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- 331: Industry Production
- ... folding of their respective margins and part of the bed of the Tethys. This was to produce the Alpine and Apennine chains whose curvature reflects the anticlockwise movement of the contact line between Europe and Africa produced by the particular forces of their respective plates. Their collision took place some 40 million years ago (between the Eocene and Oligocene periods) in the first-half of the Cenozoic era, which is considered ... Latium or the Sele in Campania, etc.). In addition, there are those reaching to varying depths under the Po Plain and the other alluvial plains. The Italian Seas With its extension from southern Europe towards Africa, the Italian peninsula almost divides the Mediterranean in two separate basins. Leaving aside the Strait of Messina, the shortest distance between Sicily and Africa (NE Tunisia) is circa 140 km, reduced to 70 km if it is measured from the island of Pantelleria. In this part of the sea (Channel of Sicily) the depth does not exceed 500 ...
- 332: Islamic Terrorism
- ... health and education services(22). The funds received from Iran in the 1980's totaled $60-$80 million a year. Because of the recent terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and foreign embassies in Africa, the United States is aware of the danger that terrorism presents. Being a politically correct country, no United States official has specifically named the radical Islamic groups as our primary enemy. However, the Islamic groups ... Council. Available: http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/orgdet.ctm?orgid=2. March 22, 1999 2. Coordinator for Counterterrorism of the State department. Fact Sheet: Usama bin Ladin. Http://www.state.gov/www/regions/africa. March 22, 1999 3. Al-Islamiyya, Harakat. HAMAS(Islamic Resistance Movement). Http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/orgdet.ctm?ogid=13 March 22, 1999 4. Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya( The Islamic Group, IG ...
- 333: Obstetrician vs. Midwife
- ... have taken a course in midwifery after completing the usual course for professional nurses in their country. This is the kind of midwife most common in the British Isles, Israel, and the urban areas of Africa. Finally, there is the traditional birth attendant, or indigenous midwife. This is a midwife who practices primarily within the contours of a traditional ethnic or cultural group, who may or may not have any formal training or education. These midwives are found throughout the world, and are quite common in rural areas of Latin America, Africa, and the third and fourth worlds. In the United States, all three basic types of midwife co-exist. Certification exist for the nurse-midwife and the professional midwife. All 50 states license nurse-midwives. Professional ...
- 334: Comparison Of Heart Of Darknes
- ... sin. In both stories it appears that the natives were living without real problems and the white people came in and caused complete confusion and mayhem. When the white people came into each town in Africa they assumed they had the right to be there. The natives did not speak the white peoples language nor did they understand their politics or customs. Thus, the natives were unable to understand he white ... but it didn't matter. In Things Fall Apart the disruption of the white people may not have been as exaggerated but it definitely was present. Unlike Heart of Darkness the white people came to Africa to spread the Christian religion. Yet, the natives were unclear as to why the white people had come to their villages. Not only did the white missionaries bring religion but they also brought new type ...
- 335: Langston Hughes
- ... people, we are still beautiful and mysterious people. He displays the mysteriousness of the black people in his poem, Negro: I am a negro Black as the night is black Black as the depths of Africa (lines 1-3) This poem shows that he has depths about as deep and fathomless as Africa itself. His poetry "echoes the voices of ordinary African Americans and the rythms of their music." (The Bedford Introduction to Literature 1101) The blues can be dected very easily in his poems, and throughout most ...
- 336: Arianism
- ... allowed of appeals to Pope Julius, or the Roman Church, seemed an epilogue which completed the Nicene legislation, and to this effect it was quoted by Innocent I in his correspondence with the bishops of Africa. Having won over Constans, who warmly took up his cause, the invincible Athanasius received from his Oriental and Semi-Arian sovereign three letters commanding, and at length entreating his return to Alexandria (349). The factious ... Empire. Its developments among the barbarians were political rather than doctrinal. Ulphilas (311-388), who translated the Scriptures into Maeso-Gothic, taught the Goths across the Danube an Homoean theology; Arian kingdoms arose in Spain, Africa, Italy. The Gepidae, Heruli, Vandals, Alans, and Lombards received a system which they were as little capable of understanding as they were of defending, and the Catholic bishops, the monks, the sword of Clovis, the ...
- 337: The Ebola Virus
- ... it was passed onto humans. To this date no clues have been uncovered about where the virus hides between outbreaks. Collection of animal specimens is currently underway in Kikwit, but the possible species in tropical Africa are so numerous that a long and lucky search is likely to be required (Henahan, 1995). The Ebola Tai found on November 24, 1995 by a Swiss researcher in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), West Africa. The researcher caught the Ebola Tai from a chimpanzee while carrying out an investigation about a spate of deaths among local chimps of the Tai forest. When the Pasteur investigators examined tissue taken from the ...
- 338: Difference Between Sephardic A
- ... whose less strict traditions were developed in the environment of toleration. While the Ashkenazi Jews were restricted to the ghettos of Europe, held at bay by the Catholic church, the Sephardim of Middle East, North Africa and Ottoman Empire were living as "dhimmies", or "people of the pact", and though not fully equal with their Muslim hosts, were to some extent intregrated into their societies. For this reason, the traditional laws ... deal economically through this lucrartive practice, and it was by the way of this trade that first Sephardic Jews have arrived in the Americas. The Ottoman empire, which in its golden age spanned from North Africa to the Balcans, had attracted Jewish immigration from as early as the 1300's. The Sultans' sympathy to the Jews went so far that in 1556, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent had requested from the Pope ...
- 339: Marketing
- ... to the private sector.1 The transfer of assets can be total, partial or functionary, with the sale being implemented by methods such as private sales, leasing arrangements, employee buy outs and share issues. In Africa, many governments have embraced the idea of privatization, brought to the fore mainly as a part of the adjustment and stabilization programs of the mid-eighties and the nineties. Privatization now frequently features in government ... eastern Europe. This paper reviews the privatization program in Zambia, highlighting the major tools and mechanisms employed, and the achievements and constraints faced by the authorities in privatizing one of the largest public sectors in Africa. The paper begins with a brief overview of the main economic issues surrounding moves towards privatization of public enterprises.
- 340: The Ebola Virus
- ... virus. It is believed that it is some sort of mutated form of AIDS because it started in the original spot as AIDS did, Kinshasa and moved along the highway ripping its way through Northern Africa. As of now there are an estimated 150 000 people who have died from this virus. This figure is in Africa alone. In October 1989, monkeys were dying by the hundreds in a building 2 miles away from the White House. They were diagnosed as dying from Ebola. Except that this strain of Ebola was not ...
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