Map of the World‚ January 2011 AUSTRALIA Bermuda Sicily / AZORES Independent state Dependency or area of special sovereignty Island / island group Capital 150 120 90 Alert 60 30 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 ARCTIC OCEAN QUEEN ELIZABETH Ellesmere Island Qaanaaq (Thule) ARCTIC OCEAN Longyearbyen FRANZ JOSEF LAND SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA ARCTIC OCEAN NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS Scale 1:35‚000‚000 Robinson Projection standard parallels 38°N and 38°S Barrow
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HEAL THE WORLD Of all the problems facing the environment today‚ global warming is the biggest and most serious problem that we need to take care of. Global warming is an increase in the average temperature of the Earth ’s atmosphere‚ which results in changes in the climatic conditions. As greenhouse gasses such as Carbon dioxide‚ Methane‚ and Nitrous Oxide in the Earth’s atmosphere increase and gets in our Ozone Layer‚ it creates a blanket of gas that traps radiated heat and prevents it from exiting
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hunger‚ as the word is used by food and health experts can be defined as the continuing deprivation in a person of the food needed to support a healthy life. The more technical term is under nutrition. Over time‚ hunger slows physical and mental development in children and leaves them more vulnerable to illness and disease. For example‚ respiratory and diarrhea infections are common in undernourished children‚ and even diseases of vitamin A deficiency‚ which can cause blindness‚ anemia‚ caused by iron
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a brief guide to world domination* How to Live a RemaRkable life in a Conventional World *and other important goals By Chris Guillebeau This reporT is 100% non-CommerCial and does noT ConTain any affiliaTe links A Brief Guide to World Domination Copyright © 2008 Chris Guillebeau. All rights reserved. Layout by Reese Spykerman Important: If you have access to a printer‚ please PRINT this report. You’ll get a lot more out of it if you’re not reading it from a monitor. Take it to your
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World Bank Abdullah Alshawdhabi Coleman University World Bank The World Bank was created in 1944 at a conference called the Bretton Woods Conference‚ also known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference‚ and it is located in Washington DC along with the International Monetary Fund. These two entities work closely with each other. Two men by the names of Lord Keynes and Harry Dexter are the founding fathers of both of The World Bank and The International Monetary Fund. World Bank
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World Hunger: How to put a stop to it How can we‚ as a society‚ put an end to world hunger? This question has gone around for many years now and no one has found the correct answer to it. People know that when they see a picture of a child with a blown up stomach‚ they automatically get emotional and want to help‚ but how can they? World hunger is a serious problem in this world and in many countries; it has increased tremendously over the several years. We‚ the people‚ need to find a way to help
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Brittney DeLano Doctor Paddy Ryan SCI 3010 7 January 2013 The Aral Sea The Aral Sea use to be the forth-largest saline sea in the world‚ that is until in the 1960s. The former Soviet Union diverted the two rivers that fed the Aral Sea‚ to make water available to the surrounding cotton fields and other crop farming regions in the desert like area. Due to the diversion of the rivers‚ the Aral Sea has begun to evaporate into the Aral Sea we see today. Even though the irrigation of the desert
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Thomas Friedman’s idea that the world is flattening is based on recent observations that the global economic “playing field” is becoming increasingly easier to enter and to compete in. Friedman notes ten events that have played a significant role in this phenomenon. Friedman noted some very interesting events that helped lead to the flattening of the world‚ such as outsourcing‚ offshoring‚ supply chaining and “insourcing”. The two events of Friedman’s ten that I found to be most interesting
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World Hunger *** Warning: the following is a look at World hunger which some people may disagree with‚ if you would look at non-partisan look at World hunger then keep reading *** Hunger is an issue which many people think lies little importance. Im going to give you a look at World Hunger as a Picture of Poverty‚ how it affects Third World Nations‚ and How World Hunger is a disease that is plaguing our society. "Food is more than a trade commodity‚" pleaded Sir John Boydorr in 1946. "It is
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Sophie ’s World was a strange‚ unique and unpredictable novel. This was a combination of a story and lecture about the History of Philosophy. The Author of the book is Jostein Gaarner‚ a Norwegian Intellectual. He was born into a pedagogical family. He taught high school philosophy for eleven years‚ so he must have been mastered the history of Philosophy. He often writes from the perspective of children‚ exploring their sense of wonder about the world. His best known work is this novel‚ Sophie ’s World
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