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    Central African Republic

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    Central African Republic Central Africa has been inhabited by people for over 8000 years. The population of the early Africans remained low because of a limited food supply. As they started to have more advanced farming the population grew. In the 15th and 16th century Europeans started to make written records of what was happening in Central Africa. The first really significant form of outsider interference in the country started when the Arab slave trade began in the 1600s. It lasted until

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    Australia should become a Republic not a constitutional Monarchy But what is a republic? A nation‚ where the head of state is a citizen of that country and was chosen because of their efforts and achievements‚ is a republic. If the head of state was chosen because of their birthright‚ then the system of government would be called a monarchy. Australia is a monarchy and the Queen of England is our head of state. The Governor-General is the representative of the Queen in Australia and he or she is

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    Democratic Republic of The Congo Researching a country like the DRC has really opened my eyes to the differences in the world’s ethnicities and cultures. The DRC has experienced many changes‚ some as recently as 2006‚ when the country adopted its latest constitution. The many different geographic locations and ethnic tribes‚ such as the Pygmies‚ have a somewhat big impact on the entire country. The poorest country in the world‚ the DRC was established as a colony of Belgium in 1908 and gained its

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    Central African Republic

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    P1 Central African Republic Manova - Gounda St Floris National Park SCI 230 Axia College Jeanette Konesko December 13‚ 2009 P2 Manovo-Gounda St.Floris National Park is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Central African Republic prefecture Bamingui-Bangoran‚ near the Chad border. It was inscribed to the list of World Heritage Sites in 1988 as a result of the diversity of life present within

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    Marco Navarro Dr. Benjamin Looker Urban Crisis ASTD 322 February 23‚ 2009 Cultural Diversity within the Neighborhood Sitting in a dark theatre‚ an audience begins to rustle in their seats with excitement‚ anxiously awaiting the start of the show. The lights dim and the anticipation are diminished as the lights come up‚ the set of a street side unveils‚ and the beat begins. In one instant‚ the audience is transported from a simple theatre to the lively street-side of the neighborhood of Washington

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    Glastonbury - from hippy weekend to international festival Steve Henderson‚ Leeds Metropolitan University Glastonbury Festival has beconne a worldwide attraction for music fans and artists alike. In 2009‚ Bruce Springsteen was added to the long list of acts (from Paul McCartney to Oasis) that have appeared at the festival. It started in 1970 when 1‚500 hippy revellers gathered on a farm near Glastonbury Tor to be plied with free milk and entertainment from a makeshift stage. Now‚ Glastonbury

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    Dante's Short Story

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    It was summer time in the Dominican Republic When Dante realized that he had to get away. He had to go to America. Dante lives in a small town In the Dominican called Barahona. Barahona has lived in poverty for as long as anyone can remember. The streets are infested with drug dealers‚ and gang life is entrenched in the society. The name of Dante’s gang is called La Familia Cartel. (cartel is the Dominican name for gang) Dante lives in a crammed house with 6 of his brothers from his gang

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    sensitivity to become a master in English words‚ which set as a promoter for her to be absorbed into the society and establish a brand-new self. However‚ pathetically‚ she found herself being trapped within two different cultures in the end. In Dominican Republic‚ the society was particularly patriarchal‚ where men declared supremacy. A detail in the book could be used to exemplify the effect it exerted on Yolanda. When trying to trade toys with her cousin Mundín‚ Yolanda obeyed his indelicate request

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    and the Munich (beer hall) Putsch; these catastrophic events were great threats to the Weimar Republic. The Ruhr Crisis occurred in January 1923 when Germany missed a reparations payment to the French in 1922 therefore French and Belgium troops decided to invade the Germans raw materials and goods so the German workers went on a passive resistance. This event was a humungous threat for the Weimar Republic as they would automatically receive a bad reputation and some countries might not want any imports

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    Nathan Heller praises the online Estonian government in the New Yorker article “Estonia‚ the Digital Republic.” The Baltic country functions almost entirely online‚ and Heller admiringly describes its technological advancement to an American audience. He observes bemusedly of the United States‚ “It struck me then how long it had been since anyone in America had spoken of society-building of any kind” (18). Although the article is about Estonia‚ Heller uses the opportunity to reflect on American society

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