Altaic Languages, family of languages spoken in a vast area of Eurasia, extending from Turkey in the west to the Sea of Okhotsk in the east. ... The latter is the official language of Ethiopia, spoken by Coptic Christians and Hebrew is basically the language of the Old Testament. ... If a man traveled out of his own tribal area, he was likely to find that the local inhabitants could not understand a word he said. ...

• Word Count: 1183
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Arms control is arguably one of the most prominent issues every nation of the world has to deal with, this is because every man woman and child on the planet may potentially be affected by the arms another country posses. ...

• Word Count: 2631
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Here there are no borders to divide fresh water from salt, river from sea, even land from water. For hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers, snakes and the crocodiles who rule these fragmented islands. ... It was at this stage of his life, in the late 1970s, he accidentally came across Kusum, now a widow with a five year old son named Fokir. ...

• Word Count: 3979
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate