Columbus's actions were historically significant, causing widespread change, and effectively doubling the size of the known world. ... Finally, for years, Columbus was considered to be, by historians (working primarily from historical documents created by Europeans), as well by the general (i.e. majority: white, euro-american) population, to be the great discoverer of the New world, the man who changed the way man looked at his world, creating a new global perspective, and opening the flood gates of European world domination. ...

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It is changing mortality and fertility rates, reducing lifespan, and ultimately affecting population growth. ... Children who are the victims of double orphan hood are often place an impossible financial and social burden on elderly grandparents. ...

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Some laws during this time were the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949, and the Population Registration Act of 1950 which made racial classification legal. ... Poverty rates among female African led households were 60% which is double that of male headed households. ...

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Of those participants with employees on shorter assignments, the average percentage of their expatriate population considered to be on short-term assignment is 15%. ... Ten years later, although the percentage paying for the expatriate and family remained relatively stable, those paying for the expatriate alone doubled (54%). ...

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