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The urban history of Latin America predates the arrival of the first europeans. Amerindian peoples established urbanbased societies whose origins date to about 3000 B.C. These ultimately included both city-states and extensive empires. Amerindian populations, through tribute and forced labor, provided a critical resource during the conquest and early colonial period. The Spaniards and their…

Introduction. In face of the crisis in energy security, environmental contamination, climate change, energy saving and carbon emission reduction have become the top concerns of the whole human world. To address those concerns, renewable energy and energy efficiency are the two fields that are currently being tackled closely by many countries all over the world….

In 1986, Tony Wang was Vice President of the Southeast Asia division of KFC. He had an opportunity of bringing the world’s largest chicken restaurant company into the world’s largest populated country. Wang was an experienced entrepreneur and had been working for KFC for seven years. No other fast food companies were currently operating in…

Executive Summary Argentina had one of the most fast growing economies at the end of the century, but the huge amount of foreign debt interest payments and other factors made the government pegged the peso to US dollar in 1991 and limit the growth of money supply. That helped to decrease the inflation and increase…

            The United States of America has an extensive and colorful history as a nation.  Consequently, Americans as a people also have a long and rich history to speak of.  The American community consists of many different groups of people, people who have contributed to the unfinished story that defined and continues to define the…

The United States wanted to prevent hostility, so they tried to get the Indians to agree to living on reservations instead of on their homelands. For the rest of the following century they struggled to force the Indians to accept it, they failed to do so in the end and were forced to more desperate…

“As nature made him: The boy who was raised as a girl” was written by John Colapinto in 2001. The book is a gripping tale of the traumatic consequences of a medical disaster in 1967, following an infant boy; one of an identical twin’s set who went through a failed circumcision. On August 22, 1965,…

Civil Society refers to non-state organizations that chiefly seek to advance the interest of the people. It is generally understood in Hegelian terms as the distinct sphere of public space, separate from the state which manages the social relations and communication between the state and the citizens. CICS action across sub-Sahara Africa became dense and…

Despite the various versions, all legends about Sampolac Lake in San Pablo revolve around a common idea: the lake is named after a massive tamarind tree called sampolac. Long ago, a rich couple owned a bountiful orchard filled with delicious tamarind trees. One beautiful day, a fairy disguised as an old and weak woman came…

BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS Tata was born in Paris, France, the second child of Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (Parsi) and his French wife, Suzanne “Sooni” Briere. J. R. D. was an interesting product of two continents. He was educated in France, Japan and England before being drafted into the French army and assigned to a regiment…