How tsunamis occur. As one plate subducts below another (moves underneath)‚ pressure builds for many years resulting in a section of the mega-thrust giving away. As this section gives away‚ it ruptures the ocean floor‚ resulting in a massive displacement of water‚ causing a tsunami. Tsunamis are barely felt as a ripple on the ocean’s surface‚ but as the waves reach land‚ they increase in size as the water becomes shallower. Japan earthquake and tsunami At 2:46pm Japanese time‚ on March 11th
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rP os t 9-711-462 REV: MAY 26‚ 2011 DAVID B. YOFFIE RENEE KIM op yo Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2010 For more than a century‚ Coke and Pepsi vied for “th roat share” of the world’s beverage market. The most intense battles in the so-called cola wars were fought over the $74 billion carbonated soft e drink (CSD) industry in the United States.1 In a “carefu lly waged competitive struggle” that lasted u from 1975 through the mid-1990s‚ both Coke and Pepsi a chieved
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I analyzed “A Destructive Tsunami Builds a Relationship” Kaplan lesson plan for 4th grade AIG pull out students. In the lesson‚ students had to recognize how relationships have a purpose. Students had to evaluate and analysis similarities/differences between tortoises and hippos and the relationship in the Owen and Mzee book. The students had to correlate the relationship between the characters in the story with a purposeful relationship of children in Kenya with the Boxes of Hope project. Differentiated
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November 2011 North and South Korea CBA The Korean peninsula is divided into two separate countries‚ North and South. Looking at both countries you can see the differences. North Korea and South Korea may share the same land but have different outtakes on their economic views‚ political beliefs‚ and even social conditions. Before North and South Korea there was just the Korean Peninsula. Korea was ruled by many countries even Japan and China. While in control of Korea‚ Japan grew hungry for power
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Summary South Korea and USA have been chosen as research countries. The main purpose of this report is to examine the different culture reflect of these two cultures. The first part is analyzing the culture characteristics by applying Hofstede’s cultural dimensional theory. The second part discussion is about the norm‚ belief and value. Then the third part is about understanding the practical way of doing business in different culture business environment‚ such as in South Korea and USA. The business
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Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 After doing research on significant events that occurred in the past 12 months within the Pacific Rim‚ the topic I finally decided to do my research report on was the recent earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s many cities. I chose this topic because I was really interested about learning more about the issue and how significant
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2004 Boxing Day Tsunami | Source 1 | Source 2 | Source 3 | Source 4 | Name of Topic | Tsunami Flash | The Tsunami Page | The Boxing Day 2006 Tsunami | 2004 Tsunami Disaster | Name of Author | The Age | Dr George P.C | Phil Cummins | Matthew Clieok | Address | http://www.theage.com.au/tsunamiflash/ | http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami2004Indonesia.html | http://www.ga.gov.au/ausgeonews/ausgeonews200503/tsunami.jsp | http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AsiaPages/Tsunami-Analyses.html | Notes
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North Korea is facing its seventh year of food shortages arising from weather-related problems. A famine killed tens of thousand of people in 1996-97. (Washington Times; December 8‚ 2000; Thomas Wagner‚ Associated Press) Thousands crossed the border into China looking for food. (Washington Post; July 23‚ 2001;Pg. 16; John Pomfret‚ Washington Post Foreign Service) A large percentage of the population remains susceptible to malnutrition and their living conditions continue to worsen as energy shortages
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the situation in the Pacific region and it was the outbreak of the Korean war and the creation of a Communist North Korea. This brought a huge inevitable change in relations between countries in the region. The stability that was brought about with the end of the Second World War disappeared and a new type of tension appeared. This especially affected the relations between the Korea and Japan to a great extent. In the past few years‚ the two countries have been seeking cooperation for the common aim
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The question we are trying to answer and compensate for is what would South Korea do if attacked by North Korea either with nuclear power or ground troops and etc. While political and military analysts sound pretty confident that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s threats are just bluster‚ you can’t get around the fact that the region encompassing the Korean peninsula is one of the most heavily militarized places on Earth‚ home to three of the world’s six-largest militaries. America doesn’t have
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