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    of people‚ ideas‚ goods‚ and culture around the world. Globalization is happening all around the world especially in Chile‚ because of the spread of fashion‚ food‚ technology. Globalization is spreading the culture of fashion in Chile. Chris‚ a teenage girl who was born and raised in Chile‚ shared the fashion trends of her country. According to Chris‚ a popular apparel brand in Chile is American Eagle Outfitters. American Eagle is also a household name in America‚ Canada and European countries as

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    Pinochet and the military rule in Chile For a substantial part of the twentieth century‚ elections in Chile were highly ideological transactions that gave voters a clear philosophical choice between left‚ right‚ and center. At least twice before‚ these bitterly contested affairs saw left-wing coalitions edge into office: in 1938‚ with the victory of the Popular Front‚ and in 1970‚ with Salvador Allende ’s Popular Unity. The typically narrow margin could generally be attributed to the Chilean

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    January 2006. The power in this country is definitely in the hands of the economic world. According to the Heritage Foundation‚ Chile is the third country in the Americas in terms of economic liberalization‚ behind Canada and the United States. This organization puts Chile on the 8th of 157 countries surveyed. Chile obtained an index of 79.8 points out of 100. Chile has an annual growth rate of GDP of over 5% on average for 15 years and inflation has long been controlled (5% in 2007). Chilean

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    TO AN UNBORN PAUPER CHILD Here Hardy considers the probable fate of a child soon to be born into poverty. This is a poem which grew from an incident that he probably witnessed in the Dorchester Magistrate’s Court but Hardy’s sincerity and compassion for the plight of human beings makes the incident of concern to us all. STANZA 1 The poem begins startlingly with an opening line in which Hardy addresses the child as "hid heart" because it is as yet unborn in its mother’s womb‚ and advises

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    describe what goes on in an individual’s mind when the justice system is fabricated and subjective‚ and the consequent crisis when his characters are not satisfied with the law and order. In this essay‚ by taking examples of two of Kleist’s very famous stories‚ Michael Kohlhaas and The Chilean Earthquake‚ I will discuss “the crisis that occurs when an individual’s desire for justice is challenged or thwarted” (Sakai). As both these stories were written based on real-life events that took place in

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    schools (normally private schools) that dedicate exclusive time to prepare their students for this exam‚ leaving behind other important subjects. This situation leads us to a third negative characteristic of our university admission process. In Chile exists the business of something similar to pre-colleges. Here‚ the ones who can afford these classes are taught the mechanism of PSU. And in concequence‚ they are the more prepared to take the exam than the ones who were not able to pay for extra

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    Free Trade Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Chile and the Government of the United Mexican States . In the intent of reaching a better commercial relations balance between both nations and with the vision of stretching bonds‚ creating a bigger market‚ and enhancing the competitiveness of local firms in global markets‚ Chile and Mexico signed the Chile-Mexico Free Trade Agreement in Santiago Chile on April 17 1998. The Agreement came into effect on August 1‚ 1999. Both Parties

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    THE NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE OF 1812 Some of the most severe earthquakes in the United States occurred not on the Pacific Coast but in the middle of the continent in southeastern Missouri near the town of New Madrid. There are many things that were unusual about the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812. The location is a surprise‚ the damage was catastrophic but we did learn from it. Just after 2 o’clock AM of December 16‚ 1811‚ the Mississippi River valley was hit by an earthquake so strong that

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    Earthquakes Enquiry The aim of the enquiry is to find out what the factors were‚ which led to more people dying in the Gujarat earthquake in 2001‚ then the San Francisco earthquake in 1989. The Gujarat earthquake started at 8:46 am on Friday 26th January 2001. The earthquake struck the heavily populated (LEDC) state of Gujarat in western India. The earthquake measured 7.9 on the Richter scale and sent tremors thousands of kilometres across the continent. It was so large that it was felt as far

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    Christchurch Earthquake 2011 Case Study (New Zealand) On Tuesday 22 February 2011 at 12:51 p.m. Christchurch struck by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake‚ which killed 185 people and injured several thousand. The quake was centred 10km south-east of the city at a depth of 5km.  In the ten minutes after it hit‚ there were 10 aftershocks of magnitude 4 or more. Also there was just a recent earthquake‚ which took place in September 2010. It was just as strong as the Haiti earthquake‚ at 7

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