1. Underlying Causes for Political Instability in Somalia
This group makes up 37% of the Angolan population (The World Factbook). ... The Mbundu speak Kimbundu, and this language has eleven alternate names and six dialects (The World Factbook). ... This ethnolinguistic group speaks Kongo, and Kongo has 3 alternate names and 6 dialects (The World Factbook). ... From the late sixteenth century to 1836, when slavery was abolished by Portugal, 2 million slaves were taken to the new world, and Angola lost 4 million people to slavery. ... From 1975 (shortly after the Portuguese withdrew from Angola) to 2002, over one million lives have been lost to wa...
Germany's industries are among the world's largest and most technologically advanced producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics, food and beverages, shipbuilding, and textiles. ... President Barack Obama was telling Americans in his January 2011 State of the Union address that the United States needed to double its exports, Germany had quietly become the world's second-largest exporter (after China). ... The inventive spirit is also as strong as ever: In 2009 investors companies from Germany registered some 11 percent of wo...
News of the Columbine massacre flashed across newspapers and television stations across the world. ... According to The World Factbook 2002, published by the U.S. ... Those who criticize television violence are convinced that children may become more fearful of the world around them and think violence is more common than in reality. ...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM levitt (1983) in discussing the globalisation of markets state that "We live in a rapid globalising world and certain national identifiers like taste, technology, market and finance are no longer constrained by national boundaries. ... The defining features of globalisation are the interdependence and connectedness of the economics, politics and culture of nations and not uniformity of markets and taste of a single country- (Yong M, 1989) Globalisat...