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    Approximately, 45% of the rough-cut diamonds are from De Beers. To control the diamond industry, one would have to be able to own all of the diamonds. A source from Business Insider indicated that in Siberia, there was a discovering of many diamonds. De Beers would buy all of the diamonds out of Siberia because it could be a threat to the industry because instead of having multiple channels for diamonds, De Beers wanted there to be no other substitutes for diamonds on the market. They want to be…

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    cities on the way stopping a few times to purchase food for the continuation of their journey. They also stopped in Vologda, where they were transferred onto small ships, still not knowing where they were headed to. Finally, their destination came in Siberia. They were put in prison camps. Her family was in these prison camps from June 1940-August…

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    and young adulthood. Joseph Stalin was born on December 18, 1878, in Gori, Georgia. He excelled in seminary school, but was expelled in 1899 for spreading subversive views about the Tsarist rule of Russia. In 1902, Stalin was arrested and sent to Siberia for being a part of a communist rebellion against Tsarist rule. Stalin rejoined the rebellion in 1904 after escaping prison. After several years of struggle, Stalin and the communists finally overthrew the Tsarist rule and established the Soviet…

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    Inuit and Haida There are many different tribes in the world. Two specific tribes are the Inuit and Haida. Do you realize how similar the Inuit and Haida are, but at the same time how different they are? They’re similar and different in every category, but I really want to focus on clothing and food. Then, I want to recap some more universals. To begin, the Inuit and Haida have many things in common and unalike in the category clothing. One similar thing is that no women in either…

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    The primary locations in Crime and Punishment are made realistic by immersing the reader in details and the direction of the story at the same time. The Hay Market is one example where the mood of the story is captured and is described on page 9 as working “painfully on the young man’s nerves”. It describes the smells as an “insufferable stench” and filled with “drunken men”. The reader’s observations match with the emotions that should be felt throughout the story such as descending into a…

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    Loewen’s point is extremely valid. The textbooks that students are given do not bring up any other way that Native Americans could migrate to the Americas. On one hand, the best that the Holt McDougal textbook does is state that, “no one knows exactly when or how people crossed into North America.” The fact that the text does make provision for there possibly being more than one interpretation for how the Native Americans initially arrive in the Americas is comforting. On the other hand, the…

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    Arctic Oscillation Weather Anomaly The Arctic Oscillation (AO) is a two-phase climate pattern circulating in the Artic region and the mid-latitude regions of Earth. This oscillation pattern is the second largest on Earth, with the El Niño/La Niña cycle being the largest. While these weather patterns are a normal part of the Earth’s climate system, scientists continually monitor fluctuations in the AO to determine its natural state versus the man-made impact through global warming. The…

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    Rebuilding a Lost World Old Iroquois legends say blood and scars of peoples ancestors can run through generations before they are healed. Americans forget they are standing on the heritage of millions of Native Americans that lived there for thousands of years. The Native American peoples have a very rich culture and are mistakenly believed to be “all one type.” Calling all Native Americans the same is similar to calling the people of Europe identical just because they are all vaguely similar.…

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    efficiently as workers had low-wages. The kulaks were rich peasants who were successful in farming and were heavily against the ideas of collectivisation and was declared war against by Stalin and almost every kulak were either executed or sent to Siberia, this was evident when as there were 5,000,000 slave workers and kulaks working from the Gulag by 1936 . The Russia people were responsible for Stalin’s economic success because the population were deeply affectionate for their country and…

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    Ultranationalism is an extreme form of nationalism, often involving extreme patriotism. It often causes conflicts and interferes with co-operation between nations, those who believe ultranationalism is called ultranationalist. Ultranationalist move from valuing their own nation and its interest to hostility toward people of other nations. It started first in Europe in the 1900s, ultranationalists dictators emerged in the Soviet Union and Germany. Leaders inspired the people to worship them and…

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