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What Are The Main Contrasts To Be Found In Portugal?
Number of Words: 1929 / Number of Pages: 8
... as naturally turned towards the sea, from which it draws both
its strength and wealth and turned its back on its greatest rival, Spain. Due to
its constant waves of invasion throughout the ages, Portugal is a vastly diverse
land, not only in geographical terms but also in terms of heritage. It is true
to say that Portugal does share a number of similarities with Spain, but it is
by no means identical. Rather it is a nation which blends Moorish influences,
British tradition and Mediterranean culture to form a truly unique land of
peoples.
When considering the diversity of a country such as Portu ...
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Australia
Number of Words: 417 / Number of Pages: 2
... governments are stationed in centre of the town or city that they provide
to. State governments are run from the state capitals, while the Federal
Government sits in Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory.
There are six states, and two major territories in Australia. The states are:
Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western
Australia. The two territories are the Northern Territory and the Australian
Capital Territory. Australia also has a number of areas run by the Federal
Government (dependent areas). These include the Ashmore and Cartier ...
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The Physical Setting And Economy Of Bangladesh And Singapore
Number of Words: 1245 / Number of Pages: 5
... specially in most developing countries.
Physical Setting
the physical setting which is the geographical setting, of Bangladesh and Singapore have some similarities , but many differences. The similarities basically just show that both of these two countries are located in the south east Asian realm as shown in figure 1.
Along with these similarities, there are quite a lot of differences among these two countries. First of all is the difference in the population verus the amount of lan is avaliable for the population in these countries. The poulation of Singapore is 3,531,600 million people veru ...
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Korea
Number of Words: 1456 / Number of Pages: 6
... was not an axis power.
It is difficult to understand why Korea would have to be divided as was Germany.
At first, Korea was supposed to be unified with a multilateral
administration. But the cold war changed the United States' mission to
unilateral containment of the spread of Soviet communism. Supported by the
Soviets, North Korea attacked South Korea in June of 1950. The South Koreans
pushed into North Korea with American aid. But the Soviet Union, helped the
North Koreans to push the South Koreans back . "During the bitterly destructive
Korean War, the entire peninsula was devastated. Some ...
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Ohio
Number of Words: 1116 / Number of Pages: 5
... the oil refining
business.ö Cleveland had many rail lines that brought crude oil from
western Pennsylvania and Ohio, then these rail lines distributed the
finished product to other states. Finally, Clevelands location made it a
major place for the development of the iron and steel industry. Iron ore
was brought to Cleveland in ships owned by Clevelanders from the Lake
Superior region. The water transportation was cheap, and from Cleveland
the ore could be sent by train to the Mahoning Valley and other Ohio steel
centers.
The development of railroad systems also helped this age of Big
Business. ...
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Israel
Number of Words: 508 / Number of Pages: 2
... Jews came to the land in the early 20th century.
The Jews want Peace and the Arabs wanna kick the Jews out. One of the Biggest
debates is over the Mosque in Jerusalem. The Mosque is located right by the
Whaling Wall, which is the remnants of an ancient Jewish Temple. They are both
major parts of each religion so they are fighting over who has ownership of what.
In Israel they like many of the sports we do. Soccer, Basketball, Football,
etc. They eat many of the same foods we do. Some of the foods native to that
area of the world are: Falafel, Hummus, Techina, and Shwarma.
The populatio ...
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Austria
Number of Words: 1641 / Number of Pages: 6
... Austria at Passau on the German border; it continues its southeastern course, past Linz and Vienna, to Bratislava on the Slovakian border. Austrian tributaries of the Danube include the Traun, Enns, and Ybbs rivers. In the south, important rivers are the Mur and the Mürz. In addition to the rivers, the hydrographic system of the country includes numerous lakes, notably in the south central and the northwestern areas.
Climate
The Austrian climate varies with altitude; with location in relation to Atlantic, continental, and Mediterranean influences; and with certain local wind characteristics ...
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Ghana
Number of Words: 656 / Number of Pages: 3
... was slowly beginning to gain power and eventually conquered the Kingdom.
An ideal location is what led the ians to be so prosperous. They grew very wealthy from their control of the southern gold fields, and even wealthier from tax collected on traded goods. The people in the gold fields of Wangara happily traded their gold for salt since they needed the salt to preserve and flavor food. Salt also helped replace the salt lost from the body through perspiration. Outside traders found gold extremely valuable for use as money and in jewelry. One last natural resource that the ians had was iron. Iron al ...
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Mexico
Number of Words: 1046 / Number of Pages: 4
... sector, settled the 's Border Industrialization Program. The BIP allows US and foreign companies to ship components and production equipment into , free of duty, for assembly or processing utilizing Mexican labor.
These Mexican facilities are commonly referred to as Maquiladoras, or in-bond assembly plants.
The BIP sought to attract foreign manufacturing facilities, technology and know-how.
Over the past years, a large portion of US-Mexican trade has been attributed to rapid growth in the Mexican Maquiladora industry.
In 1992, Maquiladora Plants numbered 2,113, employing 469,614 Mexican wo ...
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South Africa
Number of Words: 954 / Number of Pages: 4
... electricity.
Suth Africa has been looking to develop and find more sources of
natural gas, and oil. Large amounts of gas were recently found at Mossel Bay on
the south coast. The reserves are large enough to produce 25,000 of diesel and
petrol a day for thirty years.
South Africa has one nuclear power plant. It also has a large supply of
Uranuim, which is a by product of copper mining. It has 247,600 metric tons of
recoverable uranium with a cost of less than $80.00 per ton. It has 96,800 at a
cost of less than $130.00 per ton, and provides 14% of the western world's
uranium.
Renewable resource ...
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