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The paper addresses some important questions in connection with rapid growth of population in urban centers of the developing countries. Though rate of urbanization has decreased significantly in the industrialized countries, it is still a major cause of concern for the third world because of the delayed development of their urban cities.

Tags: urbanization

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The report looks at different data relating to Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh.

Tags: metropolitan, pittsburgh, washington

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This essay discusses the development of New Orleans through the linguistic influences of three different cultures. The author reviews the three dominant languages that form the dialects of New Orleans: French, Cajun, and Creole. The paper traces these three languages to their cultural origins of the French colonizers, the Acadian exiles, and the American slave trade of Africans.

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This paper finds, that the changes in that period in India were influenced by internal and external elements, mainly from sectarianism.

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Thsi paper reviews the current attitudes towards marriages and determines whether people think that the government should direct policies towards marriages. The author makes suggestions regarding the strengthening of marriage as an institution.

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This paper discusses Charleston, South Carolina, situated on a narrow, low-lying peninsula between the Ashley and Cooper Rivers at the head of a broad bay leading to the Atlantic Ocean. The author points out that Charleston combines the beauty of a scenic harbor and pristine beaches with fine restaurants and shopping, world-class golf and plenty for history buffs to explore.

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This paper reviews the social customs, politics, religion and other aspects of life in these two nations.

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This paper explains how the temperate grasslands of Latin America developed, both in their original formation and in terms of colonization. Human development was a matter of aggressive exploitation.

Tags: temperate, grasslands, latin

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This paper explores various issues in political geography: the world systems theory and the Vietnam War, the centripetal and centrifugal forces in Pakistan, Argentina's core areas, the Antarctic Treaty System, and Bamako, Mali.

Tags: issues, political, geography

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This paper discusses the Ray Copper Mine in Arizona. Arizona is the largest producer of copper in USA. There are some other states where copper reserves have been discovered but Arizona by far remains the leading copper-producing state accounting for 65 percent of the total US copper-production. Copper and its by-products represent over 80 percent of Arizona's nonfuel mineral value.

Tags: ray, copper, mine

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This paper discusses the water resources in the Middle East. The essay is based on two articles but will also discuss some of the main researches that have been conducted in this area. Finally it will compare the two articles and give a brief analysis.

Tags: water, middle, east

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This essay provides an analysis of the cultural geography of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. It focuses on a discussion of the different cultural expressions of Buddhism and ethnicity in each country. In this paper, these different countries of Indochina are discussed with regards to the ways that culture and politics have historically been shaped by Buddhism and how this spiritual similarity manifests in particular ethnic differences.

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This essay will argue that the post-colonial history of Grenada has, to a profound extent, been determined by its geography. As will be seen, Grenada's small size and limited resources - together with the fact that much of its agricultural production is directed toward "cash crops" for export - has made its independence problematic.

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This essay will argue that, as was the case with the descriptions of Pytheas, perceptions of the Arctic and Antarctic are governed by a mingling of the imaginative and the economic. In general, the economic perception tends to dominate with the closer proximity to the pole. Thus, it will be argued that European and Canadian views of the Arctic have historically been dominated by a mingling of economic and imaginative factors. In contrast, the distant (from Europe) Antarctic has been a realm dominated by the imagination as much, or more so, than by economic interests.

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This is a brief research paper on the Thai economy. The study initially deals with latest development in the economy in attracting direct foreign investments.