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Nicaragua

... known as the Costa de mosquitoes (Mosquito Coast) extends some 45 mi. inland and is partly overgrown with rain forest. The four principal rivers, the San Juan, Coco (Wanks), Grande, and Escondido, empty into the Caribbean. The natural resources of Nicaragua are primarily agricultural. Deposits of volcanic material have enriched the soil, which is extremely fertile. About half the land is covered with forests. The country has some deposits of gold, silver, and copper. About 77% of the Nicaraguan population is mestizo (people of mixed wh ...

Number of words: 1032 | Number of pages: 4

Southeast Asia

... on the plains of the mainland, as well as the islands offshore, a flowering of cultures produced a diversity of societies whose languages, religions, arts, music, foods and other achievements formed an almost infinitely varied mosaic, but none of those cultures rose to imperial power. The European colonizers forged empires here, often by playing one state off against another; the Europeans divided and ruled.” These Colonial Powers extracted resources from these countries and utilized the natives as a source of cheap labor. Consequently, ...

Number of words: 1445 | Number of pages: 6

Alcatraz Island (The Prison)

... shore (National Geographic), Alcatraz was built out of an old military fort. It consisted of a cell house, the old fort, work buildings, a lighthouse, and a mess hall. Some considered Alcatraz escape proof. A cyclone fence topped with barbed wire surrounded the entire structure. The cell house was three stories of reinforced concrete. Elevated gun galleries were built at each end of the cell house. Inmates were monitored constantly by guards on a central walkway surrounded by bars. All doors on the island were electronically operated and wer ...

Number of words: 1312 | Number of pages: 5

Ukraine

... is 22 for every 1,000 babies born. The life expectancy for males is age 65 and for females the age is 75. LANGUAGE The native language of Ukraine is Ukrainian. This language is a mixture of both the Russian language and the Polish language. Russian is also widely spoken, with about 88% of the people speaking these languages. RELIGION Religion is a broad area because there are a lot of different religions practiced in Ukraine. Most believers are Orthodox Christians. There is also a large Eastern-rite Catholic population in the wester ...

Number of words: 1171 | Number of pages: 5

Is Mesopotamia A Civilization?

... beliefs. They had believed that there were many gods and goddesses to explain the happenings of everyday life. The Mesopotamian believed that their gods were anthropomorphic and that they represented everything different in their normal life. They believed that their gods had the traits and appearances of human beings, which made them anthropomorphic. In Mesopotamian views, they believed that the gods lived in the skies or heavens and ruled over the earth and below the earth was a gloomy underworld. According to the Mesopotamia ...

Number of words: 775 | Number of pages: 3

China

... of China was a little under a billion. That is why in 1972 the Chinese government decided to implant the "wan xi shao" family planning program. This program allowed families to have no more than two children. By the late seventies apparently the Chinese population was still growing. Thus in 1979 the government formed a new policy that allowed families to have no more than one child. Because of this program it is known that women who give birth to daughters are abused by their husbands for not having a boy. One of the problems with ...

Number of words: 280 | Number of pages: 2

Fiji

... mixed to make a society a long time before the Europeans arrived there (People and History, no pg. #). The European discovery of was accidental. Abel Tassman and a group of English navigators were the first to discover in 1643. Captain James Cook accompanied them and he also returned later in 1774 and the eighteenth century (People and History, no pg. #). was first settled about 3,500 years ago. The first settlers are called “Lapita People.” They were named this after a type of pottery they made ,which is found on all of ’s island. ...

Number of words: 901 | Number of pages: 4

Japan

... largest city. Japan's highest point is Mt. Fuji that is 3,776 m or 12, 389 feet. The lowest point in Japan is sea level. In Tokyo, Japan the high temperature occurs in August when the temperature reached 86 degrees Fahrenheit or 30 degrees Celsius. The low temperature in Tokyo, Japan occurs in the months of January and February when temperatures only reach 30 degrees Fahrenheit or –1 degrees Celsius. The language spoken in Japan is Japanese. The other languages are minority languages. The religion in Japan is made up of 85% of Shin ...

Number of words: 353 | Number of pages: 2

A Trip To Colorado

... reaching up for me as though they were welcoming me, telling me to come to them, stealing my heart and mind. As my father and I drove away from the busy airport in our rented, teal Ford Explorer, I looked back at the maze of roads and the colony of people, knowing that it would be days before I saw any type of civilization again. We rode in near silence the whole way to our outfitter’s ranch. Only the hum of the engine and an occasional horn disturbed us. We were a man and a boy completely engrossed in the magnificent landscape that ...

Number of words: 946 | Number of pages: 4

Myths About South Africa

... to highly efficient, low consumption, small scale, sustainable rural communities. A related set of myths is "Kenya is Africa," "Africa is Kenya," "Kenya is wildlife," and "Wildlife is Kenya." Recently South Africa has been being substituted for Kenya. Kenya and South Africa are only two of more than fifty countries in Africa. Each country on the continent has its own political, economic, social and physical profile. Kenya and South Africa are not the only noteworthy destination in Africa. Another associated myth/behavior her ...

Number of words: 365 | Number of pages: 2

Area 51

... located in between the Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range, in Rachel, Nevada, is home to Groom Lake, where a top-secret Air Force base is located. Many top-secret projects take place here (which don't stay top-secret for long). Groom Lake is the supposed testing grounds of Project Aurora, the Air Force's replacement for the SR-71 Blackbird and F-117a Stealth Fighter spy planes. Area 51 is also one of the three supposed places parts of the UFO that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico were shipped to. Area 51 is a block of government ...

Number of words: 1552 | Number of pages: 6

Peru

... program that removed price controls and ended subsidies on many basic items and allowed the inti, the national currency, to float against the United States dollar. About 35 percent of Peru's working population is engaged in farming. Most of the coastal area is devoted to the raising of export crops; on the montañ a and the sierra are mainly grown crops for local consumption. Many farms in Peru are very small and are used to produce subsistence crops; the country also has large cooperative farms. The chief agricultural products, together wi ...

Number of words: 917 | Number of pages: 4

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