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Nicaragua: People And Way Of Life
534 Words - 2 Pages.... 1980's some of these Indians became involved in anti-government
things. Because of this, the government moved some Indian groups from
their homes near the border to areas in the interior of Nicaragua.
Education
Nicaragua has a law that requires children to go to school from the
age of six through twelve. Before 1980, only about half the children did
so because they were poor and couldn't afford to be sent or it was that
there weren't many schools around where they lived. Nicaragua did not have
enough schools, and many rural areas had no schools at all. But since then
the new government has built hundreds of schools. The government also he ....
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Botswana
446 Words - 2 Pages.... are farmers. There are also about 10,000 of the San
people, or “Bushmen”. Some San are hunter-gatherers, and some are farmers.
Several thousand whites are also included in Botswana's population. Most are of
British descent. Most whites earn more money then the blacks, and this causes
some racial tension. Although English is the official language of Botswana, most
people speak Setswana, a Bantu language. Eighty-five percent of Botswana's
people practice traditional African religions, while the rest are Christian.
Most Botswanan children attend elementary school, but only fifteen percent will
go on to high school. The small percent of people that go to college attend th ....
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Copacabana
565 Words - 3 Pages.... eyes start to wonder, and their minds explore the surroundings, trying to figure out if there is an end to the lake. However, all they can see is the blue water that seems endless, where in the middle there is a mountain where most of the boats are headed.
As they get near the mountain, other people are already climbing and others walking through the path other villagers had made long ago. Once off the boat, the first steps to the path are few feet away from the shoreline. The steps they take are considered sacred and the people are supposed to go on them bear footed. These steps are made up of little rocks, some of them smoother than others. The first few steps up the ....
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Mount Ruapehu
2060 Words - 8 Pages.... part of the Wellington - Auckland express line, killing 151 people. The main volcanic hazards of the volcano are laharic flows - matrix-rich flows formed when hot pyroclastic material comes into contact with external water (from the crater lake, melted snow or ice and heavy rainfall), pyroclastic flows - collapse of eruption column causes a hot concentrated flow of debris and gas, and Ash fall - fine volcanic particles held in suspension. Other hazards include the remobilisation of ash, volcanic tremors and avalanches. A future eruption would effect population, buildings, transport, water supply, livestock and crops. In the event of an eruption many of the surrounding ....
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China
584 Words - 3 Pages.... of wealth was probably a bit more equal than in most Western countries. While there were great variations in income between different villages, and between different jobs in the urban sector, the overall averages showed a clear pattern: the cities were much richer than the countryside. Most capital investments were going into urban industries. The urban workers, using considerable amount of heavy machinery, had a much higher average level of productivity compared to the rural workers. The natural consequences was for the city people to arrange themselves an average income level twice as high as that of the people in the countryside.
The most obvious way to attack th ....
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North America
495 Words - 2 Pages.... in these regions can be classified as sub-arctic which consists of mild short summers that still have snow and ice over much of the region. The next climatic region consists of southern Canada and the eastern half of the United States . This region is classified as having all four seasons where the climate is totally different depending on what time of year it is. The Southern portion of this region has 4 seasons but all of them are much warmer. The third region includes Western US and northern Mexico. It is mostly dry throughout this region because most of it is made up of deserts and plains. The other part is made up of mountains. Where conditions do depend allot ....
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Rome, Italy
459 Words - 2 Pages.... Sabines whose main priority
was the physical aspects of Rome. Rome is located near the Mediterranean
Sea which allows for the inhabitants to conduct trade and bring in new
ideas and concepts to further develop the city. Judging from the fact that
that the Tiber River runs directly through the city, it can only be assumed
that the first inhabitants realized that the land was easily accessible,
that the land next to the river was rich farmland, and that transportation
would be effortless.
The city continued to grow steadily by attracting new settlers and
the promise of a better future. As the Roman Empire expanded, Rome emerged
as an Administrative Center as it came to be ac ....
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Australia
2035 Words - 8 Pages.... years.
Voting is compulsory at 18. Supreme federal judicial power is vested in
the High Court of Australia in the federal courts, and in the state courts
invested by Parliament with federal jurisdiction. The High Court consists
of seven justices, appointed by the Governor-General in Council. Each of
the state has its own judicial system.
The Constitution
This document was drawn up in constitutional conventions in the
1890s and ratified at referenda in all six colonies. It reserves for the
Federal Government the power over defense, foreign affairs, trade and
commerce, taxation, customs and excise duties, pensions, immigration and
postal services. Other powers a ....
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