Unlike most African colonies, the South African colony became the Union of South African in 1910 and was internally self-governed. ... World War II led to increased industrialization in South Africa. ... In 1950, the National Party introduced the Group Areas Act, which allocated separate living areas for Coloureds , East Indians, and black Africans. Coloureds and East Indians were permitted to own land in urban areas but this land was separate from the white areas and was usually located in the slums or the worst areas of cities. Black Africans across South Africa were relocated onto nat...

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He was most effective in creating interest by awakening Victorian morality concerning the still active slave trade occurring in east Africa. ... France was moving east from Senegal. Germany gained control of Togoland and The Cameroons just to the south. ... Salisbury spent much of his time hyping this idea and in the process found McKinnon and his British East Africa Company. The British East Africa Company seemed like the perfect way to establish a British presence in the regions of Uganda and Kenya. ...

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In the early nineteenth century in an attempt to protect imperial interest in the East, England extended her control of southern Africa. ... In their eyes an independent English-speaking South Africa would be intolerable. ... Germany and France had territories in South-West Africa and Madagascar. ... After the Napoleonic wars Britain gained possession of the colony in South Africa. ... Sir Alfred Milner issued orders to build up the British army in South Africa. ...

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The primary drugs of choice by smugglers were cocaine, from South America, heroin, from Asia and the Middle East, and more recently methamphetamines, which are domestically brewed. ... There are several factors that made West Africa a prime region as an intermediate between South America and Europe. The first factor is the geographic location of West Africa, which lies in between South America and Europe and directly on the 10th parallel4. The 10th parallel, or "Highway 10", is the shortest route from South America to Africa. ... " In recent years, South American traffickers h...

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The Enslavement of Africans But why were the slaves always African? ... But the central question of which peoples from Africa went to a given region of the Americas, and which group of Europeans or their descendants organized such a movement cannot be answered without an understanding of the wind and ocean currents of the North and South Atlantic. There are two systems of wind and ocean currents in the North and South Atlantic that follow the pattern of giant wheels - one lies north of the equator turns clockwise, while its counterpart to the south turns counterclockwise. ... Winds and cu...

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Equatorial air rises and, deflected, falls back to the surface in temperate latitudes, where it then flows toward the east. ... Current gyres carry cold water toward the equator on east sides of the oceans, warm water to higher latitudes on the west sides. ... Vegetation patterns are responsive to the interaction of temperature (latitudinal and altitudinal gradients) and precipitation (more complex, often longitudinal gradients because of the east-west tendency of the winds, as well as well-defined latitudinal ones) patterns. ...

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2001How Great Britain won the Boer War in South Africa in 1902 On October 11, 1899, the forces of the Boer republics, Orange Free State and South African Republic, responded to Great Britain's dismissal of an ultimatum against the placement and reinforcing of British troops in South Africa by laying siege to cities in northern Cape Colony occupied by the then outnumbered British troops. ... Fleming 02 In September of 1899 the British dispatched military units to South Africa to reinforce those already in Cape Colony, to the south, and Natal, to the east of The South African Republic and t...

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The essay will focus on the exploitation of West Africa into the illicit drug trade. ... It also handles the revenue derived from the illegal commerce and repatriates the cash (South). ... The global north and the global south both participate in such criminal acts, yet the global south has been constantly targeted and victimized with an outcome effecting the entirety of the state. ... An increase in unemployment and poverty is one of many factors towards the consequences of globalization in the Global South. ... Globalization exploits LDC, as the dependency theory would argue that the Glo...

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However, the completion of the Mass Media Complex, while providing a level of production facilities for radio and television which were among the best in Africa, only began a longer term process which would ultimately allow information to pass freely throughout the country, especially into the heart of its rural communities. ... CHAPTER THREE: is devoted to discussing the development of radio in Northern Rhodesia after the Second World War and how the Colonial Government used the medium to 'socialize' the Africans. ... One of Africa's leading critics and theorists of the mass ...

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The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is South Africa's national public broadcaster with a strategic purpose of broadcasting for the total empowerment of its citizens. ... Sabc 1 for example targets the "NOW GENERATION", which is young South Africans who are highly materialistic and full of aspirations; they are highly fast paced and greatly influenced by advertising, they are often first to try out new things and love variety and choice. ... The broadcasting regions include KwaZulu -Natal, Gauteng, the north east of the Eastern Cape and some parts of the North-We...

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Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. ... Nowhere was this trend more evident than in the region of South-east Asia, where the Japanese occupation, even if it achieved nothing else, destroyed the myth of white supremacy for good and all. ... (Tonkin Annam and Cochin China were regions in the North, Central and South Vietnam. ... Bao Dai was another figure on the political scene in the South. ... A number of Viet Minh remained in the Sout...

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This phenomenon is called interdependency; and an example of interdependency would be when East Asian countries faced the Asian Financial Crisis altogether beginning in 1997, making the situations even worse because all the neighboring countries were economically suffering. ... Globalization in South Korea can be a challenge. ... South Korea has been a pro-Western nation, embracing many aspects about American political ideologies; also, South Korea followed many aspects of Chinese education system. ... Graph of South Korea's annual export from 1971 to 2007. ... Many nations, especially in...

