world. The road network operated under federal jurisdiction covers 74,000km in length, while state and municipal jurisdiction roads cover 242,000km and 1.2 million kilometers respectively. The majority of Brazilian roads are unpaved, and paved roads constitute just 13% of the total road network. The country has 12 federal highways and 19 state highways. Around 83% of the federal highways and 50% of the state highways are paved, whereas most municipal roads are unpaved. The BR-101 highway, spanning
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power begins to shift, the latest defence White Paper released last Friday May 3, stated “the relationship between the United States and China, the region’s and the globe’s two most powerful states, will more than any other single factor determine our strategic environment over coming decades” (Probyn and Wright 2013). Drawing upon the Research Thesis of Yi Shen at the University of NSW, the aim of this essay is to examine the repercussions of the US-China strategic rivalry over Taiwan. In the event
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* * * Argumentative Essay * ___________________ * * A Paper * Presented to * ____________________ * * _______________ * ____ * * In Partial Fulfillment * of the Requirements for the Course * * * ___________________ * * by * * * * James Watt developed a steam-powered engine in the late 1700’s that used the pressure of super-heated water to create steam pressure. This pressure moved a slide piston that
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Characteristics and Diffusion of the Shantytown Protests: 1985-1990 1. In the research paper “The Student Divestment Movement in the United States and Tactical Diffusion: The Shantytown Protest”, by Sarah A. Soule of the University of Arizona, the focus was on a relatively recent phenomenon of how a single social movement organization could influence other organizations directly or indirectly. It all started in 1985 when news reports from South Africa swamped U.S. newspapers about their government-ordered
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1950’s, Newark’s people of color have endured unfortunate circumstance due to the change in the city’s government, poor housing, and troubles in the economy. With hopes to pursue a new life, many African American families migrated to the northern states with the thought of living a dream that guarantees a home, job and free education for their children. After escaping Jim Crow and his segregated laws, many African Americans soon had seen that battle was only half fought. An influx of poor, uneducated
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company from a small player in one city to a leading position as a national competitor and aimed at dominating the craft beer segment of the domestic beer industry. The company's three small-batch breweries. two in the Pacific Northwest and one in the Northeast, had a combined design capacity of 575.000 barrels (each containing 31 gallons) per year of Redhook branded beer to tap a growing market for craft beer. However, growth in the craft beer market attracted attention, and competition grew from other
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OF NEW YORK Natural History of New York New York State covers an area of 54,077 square miles (141,229 square km), 87% of which is land. Inland lakes and rivers cover 1,894 square miles (4,908 sq. km) and the State has jurisdiction over 981 sq. miles (2,541 sq. km) of the Atlantic Ocean as well as 3,988 square miles (10,329 sq. km) of the Great Lakes. Climate New York State lies in the humid temperate region of the northeastern United States. Average January temperatures range from 15.8 to 33
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introduced and run of 11 trains to be extended * Bullet train proposed on identified Mumbai–Ahmedabad sector * Increasing of speed of trains to 160–200 km/h in select 9 sectors * 23 projects underway in the Northeast; Rs 5,100 crore (US$ 853.8 million) allocated for Northeast projects * Diamond Quadrilateral network to connect major metros through High Speed Rails (HSR); funds worth Rs 100 crore (US$ 16.74 million) allocated for high speed project * 18 surveys for new lines, 10 for
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Story The North Carolina Executive Mansion, commonly called the Governor's Mansion, was built in the late nineteenth century on Blount Street in downtown Raleigh. The first inhabitant of the mansion was Governor Daniel G. Fowle. He only lived there for 3 months due to his death in April 1891. Before his death he did order the construction of a be to accommodate himself and one of his children who had a tendency of climbing into bed with him at night to sleep. The bed stayed in the mansion for over
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1 The Globalization of Thai Cuisine Sirijit Sunanta University of British Columbia, sirijit@interchange.ubc.ca Paper presented at the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies Conference, York University, Toronto, October 14-16, 2005 Introduction Globalization literature underscores the flows of people, information, technologies, capital and ideas across national borders (Appadurai 1996). The contact between cultures following these transnational flows has resulted in the widespread exchange
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