earthquake (2008)‚ decide whether this statement is true or not. This statement can be true in a number of ways‚ because an MEDCs have generally better infrastructures made for withstanding huge earthquakes unlike LEDCs where houses (especially squatter settlements) are damaged very easily and this makes the area affected have more people that are homeless etc. Two earthquakes that we are looking at is the Kobe and Sichuan earthquake‚ located in Japan and China. Kobe Earthquake At 5:46am on
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Reformation: took place in 1530’s when King Henry VII broke with the Roman Catholic Church. 2.) “Sea Dogs”: English buccaneers who sought to promote the twin goals of Protestantism and plunder by seizing Spanish treasure ships and raiding Spanish settlements. 3.) Francis Drake: famous “sea dog” who returned in 1580 with his ship full of Spanish booty and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth on the deck of his ship. 4.) Sir Humphrey Gilbert: promoter of the first English attempt at colonization; lost
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that have historical and social meanings that help to give us insight on what people consider slums globally. The term slum is often used interchangeably with similar words in local contexts to describe varying types of informal settlements. Often these informal settlements‚ herein called to as ‘slums’‚ refer to semi-legal or unsanctioned subdivisions of land within the urban sphere (The Challenge of Slums 197). One can find slums in one form or another in most parts of the world. Whether they be
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Chapter 22 Sustainable Cities Summary 1. Almost half of the world’s population lives in urban areas and half in rural areas. Government policies‚ poverty‚ lack of land to grow food‚ declining agricultural jobs‚ famine‚ and war that force people out of rural areas are all factors that determine how urban areas develop. 2. Urban areas are rarely self-sustaining‚ threaten biodiversity‚ destroy and damage ecosystems‚ lack trees‚ grow little of their own food‚ concentrate pollutants
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URS1006 – World Cities Summer C 2013 Mid-Term Examination Study Guide Purpose: This guide provides a recapitulation of all assigned material‚ specific areas to review from these readings and/or media‚ questions course participants should be able to answer in an introductory manner‚ and main concepts addressed in respective lectures. Assumptions: All course participants have read and/or watched all assigned material‚ have taken meticulous notes during all course meetings and/or acquired a
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Quiz 1: Chapters 1 and 2 Part 1 of 1 - 96.0/ 100.0 Points Question 1 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following statements associated with poverty is CORRECT? 1) Poverty is defined as having a per person income of less than $2 per day‚ expressed in U.S. dollars adjusted for purchasing power. 2) The number of people living in poverty has been steadily declining and today less than one billion people live in poverty worldwide. 3) Poverty is a condition in which people are unable
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in decline as manufacturers could not compete with foreign imports due to the increased costs of production and taxes on bicycle parts.32 Finally‚ Singapore’s urbanization played a part in the demise of the trishaw industry. Many slums and squatter settlements within the inner-city area were cleared out in the 1960s as part of a government-initiated urbanization programme. This caused many trishaw riders to lose their main source of income‚ as their clients traditionally came from these areas. Many
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Rights (the band) are a rough and tumble band that remind of punk squatters living in New York Tenements in the late 80’s. The squatter punks were creative collaborative who lived off the grid. Foraged and stole for food. The squatter punks saw surviving outside mainstream as a closer to an authentic life. Bastard children of Urban and Suburbanite families the turned the abandoned building into a commune. The Ain’t Rights‚ like the squatter punks live off the land. In an early scene‚ the camera caputures
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Siginificance of the study The beneficiaries of this study are those who desire to save electrical energy consumptionby using this alternative light bulb. Occupants of cramp places such as squatter areas are to benefit most from this study. Due to the fact that light is not much able to pass in squatter areas‚ since there is little gap between houses‚ places like those are dark. The product enables the sunlight that hits it to be spread in a dim or dark room. Therefore provides light to people
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FEDERATION OF MALAYA 1948 Introduction The Federation of Malaya (Malay: Persekutuan Tanah Melayu) is the name given to a federation of 11 states (nine state sand two of the British Straits Settlements‚ Penang and Malacca) that existed from 31 January 1948 until 16 September 1963. The Federation became independent on 31 August 1957. It was reconstituted as Malaysia with the addition in 1963 of Singapore‚ Sabah‚ and Sarawak. History From 1946 to 1948‚ the 11 states formed a single British crown
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