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Thailand
Number of Words: 594 / Number of Pages: 3
... coconuts, kenaf and live stock.
- Fishing; prawns, mackerel, anchovies, other fish and shellfish.
- Mining; natural gases, lignite, gemstones, zinc, lead, tin, gypsum, iron ore, and manganese.
- Manufacturing; textiles and garments, electronics, cement, refined sugar, refined petroleum, motor vehicles and cigarettes.
The employment division is 50 % agriculture, 30 % services, and 20 % industry.
Thailand’s major imports are petroleum and petroleum products, machinery, chemicals, iron and steel.
Thailand’s major trading partners are the USA, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the United Kingdo ...
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Apartheid In South Africa 2
Number of Words: 1080 / Number of Pages: 4
... whites only make up just over 14% of the population, they own 86.3% of the land. However, it must be said that the Afrikaaners are entitled to the Orange Free State and Transvaal, as they were first to use it after the Great Trek of 1836.
The average South African White earns eight times as much as the average black man. Coloureds earn three times as much as blacks while coloureds earn well over half of what whites earn.
During Apartheid, media censorship was at an all time high. People were even banned from showing Soweto on television. It was common to see a newspaper shut down, and then start agai ...
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Sports And Competition In Ancient Greece
Number of Words: 380 / Number of Pages: 2
... truce. All disputes and warfare among the city-states were then suspended. The sacred truce was to protect Games-goers from assault and lasted three months.
The competitions were open only to honorable Greek men, and lasted five days. On the first day of the Games the athletes and the judges swore that they would compete and judge honestly. On the second, third, and fourth day the different contests were held. The main event at Olympia was the stadion or single-course race, and the winner of that race gave his name to the Olympiad. On the fifth day, at the conclusion of the Games, the victors were awa ...
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Contributions Of Ancient Egypt
Number of Words: 1378 / Number of Pages: 6
... religious rituals.
The Egyptians established a form of writing known as hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics was a style of writing which incorporated the three characters of pictographic, syllabic, and alphabetic. Both pictographic and syllabic characters were primarily established within Sumerian cuneiform. It was later that the Egyptians combined the Sumerian cuneiform along with an alphabetic system all into one that became the rough foundation for what is now known as the modern day alphabet. Although the Egyptians were but a step away form establishing a complete alphabet by separating the alphabe ...
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The Atrocities Of The Vietnam War
Number of Words: 1062 / Number of Pages: 4
... eyes of the world have ever seen.
During the Vietnam War, the body count was the most important statistic to the U.S. Military command. The efforts to quantify the complexities of the war into simple numbers pervaded every aspect of U.S. military presence in Vietnam. Secretary of Defense from 1962-1967, Robert McNamara, did a lot to persuade high-level policymakers that a "win" in Vietnam was just a matter of improving the numbers.
The most devastating consequence of this mindset was the great number of Vietnamese civilians killed without provocation. In a war lacking front lines and territorial ...
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JFK
Number of Words: 1864 / Number of Pages: 7
... sometimes show independence by voting with the Republicans. He also joined with the Republicans in criticizing the Truman administration’s handling of China. In China, the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, which had been supported by the United States, was unable to withstand the advance of Communist forces under Mao Zedong. By the end of 1949 government troops had been overwhelmingly defeated, and Chiang led his forces into exile on Taiwan. The triumphant Mao formed the People’s Republic of China. Truman’s critics, including Kennedy, charged that the administration had failed to support C ...
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The History Of The Soviet Union
Number of Words: 1222 / Number of Pages: 5
... In December of 1825, an uprising from the populace
occures when they demand changes to the economic system. With the
development of the American, French and Spanish constitutions, the serfs
now demanded the abolishment of the monarchy dictatorship, communal
ownership of land and many other civil and social reforms. Unfortunately,
their rebellion was quickly dismantled by the Czar's military faction and
the system remained in tact.
1861-1905
Czar Nicholas II finally realized that his current economic monarchy
was holding back the development of the empire. He therefore created a
parliamentary syst ...
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Cary Grant
Number of Words: 499 / Number of Pages: 2
... Leach appeared in his first film, a ten-minute short entitled
Singapore Sue. Grant then traveled to Los Angeles, where he made a successful screen
test for Paramount. The studio offered him a five-year contract, suggesting he change his
name to Cary Lockwood; Leach negotiated with them, and they settled on the name Cary
Grant.
Grant's feature debut was in This Is the Night in 1932. He soon found himself playing
opposite such top Paramount female stars as Nancy Carroll, Sylvia Sidney, Marlene
Dietrich and Mae West . In 1935 Grant appeared with Katharine Hepburn in Sylvia
Scarlett. ...
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Flash!
Number of Words: 637 / Number of Pages: 3
... of an experience. I had burned my arm on an oven rack and when I was wiping off my arm the skin peeled right off. As I read the section I could imagine a large piece of skin peeling off of a human hand and I thought that I would lose my dinner.
Another thing that remained in my memory throughout the novel was that people put their beliefs before their injuries. Mr. Tanimoto mention that he was ashamed that he could walk when he saw all of the injured people lying about unable to move. Dr. Sasaki didn’t sleep for the first three days because he knew it would be wrong to. Amazingly though, the inj ...
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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Edge Of War
Number of Words: 2551 / Number of Pages: 10
... and placed nuclear missiles in Turkey. Another factor was a threat by the US to one of the Soviet Union's satellite countries, Cuba (Hersh 346). The United States had, in the past, attempted to kill Fidel Castro, dictator of Cuba (Brinkley 1047). In July of 1962, the United States found out that nuclear missile shipments were being made to Cuba. United States U-2 spy planes flew over the island, bringing back reports of construction and ballistic missiles ("Cuban" 744). The CIA found that five thousand Russian military technicians were in Cuba, and various military weapons were being unloaded ...
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