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The Bermuda Triangle, 2002.
A discussion surrounding the mystery of the feared Bermuda Triangle.
4,085 words (approx. 16.3 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 110.95
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This paper presents a geographical explanation of the Bermuda Triangle. It then examines the history of this mystery and mentions several disasters or unexplained events that have happened in the skies and waters of this area. The paper also discusses the literature available on these mysteries and the form of documentation.
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"The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Caribbean believed to contain some mystery which causes ships and planes to disappear at a higher rate than in other regions of the globe. The idea of a Bermuda Triangle is of relatively recent origin, though researchers have identified many disappearances from the area dating back centuries. The greatest part of the mystery is the question of whether there is a mystery at all, for many scientists state that the rate of disappearances in the region is no any higher than in other similar areas and that there is no reason for the speculation about everything from satanic influences to extraterrestrials in the area. Both sides of the question will be considered here."
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Republic of Korea, 2002.
This is a country project report on the Republic of Korea.
3,910 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 106.95
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This research paper/ country report is about the economy of the Republic of Korea. The report includes sections on general overview of the country?s economy, trade overview, finance overview, investment overview, current main issues and policy recommendations and a conclusion.
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"The extent of South Korea?s rapid progress can be gauged from the fact that in just 3 decades its per capita GDP has risen from among the lowest in the world to 7 times India?s, 16 times North Korea?s and is now comparable to some of the lesser economies of the European Union. Its per capita GDP is $ 16,100 (2000 est.) while its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) stood at $ 764.6 billion in 2000 (est.)."
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Geography: The Study of the Earth, 2002.
A paper which studies the importance of studying geography as a subject and how a knowledge of geography has survival values for Americans.
1,340 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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The paper discusses the importance of teaching geography to students - a subject which provides the tools for students to read a map, understand international news reports, follow economic trends and weather reports. The paper shows that without this knowledge, Americans would have little understanding of the world beyond their borders and remain isolationist in nature.
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"Geography helps us understand why some countries are important to us even when we are not the best of friends. For example: China is the largest country in the Far East. We are not that friendly with them, but we tolerate each other. If we didn't have a mutually helpful trade agreement, relations might be even more strained. The Chinese understand this and even have a saying for it. "W?nh?a sh? m?i yu guj?e de," which means, "Culture has no national borders." According to a paper written by Clarissa Smith, "In the age of mass media and instant communication, this must be more true than ever, even in a highly controlled society.? "
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Wilmington During The Civil War, 2002.
A study of the importance of the city of Wilmington, NC during the American Civil War.
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper focuses on the significance of the city of Wilmington, NC during the Civil War. The paper briefly mentions the economic factors behind the significance of this city but primarily discusses the role of Fort Fisher and how this fort made the city of Wilmington famous during the war years.
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"During the civil war, some cities played a significant role in supporting the cause of their states. While the Union army was trying to capture all Southern states in a bid to stop them from declaring independence or withdrawing from the American Confederation, some cities played a major role in at least putting up strong resistance against the Union Army. One such city was that of Wilmington in North Carolina and the importance of this city lied in its ports. It is important to understand that ports and naval ships were the best way of transporting goods and weapons from one end to another and therefore attempts were made to cut off the route so that ships wouldn?t be able to enter or leave Wilmington port."
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Indonesia ? Anthropology and Ethnography, 2002.
A paper which examines the reasons why Indonesia seems to lure anthropologists and ethnographers, and what it is that appeals to their imagination.
1,005 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper shows that though it is impossible to determine why exactly Indonesia, at least for the past two generations, has seemingly laid an irresistible spell on the anthropological world, it is possible to suggest some of the reasons. This paper examines the corner of the state of anthropological practice and theory as they pertain to Indonesia and how these have created intimate links between symbolic anthropology and Indonesian ethnography. The paper discusses how many fine ethnographies have been produced as a direct result of anthropologists? theoretical and paradigmatic interest in Indonesia, of the fact both that anthropological discourse can be seen as a subset of human imaginings and as a result of the fact that some places seem to be better to dream in. The paper examines Tania Murray Li?s article ?Compromising Power: Development, Culture and Rule in Indonesia? in Volume 13, No. 3 of Cultural Anthropology, on the subject.
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"Indonesia ? with its own contentious colonial history ? was an ideal setting if one wished to make sense of the role and evolution of cultures in a world in which colonial structures were falling away. Indonesia had at least three other additional inducements for at least American and British anthropologists: Their own countries had not been involved in the colonization of Indonesia so they did not have to feel any guilt over what they found; unlike many ?primitive? cultures, Indonesia societies (for of course this island nation is home to a number of very different cultural groups) are home to not only sophisticated performing and visual arts but also nuanced and complex literary traditions and a history of beautifully proportioned and ingeniously constructed architecture."
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History of Wilmington, North Carolina, 2002.
A discussion on the history of Wilmington, North Carolina with a focus on Wilmington's local artist 'Minnie Evans' and Airlie Gardens.
