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    Maybe San Diego city officials just want the money for themselves‚ or they could be using it to build a better Stadium. But‚ really‚ who needs a better Stadium? What’s wrong with using the money for roads? San Diego’s potholes are extremely big in some areas‚ and could destroy your car so much that it is

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    Kinship Systems of the San Culture Kinship systems in foraging based societies provide support for all of the individuals in the band community. The San‚ also known as Bushmen‚ of Kalahari Desert are one of the best-known foraging communities in the modern world. They are also one of the most‚ tight-knit bands held together by kinship. In chapter three of Cultural Anthropology written by Barbara Nowak and Peter Laird‚ describe the kinship relationships of the San by stating‚ “A meal for every

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    Marco Polo ( i/ˈmɑrkoʊ ˈpoʊloʊ/; Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko ˈpɔːlo]; c.1254 – January 8–9‚ 1324)[1] was an Italian merchant traveler from the Republic of Venice[2][3] whose travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde‚ a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned the mercantile trade from his father and uncle‚ Niccolò and Maffeo‚ who traveled through Asia‚ and apparently met Kublai Khan. In 1269‚ they returned to Venice to meet Marco for the first

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    San Tribe Research Paper

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    I have chosen to write about the San Tribe because their ways are very intriguing to me. The San or also known as the “Bushman”‚ are located in the Kalahari Desert. These tribes have lived in this area for around four thousand years. They have a diet of primarily nuts‚ fruits‚ melons‚ and berries. Since their women gather about eighty per-cent of the food for their unit there is more of these fruits and other things than there is meat. Their men gather meat about once or twice a week and accountable

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    San Miguel Corporation is one of the Philippines’ largest and most diversified conglomerates‚ generating about 6.5% of the country’s gross domestic product in 2013 through its highly integrated operations in beverages‚ food‚ packaging‚ fuel and oil‚ power and infrastructure.  San Miguel is one of the nation’s largest employers‚ with a direct workforce of about 18‚000 employees. For each job created within the San Miguel system‚ many additional jobs are created through suppliers‚ distributors‚ retailers

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    In San Diego there has recently been a weather event called an El Nino that has been causing San Diego and it’s citizens trouble. What an El Nino does is temporarily changing the climate of an area. For San Diego’s instance‚ it has been creating downpours that have been damaging roadways‚ buildings‚ cars‚ has caused erosion and collapsing of rocks and trees‚ flooding in parking structures and of crops‚ and a multitude more cases of devastation to San Diego. With all of that destruction‚ one can only

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    The Economic Disaster of a 7.8+ Earthquake on The San Francisco Bay Area Christina Sotelo Geology 6 – Jefferis- Nilsen November 21‚ 2012 Over the many decades the economic standing of the United States‚ specifically California‚ had fluctuated due to many unforeseen factors. One huge factor that cannot be anticipated‚ and often causes drastic effects on the economy‚ are geologic disasters. The state of California is notorious for having earthquakes that shake up the state quite often and leave

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    San Antonio Water Solution Proposal Since the early years of the 1700’s‚ San Antonio water supply came from its fresh sources; such as‚ the Olmos Creek and from one of the most famous river in Texas‚ the San Antonio River. But in nowadays‚ new sources of fresh drinkable water had to be found or build‚ mainly because the rapid growth it’s population and San Antonio as a whole. At the present moment San Antonio gets its fresh water supply from eight different sorceries and one the most important

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    Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta both were explorers in the 13th century and although they had similarities‚ they were different in several ways. For example yes both traveled for a long period of time and picked up some of the same cultures but in different view points‚and Battuta was not imprisoned on his way back home. Or how Battuta started his journey with a purpose of visiting Mecca‚ like his religion requires him to do and Polo just took a Gap year to escape from the troubles at home. Marco Polo

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    Aung San Suu Ki

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    AUNG SAN SUU KI ABOUT Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma. In the 1990 general election‚ the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament. She had‚ however‚ already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010‚ becoming one of the

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