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    The Amazon rainforest is the biggest tropical rainforest in the world. Ddo you know what the Native Amazonians want? They wanted to continue their traditional way of life. The Native Amazonians came to the rainforest in 1960. Also, -did you know that the rainforests cover about 6 percent of the Eearth’s surface. A thousand years ago rainforests covered 12 percent of Eearth’s surface. Loggers,Rubber trappers,Settlers and Cattle Ranchers came to the Amazon rainforest in the 1960s. Men in

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    Bubonic Plague In London 1665 the Bubonic Plague killed over 17,000 people in one year that is almost 20% of the population. The disease affects the immune system mainly. Once the body catches this disease there will be many horrible symptoms. The disease is caused by a bacteria called Yersinia Pestis the function of the bacteria is the disease Bubonic Plague. The Yersinia Pestis in a bacteria that affects the immune system. The immune system is made up of T Lymphocytes and B Lymphocytes or

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    continent. The Inca Civilization lasted for less than a century. After settling in modern day Peru in about 1300. The Incas started to build their capital and empire. Unknown to the settlers the empire would cover most of the present day; Peru, Chile, Bolivia, north west Argentina and Ecuador. The Aztecs were located in modern day Mexico. Their original civilisation was formed on the island of Lake Texcoco. Their “triple alliance” was formed in 1428, of the three cities on the Lake (Tenochtitlan, Texcoco

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    2016). Poverty levels in South America are also very high. Woman in rural areas in South America are make up a big amount of the poorest of the poor (IFAD, 2009). The poorest people are the “Indigenous peasant communities in remote mountain areas in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador” (IFAD, 2009). Recent economic crisis has led to

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    The continent South America was first discovered by Christopher Columbus in the year 1498. This continent is situated west to Atlantic Ocean, east to Pacific Ocean, south to North America and north to Antarctica. South America, countries of Central America, Mexico and Caribbean islands are together known as Latin America. The Panama Canal links the Atlantic ocean and the Pacific ocean. South America task the longest mountain range, the Andes in the world. Amazon is the largest river of the world

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    The Amazon forest is a vast region that occupies through eight developing countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas territory of France. This landscape contains 1.4 billion acres of dense forests, half of the planet's tropical forests, 4,100 miles of winding rivers. The Brazilian Amazon is home to 40% of the world's tropical forest and one of the most bio diverse regions on the planet. About 54% of the area is under environmental

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    RESPONSE SURFACE OPTIMIZATION OF TREATED TURBID WATER USING BANANA STEM JUICE. J. C. Agunwamba1 M. I. Aho2, M. B. Iorwua3 and M. T.Tiza4 1Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. nwambaagu@yahoo.com 2Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria. aho_ped@yahoo.com 3Post-Graduate student, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria. iorwuabemmichael@gmail.com 4Post-Graduate student

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    Neoliberalism gained prominence in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s, and was organised around promoting laissez-faire principles of the free market (Harvey, 2005, pp.7). In Venezuela, neoliberal supporters Carlos Andrés Pérez and Rafael Caldera implemented widespread privatisation and deregulation, notably of the hydrocarbon industry (Ellner, 2008, pp.92), plus eroded the welfare state and social services (Meltzer, 2009, pp.90), resulting in a socio-economic crisis leaving 54% of Venezuelans

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    The History Of Argentina

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    “May 25 is the Argentine national holiday.” (Ebscohost.com). Countries Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay each claimed their own paths, and left an area, which became known as Argentina. Argentina had a lot of corrupt leaders, and even had one to cause a food riot. Some leaders in Argentina saw a repeat in history, so they changed

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    and Lowe’s discovery that lithium, the medication keeping her lucid, weakens her liver. In an effort to say goodbye to the medication, that she must give up for the sake of preventing liver failure, Lowe travels to the Salar de Uyuni salt flats of Bolivia. Photographs of Salar de Uyuni splice the article to create a beautiful and melancholy

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