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TOPIC: THE NIGER DELTA STRUGGLES: ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR RESOURCE CONTROL. A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY The Niger Delta region, Nigeria 's oil belt has been the site of a generalized ethnic and regional struggle for self-determination since 1998, the location of often-violent confrontations between local ethnic communities and agents of the Nigerian state and oil companies involved in the extraction and exploitation of oil in the area. What began as community agitation

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WRITE! ANCIENT EGYPT Sources of the Nile P1- The Nile is the world’s longest river. It begins in Central Africa and flows about 3,500 miles north to the Mediterranean Sea. This great river has two main sources—the White Nile and the Blue Nile. The White Nile is the main stream. It flows out of Lake Victoria in East Africa. The Blue Nile rushes down from Lake Tana in the highlands of present-day Ethiopia. The two rivers meet at Khartoum, in the country now called Sudan. In ancient times, this land

The organization, American Red Cross, explains ways to treat water at home to reduce the contamination before usage. For example, some of the strategies are “(1) Filter the water using a piece of cloth or coffee filter to remove solid particles. (2) Heat the water until a boil” (redcross.org). The American Red Cross’ water treatment strategy helps nullify the chlorine in the water, but does not effectively solve the

concentrated in the southern regions, in particular the valleys of the Niger River and its tributaries. The flow of the Niger varies seasonally. High waters occur on the upper Niger from July to October, at the delta from September to November, and at the bend from December to January. Periodic floods provides much-needed fertile agricultural soil along its banks. The soils outside the Niger valley in are poor and shallow and form a hard, red crust

State Park Designated Wild Areas). Indian Creek Wild Area occupies 526.1 ha of land within the park (Missouri State Park Designated Wild Areas). The park itself is located east, off Highway 177 and west from the Mississippi River. The park sits parallel to the Mississippi River. The wild area is in the northern hemisphere of the park, just above Vancil Hollow and contains numerous hiking trails that run through the it. The woodlands of Indian Creek Wild Area are composed mostly of Liriodendron tulipifera

Buddhism in Vietnam The Vietnamese people have said to have first appeared in the Christian era, because the religion that was first adapted was Christianity. This would explain why the Vietnamese people are such religious people. But it does not really explain there major religion change to Buddhism, because Buddhism is really not a religion that is native to Vietnam. Buddhism my be one of the most known religions in the world by name, but not by what is actually involved in it. Christine

The South as Defined by the Crops Grown Within the Plantation System John Shelton Reed asked, “"The South: Where is it? What is it?" (Reed 1994, 5). This paper will define the American South by the crops grown within the plantation system from the American Colonial period through the end of the antebellum period. The South has been an economically distinctive region reflected by the historic dominance of the plantation system. For this paper, the crops grown within the plantation system include

States Department of State publication, says that the country is 434,964 square kilometers. Geographers divide the country up into four main zones. The First zone, is the desert areas which are located in the west and southwest of the Euphrates river. It’s part of the Syrian desert, which also covers parts of Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The region, thinly dispersed by pastoral nomads has a wide stony plain with rare sandy stretches. There is a very stretched out form of wadis from the border

OF AMERICA AFFECT THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER REGION OVER THE PAST 100 YEARS? THIAGO SAWAN   CONTENTS PAGE 2 - Introduction to the Mississippi River 3 - Part A PART A RATIONALE FOR STUDYING THIS PARTICULAR WATERWAY The Mississippi River itself produces almost all of the United States’ farming exports and it also produces $54 billion each year. The River also is one of the largest river systems in the world when connected with the Missouri River, spanning a massive 6275 kilometers