2,280 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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The following paper discusses one of the many historical attractions in Wilmington, the famous Airlie Gardens. Designed at the beginning of the 1900?s, it encompasses some sixty-seven acres of post-Victorian European style gardens, including ten acres of freshwater lakes. This paper also focuses on the life and works of Minnie Evans, who worked as a gatekeeper in the Airlie Gardens, from 1948 to 1974, painting the scenery in the gardens whenever she had a break. This paper discusses the way in which her drawings of the Airlie Gardens helped her start her career as a well-acclaimed artist.
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?A descendent of slaves from Trinidad, Minnie was born in a log cabin in Long Creek, North Carolina on December 1, 1892. She and her mother moved to Wilmington in 1893, and there Minnie was raised by her grandmother. She completed the fifth grade, and then went to work as a sounder, selling oysters and clams door-to-door. Minnie always saw a world invisible to everyone else and throughout her life, even her childhood, her night dreams were filled with visions, and her days filled with sights and voices only she experienced.?
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Emeralds, 2002.
A discussion on the different types of emeralds, vis-a-vis its chemicals, texture, temperature conditions and significance in society since ancient times.
792 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 4 sources, $ 28.95
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This paper traces the history of emeralds from ancient Egypt, to 18th century to today's mining areas in Columbia, Zimbabwe, Zambia. It discusses the different types of emeralds, the treatments for the stone, colors, textures, healing attributes and gemstones.
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"To the ancient Egyptians, the emerald?s green color stood for fertility and rebirth. The gemstone was used to treat eye diseases. The Greeks worked the Egyptian mines during the time of Alexander the Great and throughout the Ptolemaic Dynasty. ?The Greeks regarded the emerald as the sacred stone of the goddess Venus and of the Earth Goddess.? (Emeralds!) "
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Panama, 2002.
An analysis of Panama and its current economic and political conditions, focusing specifically on how forward movement can be sustained.
2,545 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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The following paper examines Panama's impacting prospects for improving her economy. It looks at the way in which she can achieve or maintain democratic reform initiatives in the new century. This paper also includes historical facts and the unfolding of events as well as regional and global environmental factors which help provide a qualitative analysis to support the central thesis that forward movement can be sustained.
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?Panama was part of the Spanish empire for 300 years (1538-1821), and its history and current economic and political conditions are rooted in that experience. Panamanian identity has also always been based on a sense of "geographic destiny" and Panamanian fortunes fluctuated with the changing geopolitical importance of the isthmus. The colonial experience also marked Panamanian nationalism causing its politics to be characterized by strongly anti-imperialist themes and sentiment and its society to become racially complex and highly stratified. These factors became the source of internal conflicts that ran counter to the unifying force of Panamanian nationalism. Upon its independence from Spain, Panama briefly joined with Columbia; however, when Columbia refused to allow plans for the United States to build a canal across the isthmus, Panama, with U.S. support, declared itself sovereign in 1903. Immediately, it signed a treaty with the U.S., allowing for the construction of the Panama Canal, which was completed in 1914. The U.S. saw the canal zone as theirs, while the Panamanians claimed actual ownership, causing tensions for decades.?
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The Climate of the U.S.A. and Canada, 2002.
A discussion of the climate of the U.S.A. and Canada, with respect to climate classifications, its effects on farming and other activities.
2,405 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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This paper discusses how climate governs the entire ecological structure of the planet earth. The author examines how climate, in relation to the topography and latitudinal location, determines the vegetative types, the hydrology, soil, agriculture and various human activities.
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?Climate represents a long term average of various weather features such as temperature and precipitation. The World Meteorological Organization uses 30-year averages to define climatological "normals" for these various features. Climate determines how resources such as water and vegetation are distributed and, until the onset of technology, climate also determined where people lived and worked. Many factors, such as topography, proximity to large bodies of water, and latitude affect a particular location's long-term climate. It is important to note that because a region's climatology is a 30-year average, significant year to year variability is likely. For example, a particular location may have a dry, warm winter one year and a record snowfall the next year.?
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A History of Panama City, 2002.
A discussion of the importance of Panama City to explorers since the 1500s until present times.
2,815 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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A look at the discovery of Panama and the beginnings of Panama City. The paper discusses how the city was strategically placed and how, with the canal, it has developed into an important metropolitan city of South America. History of the city since the 1500's is surveyed. The paper deals with the series of foreign rulers and explorers who controlled the city.
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"In 1501, Spanish explorer Rodrigo de Bastidas discovered Panama in South America, which soon became a major point of dispersal for Spanish conquest and settlement in the New World (Preston 47). But of much greater value to the colonizers at the time was the City of Panama, then the capital of Castilla del Oro (later renamed into the Isthmus of Panama), and discovered in 1519 by Pedro Arias de Avila. The Isthmus served as a passage of advantage to Spanish ships between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and between continents (Preston 46) in their sea exploration and conquest activities. Panama City?s importance derived exclusively from its control of that passage or route (Blouet 726) ? from the City, expeditions set out for the conquest of the Pacific side of Central America up to Nicaragua and that of the entire South American west coast up to Chile (Blouet 729)."
