did nothing. 2. Q: It is impossible to objectively define nation. Why? Because in the objective definition of nation, nation is group people who speak the same language, have same religion, share the same history. But what about the countries like Swiss that have multiple language? So it cannot be defined objectively because of this conflict. 3. Q: What is cultural
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Gross National Product(2000 data, billion dollars) (product per capita in parentheses, thousand dollars) GDP Yearly Growth Rate Back to politics | Back to history | More statistics | Country | GNP | Per Capita | USA | $10,533 | $38 | Japan | $4,852 | $38 | Germany | $2,242 | $27 | Britain | $1,544 | $26 | France | $1,543 | $26 | China | $1,329 | $1 | Italy | $1,260 | $22 | Canada | $760 | $24 | Brazil | $715 | $4 | Spain | $651 | $16 | Mexico | $578 | $6 |
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million tons in the year 1971 when the country's population was only about 70.88 millions. However, the country is now producing about 25.0 million tons to feed her 135 million people. This indicates that the growth of rice production was much faster than the growth of population. This increased rice production has been possible largely due to the adoption of modern rice varieties on around 66% of the rice land which contributes to about 73% of the country's total rice production However, there is no
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The presences of various diseases among humankind have led to many philosophical, ideological, and theological perspectives and arguments on its causes. Notably, the Black Death in the West prompted an assortment of theories of and approaches to deadly diseases in response. The responses to the Black Death consisted of both positive and negative (but mostly negative) reactions to individuals afflicted with the plague. Furthermore, mass hysteria, religious persecution, superstitious practices, and
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erectus found in China is the so-called Peking Man discovered in 1965 Prehistory (cont.) Neolithic – – – – – – Stone Tools The Neolithic age traced back to 10,000 BC Early evidence for proto-Chinese millet agriculture is carbon-dated to about 7,000 BC Population was increased due to agriculture, the ability to store and redistribute crops and to support specialist craftsmen and administrators In late Neolithic times, the Yellow River valley began to establish itself as a culture center
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vaccinated? It is just a waste of time and money. I never got vaccinated before and never will.” That’s what one of my colleagues said when he was asked to get vaccinated during the outbreak of SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, few years ago in Mongolia. Then, I had reasoned him that disease comes all of a sudden and it is more serious than he thinks. As reported on CDC, Centers for Disease Control, 40 percent of all American parents were refusing one or more vaccines for their children (Willrich
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of 2008 bled into 2009, export-oriented industries suffered. Rumors had been buzzing since October that NDP was on the ropes. It was carrying so much debt that more than one analyst was asking "Will they go bust?" Was the financial crisis of 2008 about to claim another victim, or had friction between the global economic crisis and the company's debt ignited jittery nerves in the global markets? The Chairlady Cheung Yan, or Mrs Cheung as she preferred, was the visionary force behind NDP’s success
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lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old. Certainly
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------------------------------------------------- List based on Fearon's analysis[edit] In the Fearon list, cultural fractionalization is approximated by a measure of similarity between languages, varying from 1 = same language to 0 = languages that are completely unrelated.[3] This index of cultural diversity is biased towards linguistic variations as opposed to racial and other variations. Ethnic and Cultural diversity (2003)[3] | Ethnic Diversity Rank | Country | Ethnic Fractionalization
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(A) 64 44. (A) 1 6 + 5 – 10×4÷3=9 45. (B) South 46. (A) 47. (C) 40 48. (C) 51. (D) Illumination 52. (B) Tropical rain forests 53. (B) D i f l u o r o Dichloro Methane 54. (C) U n i v e r s a l brotherhood 55. (C) 4 inches 56. (C) Sweden 57. (D) Mongolia 58. (C) 40 lakhs 59. (B) R a g i n i Chander Sarkar 60. (C) Rauf 61. (D) Tonight This Savage Rite 62. (B) Sir Whittle Frank 70. (A) U.S.A 71. (C) Sindhi, Konkani, Manipuri, Nepali 72. (C) President of India - Rajya Sabha - Lok Sabha 73. (B) Aggradation
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