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Chacha Nehru Biography
Government
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as India’s first independent Prime Minister in 1947, and re-elected when the Congress party won India’s first general election in 1951. He was one of the founders of the international Non-Aligned Movement. The son of moderate nationalist leader and Congressman Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru…
Once Upon a Time in Kolkata
Once Upon a Time
Thailand
West Bengal as I was interested in only north India and Restaurants and that time I wasn’t obviously interested in Kola at all. When I said that I’ll go to Kola, seems like Thai people hardly know about this city. The first thing that comes to their mind when Thai people think about India will…
Its more fun in the Philippines
Philippines
Introduction: In January 2012, the Department of Tourism introduced a new slogan for the Philippines: “It’s more fun in the Philippines.” The purpose of this slogan was to increase awareness among both locals and tourists about the beauty of the country. This led to comparisons with the previous slogan, “Pilipinas kay Ganda,” and its effectiveness…
Byssus – Sea Silk
Sea
Byssus means both a silky filament by which certain molluscs attach themselves to hard surfaces, and a rare fabric, also called sea silk and its fibre source. The English term byssus or bissus (plural byssuses or byssi) originated in John Trevisa’s translation (1398) of Bartholomeus Anglicus’s Latin On the Properties of Things (1240), referring to…
Stars from Scientific Point of View
Chemistry
Star
Sun
STARSA star is a large celestial body composed of gravitationally contained hot gases giving off electromagnetic radiation, especially light. The sun is actually a star. Unlike the sun the stars seem to be fixed, but in fact stars are in rapid motion, but their distances are so great no relative changes can be seen with…
Gap Analysis of the Royal Bank of Canada
Canada
The service I will choose is personal banking, specifically the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). I have been using RBC since I was a teenager, as it is the same bank my parents use. Like many banks, there is a customer gap between expectations and perceptions. As the largest bank in Canada, it would be…
“The Parable of the Sadhu”: Personal Interests or the Good of Others?
Ethics
Mountains
The Parable of the Sadhu tells the story of hikers who find a nearly lifeless Sadhu in the Himalayan Mountains. The group is made up of Americans, New Zealanders, Swiss, Japanese, Porters, and Sherpas all striving to reach the summit of an 18,000-foot mountain. While climbing, the New Zealanders come across the Sadhu and initially…
The Rise of Bureaucratic Authoritarianism in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil and Chile
Bureaucracy
Latin America
The Rise of Bureaucratic Authoritarianism in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil and Chile Economic Crisis The populist policies with which the Latin American countries of Argentina, Chile and Brazil had been experimenting during the decades leading up to the 1960’s held apparent benefits for the robust working class population that they contained (O’Donnell). While the working…
African-American Struggle
Africa
African American
The African-American Story In 1619, twenty Africans were brought to Virginia and forced into slavery. By 1790, there were 700,000 slaves in the United States and in the 1800s, African-American slaves were 40% of the Southern part of America (Brunner). Africans were not slaves before they were brought to America. They were kidnapped and shipped…
Philippines Gay Mostly Stereotyped as Effeminate, Crossdressers, Hairdressers
Philippines
“In the Philippines, the term gay has been used loosely to include homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals, crossdressers, and effeminate men. Filipino gays are mostly stereotyped as effeminate, crossdressers, hairdressers, camp and ridiculed. Bakla or Bading, a derogatory Filipino word for gay, is commonly used. Tibo or tomboy has a similar function, and refers to lesbians, usually…
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., |