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    Assignment 4 Second Draft 11/30/2012 REVIEWED BY MIKE Get rid of Whiteness Whiteness has dominated the mainstream of social norms in America for a long time. However‚ in the 2012 Presidential Election‚ Barrack Obama won the election by the larger proportion of support from more non-whites than Romney since demographic shifts greatly impact the population structure and urged expansive multiculturalism. A melting pot is intended to form by absorbing versatile cultures around the world. Vincent

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    A paper presentation on TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM TO MOBILE PHONES ABSTRACT The term tsunami originates from Japanese and means “harbour wave” .It is a series of waves when a body of water‚ such as an ocean is rapidly displaced on a massive scale. Tsunamis cannot be prevented or precisely predicted‚ but there are many systems being developed to warn and save the people of regions with a high risk of tsunamis before the wave reaches land. Our paper focusses on the TSUNAMI WARNING

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    and its duration was approximately one minute. The earthquake was caused by an immense build-up of pressure between the Indo Australian and the Eurasian Plates; both continental plates are of the same approximated densities and therefore had no subduction zone‚ resulting in the release of a sudden and vicious earthquake (USGS). United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Relief map/diagram of earthquake-affected regions in Pakistan‚ India‚ and Afghanistan. Shows epicenter

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    Japan and Earthquake/Tsunami Mitigation Geography 312 – Term Paper Alexandra Bradshaw – 301144682 March 29th‚ 2012 On March 11th 2011‚ Japan suffered a 9.0 magnitude earthquake off its northern coast‚ followed by an enormous tsunami which took the lives of around 20‚000 people. An earthquake of this magnitude had never been experienced in the history of mankind‚ and came as a shock to many seismologists. With the title of being the most earthquake prepared country in the world‚ Japan was thought

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    Country Briefing Report November 27‚ 2012 Global Business Dr. Gary Mahan Table of Contents Geography 1 7 Introduction 1.1 7 Description of New Zealand’s Location 1.2 7 Description of the Climate and Surface Features 1.3 8 Sources Used 10 Political Environment 2.0 11 Political System 2.1 11 The Executive 2.2 11 Governor General 2.3 12 Prime Minister 2.4 12 Jurisdiction 2.5 12

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    Introduction Environmental Engineering is a discipline of engineering devoted to the development and application of scientific knowledge through technology to eliminate or minimize adverse effects associated with human activities. It operates at four different levels: remediation of contaminated sites‚ treatment of effluents‚ pollution prevention‚ and care for future generations. Environmental engineering is fundamentally object-focused‚ rather than tool-based. It therefore draws from

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    The river erosion processes involved in the formation of waterfalls are hydraulic action‚ abrasion and solution. Hydraulic action is the force of moving water on the land. Fast flowing water forces out looses rock and soil from the river bed and bank. Soft rock is eroded faster than hard rock (differential erosion) and overtime the bank will collapse. Abrasion is the wearing away of the river bed by its load. Stones carried by the river smooth the river channel deepening & widening it. Solution

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    Geothermal as the Solution for Indonesia’s Electricity Shortage: How does Indonesia’s Political Condition and Policies affecting it? Introduction The current condition arises within Indonesia is the electricity shortage. This can be seen as numbers of black outs happens in every part of Indonesia’s region of which conducted due to save the electricity reserves. Such problems happen because as an abundance country in which very rich with natural resources‚ including the source

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    Nature 432:740–743 ˜ Wells LE (1990) Holocene history of the El Nino phenomenon as recorded in flood sediments of northern coastal Peru. Geology 18:1134–1137 Wipf M‚ Zeilinger G‚ Seward D‚ Schlunegger F (2008) Focused subaerial erosion during ridge subduction: impact on the geomorphology in south-central Peru. Terra Nova 20:1–10 ´ ´ ˜ Woodman R (1998) El Fenomeno El Nino y el Clima en el Peru. In: El ´ Peru en los Albores del Siglo XXI/2 (Ciclo de Conferencias ´ 1997–1998). Ediciones del Congreso del

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    THE REPORT OF THE ENGLISH PROJECT JAPAN Foreign language‚ English 33202 English Reading – Writing Preface This English project‚ Japan‚ is a part of the Foreign language courses‚ English 33202‚ English Reading – Writing‚ Objective 3. The main purpose of the Project work is to be able to get information from various kinds of sources by using English as a tool of communication. Our group work on Japan as a title of the project and we get information from website

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