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Specialized Report - Nigeria’s Failing Healthcare System (MCM 212)

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  Nigeria’s Failing Healthcare System Uyo Farida Kadiri 201307009 200 Level Mass Communication   The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) recorded a loss of over 9000 medical doctors in Nigeria between the years 2016 and 2018. The doctors absconded to the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States of America. The President of NMA , Professor Innocent Ujah, during the Maiden NMA Annual Lecture Series in Abuja stated that the loss has left Nigeria with only 4.7% of its medical practitioners to serve the healthcare needs of the population.  Brain drain exacerbates the depleted resources in our healthcare system and widens the gap in health inequities between underdeveloped and developed countries worldwide. Healthcare workers tend to move from these underdeveloped nations to richer nations in order to cater to their own best interests and to be compensated for their high levels of training. Although, this is understandable, this leaves Nigeria with the scarc...

A Critical Review: The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (MCM 202 Project)

A Critical Review: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Critical and Review Writing (MCM 202) Uyo Farida Kadiri 201307009 Mass Communication 200 Level   Here is a critical analysis of The Old Man and the Sea (Video) Critical Review: The Old Man and the Sea Here is the text:                            Critical Review:  The Old Man and the Sea Introduction The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway’s most credible works as an author but it was his last before his death in 1961. The book was published by Scribner's in September 1, 1952. It was originally written in 1951 in Cuba, a country in South America.  The book is based in the same place with a plot that unfolds in the late 1940s. 127 pages long, the book focuses on the characters: Santiago, Manolin, the marlin, Joe DiMaggio, Martin and Perico. It won him a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 and a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 195...

Bad Apple - A Short Film Production (MCM 216 Project)

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Bad Apple - A Short Film Production Introduction to Film, Cinema, and Literature MCM 216 A brilliant young girl gets in the wrong crowd and suffers the consequences. Introduction to Film, Cinema, and Literature (MCM 216) Uyo Farida Kadiri 201307009 Mass Communication 200 Level Here is the script: SCENE 1 HOUSE PARTY - NIGHT FELICIA is at a house party with friends BUJU, KUSH, and PENNY. They’re seated on a large couch where three others are drinking and getting high. The place is dark and becoming scanty as they leave to their various homes. As the place becomes empty, BUJU and KUSH mingle with the small crowd remaining and then come back with two other friends. FELICIA: (Yawns) This party is pretty much over. I want to go home. PENNY: (Lays down on FEL’s laps) Same here, girl. BUJU and KUSH come back with two mysterious guys. BUJU: Ayo! Would like you guys to meet my guys FRANCIS and DAVE, y’nahh’m sayin. PENNY: (Looks lustfully at FRANK) H-hi. FRANCIS: (Sits next to...