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Egypt
Number of Words: 587 / Number of Pages: 3
... of almost 67,274,000 people. Most of ’s population is made up of the age group from 15 years of age to 64 years of age. In this age group, about 20,604,000 are males and 20,211,000 are females. This age group makes up 61% of the total population of . ’s population rises slightly with a 1.82% population growth rate. Its birth rate is 26.8 births/1,000 population and its death rate is 8.27 deaths/1,000 population. The life expectancy for a male in is only 60.39 years, while the female is expected to live for 64.49 years. For every woman in , about three children are born from them. There are r ...
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Japan: Changes
Number of Words: 503 / Number of Pages: 2
... Japan now ranks as a economic model of efficiency and quality. Economically, Japan has changed since 1945.
Militarily, Japan has changed a great deal. In the past, Japan's military was feared by countries around the world. They had conquered the country with the most people (China) and the country with the most land (Russia). They had a perfect record of winning every war they were ever in. After the U.S. defeated Japan in 1945, they renounced the right to have a military and their world military power came to a close. Japan also lost it's ability to wage war on another country effectively. Sure the ...
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The Population Growth Rate In India
Number of Words: 1549 / Number of Pages: 6
... (The obvious exception would be families like the Kennedys who
adhere to religious strictures against artificial birth control, but the major
Indian religions have traditionally lacked such strictures.) Ironically, the
state of Kerala which had long had a Communist-led government had for many years
represented a population planning model because of its implementation of
programs fostering education and the emancipation of women. The success of such
programs has indicated that even the poorer classes can be induced to think in
terms of population control and family planning through education, but inc ...
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Brazil
Number of Words: 701 / Number of Pages: 3
... drop forms an escarpment, steep cliff that separates two level areas. In
Brazil there is much poverty. People make a living there by subsistence farming.
Even though they do farming subsistintly, they use much advanced farming there.
Aside from farming there is much more to there culture. People there are
involved a lot in astronomy and mathematics. Architecture is another way of
living there. This used not only as a money making job, but private uses also.
HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION OF BRAZIL
In the 1500s, the Portuguese colonist built big sugar plantations along
the fertile coastal plain ...
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Geography Of Mauritania
Number of Words: 2109 / Number of Pages: 8
... Senegal and Western Sahara. It's geograph-ic
coordinates are 20 00 N, and 12 00 W. It's neighbors are Algeria to its
northwest, Mali to it's west, Western Saharas to it's northeast, Morocco to
it's north, and to its south Burkina Faso. It's total area is about
1,030,700 sq miles and it's land area about 1,030,400 sq miles which is
slightly larger than three times the size of New Mexico. It has land
boundaries are Algeria, Mali, Senegal, Western Sahara which make up the
5,074 sq miles of it's total land.[3][2]
Mauritania is made up of mostly desert and barren plains of the
Sahara. There is only ...
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Haiti
Number of Words: 2640 / Number of Pages: 10
... sea level
dominates the Massif de la Selle mountain range. The Chaine du Haut Piton,
runs along the northern peninsula reaching a height of 3,881 feet. The
Massif de la Hotte reaches a height of 7,770 feet at the extreme western
end of the southern peninsula. The other chains which include the Massif
des Montagnes Noires and Chaine des Cahos range between 3,701 feet and
5,184 feet high.
Haiti's shoreline is irregular and there are many natural harbors.
There are numerous rivers that are short, and basically unnavigable. Only
the Artibonite River which is the country's largest is navigable for any
le ...
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Sparta
Number of Words: 1162 / Number of Pages: 5
... weren’t. This war destroyed practically every city-state because it was so intense. In the end, and Corinth won the war. surrounded the city-state of Athens and a plague broke out. It spread like wildfire and killed Pericles, an Athenian leader, as one of its first victims. It was a shallow victory for the ns however, because Greece had been fighting within itself. The downfall of Athens led to the weakness of all Greece.
The n religion was that of all the other city-states of Greece. They were polytheistic and had twelve major gods. They believed the gods dictated their daily lives and the gods pr ...
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Kuwait
Number of Words: 975 / Number of Pages: 4
... as
a whole. Hence, development of traditional agriculture is severely
restricted.
1El Mallakh, Ragaei (Kuwait, Trade and Investment. Boulder, Westview
Press Inc., 1989) pg 117
Kuwaitis are under no illusion that self-sufficiency will take less
than 20 to 30 years to attain and even then it cannot include such items as
beef and cereals. For Kuwait cereal production is considered too expensive
and unnecessary. Self-sufficiency in poultry, vegetables and fruit is a
visible goal: already Kuwait produces 60% of the eggs it needs, 40% of the
poultry meat and 100% of the tomatoes. The next e ...
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Saudi Arabia
Number of Words: 1263 / Number of Pages: 5
... in human history. Every year for the past fourteen centuries, Muslim pilgrims from around the world have traveled to Islam's holiest sites in Makkah and Madinah, helping further enrich the culture of the people of the peninsula. With the formation of the modern Kingdom of in 1932, King Abdul Aziz Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Saud directed his efforts to preserving and perpetuating Arab traditions and culture. His legendary dedication to this cause was emulated by his sons and successors at a crucial time when the nation was entering an era of rapid economic development.(BOOK)
has successfully p ...
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Botswana
Number of Words: 796 / Number of Pages: 3
... the economy has been rising at 13 percent.
has one of the world’s highest foreign exchange reserves in terms of per capital income. The main cause of economic growth is due to diamonds, minerals, and beef exports. The most important source of income in is from diamonds.
In 1967 the discovery of diamonds changed the whole economic development in . Jwaneng is a diamond mine in the south and Kalahari, Orapa, and Letlhakane are mines in the central. These four diamond mines combined revenues have accounted for 77 percent of the total exports and 45 percent of total GDP. The government owns thes ...
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