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    Impacts of Building the AswanDam Introduction At 4,132 miles, the Nile River is the largest river in the world. It has its origins in Burundi, south of the equator, and flows northward through Uganda and into Sudan eventually flowing through Egypt and finally draining into the Mediterranean Sea. From Lake Victoria (its major source) to the Mediterranean Sea the Nile's river basin has an area of more than 1,293,049 square miles as shown on map on page 2.

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    Nataly B Danino TOC Solution Individual Papers- The Goal 1. Alex Rogo, a plant manager and the main character of this book was facing different problems during his work at the plant. To begin with, orders were not delivered on time where shipping dates were not met (long lead time), which created many delays with customers‘ orders, as well as big amount of work in process inventory, high inventories, low throughput and so, the plant was neither productive nor profitable. While Alex was trying

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    INTRODUCTION The existence of Moses and his role in the early history of Israel is the subject of long-standing disputes. The first doubts about the historicity of Moses and the reliability of his life story surface the Middle Ages. At that time, a number of historians and biblical scholars argued that Moses was nothing but a mythological figure. They noted that the ancient written sources and archaeological sites did not contain any details about Moses. In the meantime, their opponents agreed

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    was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa located along the Nile River in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egypt was split into two sections, Upper and Lower Egypt. Lower Egypt covered the delta region where the Nile empties into the Mediterranean Sea. Upper Egypt stretched from the Nile’s first cataract to within a hundred miles of the Mediterranean Sea. The ancient Egyptians settled by the Nile River because its annual flooding provided them with the reliable, rich soil that

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    James Hansen found out what objects produced the most Carbon dioxide and why there was an increase in the amount used. The results showed that CO2 represented 50% of the fossil fuels emitted. The results also showed that the growth rate of CO2 doubled between the 1950’s and the 1970’s, but leveled out from the late 1970’s until the late 1990’s. (Ed Dlugokencky and Tom Conway) The graph shows which item released the most carbon in our atmosphere and coal was the leading producer up until about 1965

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    Vietnam 's Communist Party is now facing the political and social consequences of its decision to integrate the country with global capitalism. The Communist Party has been enforcing a campaign against what it considers “social evils” like prostitution and there is a strict new law to stop the exploitive adoption of Vietnamese babies by wealthy foreigners. Vietnam formally joined the World Trade Organization in 2007 and now has to change many of its laws and practices to comply with WTO rules.

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    between my fingers. As its sharp claws reach for my fingers, I drop it into a red sand pail. Inside the pail, the crabs that I caught earlier part to make way for the new arrival. In New England, my family and I have a choice between any number of beaches, all of them alive with life, from eels to mussels. However, the aquatic life on some beaches is threatened by human activity and development. In the Mississippi River delta, 13,000 square kilometers of ocean are in an Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ), as

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    `` Curse My Foolish Pride '

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    “Curse my foolish pride.” I spoke the words aloud as I sat on the bank of the great river, knowing full well there was no one around to hear me for miles. It was this fact that led to the utterance itself, as my pigheaded insistence on self-sufficiency and solitude had brought me to where I was: on a remote bank of the Mississippi River, with night falling and a strange snare around my ankle that was doing a remarkable job of keeping me in place. I was supposed to be on vacation, a sabbatical as

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    The Epic of Gilgamesh was the earliest surviving written epic that told story of Gilgamesh king of Uruk that was the world first cities that was built along the Tigris and Euphrates River 5,000 years ago. Aruru created the human race, Enkidu and a wild man who roamed the pasture like a gazelle. The epic of Gilgamesh goddesses and scared harlots wild men who cavort in the fields with the gazelles kings who are descended from gods. The Urban Revolution was recognize the elements of our own world by

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    the capital of Vietnam under the first emperor of the Ly Dynasty (1009–1225) who named it Thang Long (Rising Dragon). The city went several other name changes before finally becoming Hanoi, “the city amid waters,” owing to its location on the Red River Delta. In the 19th century when the country unified under the Nguyen Dynasty, the

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