In fact‚ this day‚ this dream‚ this nightmare‚ was just beginning. All of a sudden‚ the ground began to shake as an earthquake rocked the Caribbean country. A estimated magnitude 7 earthquake had occurred and nearly 50 aftershocks followed. The quake was the most powerful experienced by the country in over two centuries‚ and it left 316‚000 people dead while forcing another million people to permanently evacuate from their homes (“Haiti Earthquake of 2010”). There is no doubt that along with the
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CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction of the Study 1.1.1 History of Noodles Industries Noodles have its origin from china of chowmein or “chau-chau” and from Italy in the name of “Sphaghetti”‚ similarly‚ it is also pronounced as “Featuching” and Cut Macaroni” by the Italians. Initially Chinese and Italians used it as a main meal. In different names‚ shapes‚ quality and taste the item is prepared in different varieties. Instant noodles are dried or precooked noodles fused with oil and often sold
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND CARBON TRADING: NEW AVENUES FOR ACTUARIES (Submitted By: Anupam Sharma‚ Deepa Gupta‚ Subhash Goyal‚ Swati Kwatra) Executive summary The increasing risk of Climate change can be measured by the fact that natural catastrophes in 2008 cost the global economy $225 billion‚ which is one of the costliest year in the history of Insurance business. It will have an impact on Insurance sector in terms of changing pattern of mortality‚ more frequent property claims etc. Climate change
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several classification of India’s natural vegetation. The many features that characterize the natural vegetation of India are the tropical deciduous forests‚ the tropical rain forests‚ the alpine and tundra vegetation‚ rain forests of Southern India‚ Himalayan vegetation‚ the desert region‚ the temperature forests and grasslands and many more. A major role is played by the tropical rain forests‚ in the natural vegetation in India. These forests include the tropical semi-evergreen forests and the tropical
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Population is the total number of persons inhabiting a country‚ city‚ or any district or area. Demography is the study of the basic demographic processes of fertility‚ mortality‚ and migration and their consequences for population distributions of various kinds including age and sex composition and the spatial distribution of population (Liberal Arts Texas A&M Univertsity‚ 2014). The term neo-Malthusianism was first used in 1877 by Dr. Samuel Van Houten‚ one of the vice- presidents of the Malthusian
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TSUNAMI Introduction 1. Tsunami is a Japanese word meaning “Harbor water”. Tsunami is in most cases the result of sea-bed earthquake. The latest tsunami was the largest of its type since the magnitude Good Friday earthquake of Alaska in 1964. It took a death toll of about 200‚000 people and immense property. Since last 100 years‚ this has been the greatest disaster that the Asian region suffered. It measured 8.9 in the Richter scale and generated a gigantic tidal surge
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parts of Chile (“More Chileans”). “It is estimated that 17.3 percent of the population in the most affected regions lost their homes in the disaster‚ and the number of people unemployed rose from 620‚000 in 2009 to 700‚000” after the earthquake (“Quake”). Over 40% of the Chile’s wealth is located in 10% of the populations hands (“Chile - Statistics”). This just shows how inequitable the income distribution is in Chile. Due to all of this poverty in Chile‚ not many families can afford to eat everyday
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On Nov. 16 the city of Syracuse got an highly unusual taste of aristocracy when His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud visited the Salt City to receive Syracuse University’s Chancellor’s Medal for Outstanding Achievement. Prince Sultan is the second son of Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud‚ head of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense and next in line to the throne. It took a little more than two years for Syracuse to get a blue blood sighting. The previous
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The universe is an extremely complex system that is difficult to understand. To this day‚ astrophysicists and astronomers are continuously learning new things. One area that amazes scientists is magnetars and pulsars. This report will discuss the formation of these stars‚ their characteristics‚ and the effects they have. Magnetars and pulsars are formed from the remnants of a Type II supernova 1. The exploding star is typically bigger than the sun 2. Having a mass greater than 1.989 X 10^30 kg 3
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The richly painted walls and the complex inscriptions depicting historical art were the only expensive things in our hotel which were also ruined. Numerous tiny houses fell like a pack of cards causing injury to its inmates. So furious had been the quake that the buildings in town uprooted its roofs‚ tearing up the trees coupled with wild ranges of the wind. It was dark still‚ but there was enough light to watch by. The ground beneath my feet was solid. There were noises and deep structural groans
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