace

Environmentalist movement established in British Columbia in 1970. From that year to the present, it has been one of the key NGOs in the world to bring about change in attitudes towards environmental protection. Causes have ranged from protesting against nuclear testing to preventing the destruction of old growth forest.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.

UNICEF

An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.

Apartheid

Policy of strict racial segregation imposed in South Africa to permit the continued dominance of whites politically and economically

Consumer Culture

America, 1900s: a culture based around the consumer and the acquiring of goods to fuel the economy, economy based on consumption.

Bollywood

India's answer to Hollywood Based in Bombay; codified system that produces movies, music, and a lot of dance numbers

Americanization

Process of assimilating immigrants into American culture by teaching English, American history, and citizenship