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Australian Aborigines: Domestic Life, Kinship, and Marriage
Australia
Marriage
Introduction Aborigines or indigenous Australians were the first inhabitants of Australia. The distinct differences between settlers and aborigines have led to many misunderstandings in their customs especially in the early years of settlement. Since aborigines were widely dispersed, did not have a homogenous entity and had only spoken language this led some to wrongly…
Hsu Hua “The End of White America”
America
Hua Hsu, a professor in the English Department at Vassar College and author of “The End of White America”, is well-known for his writings on music, sports, and culture. He has contributed articles to magazines such as The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. In his article titled “The…
Current Native American Issues: The Mohawk tribe
America
Native American
Mohawk is one Native American Tribe. It is a part of The Iroquois league. The name Mohawk comes from the Algonquin, which means the man-eaters, but Mohawkians in their language refer to themselves as Kanien’kehake which means-‘people of the flint’. Sometimes they are even called as Haudenosaunee because of their houses and it means “people…
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Sample
Government
International Relations
Mexico
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. which came into consequence on 2 February 1848. ended the Mexican-American war and officially resolved territorial differences ensuing from that struggle. The pact required the U. S. authorities to pay the Mexican authorities $ 15 million dollars. this in return for an sweep of district that subsequently became the provinces…
Australia’s Banking Industry: General
Australia
Australia’s Banking Industry >3 Australia ranked fifth amongst the world’s leading financial systems and capital markets in the 2010 World Economic Forum Financial Development report. Executive Summary Australia has a strong, profitable, sophisticated and well regulated banking sector which is welcoming of new entrants and increasingly engaged in regional and global markets. The financial sector…
Cultural Contrast Between China and Europe
China
Cultural Contrast between China and Europe When speaking about culture, we can simply find significantly differences among every countries. Culture enables people to find a group or other individuals who have the same values and beliefs. So different countries have different cultural backgrounds based on their own beliefs, in which people display many styles of…
Global Warming, Man Made, or the Earths Natural Cycle
Global Warming
Greenhouse effect
Since the first of the year 2010, there have been approximately twenty volcano eruptions or volcanic activity all over the world. (Rajai’s) Pretty alarming when you think about it, so why the increase in these natural occurring events? Alarmist would have you believe that a lot of the increase in global events like hurricanes, volcanic…
No Increase by Natural Means on Caribbean Slave Plantations
Caribbean
Malnutrition
Explain why the Caribbean slave population generally did not increase by natural means. The Caribbean slave population before the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, was one that experienced significant and extensive demographic changes whereby said population may have moved from a ratio of more men to women or vice versa, or grew or…
Influence of Chinese Communist Party on PRC
Chinese
Administratively, The People’s Republic of China is made up of twenty-two provinces, five autonomous regions, and four centrally administered cities, and one Special Administrative Region. The PRC is one of only a few countries in the world that is still a Communist party-state. This is a political system which the ruling Communist Party holds a…
Waste Disposal: Case of Russia
Environmental Issues
Nature
Waste
With the current trends surrounding nuclear buildup and development, there has been a ballooning issue that needs to be addressed accordingly – proper nuclear waste disposal. The failure or lack of interest in creating solutions can create dramatic effects not only to human beings but the whole environmental system. Though the long term consequences…
| theme | The five themes of geography are location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region. | 
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| description | Geography is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth and planets. The first person to use the word γεωγραφία was Eratosthenes. | 
| quotations | Geography has made us neighbors. History is not everything, but it is a starting point. Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries. There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.  | 
| information | Importance: Geography can help us understand the planet’s movement, changes, and systems. Topics that are relevant to today such as climate change, water availability, natural resources, and more are much easier understood by those who know geography well.,  |