By the end of 1996 the estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world was 22.6 million. Of that number, 14 million, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the total, were in sub-Saharan Africa (Wehrwein, 2000). Nearly two decades into the outbreak, the epidemic has spread throughout the...

The children of Nathaniel Price did not ask to be born unto him; if they would have had choice, the four daughters would have most likely settled elsewhere. Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible is a realistic-fiction novel which captures a Georgia family beginning a mission trip in Africa ...