archipelago. RA 3046 stood unchallenged until 2009‚ when Congress amended it and passed RA 9522. This amending law shortened one baseline and determined new base points of the archipelago. Moreso‚ it has identified the Kalayaan Island Group and the Scarborough Shoal‚ as "regimes of islands"‚ generating their own maritime zones. The petitioners filed a case assailing the constitutionality of RA 9522. To their opinion‚ the law has effectively reduced the maritime territory of the country. With this‚ Article
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privilege to marry Hatsue. Yasuo was a young man on the island who came from a very rich family. He was first described as “quite fat” (Mishima 22) as he entered the meeting of the Young Men’s Association‚ to which he was the leader. Yasuo was relatively smart for his age. As he was returning from a business trip‚ Yasuo was portrayed as taking “great pride in showing this girl from a Tokyo university how well he could speak‚ without any trace of island dialect” (Mishima 59). On the other hand‚ the story
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cleared his throat. “Well then.” He passed a hand through his fair hair and spoke. “We’re on an island. We’ve been on the mountain top and seen water all round. We saw no houses‚ no smoke‚ no footprints‚ no boats‚ no people. We’re on an uninhabited island with no other people on it.” Jack broke in. “All the same you need an army–for hunting. Hunting pigs–” “Yes. There are pigs on the island.” All three of them tried to convey the sense of the pink live thing struggling in the creepers.
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Habitat Background Information: Lime Cay‚ the man islet of the Port Royal Cays‚ located 17 degrees north and 76 degrees west‚ is one of the many cays in Jamaica. By definition‚ a cay is a small low elevated sandy island formed on the surface of a coral reef. These types of islands are usually found in the Caribbean Sea‚ Pacific‚ Indian and Atlantic Ocean. Also they are circular in shape. A cay is home to many different species due to the formation of habitats such as the rocky shore habitat. A
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Zealand in the South Pacific. It is also very close to the international dateline and the equator. Samoa are islands that total in land area of approximately 2934 sq km‚ consisting of the two large islands named Upolu and Savai’i. The two island make must of Samoa. The other eight small islands include: Manono‚ Apolima‚ Nuutele‚ Nuulua‚ Namua‚ Fanuatapu‚ Nuusafee and Nuulopa. The main island of Upolu is home to about 30% of the Samoan population and the capital is Apia. The climate is tropical with
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Megan Rose Tennenbaum April/May‚ 2012 English 1 – 1 If I Were An Animal Essay: Ring-Tailed Lemur Lemurs are found exclusively on the small island of Madagascar‚ which is located on the coast of Africa‚ and some of the small neighboring islands. Due to this geographic isolation‚ Madagascar is the home to numerous amazing animals that are not found anywhere else on Earth. It has been said that lemurs might just have floated there eons ago on “rafts” of vegetation and simply evolved in isolation
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was killed by a bolt of lightning and this was also blamed on the rabbits‚ for it is well known that lettuce-eaters cause lightning. The wolves threatened to civilize the rabbits if they didn’t behave‚ and the rabbits decided to run away to a desert island. But the other animals‚ who lived at a great distance‚ shamed them saying‚ "You must stay where you are and be brave. This is no world for escapists. If the wolves attack you‚ we will come to your aid in all probability." So the rabbits continued
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The Philippines is an archipelago‚ which means it is made up of a group of islands and is rich in bodies of water such as the oceans‚ rivers‚ and lakes. However‚ according to the data released by Water Environment Partnership in Asia (WEPA) in 2005‚ 42.89% of the waters in the Philippines are contaminated. These contaminated waters have not only been continuously harming people‚ but also the aquatic ecosystem of the country. It is said that approximately 31 percent of illness monitored for a 5-year
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The Forgiving Dove A long time ago on the small island of Wanahkie there was a beautiful forest that grew in the centre of this deserted island. In the middle of this forest stood a tree which was superior to all the other trees‚ it was the oldest‚ and biggest tree in the forest and legend has it that the tree possessed love‚ kindness‚ and knowledge. The birds of the forest named the tree Joshua. The tree was home to many birds‚ which included a dove and a crow.
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region have an important effect on the development of that nation or region. This effect is apparent in many in cases such geographic features as Japan being a group of islands or archipelago and the rain forest in Latin America. This essay will describe the effects of these features on there nation. Japan is a group of islands called an archipelago. This influences the development of Japan because it limits the size of their usable land and since much of the land is mountainous it leaves even
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