The factors affecting safe drinking water: Describe and explain the different factors effecting access to safe drinking water. (10 marks) Planning and Notes: * From 1996 – 2006 +/- 1.56 billion people gained access to improved drinking-water sources. * Today 87% people drink from improved water sources compared to 77% in 1990. Physical factors that affect safe drinking water: * Amount of precipitation * Seasonal distribution of precipitation * Physical ability of the surface area to
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The alliance system alone did not cause the First World War. It was the result of a combination of factors which together shaped a European climate which made the outbreak of a war inevitable. Assuming that the alliance system was one of the factors involved‚ we must also assess events within Europe which actually allowed the creation of the alliance system. The primary origins of the First World War lie in the emergence of nationalism and the new prominent power Germany‚ the Great Powers’
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World War I broke out across the continent of Europe causing massive destruction along the way. A war like this did not just simply happen overnight‚ it had many preconditions and precipitants that lead to the whole continent getting into a World War. There were four major ideas that led the nations of Europe to take up arms against each other. The precipitants include the death of France Ferdinand all the way to the declaration of war. These major ideas were nationalism‚ imperialism‚ technology
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For the Press‚ For the People‚ For your Life. Embedded Journalism Issue Paper [pic] Written by: Sabrina Browne A New Target of War Introduction Section Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a news reporter? Not just any reporter‚ but a war correspondent? To be in the middle of a war‚ watching it with your very own eyes? It sounds exciting‚ riveting in fact. Picture yourself‚ standing there with microphone in your hand‚ while gun shots and grenades are
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Should the United States enter into military intervention in foreign countries for humanitarian reason? Why? Why not? Under what conditions should the U.S. intervene if at all? History has been shown to repeat itself‚ and if we don’t learn from it‚ we are doomed to repeat it. We have watched many genocides happen within the last decade‚ some of which the U.S. has intervened‚ and in some cases where they have not. The United States should not intervene in foreign countries for humanitarian reasons
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Who is to blame and what triggered this minor event to lead into the outbreak of World War 1? June 28th 1914: the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife by a Serbian nationalist‚ Gavrilo Princip. Austria-Hungary saw this as an opportunity to take hostile actions against Serbia to get rid of the Slavic Nationalist movement. What started off as a minor dispute in the Balkans ended up as one of the most inglorious wars in history including all major European powers
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percentage of Slavs. The Serbians saw the Slavs in Austria as being oppressed and dreamed to unite them under one large Slavic state; the creation of this country would mean that Austria Hungary’s empire would split in two. This desire to unite all the Serbs lead to the
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The battle was triggered by the assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria in while visiting Sarajevo. Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Bosnian Serb nationalist‚ Gavrilo Princip. The assassination angered the Germans and they began to plan a attack. Their goal was to drain France of their economic and political resources. They called the plan the Schlieffen Plan‚ this meant that they would move
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“Capitalism and communism were prevented from cooperating… because of their ideological differences‚ jealousies‚ suspicions‚ and power politics” (Packet). After World War II‚ the United States of America and the Soviet Union had many differences that made it difficult for these two superpowers to work together. Since the atomic bomb was introduced‚ the threat of nuclear weapons spread across the world and the Allied Powers worked to prepare. Countries either sided with the Western powers and ideas
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On July 28th‚ 1914‚ Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip‚ a young Serb with nothing to lose in life. This set out a spark that sent the world into the war to end all wars‚ which ended in countless casualties. Many of the participating countries predicted the war would end by Christmas of 1914. But in December of 1914 countries were still at war with one another and soldiers were still on the front lines in deep muddy trenches. The war did not stop the soldiers
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