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    middleclass economy due to the oil production of the country. In fact‚ oil revenues account for approximately ninety-five percent of export revenue for the entire country. Oil is also twelve percent of Venezuela’s gross domestic product‚ or GDP. (Index Mundi‚ 2013) The unemployment rate of Venezuela is not relatively steady. The part of the year with the lowest unemployment rate tends to be November and December‚ with the percentage skyrocketing in January‚ which is the highest point of unemployment

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    The Sacred and Profane‚ by Mircea Eliade‚ divides and distinguishes the world into two existential situations: the sacred and the profane. Eliade describes the sacred as‚ “always manifesting itself as a reality of a wholly different order from ‘natural’ realities” (10) and inversely describes profane as the “opposite” of the sacred. The sacred involves a level of creation and organization while the profane is in an essence chaotic and disorganized. Eliade also made it apparent that the division between

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    books. He also uses the distinction between his books to describe his life as a pilgrimage from the City of Man to the City of God. In Augustine’s Confessions‚ books I-IX describes Augustine’s life and places an emphasis on his idea of contemptu mundi‚ and the soul’s journey is back to heaven. In Augustine’s On Christian

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    By Ethan Bui Johannes Kepler was born on December 27‚ 1571 in Germany. He was a mathematician‚ astronomer‚ and astrologer. He was most famous for his eponymous laws of planetary motion. Based on his work on Astronomia nova‚ Harmonicies Mundi‚ and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy it provided a foundation for Issac Newton’s theory of universal gravitation. Early Life Johannes Kepler was born on December 27‚ 1571 which was also the same day as feast day of St. John the Evangelist. Sebald

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    Introduction It has come to our attention that in developed countries the birth rate has been decreasing with the years. This trend is however not limited to developed countries but is also present in emerging countries‚ like Mexico. One of the main reasons for this decline is said to be the postponement of marriage among young people. Obtaining a higher education could lead young women to remain unmarried in their twenties. Increasing possibilities to achieve a higher education and therefore

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    app=eiusite&msg=ExecContent&topic=GetSearchOptions&da tasource =countrydata&sk=fglgtyaalgcpbsvcmvpbcuqqqjvxdoc Hill‚ C. (2004). International Business: Competing in the Global Marketplace‚ Fifth Edition. New York:McGraw-Hill. Index Mundi. (2007). Paraguay: Unemployment Rate. Index Mundi. Retrieved December 4‚ 2007 from http://www.indexmundi.com/paraguay/unemployment_rate.html Mercosur. (2005‚ September 28). Mercosur – Demystified. Global Envision. Retrieved December 3‚ 2007 from http://www.globalenvision

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    Mystical Insights to “The Second Coming” In “The Second Coming‚” William Butler Yeats brings forth menacing allusions while using supernatural events to apply his cultural roots with religious and historical reverberation. Yeats relates the binaries of birth verses death to demonstrate the cycles of time which humanity passes through during the stages of life with prophetic visions he has seen. With the benefit of imagery and symbolism‚ Yeats creates compelling‚ mystical insights of juxtaposition

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    cenbank.org/Rates/ Central Intelligence agency. (2013‚ January 1). The world factbook. Retrieved from Central intelligence agency: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ni.html Index mundi. (2011‚ January 1). Index mundi unemployment rate. Retrieved from Index mundi: http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?v=74&c=as&l=en Reserve bank of Australia. (2013‚ January 1). statistics. Retrieved from Reserve Bank Australia: http://www.rba.gov.au/ The world bank. (2011‚ January 1). World

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    Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time. • Solved the problem of planetary motion by using Copernicus’s sun-centered universe and Brache’s empirical data. 1618- Kepler moved to Linz where he published his second book‚ the Harmonice Mundi (Harmonies of the World)‚ it stated: • Kepler’s third Law: The squares of the periods of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their semi-major axes. This law was derived from Kepler’s belief that God patterned everything in the universe within

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    Bibliography: Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.central-bank.org.tt. Index Mundi. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.indexmundi.com. Ministry of Trade and Industry Trinidad and Tobago. (n.d.). www.tradeind.gov.tt. Retrieved from Ministry of Tarde and Industry T&T. Rodriguez‚ G. E. (2012‚ January - April). Macroeconomics 125 Notes.

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