"eye" which is the center of the destruction. They are very violent storms and produce intense low pressures. This is hard to believe but both tornadoes and hurricanes rotate clockwise in the southern hemisphere and rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere. There are a ton of differences between tornadoes and hurricanes. One is that tornadoes form on land and hurricanes develop over warm‚ tropical waters. A tornado only lasts a few minutes while a hurricane can last up to ten days. Since
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a Finance Major‚ and I went abroad during my Junior year‚ in the Fall of 2009. I studied for a semester at the University of St. Andrews in St. Andrews‚ Scotland. WHERE – • United Kingdom; what is it? Made up of England‚ Scotland‚ Whales and Northern Ireland. • Distance from major cities‚ why St. Andrews is famous PROGRAM – • Choosing the country was difficult‚ I wanted to go everywhere. Looking at pictures‚ intensive research and history helped narrow it down. I just connected with it
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four factors that influence ocean currents. There are many factors that influence ocean currents‚ four of the factors would be planet rotation‚ wind‚ density of water‚ and gravitation. Planet rotation causes the currents to move clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere. Wind blows on the surface of the ocean therefore pushing the water in the direction of the wind. Different densities in the water can cause currents to form and move. Gravitation pulls
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summer solstice‚ the days are longest and the nights are shortest‚ with day-length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice. The date of the beginning of summer varies according to climate‚ culture‚ and tradition‚ but when it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere‚ and vice versa. School breaks Schools and universities typically have a summer break to take advantage of the warmer weather and longer days. In all countries‚ children are out of school during
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Potato Famine. http://www.thehistoryplace.com (Accessed 12/01/09) Knox‚ Robert. 1862. The Races of Men: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Influence of Race over the Destinies of Nations. London: Henry Renshaw. Martin‚ F.X Mulholland‚ Marc. 2002. Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola)[1]—sometimes called the Bogside Massacre[2]—was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry‚[3] Northern Ireland‚ in which twenty-six unarmed civil rights protesters and bystanders were shot by members of the British Army. The incident occurred during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march; the soldiers involved were the First Battalion of the Parachute Regiment (1 Para).[4] Thirteen men‚ seven of whom were teenagers‚ died immediately
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1. It eroded relations because it led to the taxation of the colonies. England believed it was the colonies responisibility to pay taxes because it was the British army that was protecting them. The costs of the war with things such as money‚ and death "laid the groundwork for the imperial crisis of the 1760’s between the British and Americans" (pg145). The war also made the colonists realize that they had to do more to protect their homes on the frontier than the British did. 2. The Stamp Act
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Northern Sigma‚ a high technology firm with over 22‚000 employees nationwide and 3‚000 employees at the Chicago site has identified a retention issue with minorities and women. The site manager recently had an outside consulting firm to interview minorities and women and try and discover the cause of the high turnover rates for these groups. The results of the interview reveal there is n apparent lack of diversity awareness among the employees and managers. Without intervention there will likely
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IRELAND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE The declaration of independence was a document in which Dail Eireann‚ the Revolutionary Parliament‚ proclaimed the Irish Republic. Through the declaration of independence‚ the intention of Dail was to confirm a clamation voice in the earlier "Easter Proclamation". In 1916 a document was read by Padraig Pearse (leader of a republican movement) in Ireland at Easter Rising. This document supposed to be a declaration of a "provisional government"
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after and the unity and independence of Ireland and its relations with Britain were discussed. The Irish wanted to see the union of the Northern and Southern Isles; however‚ this was deemed unlikely. The South was vastly Catholic with a strong Irish culture‚ while the majority of the North was Protestant with British leanings. In the end it was decided that Northern Ireland would have the choice of joining either country after a year. Next‚ the British made it clear that they would not allow the Irish
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