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- 13571: Modern Japan Since 1945
- ... an additional force to expand. Also Japan has to pick four important islands and give the rest to their rightful owner. On 1946 the leader of the Allies, Douglas MacArthur and his advisers draft a new Japanese constitution which the government accept without thinking about it. So on 1947 Japan democratic constitution went into effect. In 1950 the Japan manufacture return to prewar level. Instead of taking a lot of time ... carry goods to foreign country. In 1995 the population of Japan reach to 120 million peoples. The famous train, which the Japan builds, was the bullet train. Bullet train is the fastest train in the world. Japan main food source of food is rice and fish because they have so less land irrigate. Also the country is surround by water so they have a lot of fish. Japan is the best ...
- 13572: Boom Towns of the Amazon
- ... overlooked. As I mentioned earlier, the Amazon basin is considered the last frontier, but there are dramatic environmental changes occurring. The most notable change is the rapid clearing of the largest tropical rainforest in the world, which has over shadowed the genesis of new urban centers. The prototypical urban community in contemporary Amozonia is a bustling boomtown, a dynamic and sometimes short-lived frontier settlement. The change of the region’s landscape occurs in the social area of conflicts ...
- 13573: Vienna vs. Virginia
- ... from mostly German. American’s have over 900,000 words to choose from. A great many more that the 500,000 the Germans have. The chief reason form this is because where English made a new word, German speaking peoples have just combined two. Map and Landcarte for example. The transit systems are the most different of the three. Vienna has over 80 busses, 40 Strassenbahns (street cars), 6 U-Bahns (under ground trains and 8 Schellbahns (fast trains that circle the city). It’s the second transit system in the world, next to Japan’s. VA’s TRT (tidewater regional transit) isn’t even ranked. With only 20 busses at it’s disposal, its hard to move around with out a car. Payment is very different ...
- 13574: Geology of the Deschutes Basin
- ... 17 million years ago, the pacific plate was drifting in towards the continental plate, creating more land. Because of this, many people believe that there are rocks as old as Pre-Cambrian age under the new Cascades and Deschutes basin area. The Deschutes Columbia Plateau is a very volcanic area and is surrounded on all sides by mountains. During the Miocene age, there was a large out poring of lava and ... because of the coarseness of the Deschutes compared to the Sintustus. There was then a break in geologic activity of about 5 million years landing us around 8 million years ago. This is when the new Cascades were created. The new Cascades caused there to be a great difference in the climate on the West Side and the East Side of the mountain range. Our field trip started by driving through the city of Bend ...
- 13575: Palestine
- ... Cairo ordered the UNEF to leave Sinai and Gaza. President Nasser also announced that the Gulf of Aqaba would be closed again to Israeli shipping. At the end of May, Egypt and Jordan signed a new defense pact placing Jordan's armed forces under Egyptian command. Efforts to de-escalate the crisis were of no avail. Israeli and Egyptian leaders visited the United States, but President Lyndon Johnson's attempts to ... few miles west of Damascus. After 18 days of fighting in the longest Arab-Israeli war since 1948, hostilities were again halted by the UN. The costs were the greatest in any battles fought since World War II. The Arabs lost some 2,000 tanks and more than 500 planes; the Israelis, 804 tanks and 114 planes. The 3-week war cost Egypt and Israel about $7 billion each, in material ...
- 13576: Austria
- ... valleys, the average annual rainfall is between 1542 and 2032 mm (about 60 and 80 in). Natural Resources Austria has sizable deposits of iron ore, lignite, magnesite, petroleum, and natural gas and is a prime world supplier of high-grade graphite. Some small deposits of bituminous coal have been mined, as well as lead, zinc, copper, kaolin, gypsum, mica, quartz, salt, bauxite, antimony, and talc. Plants and Animals Deciduous trees, mainly ... Jewish. Language German is the official language of Austria. About 2% of the population speak languages other than German, chiefly Turkish, Croatian, Slovene, or Czech. Culture Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Vienna was a world center of culture, particularly in music and literature. Austrian fine art usually is considered with the art of southern Germany. A distinctive Austrian style, however, is manifested in the refined baroque architecture and sculpture of ... horses. Forestry and Fishing Approximately 39% of the total land area is forest or woodland. A comprehensive reforestation and conservation program has been in progress since the early 1950s to compensate for damage inflicted during World War II and for postwar overcutting of forest trees. More than 80% of the forests consists of conifers, mostly spruce, which are important in the paper and pulp industry as well as in building ...
- 13577: E-mail In The Workplace, Yours
- ... the "paperless" office. E-mail is also a great time and paper saver. Gone are the days of Xeroxing memo's for each employee, e-mail is much faster and easier on the environment. These new technologies are changing communications in the workplace and are creating new problems for employers and employees. These technologies are also allowing employers to monitor employees in new ways. All e-mails are viewable by employers, even if they have been "deleted" by the employee. As stated in the article, employer's reasons for monitoring their employees e-mail are to investigate ...
- 13578: Euthenasia
- ... is necessary to consider arguments, both, for and against, in order to come to any conclusion. In this paper I will address Brian Clowes' article in the "Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia", located on the World Wide Web, that attempts to provoke a response from the reader and clearly establishes six reasons on which he concludes euthanasia is wrong. I will deal with each reason in turn. In developing countries death ... social outcome of legalizing euthanasia. Further, for the writer to suggest rating something good or bad by the amount of confusion it causes would, I believe, take us back to the days preenlightenment where any new theory or thought that questioned the established structure was considered witchcraft. He believes "if something is incomprehensible to the common man, it is usually something that is not in his best interests." Yet history is ...
- 13579: Lebanon
- ... Israel, Lebanon's eastern border is only 20 miles from the sea. Although a tiny land, Lebanon boasts a great diversity in its landscape which makes it one of the most picturesque countries in the world. The coast line is br oken by many bays and inlets of varying size. At some points, the mountains wade silently right into the sea - then climb suddenly tier on tier away from the Mediterranean ... one thing, the Moslems, especially the poorer Shiites, had a substantially higher birthrate than the Christians; many people believed that the Shiites had surpassed the Maronites in population. But the Christians would not allow a new census to be taken, for this would have meant a reallocation of the nation's political power, with the Moslem sects gaining at the expense of the Christians. With their hopes for political gains dampened ...
- 13580: FEMINISM
- ... and economical equality for women. Feminists can be anyone in the population, men, women, girl or boys. Feminism can also be described as a movement. A revolution that includes women and men who wish the world to be equal without boundaries. These boundaries or blockades are better known as discrimination and biases against gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status and economic status. Everyone views the world with his or her own sense of gender and equality. Feminists view the world as being unequal. They wish to see the gender gap and the idea that men are superior to women decreased or even abolished. Carol Gilligan is one woman who has contributed much time and ...
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