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Report: Guatemaula
Number of Words: 422 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the dry season. The highlands are freezing at night, dank and
chill during the rainy season, and warm and delightful in the dry season
(October to May). El Petén's climate varies only from hot and humid to hot
and dry.
Spanish is the most commonly spoken language in Guatemala, and Roman
Catholicism is the principal religion. Evangelical and Pentecostal
Christian denominations have gained wide followings, while the Maya have
preserved aspects of their traditional religions, often blended with
Catholicism.
Facts:
Guatemala is called the "Land of Eternal Spring," because of its mild
climate. It is t ...
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New York
Number of Words: 281 / Number of Pages: 2
... states.
First I am going to tell you how New York became the 11th state. On Joly
9, 1776, the provincial congress of New York met in White Plains. It approved
The Declaration Of Independence which the Continental Congress had adopted on
July 4. The congress also organized an Independent goverment. The next year, New
York adopted its first constitution George Clinton was elected governor. About a
third of all the battles were fought in New York. New York City was the United
States capital from 1785 to 1790. In 1789, George Washington became the first
presjident of the United States. He t ...
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Saigon
Number of Words: 360 / Number of Pages: 2
... for many as people from North and central Vietnam immigrated south.
In the '60 and '70, was bustling with commerce and business .It was the cultural center and the Capital city of South Vietnam.Already heavily influenced by the French in term of culture and style,the City had an air of a French provincial town with a Vietnamese twist. was dubbed the " Pearl of The Orient" by foreign press. The city alive with activities and cultural diversity that rivaled any Asian city at the time.
After the fall of South Vietnam to communist in 1975,The city and many of its inhabitants were in a State of ...
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Tropical Africa: Food Production And The Inquiry Model
Number of Words: 446 / Number of Pages: 2
... afflicted by
drought.
All the climates listed in the previous paragraph are modified in the eastern
parts of Tropical Africa by the mountains and monsoons.
The soils of Tropical Africa pose another problem. They are unlike the soils of
temperate areas. Soils are largely products of their climates, and tropical
soils are different from temperate soils because the climate is different.
Because of the great heat of the tropics tends to bake the soils, while on the
other hand, the rainfall leaches them. The combined heat and moisture tend to
produce very deep soils because the surface rock is rapidly ...
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Ural Mountains
Number of Words: 567 / Number of Pages: 3
... ft. and Mount Karpinsk Which is 6161 ft.
These first two sections are typically Alpine and are Strewn with
Glaciers and are heavily marked with permafrost. Farther south come the Northern
Urals, which stretch for more than 340 miles to the Usa River in the south; most
mountains top 3300 feet, and the highest peak, Mount Telpos-Iz, rises 5305 ft.
Many of the summits are flattened, the remnants of the ancient Peneplains
uplifted by geographically tectonic movements. In the north, intensive
weathering has resulted in vast "seas of stone" on mountain slopes and summits.
The lower Central Urals ext ...
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Geographic Features Of A Region Has Important Effects On Development
Number of Words: 283 / Number of Pages: 2
... the rain forest in Latin America. This essay will describe the effects of
these features on there nation.
Japan is a group of islands called an archipelago. This influences the
development of Japan because it limits the size of their usable land and since
much of the land is mountainous it leaves even less usable land. The areas
which are usable are heavily populated. Also another effect of the lack of land
is limited farming. This leads Japan to one of there most plentiful resources,
the ocean. Most of the Japanese nutrition is from fish and other sea foods.
Since there is so much ...
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Indonesia
Number of Words: 373 / Number of Pages: 2
... power after crushing an abortive communist coup in 1965 and has tolerated little dissent since then. currently is suffering its worst economic crisis in decades.
In the past few weeks we have been hearing in the media the East Timor is going through extreme turmoil. The reason for that East Timor is such turmoil is that in the last elections the military denounced the independence of East Timor from . This caused militant bands going through East Timor killing anyone the can. This caused a mad influx of refuges to leave East Timor. Most of the refuges are fleeing to neighboring islands like Mala ...
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Fordham University
Number of Words: 428 / Number of Pages: 2
... the size of the school and whether or not I could adjust to living in the city. Then I came across . After extensively researching the school to determine if it would fit my needs, I began to be convinced that the school would be perfect for me. With small classes, individual attention, and being just minutes from Manhattan, it seemed to have everything I was looking for plus that small-school flair.
This past October my parents and I had the opportunity to visit Fordham. While I was leaning towards applying to Fordham anyway, the visit would be the crucial determinant of which school would be my ...
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Alcatraz
Number of Words: 3001 / Number of Pages: 11
... island. While the defensive necessity of diminished over time (the island never fired its guns in battle), its role as a prison would continue for more than 100 years. In 1909, the Army tore down the Citadel, leaving its basement level to serve as the foundation for a new military prison. From 1909 through 1911, the military prisoners on built the new prison, which was designated the Pacific Branch, U.S. Disciplinary Barracks for the U.S. Army. It was this prison building that later became famous as "The Rock."
"The Rock"
The U.S. Army used the island for more than 80 years--from 1850 until 193 ...
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Quebec, The Province, The People, The History
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... that have yet to
be fully resolved. This is apparent in the recent "Referendum" where
theQuebecois tried to get Quebec special provincial concederations based on the
fact the mass majority of Quebec residents speak French.
Quebec is the largest of all the Canadian provinces. Its large area of
1,540,680 sq km (594,858 sq MI) accounts for 15.5 percent of Canada's total area
and includes 183,890 sq km (71,000 sq MI) of inland freshwater surface. This is
a major draw for Industry in Quebec. Elevations in Quebec range from sea level
to 1622 m (5322 ft), atop Mont D'Iberville in the Torngat Mount ...
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