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Papers on Geography
Africa
Number of words: 319 | Number of pages: 2.... doctors people have some health problems. Some of the resources does have though are aluminum, asbestos, chromium, coal, cobalt, copper, diamonds, gold, graphite, iron ore, lead, mica, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, natural gas, oil, salt, sulphur, tungsten, unranium, vanadium, and zinc. There are many land resources but not many industries or people to take machines and dig for them. I thought to be a interesting but needful continent. It needs more people to build and help the people live in peace and live prosporous. I learned that not everyone lives as well as we do and we should not take for granted all that we have. .....
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India's Economic Policy
Number of words: 402 | Number of pages: 2.... sets. Steel production has more than doubled since 1960. India is self-sufficient in iron and coal but is heavily dependent on foreign oil.
India's chief energy sources are coal (26%), petroleum (49%), and electricity (25%). Some 156 billion kw of electricity were generated in 1987, which still far short of demand. Only 65% of India's villages are electrified, and electrical outages are a common feature of big-city life. The leading sources of power are thermal and hydroelectric. The government has made a commitment to nuclear energy, which provides a little over 3% of total power production.
The majority of Indians .....
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Egypt : The People
Number of words: 1024 | Number of pages: 4.... disks. The sharpened edges of the disks crush the
stalks of wheat so that the grain can be separated from the chaff. The water
buffalo or cow also supplies the fellah's family with milk and with calves that
can be sold. Very often the fellah shares his house with his animals. This is
unsanitary, but it is the farmer's preferred way of protecting them. The theft
of an animal could mean economic catastrophe for the poor fellah.
The fellah wears a loose, long cotton robe called a gallabiyea, loose
cotton pants, and a wool cap, which he makes himself. For special events he
makes a turban by folding a white sash around the cap .....
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Mexico
Number of words: 4507 | Number of pages: 17.... own languages and retaining much of
their native culture. Inevitably they became the laboring class. Their plight
was the result of the 'encomienda' system, by which Spanish nobles, priests, and
soldiers were granted not only large tracts of land but also jurisdiction over
all Native American residents. A second characteristic of colonial Mexico was
the position and power of the Roman Catholic church. Franciscan, Augustinian,
Dominican, and Jesuit missionaries entered the country with the conquistadores.
The Mexican church became enormously wealthy through gifts and bequests that
could be held in perpetuity. Before 1859, when ch .....
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Jerusalem
Number of words: 324 | Number of pages: 2.... buried at this site. The Church was rebuilt by Crusaders in 1099
CE, but it was originally built in the fourth century.
The St. James Cathedral is the center of attention in the Armenian
part. Many families who escaped the Armenian Holocaust in 1915 settled in
the Old City. Many of the residents of this part of the Armenian Quarter
practice the Greek Orthodox religion.
The last section of the city is the Muslim Section. Atop the Temple
Mount are the gold-domed Dome of the Rock (661 BCE) and the silver-domed
al-Aqsa mosques. The Rock referred to in Dome of the Rock is Mt.Zion. This
is where Abram went to sacrifice Is .....
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Colombia
Number of words: 465 | Number of pages: 2.... members).
Land Area
The total land area of the country is 440,831 sq. mi. The capital and largest
city is Bogota.
Population Characteristics, Religion, and Language
The population of Colombia (1993 estimate) was 34,942,767, giving the country an
overall population density of about 79 per sq. mi. About 95 percent of the
people are Roman Catholics. Small Protestant and Jewish minorities exist. The
official language of Colombia is Spanish. The racial makeup of the Colombian
population is diversified. About half the people are mestizo (of mixed Spanish
and Native American ancestry), about 20 percent are of unmixed European an .....
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Russia
Number of words: 1041 | Number of pages: 4.... Only about 1 million
people, 1.5%, are registered unemployed, but the unemployment rate is much
higher. Thousands work with no pay or with very few hours.
Russia was the main country in the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics(USSR).
The East European Plain is full of rolling lowlands. The eastern
boundary of this region, the Urals, are old mountains that have eroded. The
Urals do not go above 6,200 ft. The Caucasus Mountains form the southern
border of the Russian plain. West Siberia is swampy and has many features
in common with the rest of Russia. Eastern Siberia includes the Central
Siberian Uplands .The Kamchatka Peninsula a .....
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Mt. St. Helens
Number of words: 270 | Number of pages: 1.... Mt. St Helens had been dormant since 1859 and has let off its first
blast since then today. The volcano killed all life in an area of 180 sq. cm(70
sq. miles) including at least 60 people! The ash and dust spread much farther
than this, of course. Today it is continuing to emit to emit dust and ash at
intervals. Today a monument has been erected called the National Volcano
Monument, in memory of this tragedy.
How A Volcano is Formed
A volcano is formed in this way:
1)Magma starts off below the crust.
2)Magma collects in chamber.
3)Pressure rises.
4)The pressure rises so high that the magma .....
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Evolution Of Canada
Number of words: 2088 | Number of pages: 8.... Canada one of the
most important mining countries in the world. The Shield's N portion is a
treeless plain with permanently frozen subsoil; in its S section are
forests.
Extending from the Shield's W border to the Canadian Rockies are
prairies more than 800mi (1,288km) wide that yield wheat, the dominant crop,
and are centers of livestock raising. W Canada is a land of mountains with
fishing, agriculture, and lumbering as important industries. With the
development of major oil and natural gas deposits since the 1950s in the W,
the now-dominant energy industry has resulted in dramatic economic growth
there, and made Canada .....
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Ireland, History And Nature
Number of words: 1815 | Number of pages: 7.... It is drinking from the brook, just as you did just a few minutes ago. And as you are staring at this beauty you notice two deer coming from the edge of the forest towards the deer already standing beside the brook. While the two new deer approach the first, you notice they are smaller than the first, and you understand that they are the children of the first deer. You do not wish to interrupt the family while they are drinking, so you continue to walk until you are at the end of the lake.
Then you see a few small bunnies happily hunting each other underneath some rocks a few metres to the left. They are happily playing on the .....
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