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» Geography Essays and Papers
Indonesia
<view this essay>.... towns and cities. By 1920,
there were 32 such councils, with little electorial franchise.
Other councils were also established. They included provicial councils
in Java, and group communities concils outside Java.
The government of Indonesia is based on a constitution written in 1945.
A president serves as the head of government. The president apionts a sheet of
advisers consisting of top military leaders and civillians.
In theory, the peoples console assembly is supposed to establish a
general direction of the government's policys.
A house of peoples Representatives is the nations parlament, however, in
practice neither the assembly nor the house .....
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Ancient China
<view this essay>.... for farming It would
also wash away cities, and villages with records and stuff like that.
Most of the rest of China is covered with mountains or is very dry and
hilly, and on the northwest border of China there is a huge, cold desert called
the Gobi. Because of this, the north-west part of China was extre-mely less
populated.
Alot of the features of China have kept itself isolated so they have really
evulutioned all by itself without much outeside activity.
Chinas history did not really have (or mention) leaders, it really just
mentioned dynesties. Chinas had three dynasties. The first of which was the Xia
(2,000 b.c. to 1,500 b.c.) except for .....
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Israel
<view this essay>.... survived the Holocaust. They would,
once and for all, have a Jewish homeland, where the key to citizenship was
simply being Jewish. The majority of the world had sympathy for the Jewish
people, at that time.
Along with this sympathy the world had expectations that the
Jewish people would be better, morally, than the other nations of the world.
As a result, Israel is often put under a figurative microscope and each
and every thing she does is analyzed. For many years people only said the
nicest things about Israel, but that has changed, recently. Many people
think that one of the reasons for this change is because of the power the
Arabs have as .....
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Geography Of Mauritania
<view this essay>.... consumers goods, petroleum
products, capital goods, and it's partners are Algeria 15%. China 6%, US 3%,
France, Germany, Spain, and Italy in which does not even make up one
percent. It's inflation rate has gone to high for anyone to afford any
products. Mauritania's few infostructures are it's single railed railways,
highways, ports, erchant marines, and small airports.[1][3]
Population, Location, Area, Climate
Mauritania is located in Northern Africa, bordering the North
Atlantic Ocean, between 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 .....
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Lebanon
<view this essay>.... of years. It has also been on the route of numerous
conquering armies.
With an area of 4,015 square miles, Lebanon is one of the smallest countries in
the Middle East. It is smaller than every state in the United States except
Delaware, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Lebanon is sandwiched between Syria in
the north and east and Israel in the south. The maximum distance from the
nation's northern border to the southern one is only 130 miles. And the maximum
distance from the Mediterranean Sea to the Lebanon-Syria border is 50 miles. In
the south, along the border with Israel, Lebanon's eastern border is only 20
miles from the sea.
Although a tiny land, .....
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Ancient Egypt: Old, Middle, And New Kingdom
<view this essay>.... the Kings
B. Shift in religion
1. Aton
2. Akhenaton
C. New art form, naturalistic
D. Downfall of the New Kingdom
V. Conclusion
The ancient Egyptians are considered among many to be the civilization
upon which much of the western world's views and attitudes are based.
Everything from religion, to architecture, to art has been handed down,
generation by generation, to us in the present day. Although many of the
ancient Egyptians' traditions have been modified or altered, the majority of
their core principles remains constant. Yet, despite the ancient Egyptians'
conservative nature, there were some changes wi .....
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Botswana
<view this essay>.... The Bamangwato make up almost one third of Botswana's population.
The majority of the Tswana are farmers. There are also about 10,000 of the San
people, or “Bushmen”. Some San are hunter-gatherers, and some are farmers.
Several thousand whites are also included in Botswana's population. Most are of
British descent. Most whites earn more money then the blacks, and this causes
some racial tension. Although English is the official language of Botswana, most
people speak Setswana, a Bantu language. Eighty-five percent of Botswana's
people practice traditional African religions, while the rest are Christian.
Most Botswanan children attend elementary schoo .....
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Honduras
<view this essay>.... Honduras is a plateau, consisting of
broad, fertile plains broken by deep valleys, and traversed by mountain ranges
in a northwestern to southwestern direction. Most of the country's rivers drain
to the Atlantic Ocean. Forests cover about 31% of the land.
"Culture And Customs"
The Native American and Spanish strains in Honduran cultural history is
visible in the awesome architecture. Fine Arts in Comayagua, the old capital
has long been a custom to our southern neighbors. in northwestern Honduras is a
ceremonial center of the Old Empire of the Maya and one of the most important
archaeological sites in the entire western hemisphere.
"Type Of Government" .....
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