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Sarah Yeakley

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Photography Contest

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    Submit your entry online to the National Geographic Photography Contest in any of these three categories: people, places, and nature. As a leader in capturing our world through brilliant imagery, National Geographic Magazine sets the standard for photographic excellence. Now, we're inviting you to share your vision of the world through your own photography. National Geographic Magazine Online, resource for research, updates, photography, global issues, geography, maps and multimedia.
Sara Espinosa

Largest Cities in the World - List of the Largest Cities - 0 views

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LIST

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  • 1. Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan - 33,200,000 2. New York, United States - 17,800,000
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    LIST 1
Sara Espinosa

Largest Urban Areas in the World - 0 views

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TOKYO

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  • All population figures for the world's largest urban areas are simply estimates. There's no way to know the exact population of such a large place.
  • 1. Tokyo, Japan - 34,100,000 2. Mexico City, Mexico - 22,650,000
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    TOKYO
Stephania D

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Countries water polllution

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  • China in particular has long argued that it is too poor to afford the Western luxury of environmental awareness.
  • China ranks last among 15 nations in its income group (the fifth decile), behind Vietnam. If Colombia, the group's leader, can afford environmental concern, why can't China?
  • China fares slightly better in protecting its habitat but much worse in measures of industrial ills.
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  • One conclusion to be drawn from the Yale-Columbia project is the need for better data, which requires funds.
  • Experiences like the recent biofuels surge, which is driving up food prices, show how treacherous even well-intentioned decisions about the environment can be when they're uninformed.
  • The same holds for consumers, who sometimes think paying somebody to plant a few trees will compensate for flying around the world in airplanes.
  • For such decisions, data are essential. If we're going to avoid squandering our natural resources, the quicker we begin to rely more on facts and less on assumptions, the better.
  • Some countries simply lie or make up the facts.
  • Today's Russian bureaucrats may still be fudging its environmental figures.
  • Among the worst offenders were Japan, South Korea, Brazil, the United States, Italy and Paraguay.
  • (While there are good comparative data on ozone, smog also includes nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxides and other components that are poorly tracked in most nations.) Among the best industrial countries were Malaysia, the United Kingdom and all of Eastern Europe (a legacy of the Soviet nuclear program).
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      desert nations how trouble with water supplies. Israel looks better than other nations.
  • Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, which have more severe water problems.
  • Brazil is another country whose high rank—34th—is deceptive.
  • Brazil is a vast land blessed with an abundance of water, which yields energy relatively cheaply with no carbon emissions
  • Brazil is now the world's fourth biggest emitter of carbon, mainly due to the felling of trees.
  • By contrast, Belgium and the Netherlands, which share much in terms of population and geography with their neighbors, suffer from neglect of the environment—particularly in protecting native habitats.
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    The countries doing worst and best with water pollution
Christina Sanchez

ABC-CLIO: World Geography: Entry Display - 0 views

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hong kong history 2008

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  • Ma Ying-jeou was elected president of Taiwan in March 2008. A Harvard-educated lawyer and popular public figure, Ma won the presidency by the largest vote margin in Taiwan's electoral history. His landslide election also brought the long-ruling Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) back to power after an eight-year hiatus.
Christina T

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japan's history

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  • The nation of Japan was probably born of the union of two peoples: one from Polynesia or the Malay Peninsula and one from elsewhere in Asia.
  • About 300 BC, the Japanese began growing rice, which would become the nation's agricultural staple.
  • From the 500s to the 700s, Japanese society developed quickly—partly because of its close relationship with neighboring China and the magnificent Tang Dynasty.
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  • Starting in the 12th century, military administrations called shogunates became the usual form of government.
  • It took until the end of the 1500s for order to be restored under the Momoyama shogunate, but the government's three famous warriors eventually battled among themselves, breaking up their alliance in 1600.
  • His rule was marked by the near-elimination of Christianity from Japan in an effort to prevent the conquest of the country by Spain, the expulsion of all Spaniards in 1624, and the deportation of the Portuguese in 1639. All contact with foreigners was then outlawed.
  • Japan enjoyed a period of blossoming culture, and art, literature, and theater thrived despite the Tokugawa shogunate's strict, repressive control.
  • After this point, known historically as the Meiji Restoration, true authority rested with a small group of veteran politicians.
  • Such improvements led to the creation of a considerable export trade as Japan's leaders decided to work with the foreigners, since their efforts to expel them had not succeeded
  • Continued incursions into China in 1931–1932 secured a Japanese puppet monarchy in China's Manchurian region under Emperor P'u-i, China's last emperor.
  • plunged into World War II with its attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.
  • an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6
  • Japan signed the United States-Japan Security Treaty (1951) in San Francisco
  • Japanese politics after World War II has been dominated by the powerful Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
  • become a major global financial power and ranked as the world's largest aid donor and overseas investor.
  • His bold move paid off when the LDP gained a two-thirds majority in the Diet's lower house, thereby gaining for Koiziumi a wide popular mandate for his reforms. Koizumi left office in September 2006, having completed two full terms—a rarity in modern Japan.
Sarah Knop

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Christina T

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Japan's art

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  • decorations of pottery and porcelain that became an important export item when Japan began trading with the rest of the world in the 19th century.
  • Most sculpture in Japan is made from wood
  • Buddhism also prompted developments in painting
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  • art of Japanese flower arranging
  • Kabuki theater was begun in 1603 by a troupe of women, but during the 17th century
  • developed several sports derived from skills needed in war
  • Japanese martial art
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Japan's traditions

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  • Etiquette and good manners are extremely important to the Japanese people.
  • On entering a Japanese home, temple, or shrine, shoes are removed.
  • Business cards are extremely important in Japan.
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  • Japanese people give gifts for certain holidays, and bring gifts to family and friends when they return from vacation.
  • sticking chopsticks into a bowl of rice is considered bad manners
  • Part of the marriage ceremony involves ritual purification and the drinking of sake (rice wine)
  • choose to be married in Christian ceremonies
  • most funerals are Buddhist. The body is cremated, and while that is happening, the family eats the first meal of the day.
  • on the first day of spring and fall, and during the summer Obon (Festival of Lanterns), a Buddhist festival signifying the reunion of the living with the spirits of the dead.
Kristine Abiera

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christmas abcclio

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      associated with Christmas, including the use of holly, mistletoe, and Yule logs
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      Dutch celebration of St. Nicholas Day on December 6 Russian, Serbian, and Georgian Orthodox churches, celebrate Christmas on January 7
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      christian celebration
Deepankar Sinha

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abcclio NRA

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    National Rifle Association
Erika Moz

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    definition of global warming
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