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    Headline: After 5-day medical trip, Sumatra man re-discovers the wonders of pain-free living. Sub-head: After years of excruciating back pain and countless doctor visits, 70-year-old Sumatra native Mr. Antonius had lost hope. But thanks to a helpful cousin and an expert spinal surgeon in Bangkok, he is home again celebrating each moment of his new life without pain. Five years of debilitating back paiedicoh visits to doctors near home and abroad with little to show but a few days of temporary

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    The 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami was an horrific natural disaster. On Sunday 26th of December 2004 at 7.58 am local time there was an earthquake of a massive magnitude 9 on the Richter scale. The earthquake struck off the northern tip of Sumatra in Indonesia. It was the result of the Indio-Australian Plate subducting below the Eurasian Plate. Indonesia was hit by the tsunami first. Forty-five minutes later it reached Thailand. The tsunami caused devastation in coastal communities in Indonesia and eleven

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    Tsunami Research Paper

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    numerous, they ranged from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Maldives, Malaysia, Madagascar, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa. The Indonesia deaths tolled over 130 thousand, mainly in the northern province of Aceh of the island of Sumatra. Some 37,000 people are still said to be missing. Sri Lanka was less affected, and only saw casualties of 31,229, and 4,093 people missing. Also, one and half million-people lost their homes, and many orphaned or separated from their families. Death

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    Even in the most difficult conflicts, we are never without hope “The war is over. Once more we can be friends.” Is what the women in the Sumatra camp in the movie ‘Paradise Road’ thought they would never live to hear. Though they were in the presence of conflict, distress, and pure evil for such a long time, a majority of them never lost hope even in the most difficult conflicts and lived to see the day when they were finally set free. Whilst some characters such as Rosemary, whom was confronted

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    affected by climatic fluctuations and biogeographic processes during the Plestocene epoch. II. Distribution a. Current Distribution Today, contiguous distributions can be found throughout southern Asia, far east Russia, and the Sunda islands of Sumatra, and Java (figure 1). It is widely agreed that the evolutionary history and distribution of tigers and other fauna endemic to Asia is largely dominated by glacial cycles during the late Pleistocene epoch. An examination of environmental conditions

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    A description of the following for the 3 countries or geographic regions within countries you identified and based on your research findings: – Economic conditions within the international markets, as well as expenditure on the products or services the company provides and trends in use of such products or services; Selected overseas countries Economic conditions Overseas country 1: Indonesia GDP: 4.02 % by the end of this quarter National currency:Rupiah Local currency to Australian Dollar

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    In the eighteenth Century, travel writing was normally known as the book of voyages, which chiefly comprised of oceanic journals. In eighteenth century Britain, every well known author worked in the travel writing structure. A portion of the aclaimed books of eighteenth century are A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea by George Shelvocke , Journal of a voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding, Travels through France and Italy by Tobias Smollett, A Sentimental Journey Through France and

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    damage could have been reduced. From the case study above we can see that human influences were the main cause in the severity of the impact, but that’s not always the case, physical factors are just as important. This can be seen in the great Sumatra- Andaman earthquake which took place on the 26th of December 2004 and registered a 9.1 magnitude, one of the third biggest recorded quakes. The subduction of the Indo-Australian plate under the Burma plate triggered the tsunami responsible for the

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    The Forgotten One Pangolins are scaled anteaters which originate from Africa and Southeast Asia, especially from Sumatra, Indonesia (Foley, 2014). They are special creatures which are blessed with perfect self-defense systems to survive in the wild. They do not have any potential threats in their habitats. When they feel threatened, they will roll their bodies into scale-covered balls (Goswami, 2014). Even the mighty lions and tigers will think twice before trying to attack them. However, there

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    Natural Disasters Essay

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    disasters have hurt us today. We have types of earthquakes that can destroy a whole city and way more. We have had ocean earthquakes that shook and had a moment magnitude of 9.1 to 9.3 and maximum mercalli intensity that was on the west coast of sumatra indonesia. We have had volcanos that have erupted 12 times in one hour it is called the fuego volcano eruption. That is just

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