or agricultural use‚ for hydro-electric power generation or domestic water supply‚ or for aesthetic or recreational purposes. Lake‚ large‚ inland body of fresh or salty standing water. Lakes are distinguished from bodies of water such as bays and gulfs‚ and some seas‚ that have an interchange with the ocean and are subject to tides. Lake basins are formed by many geologic processes‚ such as buckling of stratified rock into large folds‚ displacement of large masses of rock by faults (see Fault)‚ and
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flows southward through Lake Hula into the Sea of Galilee in Israel‚ then continues south through the Jordan Rift Valley into the Dead Sea on the Israeli-Jordanian border. From the Dead Sea southwards‚ the Rift is occupied by the Wadi Arabah‚ then the Gulf of Aqaba‚ and then the Red Sea. Off the southern tip of Sinai in the Red Sea‚ the Dead Sea Transform meets the Red Sea Rift which runs the length of the Red Sea. The Red Sea Rift comes
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The Impact of Globalization on Somali Culture Abstract Since its inception in 1960 when it gained independence from Britain and Italy respectively after the merger of former British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland into what came to be known as the republic of Somalia‚ the impact of globalization on Somali culture has evidently been beneficial and detrimental in many aspects. The idea that a nation cannot progress economically without a strong central government does not coincide with the current
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Djibouti is located in the northeast of Africa‚ on the Gulf of Aden around the entrance to the Red Sea. It is pretty much a stony desert with highland and scattered plateaus‚ also the size of Massachusetts. Djibouti had gained independence on the date of June 27th‚ 1977. It had been named the French Somaliland when the French were colonized there‚ but when Djibouti won independence it was better known as the Republic of Djibouti. Now let’s go back in time. From the 7th century enslaved Africans were
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The Somali Republic is the easternmost extension of the African continent and is bordered by Djibouti‚ Ethiopia‚ Kenya‚ the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. The Somali are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. More than eight million Somalis live in a territory stretching north from northern Kenya to Djibouti and west from the Indian Ocean to the Ogaden in Ethiopia. Although Somalis are often seen as one of the few ethnic groups that define a nation‚ the country of Somalia does contain small
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variables that we learned in class and will be a good way of preparing the reader if he/she were to go to Yemen and will have an insight of my reflection. Yemen Background Information Yemen is in the Middle East‚ bordering Saudi Arabia‚ Oman‚ and The Gulf of Aden. Major geographic landmarks include the Red Sea to the West‚ the Arabia Sea to the South‚ and the great Rub al Khali desert to the North and East (Adensafari). Due to Yemen’s land of mountains and desert‚ the climate in Yemen is generally hot
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Failed states refer to a state which have very weak or inefficient central government to rule its state. The characteristics of failed state are including failed in provide public service and welfare‚ loss control of its territory‚ corrosion of legitimate authority to make collective decisions and inability to interact with other states as a full member of international community. In my opinion‚ the failed state could be represented by Somalia. In Somalia‚ the citizens aretoo wild coupled with absence
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Journal of Political Studies‚ Vol. 19‚ Issue - 2‚ 2012‚ 57:69 Strategic Importance of Gwadar Port Hasan Yaser Malik ♣ Abstract The pragmatic facets like geography and history have always imprinted the demographical mosaic and development of a civilisation. The civilisations have always developed along the waters. The waters have been used as trade route since long and the modern trade has further enhanced the need of trade through waters. Pakistan being a gateway to the strategically
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person‚ groups or society‚ disregarding the safety of the other persons for many times the perpetrators claim to carry out these malicious attacks religious‚ political or‚ ideological reasons. On Thursday‚ October 12‚ 2000‚ while refueling at a port in Aden‚ Yemen‚ the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole was attacked by two suicide bombers navigating a small motorboat full of explosives. The explosion killed 17 crewmembers and wounded 39 others. The day of the bombing‚ U.S. President Bill Clinton said in a statement
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born in 1957‚ comes from a wealthy Saudi Arabian family that owns a multinational construction business. He used his inherited wealth to finance Afghan forces fighting the Soviet Union ’s occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980 ’s. After the 1991 Gulf War‚ he was distressed that Saudi Arabia allowed U.S. forces to remain in the Arabian Peninsula. To advance his agenda of expelling the U.S. from the Islamic world‚ he worked with other anti-Western fundamentalists to organize a secretive‚ highly
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