and communication (-1.6%).This shows a general decrease in its major contributors of its economy. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annual growth rate year on year slowed to 1.9 for the first quarter of 2013 from 2.5 the last quarter of 2012.South Africa is an export-based country as it is rich in natural resources .It is a leading producer of platinum‚ gold‚ chromium and iron. However ‚the volume of South African gold exports have fallen in each of the past six quarters. The impact of labour unrest
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Han Dynasty facilitated trade in the east‚ while the Roman Empire facilitated trade in the west and in Europe. The two empires traded many goods‚ as well as cultural aspects of each society’s way of life. From 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E.‚ the Silk Road changed in terms of trade‚ such as what items were traded‚ and contact with civilizations‚ such as what societies made use of the Silk Road. Although these changes affected the efficiency of trade and goods‚ the route of the Silk Road was able to remain
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West Nile Virus Many people have encountered a mosquito bite and the side effects that come with being bitten. However‚ many people do not know about the deadly virus that mosquito’s may carry. The West Nile virus can cause other illnesses known as West Nile fever and West Nile neuroinvasive disease. West Nile virus first came to the United States from Africa. It was initially found in a Ugandan woman in 1937. Sixty-two years later it was detected all over the states in exotic birds in zoo’s‚ from
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Ce este Diplomaţia Publică? ‚‚Diplomaţia publică este faţa publică a diplomaţiei tradiţionale‚‚ (Ross‚ 2002 in Leonard‚ 2002:1) În cadrul diplomaţiei tradiţionale putem localiza şi conceptul de diplomaţie publică. Cele mai des folosite definiţii fiind celeale lui Signitzer şi Coombs (1992: 138) prin care se defineşte diplomaţia publică ca ‚‚o cale prin care guvernele‚ companiile şi diverse grupuri pot influenţa în mod direct sau indirect opiniile şi poziţiile publice care influenţează în mod direct
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Islam VS The West Westerners tend to think of Islamic societies as backward- looking‚ oppressed by religion‚ and inhumanely governed‚ comparing them to their own enlightened‚ secular democracies. But measurement of the cultural distance between the West and Islam is a complex undertaking‚ and that distance is narrower than they assume. Islam is not just a religion‚ and certainly not just a fundamentalist political movement. When people think of Islam they think of all the crazy beliefs and a religion
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Development and Enterprise. BOOK REvIEW Africa’s Third Liberation by Greg Mills and Jeffrey Herbst – a further review Individually and working together‚ Greg Mills and Jeff Herbst have compiled an impressive body of work on the challenges Africa faces in the 21st century. And‚ while there are problems with the rigour of the methodologies they prefer to deploy‚ there is much to be learnt from the resulting texts‚ which are invariably well-written‚ informative and accessible. Africa’s Third
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The fall of the Songhay Empire starts chapter thirteen. The height of power was under Askiya Muhammad Ture‚ during the 16th century. Towards the late 16th century the royal power weakened‚ because of short reigns and dynastic disputes. This caused growth of rivals‚ which drew off trade from Songhay domination‚ gold from Akan forest to go to Europeans coast‚ and no external threat visible. The Moroccan invasion also contributed to the fall of Songhay. The Moroccan motive was to control and revive
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Faculty of Contemporary Studies (FCS)‚ National Defense University (NDU) RESEARCH PROPOSAL THE DECLINE OF THE WEST: A SOCIOECONOMIC PERISPECTIVE Presented to: Sir Bakare Najimudeen Submitted by: Jawad Falak M.Sc. IR-E (1st Semester) THE DECLINE OF THE WEST: A SOCIOECONOMIC PERISPECTIVE Statement of Problem: The group of countries historically designated as the West has carried their dominance of nearly two centuries into the 21st century now under the banner of their champion the
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GLOBAL WARMING Global warming is the increase of earth’s average temperature as the result of green house effect. Green house gases in the atmosphere act like a mirror reflecting back the heat radiation which would otherwise be dispersed into space. Greenhouse effect is the problem of gradual rise of gases such as carbon dioxide in the air surrounding the earth which traps the heat if the sun. Greenhouse gases are any of the gases that are thought to cause green house effect.
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* Descriptive Statistics * What they are (Some examples) * Frequency Distributions * Central Tendency * Mean: Average * Median: Middle Number * Mode: Number that most comes up (rarely used in behavior statistics) * Graphs * Pie Charts * Bar Graphs‚ etc. * What they’re used for * Descriptive statistics aim to summarize a sample‚ rather than use the data to learn about the population that
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