MUN 2013 Country profile Russia Geographic Location: North Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean‚ extending from Europe (the portion west of the Urals) to the North Pacific Ocean. Geographic Co-ordinates: 60 00 N‚ 100 00 E Geographic note:largest country in the world in terms of area but unfavorably located in relation to major sea lanes of the world; despite its size‚ much of the country lacks proper soils and climates (either too cold or too dry) for agriculture; Mount El’brus is Europe’s
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101 Great Books 101 Great Books Recommended Reading for High School Students and Readers of all Ages (Provided by collegeboard.com) **Denotes titles typically included in the CdS Curriculum Author | Title | Author | Title | ------- | **Beowulf | Ford‚ Ford Madox | The Good Soldier | Achebe‚ Chinua | Things Fall Apart | Goethe‚ Johann Wolfgan von | Faust | Agee‚ James | A Death in the Family | Golding‚ William | Lord of the Flies | Austen‚ Jane | Pride and Prejudice | Hardy‚ Thomas |
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WHY IS COMPUTER ANIMATION IMPORTANT IN THE FILM INDUSTRY?Voices Home The Digital Medium Has an Important Contribution to Cinema’s Artistic and Entertainment Values For more than 100 years since its birth‚ the movie industry has evolved much as an art form and a creative industry. Since then‚ it has provided major contributions in the arts‚ culture‚ politics and technology. And whether it’s in Hollywood‚ Bollywood or any other film industry center in the world‚ each one continues to develop better
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Asian writers Nick Joaquin Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín (May 4‚ 1917 – April 29‚ 2004) was a Filipino writer‚ historian and journalist‚ best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila. Joaquin was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines for Literature. He is considered one of the most important Filipino writers in English‚ and the third most important overall‚ after José Rizaland Claro M. Recto. Joaquín
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The Cuban missile crisis was a defining event of the Cold War‚ and the study and analysis of how it was managed and resolved quickly became a staple of graduate courses dealing with American diplomacy. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy has been credited with a preponderant voice among the President’s advisers in devising a solution to the crisis that avoided war with the USSR; but this essay‚ drawing on meeting transcripts and other contemporary documentation‚ argues that his role was more nuanced
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available‚ that alkene is formed in major amounts that has maximum number of alkyl groups (preferably methyl) attached to both the carbons. This is because of maximum hyperconjugation. This is known as Zaitsev Rule (after Alexander Zaitsev in 1875 and Aleksandr Nikolaevich Popov in 1872 Though it was Popov who proposed the rule first‚ it is still credited to Zaitsev. Interestingly
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CHAPTER 24 KEY TERMS Triple Entente- o An alliance with Britain‚ France and Russia… o It later included Serbia‚ Japan‚ Italy‚ Portugal‚ Romania and Greece and eventually the U.S. This was an alliance formed in WWI o Because fought other ones and this alliance pulled other people into the war • Central Powers- o Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. o Germany went to war b/c Russia went to war b/c Russia was backing the Serbs • Arch
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was not until 1883 that the first photovoltaic cell was built‚ by Charles Fritts‚ who coated the semiconductor selenium with an extremely thin layer of gold to form the junctions. The device was only around 1% efficient. In 1888 Russian physicist Aleksandr Stoletov built the first photoelectric cell (based on the outer photoelectric effect discovered by Heinrich Hertz earlier in 1887). Albert Einstein explained the photoelectric effect in 1905 for which he received the Nobel prize in Physics in 1921
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Introduction By 1962‚ the Soviet Union was considerably behind the United States in the nuclear arms race. The Soviet Union had limited range missiles that were only capable of being launched against Europe‚ but the United States possessed missiles that were capable of striking anywhere within the entire Soviet Union. As it is often said‚ when it comes to national security‚ leaders sometimes make irrational decisions. In an effort to restore the balance of power Soviet Premier Nikita
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The evolution of sound in cinema Jay Beck General histories of the relationship between sound and image in cinema tend to perpetuate an ocular-centricity (emphasizing vision over the other senses) that dates back to the very earliest experiments in “moving pictures”—a term which itself serves to confuse historians. The vast majority of cinema histories tend to relegate the subject of sound in cinema to a subordinate position by studying the transition to the sound period in the late 1920s and
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