Algeria

and are very dry places. In 2002, there were about 12,500 desalination plants around the world in 120 countries. The countries that uses the desalinated water the most are Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Libya, and Algeria. (water.usgs.gov/edu/drinkseawater-January…

Novel Notebook: The Stranger 1. Setting/Matter: The Stranger by Albert Camus, is set in Algeria in the 1940’s. The setting is important to the story, because it sets the stage for….. 2. Plot: The story is about a man named Monsieur Meursault. In the first part of the book, it is revealed that he recently lost his mother. After her funeral, he returns to his normal routine of life, and he even gets a girlfriend, named Marie, and a new friend named Raymond. They all go to a beach one afternoon,…

hunting skills, and an interesting life cycle, making them an intriguing animal. The Cheetah’s habitat is unique and has many important characteristics which help them survive. They live in many different places such as sub Africa and Southern Algeria. Cheetahs live in grassland so they can hunt and get water from lakes or streams. Some Cheetahs can live up to 10-12 years and the oldest cheetah were 20 years old and cheetahs that…

predominantly Muslim and speak Arabic, identifying more with the Middle East than Africa. These norther countries are “more economically successful than their Sub Saharan counterparts”, this is due in part to the discovery of oil and natural gas in Algeria and Libya and the tourism industry in Egypt (New World…

Algerians began fighting for their independence in 1954, nearly after 130 years of violence and oppression from French colonialism. Years of anger and frustration led to the Algerian Revolution to rapidly take place in the mid-1950s. The Algerian war has been described as a “moment in which gendered, religious, and ethnic identities were challenged.” Along with the fight for liberation, the fight for equality was rising as a result of the women’s movement. In the midst of the 19th century,…

Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria. He was the second son of Catherine Marie Cardona, a house-keeper and factory worker, and Lucien Auguste Camus, a military veteran. But, however, after the WWI in which Camus is only a less than a year old, his father suffered and died at the first battle of the Marne. Then after his father’s death, he, his brother and their mother moved and lived to his maternal uncle and grandmother in Algiers. At the local Ecole Communale Camus…

soldiers who served in Gaddafi’s military returned to Mali. These Tuaregs were well-trained, well-armed and would go on to from the MNLA. The MNLA is only the most recent iteration of Tuareg militancy with Tuareg rebellions occurring in Niger and Algeria as well as Mali. There have been two other major Tuareg rebellions in Mali in 1990 and 2007. The Tuaregs are nomadic people and as a result are well suited to hit and run tactics and guerrilla warfare as seen in their previous rebellions. A…

The most electrifyingly opportune motion picture playing in New York was made in 1965. Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers is well known, however for quite a while it's been accessible just in washed-out prints with ineffectively interpreted, white-on-white subtitles. The recently deciphered and subtitled 35-millimeter print at Film Forum is probably the form that was secretly screened in August for military work force by the Pentagon as a field manual for battling terrorism. Previous…

Confirmation Commission Objection Assurance Sign Brother Christophe, one of the younger brothers in the movie, displays signs of weakness and strength in his faith with God. You see him at his lowest and his highest as he decides whether or not he made the right decision. Fully embracing his calling, Brother Christophe actively displays the tension of a faith-lived life, redefining his religious calling as a Trappist monk through the five elements of the prophetic call. Brother…

Throughout time many nations have competed in the Olympics. Nations compete against each other through many athletic events. Many people come together to watch the Olympic games. World issues, such as WWII, gender equality, and the Cold War, have affected the development of the modern Olympics. Issues involving WWII has affected the Olympics’ development. During the 1936 games held in Germany, young Nazis were encouraged to prove that Nazism was superior to democracy. The day before the…