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City of Angels, 2001.
A look at the image of the city of Los Angeles.
2,265 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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This paper explores the nature of the City of the Angels looking at a very mixed bag of primary sources about the nature of commerce and the city. The paper also looks at how the city has been defined by the nature of 20th century and now 21st century capitalism. It also looks at the way the suburb has been defined by capitalism and the ways in which Los Angeles as a city that cannot exist or be understood in isolation, has also been defined by the economics of suburbs and by the ways in which the bright promise of a city on the edge of the continent becomes so easily tarnished.
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"We may borrow an opening line of a famous Russian novel and bend it to our own purposes, we might say that while every city is unhappy in its own ways, every suburb is unhappy in precisely the same way. This aphorism that we have just coined may help us to understand the history of the city of Los Angeles ? although the history of this great American city is in fact one of the most difficult of all urban histories to write. It is difficult to talk about the nature of this city because it is not exactly a city ? if one?s model of a city is a place like New York City that is. But it is also a difficult city to define and to describe if one is attempting to describe it as a suburb. For while in the popular imagination Los Angeles may be nothing more than a suburb (although one imagines that its reputation for being a suburb is one based, again, in East Coast sensibilities), it is not in fact a classic bedroom community. Los Angeles is both suburb and city, both Dream Factory and home, a city of significant and fascinating contradictions."
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Lebanon and Jordan, 2001.
A comparison of these two countries from historical, geographic, political and national points of view.
2,500 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper shows that even though Lebanon and Jordan are geographically neighbors, their current political and national positions are very different. Their similarities are discussed during Ancient Biblical times of foreign rule. Their present government and leaders are compared and their attitudes towards the politics in the region are analyzed - Israel-Palestine issues. Their levels of religions rule and the basic make up of their populations are also compared.
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"Although geographically Lebanon and Jordan exist in the same region, few similarities exist with the two countries, especially in recent history. A limited number of similarities go back to ancient and medieval times. Some general religious and cultural similarities also exist. The geographic features differ significantly. Their governmental structure also differs and therefore their laws and rights diverge. Twentieth century history, geographic features, and economic variances link together to create substantial differences."
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Paradise Fiji, 2001.
A look at how the Western ideals of a Pacific paradise have shaped many of these islands.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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This paper examines the ways in which Fiji has been reconfigured by the practices of tourism, the ways in which its biological and natural inheritance has ensured that at least for this one place on earth geography is destiny. The paper examines the demography of Fiji and its population make-up as well as provides a history of the island. It then discusses the effects that tourism has had on the population.
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"What does it mean to be a citizen of a small island in the South Pacific? That depends very much on whether one is looking at the problem from the inside or from the outside. While Sigmund Freud might have told us that biology is destiny, in fact it is fact far more probable that geography is destiny. We may see this especially in places like Fiji, which exist in the Western imagination as a place in which the Westerner can reinvent himself or herself. These are places like the Orient that Edward Said writes about, places that have been transformed in the view of the West by our own desires about them and the ways in which they can be useful to us. Places like Fiji can be seen, in significant ways, to be products of Western practices and ideals about colonialist prerogatives, with the only important difference being that while Western nations once conquered undeveloped, ?pristine? lands by force of arms, we now do so by force of the tourist dollar."
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American Population Change, 2009.
An analysis of American population changes in the last ten to twenty years.
1,709 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper analyses the changes that can be seen in the American population over the past twenty years. It uses US Census data to outline and analyse some of the key characteristics of the changing size, structure and distribution of the US population in the last ten to twenty years. It also briefly suggests reasons for these changes. The paper contains pictures, tables and graphs.
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"I thought it would be interesting to investigate if there is a difference between the number of males and females at certain ages. Figure 6 is a graph displaying a breakdown of the population by age and sex, and compares the 1990 figures with those from 2000. If we are to consider the male to female ratios, as well as the information in Figure 5 one notices that up to the age of 24 there are in fact more males than females. This is because more boys are born each year, and that through early childhood, and young adulthood boys continue to outnumber girls (US Census Bureau, 2001c). Conversely, at older ages, women outnumber men increasingly with age."
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Skin Color, 2009.
Investigates if sunlight is a factor in the geographical distribution of skin color.
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 21 sources, APA, $ 36.95
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This paper looks at how the the ozone, skin structure and sunburns affect complexion and pigmentation. A complex description of skin color based on the analysis of reflected light is presented in the paper. The writer warns that maps of geographical distribution of skin color should be interpreted with caution.
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"Sunburn ranges from mild discoloration to extreme blistering, depending on the time length and circumstances of exposure of UV light, and also the racial and individual characteristics of the person should be taken into consideration. The three basic responses are erythema, hyperplasia, and tanning. Erythema, the reddening of the skin, tends to appears a short time after a mild dose of erythemal sunlight and eventually fades away. The redden results from dilation of blood vessels in the dermis, which are reached by very little UV light."
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