The DRC: An overviewLinks to an external site..
Bellevue College is fortunate to have international students including from the DR CongoLinks to an external site.
in Central Africa. Please check out these great maps of Central Africa which includes the DRCLinks to an external site.!
Please read the articles below. Then post a 250-300 word commentary of your views and thoughts and reflections on the Discussion Board – follow this with at least one additional post(s) of about 75-100 words that is a response to other students postings.
Please be sure to make an effort to discuss what you personally think and avoid any form of 'copy and paste' model. It is your own opinions, reflections and commentary that you should provide for the forum to be effective and interesting.
Please be sure that you:
- do not 'copy and paste' information in the posts
- feel free to discuss your own personal views and reflections on the topic
- try to minimize or avoid generalized comments - such as - "this is really a huge problem and the government should do something about it."
- feel free to include personal anecdotal information - things that you have personally experienced are great to include
- feel free to include information that you have learned in other classes and/or in your own personal reading - please give a reference/link if relevant
- are sensitive to others viewpoints - especially if you don't share their opinion on a particular issue
- upload your 250-300 word post on the discussion forum before you respond to others
- In other words, upload your main post before reading other students' posts. Thanks!
- make as many response posts as you wish
- Please write your first post in paragraphs or sections. For your second post, paragraphs are not required, but they are recommended.
Articles on Ebola in the DRC
- Here's a Outbreak History and map of EbolaLinks to an external site. in the DRC and elsewhere.
- Here's how a doctor in the DRC dealt with an outbreak in 2019Links to an external site..
- An Ebola outbreak was over in the first half of 2021Links to an external site..
- A second outbreak was declared over the second half of 2021Links to an external site. as well.
Good News in the DRC
Please read at least three of these good newsLinks to an external site. articles about the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
- Here's a 'supertree'Links to an external site. that grows in the DRC.
Perhaps you want to bookmark the Good News Network-World News Links to an external site.as the world's news can seem relentlessly bad. Here's their US linkLinks to an external site..