Forming part of the Great Rift Valley of Africa, it rises just over the Lebanese border and continues the entire length of Jordan form the Syrian border in the north, past the salty depression of the Dead Sea, and south down to Aqaba and the Red Sea. ... The government was aggravated for a solution so they suspend negotiations and forced a stop payment on their national debts to the world. ... It also relies very heavily on foreign aid, and has on of the highest foreign debts per capita in the world about 100% of the gross domestic product (GDP). ... Phosphate mining, carried out from vast res...

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If Israel was to give into to the demands of the Arab world, there would be no Israel on the map of the world. ... Syria gains control of the Golan Heights it controls the Sea Galilee and can fire mortar shells on to Jewish villages at the bottom of the Golan Heights. ... The Arab world also wants the right of return of Palestinian refuges. ... The land for peace is an illusion the world hopes can work out. ... If the world expects Israel to give up land that is rightfully hers. ...

• Word Count: 1400
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• Grade Level: High School

Geography Palestine is an area in the eastern Mediterranean region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea in Asia. ... This region has a strategic location between Jordan in the east, Lebanon and part of modern Israel to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, and Negev and Gulf of Aqaba to the South. ... In 1516, The Ottoman Empire defeated the Mamluk armies and they controlled the area until their defeat in World War I. ...

• Word Count: 2254
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While working with Nasser, Sadat learned the game of building up a nation in a world with superpower rivals. Egypt eventually became the leading "non-aligned" country in the world and voiced through Nasser, the desires and needs of the under-developed and post colonized countries. Egypt's most important trial came over the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Indian Ocean. ... Egypt wanted the Gaza Strip and Sinai returned and all the Arab nations wanted Jerusalem to be turned into an international city, since it is the base city for all the world's major religio...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

While Judaism is certainly different from Christianity in today's world, Basser does a commendable job explaining how they are not polar opposites because one (Christianity) is merely a branch from the tree (Judaism). ... In addition, Basser's primary sources include the Mishnah, the Babylonian Talmud, sections of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as many others that as a critical reviewer I should have read, but as a twenty-one year old college student with a moderate interest in Jewish and/or Christian historical texts, I have never even heard of, let alone read. ...

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Ironically, the same story the white Christians connected with in motivating themselves for separation from England was used by the slaves in motivating them for their eventual release from their current oppressive ruler ship.7 While white Christians saw themselves as the New Israel they were at the same time enslaving people who considered themselves the current Old Israel, waiting to be delivered from their oppression through faith in God.8 For white America, similarities to convince them of their relation to the Israelites consisted of "the bondage in Egypt, the rescue at the Red Sea, the...

• Word Count: 1954
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Nisa" by Marjorie Shostak, describes the life a !kung woman, a life span of nearly 50 years. The book was written during the 1970's, while Shostak was interviewing !Kung women for her research. Nisa was just one of those women, but her story captivated Shostak, making her wrtie the book. Mostly tol...

• Word Count: 2208
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• Grade Level: High School