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about to leave India he gave the car to Mother Teresa, but she knew it would give a good use so she took it. Mother Teresa was already building a special new settlement for 400 leper families on land given to her by then India Government about 140 kilometres from Calcutta. She decided to call it Shanti Nagar which meant the Place of Peace; she had already built thirty homes. She thought that with the money from the car she could build a…

Assignment Two – Research Treaty - Community Story The Aboriginal peoples who inhabited my region before the arrival of the Europeans were the Haudenosaunee. Today the community of the Six Nations of the Grand River is the largest First Nations reservation in Canada, “with a current population of approximately 13,000.” In English, this means “People of the Longhouse” but the Haudenosaunee go by many names such as the Iroquois or Six Nations. The Past The Haudenosaunee people are a confederacy…

Rudraksh Kapil Topic Area: Biodiversity Loss of biodiversity: what are the causes and what can we do? Biodiversity is the variety of all forms of life on Earth - plants, animals and microorganisms. Biodiversity refers to: Species; Variations within species; and interdependence of species. It is interesting to note that only about 1.2 million worldwide species have been identified and catalogued out of a towering total of about 8.7 million, as of August 2011[1]. A range of factors and…

When walking into a mall you see different people from different classes. One would shop at boutiques while the others shop at outlets. However, some societies we hear about, take some measures to extreme. Class structure is harmful in Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World and Andrew Niccol Gattaca. These two show how easily people can be excluded by their societies. When examining the characters in both stories, we see that John and Vincent both think there is something wrong with their society…

Urban sprawl is an inattentive issue that continues to harm the future of the world, unless the problem is addressed. The concept of urban sprawl is the “uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions” (“Urban Sprawl”). Across the globe, there has been urban sprawl in major cities, without consideration of future consequences. As society focal point is on celebrities and fashion, the focus on the destruction of the environment is not being acknowledged. The sprawl leaves…

Year 9 Geography 2016 Geographies of Interconnection Fieldwork Report Assessment Task Task 1: Introducing interconnection a) In your own words, describe what the study of the geography of interconnections is. The study of the geography of interconnection refers to the connection between environments and places. The places and environments can be linked by roads and railways, as well as various methods of transport can help connect one place to another. Cars, planes, ships, buses and trains are…

School-based education was introduced to Kenyan Maasailand by the Christian missionaries and the State at varying times between 1903 and 1918 respectively. John Stauffacher, an American missionary of the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) was the first to introduce Christianity and school- based education among the Kenyan Maasai. He first established his base among the Maasai of Naivasha area in the Rift Valley in 1903. When he arrived among the Maasai, Stauffacher became friends with Maasai youths.…

The Vietnam War was a power struggle between communism and capitalism, North Vietnam against South Vietnam respectively with each party wanting different political system. The United States of America aided South Vietnam while North Vietnam was aided by the Soviet Union and the republic of China. The Vietnam War was fought between 1955 and 1975 which fell in the middle of the cold war which was fought between 1947 and 1991. The United States of America as well as the Union of Soviet Socialist…

Kerala, in 1973. The campaign was designed to save the Silent Valley from being flooded due to construction of Hydro-electric power plant in that very place by Kerala State Electricity Board. This Project was to come up on the Kuntiphuza river, 15 kilometres away from Silent Valley. The site was very suitable for a 240 MW project and the KSEB desperately wanted to build a Hydro-electric project there. With the announcement of the Project, protests…

CYGNUS One of the most prominent constellations in the night sky, and one of the most involved and eventful regions of space, the Cygnus constellation and its surrounds are fascinating, and a worthwhile talking point for many a topic. Occupying an area of 804 square degrees, Cygnus is the 16th largest constellation in the night sky; it lies in the fourth quadrant of the northern hemisphere, with right ascension at 20.62, and declination at +42.03: in other words, if you were in the northern…