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    Southern Asia Explain how the MNC affects local people and the economy of that country. Use at least three developed ideas. Nike is the World’s leading supplier of sportswear. It has many factories in Asia‚ including 24 in Vietnam. It has a major impact on both the Vietnamese people and its economy. Thousands of jobs are created for local people which means they can improve their standard of living‚ including paying for health care. Wages in Nike factories tend to be higher than in local factories

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    Tourism in LEDCS

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    Tourism in LEDCs- Gambia Gambia is described as ‘The Smiling Coast of Africa’ and despite being one of the smallest countries within Africa‚ it is quite a stable place. However‚ the level of stability within the country is much higher than that of wealth or prosperity as the soil quality mainly only allows the growth of peanuts‚ which Gambia highly relies upon the export of. In recent years there have been attempts to generate oil from Gambia‚ but there has been no successful attempts at striking

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    Essay #4 What is flooding? Flooding is when a place or area is covered or submerged with water. There are many things that cause flooding. That includes heavy rainfall‚ which can cause rivers to overflow and devastate a whole community. Another culprit to flooding is hard dry soil. When the soil has not been replenished in a long period of time‚ it cannot absorb the downpour rapidly enough. Building on flood plains is also a growing concern. Floodplains are flat areas of land with higher

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    live in less economically developed areas (LEDCS) and the rest of the people live in more economically developed areas (MEDCS). And evidence shows that LEDCS suffer from the effects of more natural hazards than MEDCS. LEDCS donot have enough money and resources so they can not prepare to tackle these hazards and because of that they cannot help the economyafter natural disaster. So every year it causes a great economic‚ social‚health and other damage in LEDCS. Now I want to discuss this issue from different

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    flooding

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    Flood appears as a curse to the people who are directly affected by it. There are mainly two reasons that can create a flood: excessive rains and overflow of rivers. Rain is wel¬come for the growth of crops and cooling down the atmos¬phere‚ especially after the hot summer. But excessive rains spoil the harvest‚ and sometimes with the accumulated rain water‚ the tanks are overflowed and fields and roads remain under water‚ and even water enters the courtyard or drowns the ground floors of human habitations

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    heavy rains in Pakistan‚ mudslides in China and India do not end up burdening the human toll. Since August 7th in China mudslides have killed more than 2‚000 people and displaced more than 12 million. The country is currently experiencing the worst flooding in the last decade. All these demonstrations of the fury of the planet‚ if they are clearly part of a process of natural evolution‚ are in reality only reinforced by the hand of men. His needs of conquest all the unknown territories‚ always pushing

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    Why Is Japan a Medc

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    MEDC: JAPAN Japan is a country in East Asia‚ which consists of over 3‚000 islands making it an archipelago (chain of islands). The largest islands are Honshū‚ Hokkaidō‚ Kyūshū and Shikoku‚ which make up 97% of Japan’s land area! The population of Japan is estimated to be 127.3 million but it is expected to drop to 100 million by 2050 and to 64 million by 2100. This is because many young adults do not want to have children but to put their carreers first. The most popular jobs in Japan are offiice

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    Science in flooding

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    more specifically flooding. The disaster flooding that is going on in Colorado right now is not only heart breaking but has science written all over it. From the sudden change in climate to human influence there are many ways science is involved in floods. Looking up the difference in scientific news and daily news I have found that scientific news talks more directly to how natural disasters effect the world. Going through the steps in the scientific method‚ from the Colorado flooding article‚ I have

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    January 2005 flood? e.g. which rivers were involved/what was the rainfall (mm)/how high was peak discharge (cumecs) etc… 3. What caused the heavy rainfall? 4. Skills section: construct a hydrograph in excel using the data 5. What were the impacts of the flood event on the local population and the environment? Or you can pick your own river to investigate as your own case study Location Latitude - 54°53’33.08"N Longitude - 2°55’58.68"W Carlisle is situated on the flood plain of

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    Flooding in Bangladesh

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    FLOODING IN BANGLADESH CAUSES OF THE FLOODS There are several physical reasons why Bangladesh suffers from flooding almost every summer; It has the perfect conditions for such as disaster- this is because : • tropical cyclones from the bay of Bengal bringing heavy rain and storm waves in late summer • 70% of the land of the total area is less than 1 metre above sea level • The total annual rain falls in the summer of Dhaka is almost 2000mm • Rivers lakes and swamps cover more than 10% of the

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