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I remember waking up with a bloody face. As I entered junior high, my family had moved to a town that had a racist streak. On the first day of school I made a remark identifying myself as believing in civil rights. The statement’s consequences arrived several months later when I was beaten unconscious by a fellow white student. At that time, I had never had a black friend, but the madness imposed on African Americans stormed into my world with the physical intimacy of violence. What do we know,…

with United States. The reason why South Korea had joined with the U.S was because Japan was trying to take over and take their natural resources and wealth. Location of South Korea is 35.9078° N, 127.7669° E latitude. South Korea 's latitude and longitude denominations provide it with a climate…

and is situated in the northernmost part of West Bengal- one of the states in India. The shape of Darjeeling hills is an irregular triangle and is located between 24o 41′ North to the 27º10′ north latitude and between 87 o 59′East to 88 o 53′ East longitude. Darjeeling hills comprising of ridges, bold spurs, narrow deep valleys have been carved out by various agents of denudation. It is bounded on the north by Sikkim, in the south by Bangladesh and Siliguri,in the west by Nepal and on the…

The nineteenth century is associated with the rise of the West where unprecedented power came to be concentrated in Britain and France. Considering that in 1800 Western powers held approximately 35 percent of the earth’s surface which had risen to 67 percent by 1878 and a staggering 85 percent by 1914 illustrates how the world, like never before, was united into a single interacting whole by the Western imperial powers (Said 6). The use of the term ‘interacting whole’ to describe the world in…

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…

Marine Traffic Density Over Port Klang, Malaysia Using Statistical Analysis Of AIS Data: A Preliminary Study Introduction Port Klang Malaysia is the major logistic hub of Malaysia and one of the busiest ports in South East Asia region. There are a large number of vessels or cargo ships transporting using the waterway in Port Klang Malaysia. Group [1] reported that in the first half of 2012 Port Klang Malaysia handled 5 million Twenty- Foot Equivalent Unit (TEU) of container traffic in total,…

Chapter Four 4-1Study Area 4-1-1Location Al-Tuwaitha (Nuclear Research Center ) is located about several kilometers south of the southern edge of Baghdad and within the Baghdad Governorate , between 44 27E and 44 35 E Longitude and 33 10 N and 33 15 N Latitude, and covers 1.2 square km. Aand the Tigris River passes near it fig (4-1). Lland use within 10 km of Al-Tuwaitha is predominately agricultural with scattered houses and villages in the outlying areas. No oil fields or…

Ken Jennings’ Maphead narrates his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so interesting to him and to fellow fans everywhere. Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of map culture: highpointing, geocaching, road atlas rallying, even…

Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman language families. India has no national language. Hindi, with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the government. English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary official language"; it is important in education, especially as a medium of higher education. Each state and union territory has one or more official languages, and the constitution…

Executive Summary The procurement of sanctuary to everything the needy poor is a fundamental need and has turned into a huge test for guaranteeing stately living. Considering the need and essentialness, Government of India and different state governments are actualizing a few projects to help country poor. Indira Awaas Yojana is an imperative project of lodging essentially for the parts of Below Poverty Line (BPL) populace. The National Rural Housing and Habitat arrangement concentrates on the…