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Lack of drinking water is at a very critical level in the region of Near East and Northern Africa, where about 5% of the world population lives, however, there is only 1% of the world drinking water supply available. ... Gleick (2006) that covers the time period from ancient times until 2006, first conflicts caused by rivalry over control of freshwater resources arose in ancient times, particularly, in the area of Near East. ... From the geographical point of view we can set aside many problem regions (especially Near East, Northern Africa and South Asia) with a high conflict potential. ...

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It lies on the European continental shelf and to the Northwest of continental Europe and East of Ireland. It is separated from the continent by the North sea and by the England channel, which narrows to 34km ( 21mi) at the straits of Dover.It stretches over about ten degrees of latitude on its longer, north-south axis, and occupies an area of 209,331km2 (80,823 sq. mi) excluding all the smaller surrounding islands of archipelago. ... The island is physically connected with continental Europe via the channel tunnel, the longest undersea rail tunnel in the world which was completed in 1993.geogr...

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She was said to be the first African-American woman to deliver a public speech. ... Eventually, women were moving westward in hopes of finding greater freedom in contrast to the East. The excruciating 2,200-mile trail from the East to Oregon was one of many hardships and fatalit...

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She was said to be the first African-American woman to deliver a public speech. ... Eventually, women were moving westward in hopes of finding greater freedom in contrast to the East. The excruciating 2,200-mile trail from the East to Oregon was one of many hardships and f...

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Located in the North African Maghreb region, where ninety percent of the country is covered by desert, the Kingdom of Libya can be found. ... This discontent grew with the rise of Arab nationalism throughout North Africa and the Middle East (CIA). ... As David Lamb writes in The Arabs, "Gaddafi has been accused of mining the Red Sea, plotting the assassination of the heads of state of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Saudi Arabia, planning the capture of the Grand mosque in Mecca, calling on African Americans in the United States Army to revolt, killing a score of Lib...

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Somewhere around 1996 and 2006-07 kid hunger, diminished from 22.2% to around 5.9% in north east Brazil (Sachs and McArthur, 2005). But the countries who are not working on the goals will cause numerous people to live undernourishment, basically these circumstance is related with the absence of natural resources, these realities are showed in numerous poorest nations such in Timor-Leste, Yemen, Sub Sahara, Africa, Asia and other regions who are living under the situation of absence of natural resources and not having sufficiently food, water is not cleaned which causes diseases like malaria a...

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The issue was essentially East vs. ... The cold war rivalries between East and West have diminished and flight from targeted political persecution has substantially waned. ... The kind of flight we have today is more a function of the differences between North and South, the haves and the have-nots. ... Further, owing to climate related resource conflict and the widening gulf between North and South, mass flight is going to be a growing part of the international landscape for the foreseeable future. ... The Global immigration is no longer a divide between the North and the South or a one-way ...

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Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. ... One factor in this might be that the energy security issue as a whole is not as attractive to writers as other topical subjects as the former energy commissioner of EU Andris Piebalgs says: "They tend to forget or fail to appreciate the importance of energy and mutual future security issues even though they are at the forefront of the new European security agenda. " One other reason for thi...

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Very few exceptionally tall buildings are located in this area; mostly five or six story, narrow brick buildings with a longer east to west diameter than north to south, making each storefront quite narrow and seem as though one is intimately connected to the other. ... A few homeless people also are taking up space near the basketball court to the east of Mulberry. ... The area I am now standing in was known as the Sixth Ward in the early 19th century, which was encompassed by West Street to the west, Reade Street to the south, Canal Street to the north and Broadway to the east1. ...

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Industrial countries charge on average 1 per cent on their sales to other industrial countries while exporters from South Asia pay 8 per cent. ... The yearly subsidy the US gives just to American cotton farmers is three times its total aid to Africa. From 2001 to 2002, the US granted its cotton farmers $3 billion in subsidies, more than the entire economic output of Burkina Faso, just one poor African nation. ...

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Introduction In the aftermath of the financial crisis in Mexico in 1994-95, followed in 1997-99 by a succession of crises affecting countries in South-East Asia, Korea, Russia and Brazil a world-wide debate on the operations of the IMF and its future role has been underway. ...

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I. Introduction The concept of "failed states " has long occupied a considerable place in international security and has been a topic of discussion and arguments (Call 2008). Although this concept has existed for decades, until the historical attacks of September 11th did it come to prominence and s...

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An important topic in international politics today is if Iraq has the ability to politically succeed. Judging by their present democratic and military standing; Iraq seems to be headed in the wrong direction. The westernized view of political success or democracy is still in reach but Iraqi citizens must overcome a number of problems before it can be effectively achieved. Although a political transformation to a westernized style of democracy may never be fully accomplishable because of the differing culture and social norms, Iraqi citizens still must strive for their government to conquer the...

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