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The capital of my country is Quito. Quiot is the largest political part of Ecuador. This is located on the equator in north-central Ecuador, it has the second largest population. Guayaquil has the largest population in Ecuador, and is located near the southern border. Another very popular place in Ecuador is Cotopaxi. It is the second highest mountain peak and is also a beautiful snow covered volcano. It is located very near to the capital and is awesome day trip to be able to explore and see the
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Communism, just the mention if the word brings fear to the heart. Thoughts of dictatorship, control, persecution, and socialism fill the mind. Communism ruled the eastern half of Europe for about seventy years. Westerners wondered what really was taking place in the region. The Iron Curtain separated the eastern half of the continent from the rest of the world. A war for power and control was taking place. Socialism was drilled into the inhabitants of the dictator controlled countries. But, in 1991
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------------------------------------------------- Free Trade Area of the Americas From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Free Trade Area of the Americas logo The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) (Spanish: Área de Libre Comercio de América [ALCA], French: Zone de libre-échange de Amérique [ZLÉA],Portuguese: Área de Livre Comércio das Américas [ALCA], Dutch: Vrijhandelszone van Amerika) was a proposed agreement to eliminate or reduce the trade barriers among all countries in the Americas excluding Cuba
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VENEZUELA The country I’m doing my project on is Venezuela. The capital of Venezuela is Caracas. The flag consists of three horizontal bands of yellow, blue and red with the coat of arms and an arc of eight white stars in the center of the blue band. Venezuela’s national anthem is Himno Nacional. It is located in the northern coast of South America. Venezuela is really not too large. It covers an area of 352,144 square miles. The area occupied by Venezuela is slightly more
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Panama - The city's semi-official history - A History of Panama City, put out by the Panama City Public Library [5] - gives an account of how it gained its name: The original name of the town was Harrison. Its developer, George Mortimer West, gave the town its present name because it was on a direct line between Chicago and Panama City, Panama, in Central America. The name change took place during the building of the Panama Canal, as a way to link the area to an ongoing media interest, in hopes of
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critics have accused him of being a dictator whose authoritarian administration has overseen multiple human rights abuses. Nonetheless, he has had a significant influence on the politics of a number of other world leaders, namely Nelson Mandela, Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales, and he is widely idolized by many leftists, socialists and anti-imperialists across the world In turn, U.S. –cancelled agreements to buy Cuban sugar Cuba retaliated by seizing U.S. oil Refineries Oil companies refused to supply
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Oil was the main source of GDP growth in Venezuela when the economy started to stagnate. Not all of Venezuela’s economic change came from oil however; the country still is undergoing heavy change as a result of politics and the current president Hugo Chavez. Brazil’s large economy is one that overshadows many of the smaller South American economies, with a population of 194 million people and a GDP per capita of $11,239. Not only is this economy growing, the population is as well at a rate of .86%
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Samantha Caulder Assignment 6 The Year of the Shark and Other Fairy Tales the News Groups Told Me It is impossible to tell what would really be the greatest story to be followed by news groups in any year where there is little of earth shattering news; the indications are that many of the old standbys would dominate the news. It seemed that terror seemed to dominate the news before and after 9/11. During the news cycles during the year 2001, the same recurring themes seemed to dominate
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“ENDO” (Isa sa MGA SALITA NG TAON 2014 na pinili SA SAWIKAAN) nina John Kelvin R. Briones(Nagtapos ng Bachelor in Secondary Education, major in English sa Bulacan State University (BulSU); kasalukuyang nagtuturo at koordineytor ng Filipino sa Iluminada Roxas-Mendoza Memorial High School, sa Bocaue, Bulacan; part-time English instructor sa BulSU; kumukuha ng Master sa Sining ng Araling Filipino sa De La Salle University-Manila bilang isang iskolar; nagwagi ng Ikatlong Gantimpala sa Gawad KWF
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