1. Intoduction Spratly Islands is made up of over a 100 islands‚ shoals and reefs. The land area is less than 5 square kilometers right at the center of West Philippine Sea. So why do regional players such China‚ Taiwan‚ Vietnam‚ Malaysia‚ Brunei and the Philippines squabbling over it? And what is the interest of the United States of America in the issue? The simple answer is the potential for oil and natural gasoline in the area. The more complex geopolitical answer is power projection.
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investigation. Typical of the Intuitionists text‚ Courcy Island is a classic closed setting physically and socially cut off from the outside world‚ which can only be accessed by boat. In this respect the investigation is limited to a certain location and group of people‚ creating an atmosphere of fear and suspense‚ intensifying the sense of immanent threat- “Here on the southern shore where the mainland couldn’t be seen‚ it was easy to imagine that the island was totally lost at sea..”. Crime fiction is often
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whether or not voting should be compulsory in local and national elections in the United States. Political votes are very important in America. They determine who will run that states‚ or even the entire nation as a whole. Depending on this‚ the country could either fail or succeed‚ in many different ways. All citizens should definitely be well educated in politics. However‚ voting should not be compulsory. There are too many risks that come with compulsory voting. Therefore‚ voting should not
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American Capitalism and American Democracy have always gone hand in hand for the entire history of the United States since its founding‚ and many say one cannot exist without the other. Many people today commonly associate Capitalism with Democracy when asked about the United States in general. Capitalism is based on profits for the few while democracy is based on rights for many. Commonly capitalism is known as an economic system in which all or most of the means of production are privately owned
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THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY Part One: The entire world is in transition. The developed parts of it‚ principally the nations of the so called “West”‚ have achieved multi-generational democracies‚ while most of the world’s population still lives under regimes that are thinly disguised vestiges of 8th century‚ pre-democratic autocracies. There is always a local transitional moment‚ that chaotic time period before the achievement of any democracy in a given place but after the demise of the predecessor
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Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal‚ between the Indian peninsula to the west and Burma to the north and east. Most of the islands are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India‚ while a small number in the north of the archipelago belong to Burma. 12 00 N92 45 E is the longitude and longitude of these islands. Paragraph on the topography of the land: Flat? Mountainous? Plateau like? The climate
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One day a man named Bill was stranded on an island. It all started when he was taking a cruise to get his mind off work. “Boy is I tired‚” said bill. One night Bill was watching the game with his friends and mistakenly got drunk. Bill fell out not knowing that he was at the edge of the boat‚ Madison’s Grand Transportation‚ and fell over. Bill knocked his self out on the safety boat that was located on the left hand side of‚ Madison’s Grand Transportation‚ and broke the rope that the safety boat
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The Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea have been a key site of anthropological study for over a century. Trobrianders were first made famous by Bronislaw Malinowski in the early twentieth century‚ and were studied further by anthropologists such as Annette Weiner. Katherine Lepani’s ethnography‚ Islands of Love‚ Islands of Risk: Culture and HIV in the Trobriands‚ provides a modern analysis of HIV in the cultural context of the Trobriand Islands. Lepani sought to display HIV in the Trobriands as
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Jeffersonian Democracy vs. Jacksonian Democracy Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were both strong advocates of a democratic government in America‚ and both claimed to be for the “common man”. They did‚ however‚ have their differences on how they believed a democracy should be run in their respective eras. Even though they were both wealthy farmers‚ Jefferson appealed more to the upper class‚ while Jackson appealed more to the lower class. Thomas Jefferson had a strict interpretation of the
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A group of archaeologists discovered a lost island. The island was once the ancient city of Kane. It was discovered in the eastern Aegean Sea. Xenophon was a Greek historian that mentioned the island. The island is memorable because of the Battle of Arginusae in 406 B.C. The Arginusae islands are now referred to as Garip islands. Venerable sources refer to three Arginusae islands. However‚ the precise location of the third island is vague. Researches used geological evidence to confirm that Kane
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