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    acquire food, so I helped him to plant vegetables in the back yard. Every day after school, I would spend one hour minimum taking care of the garden. Having obligations so early in my life, helped me to develop a sense of responsibility. While in Venezuela, I also lived in scarcity, I collected empty aluminum can and copper cables and sold them as scrap metal. It was hard to withstand people 's judgmental staring but necessity made me swallow my pride, my survival was first. While living in the…

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    Petromoneda Case Study

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    into light the current market situation of the global ICO market. • The biggest and most recent development in the ICO market has been the launch of ‘Petromoneda’, world’s first issue of a crypto-currency via an ICO by the sovereign government of Venezuela. This has been considered as a move to dodge U.S. sanctions and work as a stable currency in replacement to the plummeting, inflationary Venezuelan Bolivar. It is an issue of 100 million Petros (short for Petromoneda) backed by an equal number…

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    and retirement colony…" Beverley & Houston (Page 20). The perfect thing about Tokyo and Miami is something that I can't compare, it's the cultural and ethnic diversity. The fact that we can find people from every part of the world, from Spain to Venezuela. It is important to be objective about the thing that makes the life qualities better when we compare them both. Each of the cities has their differences for the good and the bad, this will be established further in the essay. It is to be known…

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    2015), and even then, the participation of the US in Cuban matters will be guaranteed. Another example of US intervention is the Olney Doctrine, a modification of the Monroe Doctrine, composed to solve a border issue between British Guiana and Venezuela. This update included a statement of the technical sovereign of the US over Latin American territories to overlook from potential harms of European powers. By the twentieth century, the US political system and economic power were undeniable…

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    Oil sand is a naturally occurring mixture of sand, clay or other minerals. Oil sand can be found in several locations around the globe, including Venezuela, the United States and Russia, but the Athabasca deposit in Alberta is the largest, most developed and utilizes the most technologically advanced production processes. Alberta is a the western province of Canada, which is the fourth largest province…

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    than 5.5mm of raindrops will be deformed fragmentation. Thus, if there is a large volume of water polo in the process of falling from a height, it will split into numerous small droplets when it drop on the ground. Angel Falls is a waterfall in Venezuela. It is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, with a height of 979 meters (3,212 ft) and a plunge of 807 meters (2,648 ft). Water at the bottom of fall, has been change into mists, it is on the loose by the wind blows. There is a…

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    Setbacks Behind Prison Walls. Palast (2002) reports that New Mexico’s prisons are filled with Americas impoverish, violent outcast – and these are the guards. Palast (2002) revealed that WCC changed the requirements for guarding prisoners and other federal mandates. There were two prisoners per cell instead on the one per cell in accordance with federal mandates. There was only guard for one block on cells instead of two guards (Palast, 2002). WCC ran an economic operation cutting cost…

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    How will falling oil prices affect the economy globally? Due to a surplus in supply and unchanging rate in demand, the falling oil prices will benefit consumers but it could potentially hurt producers’ worldwide. Historically speaking, oil is seemingly a very important part of human and economic development. In the early days, finding oil during a drill was considered troublesome, as the intended find was normally water or salt. However, in 1857, the first commercial oil well was developed in…

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    Visual Elements Essay

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    I was fascinated to learn about the elements in Art. I had always thought that art had no organization, guidance or system. I thought that people just painted or drew pretty much whatever they wanted with no apparent rules. The Visual Elements that Getlein mentions on chapter 4 consist of the following; line shape and mass, light, color, texture and pattern and last but not least; time and motion (Getlein, 2012). These elements are intrinsically woven in art! Who would have thought that all…

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    An independence movement is when a group of people unite and combine their efforts to advocate for freedom. America and Latin America gained independence from their mother countries because of these independence movements. There were however, discreet differences between the causes of the American and Latin American Revolutions. Factors such as the way the colonies were established, the geography of the land, and the Enlightenment can cause a revolution. Britain and Spain established colonies…

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