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    WRITING THE ANALYTICAL ESSAY One of the most frequently assigned essays in English 1101 and 1102 is the analytical essay. It can be one of the most challenging essays to write‚ but mastering its technique is very important. That is because students who advance in almost every academic field will be asked to write with an analytical focus. What is an analytical essay? The key to understanding its nature is in the word "analyze." To "analyze" the content of a poem‚ for example‚ one must break

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    at do you understand by the Standard Meridian? Answer Standard Meridian is the longitude on the basis of which a country’s standard time is determined. Standard meridians all over the world are generally those longitudes which are exactly divisible by 15°. The Standard Meridian of India lies at 82° 30′ E longitude and it passes through Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh. The Indian Standard Time is five hours and thirty minutes ahead of the Greenwich Mean Time. Q4) Why is Indian Ocean named after India

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    Midterm Exam Review Chapter 1: * The Five themes of Geography: 1. Location- where a place is A) Absolute location-describes a place’s absolute address (latitude and longitude) B) Relative location-- what is actually at that location 2. Place- A) Physical characteristics- God-made B) Cultural characteristics- man-made 3. Human/environment interaction 4. Movement- earth’s plates‚ migration‚ ocean currents 5. Region- areas that have something in common (physical

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    Psychosocial Stages | Simply Psychology." Erik Erikson | Psychosocial Stages. Simply Psychology‚ 2008. Web. 12 Apr. 2015. <http://www.simplypsychology.org/Erik-Erikson.html>. Paterson‚ Katherine. The Bridge to Terabithia. New York: Avon‚ 1977. Print. Sobel‚ David. Children ’s Special Places: Exploring the Role of Forts‚ Dens‚ and Bush Houses in Middle Childhood. Tucson‚ AZ: Zephyr‚ 1993. Print. Winter-Hebert‚ Lana. "10 Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day." Lifehack RSS. N.p.‚ n.d. Web

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    1. Right ascension and also declination is just like longitude and latitude because they are all used for specific location purposes. As people on the ground use longitude and latitude to find things on earth‚ scientists and astronomers use right ascension and declination to find things in the sky. 2. The North Pole is north 90 degrees latitude and the South Pole is south 90 degrees latitude. There is no longitude for either the south or North Pole because neither one can be given a value.

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    relate to people interacting with earth‚ which are asked by geographers. • Latitude: Latitude lines are imaginary lines on the earth’s surface that run east and west around the globe and tell you your distance north or south of the Equator. • Longitude: Longitude lines are imaginary lines on the earth’s surface that run from pole to pole around the globe and tell you your distance east or west from the Prime Meridian. • Compass Rose: A symbol on a map used to display the orientation of the cardinal

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    Earthquakes and Subduction Zones Lab Amy Paret Mrs. Igo 9th Grade Periods 3 and 4 Even Date: 2/14/13 Background Research: This lab uses earthquake data to construct profiles of two convergent boundaries: the Tonga Trench and the Peru-Chile Trench. Where two tectonic plates converge‚ if one or both of the plates is an oceanic lithosphere‚ a subduction zone will form. When crust is formed at a mid-ocean ridge‚ it is hot and buoyant meaning it has a low density. As it spreads away from the ridge and

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    Electronics and communication Government Engineering College‚ Bharuch (Gujarat)-392 002 Email: Nayan.khunt08@gmail.com Abstract: This paper about vessel Positioning System. Using this application We can determined vessel location in sea with help of longitude and latitude as Well as we can get our speed‚ UTC time‚ and many other parameter which helpful in sea related to vessel location. I-INTRODUCTION VPS (Vessel Positioning System) is the System which works on the Basis of GPS (Global Position System)

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    PHILIPPINE CLAIM TO THE SPRATLY ISLANDS GROUP* Introduction The Philippines is a mid-ocean archipelago consisting of more than 7‚100 islands some of which remain unnamed. The islands portion of the archipelago lies along some 1‚150 miles between the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea. It is separated from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel‚ from Indonesia by the Celebes Sea‚. from North Borneo (Sabah) by narrow passages‚ channels and straits‚ from the Asian mainland by the South China Sea and from

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    measurements (sights) between celestial bodies and the visible horizon to locate one ’s position on the globe‚ on land as well as at sea. At a given time‚ any celestial body is located directly over one point on the Earth ’s surface. The latitude and longitude of that point is known as the celestial body’s geographic position (GP)‚ the location of which can be determined from tables in the Nautical or Air Almanac for that year. The measured angle between the celestial body and the visible horizon is directly

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