2. It was a country geographically isolated by thick jungles and malaria-infested mountain ranges on its east‚ west‚ and north borders. Besides some oil reserves‚ the country possessed few natural resources and had little strategic value. Perhaps‚ Slim gives the best description of Burma when he states‚ “It could fairly be described as some of the world’s worst country‚ breeding the world’s worst diseases‚ and having for half the year at least the world’s worst climate.” It was an area that no one
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Case Study: The Pirate Bay Abstract The global enforcement of copyright laws‚ combined with the risk of large fines and potential imprisonment have not been enough to dissuade sites like The Pirate Bay from aiding‚ encouraging and boosting copyright infringement (Lauden & Traver‚ 2013). As with any company‚ file sharing amenities are in the business to generate a revenue stream and although these services are illegal they are still able to lure “blue chip brands” to advertise. As long as there
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Guantánamo Bay repression camp‚ moreover called Gitmo‚ Guantánamo Bay confinement camp [Credit: Kathleen T. Rhem/U.S. Division of Defense]U.S. imprisonment office on the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base‚ arranged on the bank of Guantánamo Bay in southeastern Cuba. Created in stages starting in 2002‚ the Guantánamo Bay confinement camp (every now and again called Gitmo‚ which is in like manner a name for the oceanic base) was used to house Muslim aggressors and suspected terrorists got by U.S. powers in
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Why did the Bay Area’s housing become so expensive to live in? How did it get so expensive? These questions were often asked by visitors that came from that were cities far from the Bay Area like Fremont and Sacramento. Over the past seven years‚ the Bay Area’s housing prices have increased exponentially as more people come in for technology job opportunities. According to a scholarly article‚ called Zillow: Tech Workers’ Silicon Valley Home Values Are Outpacing Neighbors’ ‚“Bay Area home values
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Beach Guide for Plantation Bay If you’re seeking a new Central Florida home‚ spending time at the beach may be high on your recreational priority list. Residents of Plantation Bay Golf and Country Club in Ormond Beach can check that box with a giant permanent marker. Not only do they live in a 3‚600-acre gated community that features three golf courses‚ peaceful landscaping‚ large iconic trees and shimmering lakes‚ they’re only FOUR! miles from a beautiful Atlantic beach. Ready to call the
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My Favourite Shopping Center Sairah Mihraj 2A (26) My favourite shopping centre is Times Square. It’s in Causeway Bay. I usually go there with my family on the weekends. I like to go with my family because I like to spend time with them‚ so we can know each other even better‚ make our love and care deeper too. Weekends are the best time to go because we don’t have to go to school and neither does our father need to go to work. It has a lot of facilities like a cinema‚ 4
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1. The Pirate Bay makes about $4 million a year from advertising on its site. TPB uses the “advertising revenue” business model‚ which is a website that provides a forum for advertisements and receives fees from the advertisers. The more viewers the website has‚ the higher the rates the website is able to charge‚ and therefore increases their revenue. 2. Cloud-based media sites and services use the “subscription revenue” business model to make money. With this business model‚ the website offers
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I agree with the content and observation within the article‚ because it is a growing problem in California‚ especially in the Bay Area. However‚ the writing style and delivery in which it is portrayed is relying more on emotional appeal‚ rather on the logical aspect such as numbers and charts. Levin details the displacement of individuals in the Reserve Apartments‚ due to the fact that it is being dismantled to make way for a development of market-rate housing‚ because it can lure people of higher
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Methods Study site Shark Bay is an embayment approximately 13‚000 km2 in area and located on the Peron Peninsula on the West Coast of Australia‚ approximately 850 km from Perth. In 1991 Shark Bay was assigned World Heritage status (Smith‚ Lee & Newsome‚ 2006). Relatively few and low impact recreational activities are available to visitors in Shark Bay‚ with only two boats operating wildlife-viewing tours near Monkey Mia (Burgin & Hardiman‚ 2015). Studies estimate that Monkey Mia alone comprises 20–42%
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Massachusetts Bay‚ and the Chesapeake region were both part of the New World where England was starting to colonize. Even though the people from these two locations originated from the same land (England)‚ these colonies turned out to be extremely different from one another. They differed in the reason they settled the land‚ the economic activity of the region‚ and the demographics of the colonies. II. Motives for Settlement 1. Captain John Smith settled Chesapeake Region. Massachusetts Bay settled
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