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World Conflicts

Mao Zedong Proclaims People's Republic of China

Three young Afghan female university students who have fled their country pose for a photo, hiding their identity over safety concerns for family in Afghanistan

Police officers January 10, 2013, confront protesters at a demonstration against media censorship outside the headquarters of the Southern Weekend weekly newspaper in Guangzhou, the capital of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong

5 Blue Zones of the World - Longevity of LIfe

Protesters in Soweto use cars as roadblocks during unrest stemming from student demonstrations against the use of Afrikaans in schools, June 21, 1976. Police attacked black student protesters, killing at least 69. Hundreds more were killed later in the ye

Piles of wood are seen during "Operation Green Wave" conducted by agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, to combat illegal logging in Apui, in the southern region of the state of Amazonas, Brazil,

A general view of Coroa slum with the Christ the Redeemer statue in the background during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March 24, 2020.

Apartheid Protest - Cape Town, South Africa

Aerial view of Amazon River/Rainforest

Favela in Brazil

WUHS Database Resources

Try any of the following keyword searches depending on your topic:

Apartheid

Brazil

China

Deforestation of the Amazon Rain Forest

Life Expectancy

Afghanistan women, Afghanistan

 

Cite Your Sources of Information - MLA

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AN ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE DATABASE (OR OTHER ELECTRONIC SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE)

Cite online databases (e.g. Badgerlink databases) and other subscription services as containers. Thus, provide the title of the database italicized before the DOI or URL. If a DOI is not provided, use the URL instead. Provide the date of access if you wish:

Alonso, Alvaro, and Julio A. Camargo. “Toxicity of Nitrite to Three Species of Freshwater

     Invertebrates.” Environmental Toxicology, vol. 21, no. 1, 3   Feb. 2006, pp. 90-94. Wiley Online

     Library,    https://doi.org/10.1002/tox.20155. Accessed 26 May 2009.

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Afghanistan - Women

China - Censorship

South Africa - Apartheid

Longevity of Life - Blue Zones

Brazil - Favelas

Amazon - Deforestation