more of such organisms. At his time‚ such cases were explained by postulating land bridges which do not exist now. However‚ Wegener found that coastlines of South America and Africa match closely. As evidences he suggested the similarity of large-scale geological features on separate lands‚ such as Appalachian Mountains of North America and Scottish Highlands. He also suggested that indicated climate of the place fossils were found often differs from the climate of today. Those evidences lead
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weren’t going to fall short of those goals. The end of the Spanish American War left us with Cuba‚ Guam‚ and the Philippines. We realized we were a world power. As a world power‚ we began to use our power to do the things we wanted. As markets in America came to the maximum point‚ there was only so much we could do to expand them. Take as an example the tractor industry. Most people in the U.S only needed one tractor‚ so now everyone has a tractor. Now what? Tractors need to be sold to keep up business
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"The Motorcycle Diaries" After reading this book‚ I learned a lot about who Che Guevara was that I never knew about him before. More than just two men traveling South America‚ their trip inspired Guevara to become a man he didn’t expect to be. No dry history lesson or travelogue‚ this biography is supported with the humor of Guevara’s diaries‚ as the 23-year-old Ernesto - a frail asthmatic who had not yet taken the nickname Che - and the slightly older Alberto set off from Buenos Aires on a beat-up
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Neoliberalism in Latin America From the 1930s until the 1980s state intervention and protection were key components of most Latin American economies. In these years many Latin American countries were used an Import-substitution industrialization based economy trying to reduce dependence on foreign imports and replacing them with domestic production. Due to the use of an Import-substitution industrialization based economy Latin American countries were forced to keep high tariffs to protect
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at first on conquering‚ controlling‚ and developing the country. Most were sailors‚ who were far more interested in profitable trade and agriculture than in territorial expansion. Now Brazil is the largest country in South America and has the largest national economy in South America and the world ’s seventh largest
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Middle and South America is very important. In most areas of Middle and South America their economies rely heavily on tourism. Middle and South America offer several different resources that help appeal to tourists around the world wanting to visit the area. The importance of tourism is very beneficial to locals of Middle and South America since they rely on tourism as ways to earn money. Tourism is such an important factor of the lifestyle of the people that live in Middle and South America since that
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World Trade Agreements Analysis 1. Mercusor Trading block Background The Mercusor trading block is South America’s biggest trade agreement which brings together some of the world’s biggest economies in a customs union. For decades both Argentina and Brazil struggled for supremacy on the continent of South America‚ with numerous attempts to forging greater levels of coordination resulting in a trade agreement which brought about one of the world’s largest customs union. Signed in 1991 by Argentina
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Studies show that “fourteen of the top fifty schools in the nation are located in the South.” One third of Miss America winners come from southern states‚ as well as the majority of early presidents too. The other stereotype that someone may think of when they picture a Southerner would be the classy‚ clean dressed family. They are pictured to live in
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Introduction: Namibia is small flourishing country located in the south west of Africa. Its surrounding neighbors are Angola‚ Botswana‚ South Africa‚ and the South Atlantic Sea. The country is very young‚ and was recently liberated from foreign and South African rule‚ and was formerly known as South West Africa. Compared to all of its neighbors Namibia has an extremely low unemployment rate of 5.3%‚ and a GDP per capita of 7‚500 USD. Even though the country appears to have a high per capita GDP
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Much like a toile flushing counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere‚ compass needles face the opposite direction. In the southern hemisphere‚ the needles of the compass would face north‚ while in the northern hemisphere‚ the needles would face south. Looking at the compass‚ it would appear the person is facing towards the west. 8.16 During which of these 5
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