... British rule, industrial growth in India was inhibited. Since independence, however, the country has achieved near industrial self-sufficiency. Today India produces most of its own chemicals, automobiles, steel, textiles, and even computers and television sets. Steel production has more than doubled since 1960. India is self-sufficient in iron and coal but is heavily dependent on foreign oil. India's chief energy sources are coal (26%), petroleum (49%), and electricity (25%). Some 156 billion kw of electricity were generated in 1987, which still far short of demand. Only 65% of India's villages are electrified, and electrical outages are a common feature of bi ...
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... believer in this philosophy. Though his exact plans for the bridge were not used in its construction, he did see his plans as a start for the city. The point he stressed most frequently was using structures of buildings to tell stories of the city's history. This means designing noticeable objects on buildings that relate to the city. Although Hernandez argued his points distinctly, Wilson totally disagreed. Wilson said cities revolve around racism, and how can we look toward the future if we have no idea of where we've come? “In order to understand our future, we must first be aware of the immigration that is taking place now,” Wilson said. “Miami has the hig ...
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... only reach 30 degrees Fahrenheit or –1 degrees Celsius. The language spoken in Japan is Japanese. The other languages are minority languages. The religion in Japan is made up of 85% of Shinto and/or Buddhism and the other 15% are made up of others such as Shinko Shakyo (new religions) and Christianity. People in Japan have the ethnic backgrounds of 99% Japanese. The other 1-% includes Koreans, Chinese, and Ainu. The food and drink that is eaten here is mostly rice. The drink is sake, which is a strong alcoholic beverage. Sake is the drink that is used when the people in Japan and the people who are Japanese perform a spiritual drinking ritual. The life ...
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... to compete against goods manufactured by mass production in larger urban centers to the south. Therefore the economy of Cheltenham would rise. The Credit River produce lots of Hydro electric power for the people of Cheltenham. The two main reasons why the site was chosen for a town was the transportation produced by the C.N.R. and the hydro electric produced from the Credit River. Part B ------ The land use at the mill pond area between 1850-1870 in Cheltenham was mostly industrial uses. Most of the industries or buildings were located very close to each other because they all depended on each ot ...
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... is elected to serve 5-year terms. Also, the president can run for re-election as many times as he chooses. For example, the current president was re-elected to serve a seventh term in 1990. Plus, there is a National Assembly comprised of about 120 people who help to govern the country. The nation has a tremendously stable economy because of the great amount of products that they produce for exporting. The Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa producer and the third largest coffee producer. These products alone bring in more than half of all export earnings. In addition, sugarcane, pineapples, oil palms, rubber, cotton, and bananas are also grown fo ...
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... the water supply. Education and Culture In Mexico City there are nine Universities. The biggest University is the National Autonomous University of Mexico, which is located at the south of the city. Most of Mexico City's culture is the museums that are located throughout the city. The Museum of Anthropology, Modern Art, and the National Historical Museum, have exhibits of pre-Columbian artifacts. Another part of Mexico City's culture are the Ballet Folklorico performances at the Palace of Fine Arts and Mexico's most important religious shrine, the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadeloupe, is located on the outskirts of the city. History The history of Mexico ...
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... to the heat or their living conditions. Such as the geco who licks its own sweat on its body to drink before he can find water so he doesn't die from lack of water not dehydration. From the lack of resources, clean water, good doctors and lack of doctors people have some health problems. Some of the resources does have though are aluminum, asbestos, chromium, coal, cobalt, copper, diamonds, gold, graphite, iron ore, lead, mica, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, natural gas, oil, salt, sulphur, tungsten, unranium, vanadium, and zinc. There are many land resources but not many industries or people to take machines and dig for them. I thought to be a interesting but ...
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... climatic zones in Tropical Africa: 1. a region of persistent rain at and near the Equator, 2. a region on each side of this of summer rain and winter drought, and 3. a region at the northern and southern edges afflicted by drought. All the climates listed in the previous paragraph are modified in the eastern parts of Tropical Africa by the mountains and monsoons. The soils of Tropical Africa pose another problem. They are unlike the soils of temperate areas. Soils are largely products of their climates, and tropical soils are different from temperate soils because the climate is different. Because of the great heat of the tropics tends to bake the soils, ...
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... The attack was brief and isolated but relations between the two nations remained poor for 10 years afterwards. In the 1970's the government, in turmoil because of population increases and rampant poverty, was corrupt and lead by coups. In 1972 the military overthrew the old President and put up their own President. The people unhappy with the unfulfilled promises for reform, became restless and formed a political party called the Federation Democratio Revolucionario. This was a sect of the FMLN a militaristic political party that wished to gain power. With the Regan administration shocked by the revolution in Nicaragua, the U.S. feed money to the stand ...
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