deemed to be an 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
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Essay: Work effectively with others as a member of a team‚ group‚ organisation‚ community: Learning is both an individual and a group activity. People learn by themselves‚ and by working things through or talking with others. It’s quite likely that learning will happen naturally in either or both of these ways‚ without people needing any support. But support can help‚ for reasons like these: ➢ Some people may not be confident at learning on their own‚ or with others – they may benefit from support
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Mica minerals make some rocks sparkle! They are often found in igneous rocks such as granite and metamorphic rocks such as schist. Feldspar Feldspar is the most common mineral in the Earth’s crust‚ so you are very likely to find it in the rocks you collect! It is found it all of the three rock types‚ but is most common in intrusive igneous rocks like granite where the crystals look white or pink. Olivine Olivine looks like little green crystals. It is typically found in some igneous and metamorphic
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Some people think that they can learn better by themsleves than with a teacher. Others think that it is always better to have a teacher. There has been a great deal written about the studying way of students for the past thousand years. Educators have started to wonder whether students should learn with intructors or not. Some people who are against this idea may argue that students ought to study by themsleves‚ which are likely to block their creativeness. One idea that has received much attention
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1. Explain how human activities can cause an imbalance in biogeochemical cycling and lead to problems such as cultural eutrophication and kill fish. biogeochemical cycles are the pathway that chemicals cycle within the ecosystems involving both living and non-living things. Human activities have a direct impact and can cause an imbalance of these chemicals. A few examples of this would be mining and burning fossil fuels‚ this would increase the amount of chemical elements removed from the reservoirs
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Jacob Riis’ book How the Other Half Lives is a detailed description on the poor and the destitute in the inner realms of New York City. Riis tries to portray the living conditions through the eyes’ of his camera. He sneaks up on the people flashes a picture and then tells the rest of the city how the other half’ is living. As shocking as the truth was without seeing such poverty and horrible conditions with their own eyes or taking in the experience with all their senses it still seemed like
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Road To Independence Reaction to the return of the British Change in mindsets – After British lost‚ British powers lost their prestige and destroyed myth that British were “superior and unbeatable”. Diminished fear and awe of Europeans no longer felt helpless. reminded of the British’s failure to protect them in times of need. Hence they harboured negative feelings towards British remaining in Singapore Rise of Nationalism – Political awakening: Colonial powers will never place a colony
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and rash. Other signs of dengue fever include bleeding gums‚ severe pain behind the eyes‚ and red palms and soles. Dengue (pronounced DENG-gay) can affect anyone but tends to be more severe in people with compromised immune systems. Because it is caused by one of four serotypes of virus‚ it is possible to get dengue fever multiple times. However‚ an attack of dengue produces immunity for a lifetime to that particular serotype to which the patient was exposed. Dengue goes by other names‚ including
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The road to happiness “For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy [p. 117 top].” An expression of disdain for happiness generally means that it is other people’s happiness that you disdain. Maybe you selflessly sacrifice your own happiness for mankind; you still are apt to fall into envy of those happy people who are less noble‚ and harden your heart towards them‚ as has happened to many Communists. Theorists
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by the United Nations‚ megacities are cities with populations of over 10 million (UNFPA‚ 12). Based on this definition‚ it is expected that the number of megacities in the world will be mostly located in the developing world. However‚ the definition of megacities based on the population size is arbitrary given that the population in any given city changes with context and time. In the ancient times‚ for example‚ Rome‚ which has a population of slightly over 1 million inhabitants‚ was considered to
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