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Violence In Algeria
Number of Words: 1101 / Number of Pages: 5
... of the death tolls escalated during Ramadan. The targets were poor innocent villagers with no sin at all. Days, weeks, years passed, but the brutal killings didn't stop.
These massacres caused a growing concern for everyone. Many people left the country to run away from death. The victims are usually the innocent villagers. Among those who get attacked, there are very few survivors. They complain about their protection. The survivors complain that the security forces, which are often stationed nearby, haven't intervened to stop the massacre and did not come to the scene place, till the next morning. Th ...
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Disneyland
Number of Words: 532 / Number of Pages: 2
... arrival to the park I realized I was wrong. I soon realized that that my
mature height of five feet and one-half inch had given me a golden key to the
doors of some of the biggest thrill rides the world will ever know. I was now
seeing Disneyland in a totally different way. I ran from ride to ride, my level
of excitement raging as never before. My stomach was being twisted, juggled,
and tossed like never before; for a twelve year old boy I was as close to heaven
as a kid could ever dream to reach.
As my senior year of baseball arrived, our hard work fund raising was
about to be paid off. We ...
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Evolution Of Canada
Number of Words: 1556 / Number of Pages: 6
... copper, nickel, cobalt, iron, and zinc--making 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-dom ...
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The Dome Of The Rock In Jerusalem
Number of Words: 357 / Number of Pages: 2
... only if one recalls the tenets of the Islamic faith.
This dome is set upon a drum, which, in turn, rests upon the basic octagon that represents the earth, like a perfect crystal. The original facing consisted of glass mosaics, magnifying the beauty of the earth created by God, but the porcelain of the present-day dome, with its dominant blues, growing denser and darker as it descends from the drum to ground level, doubtless recalls the transition, almost dematerialized and transparent, from the crown in the sky formed by the drum to the walls of the basic octagon. The delicate lacework of the azure t ...
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Zambezi Valley
Number of Words: 943 / Number of Pages: 4
... territory in
absolute silence. His bushy black mane casts a shadow in the pale moonlight.
Eyes like those of an eagle penetrate the darkest shadows of the bush. The soft
gray pads of his paws tread along the game path barely leaving any evidence of
his presence. The great beast strides graciously along before disappearing into
black night. He will soon find either a dense thicket or some tall Buffalo
grass swaying back and forth on the rhythm of the early morning breeze where he
can lay his giant body down and get some rest. Stars begin to fade as a
mysterious yellow glow takes their place in the Ea ...
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Central America
Number of Words: 1356 / Number of Pages: 5
... which is a measure
of income is around $12,000 in the United States. In Central America on
the other hand, the wealthiest Country, Costa Rica, came in at just under
$2000. Distortion plays a role on the $2000 also, due to the fact the the
elite-rich have an enormous concentration of wealth and land ownership, the
real GDP of the poorer half of the population is around $200-$400 a year
(Pg 10, Booth and Walker). Accompanying poverty or as a result is poor or
unavailable education, health care, and an extremely bad job market.
Government 'for the people and by the people is not present is Central
A ...
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Southeast Asia
Number of Words: 1445 / Number of Pages: 6
... ended their colonial reign over Southeast
Asia, the countries in this realm were left with little or no industry of
their own. When the colonial powers freed Southeast Asia they constructed
borders that were not beneficial, or would have naturally occurred, in this
realm. For instance, it is improbable that without colonial intervention
the 13,000 islands of and many diverse ethnic groups that inhabit them
would have grouped together to become the world’s fourth largest country in
terms of population. In Southeast Asia, despite an abundance of natural
resources, colonialization stripped nati ...
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France
Number of Words: 962 / Number of Pages: 4
... eve of the French Revolution one-fifth of the population had no resources at all.
World War I broke out August 1914, setting , Russia, Britain, Belgiumand Serbia at war with Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Everyone assumed the war would be over in a few months. Instead, the war lasted for four years. Germany finally agreed to sign an armistice on November 11, 1948. (A kind of peace agreement). The death toll had been the largest of any previous wars. had lost over 1.4 million men and in all of Europe over 8.5 million were killed. People said it was the war to end all wars.
Only tw ...
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The Town Of El Dorado Springs
Number of Words: 5554 / Number of Pages: 21
... who once
roamed the area had known that the spring had medicinal qualitites, but,
with characteristic reticence and secretiveness, they did not reveal this
fact to the white man. They held the secret in their hearts as they gave
ground and moved westward from the surging horde of white immigrants . . .
" (1). To my mind, this sounded like a fallacy; how did they know the
Indians knew if they never told anyone? Could I find out if the Indians
considered the water medicinal? Could I prove this statement false?
Farther on in the book, I came to the section titled "For Whites Only."
"From the town' ...
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Italy
Number of Words: 2887 / Number of Pages: 11
... Roman Empire was united again. Byzantine rule in Italy collapsed as
increased attacks fr om Germanic tribes weakened the empire. Byzantine rule
collapsed in 572 when the Lombards invaded.
In the 400's and 500's the popes increased their influence in both
religious and political matters in Italy and elsewhere. The popes were usually
the ones who made attempts to protect Italy from foreign invasion or to soften
foreign rule. The popes for almost 200 years had opposed attempts by the
Lombards, who controlled most of Italy, to take over Rome. The popes defeated
the Lombards with the aid of two Franki ...
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