Almost 170,000 Somalis fled into refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia in the past seven months, some travelling up to 100 miles, to save themselves and their family from the famine that currently devastates their country. After nearly twenty years of civil war and two annual droughts, livestock and crops died off, ... World Food Program at Dadaab. Because the international aid agencies' resources are not covering the vast amounts of refugees traveling to the neighboring countries each day, many refugees travel for miles on the "roads of death" only to find no help waiting on the other end (On...

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... musicians based on their lyrical content. Censorship includes the placement of warning labels on musical cases and radio edits, in an attempt to protect children and young adults from violent lyrics. Many citizens feel that censorship is advantageous because, these musicians in question advocate attitudes and behaviors that are socially viewed as objectionable, and inappropriate. Moral institutions and authorities have designated ... of the American people, and have made attempts to aggress recording artists and companies. Many people, who would like to expurgate creative expression, ar...

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... Nonetheless, songs about America have been enjoyed for over centuries due to their diverse nature, and the truth that lies within the words of the artists. "America Town"s lyrics capture a contradicting opinion of American life told through the eyes of the artist. In the line " I know I should be happy in your land. It's ... any other part of the world. Though America does have its faults, they are on a much smaller scale than those in other parts of the world. The lyrics "and I know we"d kick your ass. But first I"ll take a nap tonight and know someone's looking out for me" shows how th...

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... 's rivals may be able to imitate its new product or process, greatly reducing the originator's profit from its R & D effort. As just one example, in the 1980's U.S. auto firms took apart Japanese Honda Accords, piece by piece, to discover the secrets of their high quality. This reverse engineering - which ironically was perfected earlier by the Japanese - helped the U.S. firms incorporate innovative ... This promising discovery jolted the scientific and engineering world. Since then, superconductors had become the catchphrase springing loose money for research and fantasies for about "fly...

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... and the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, and Dennis Wheatley" (Huey 2013). Black Sabbath's utilization of heavy guitar tone, slow rhythmic guitar riffs, and intricate guitar solos coupled with dark thematics lyrics with a fascination for the occult set the bar for heavy metal music, and many bands following them would look to follow that example. Following the influence and example set by ... Led Zeppelin, heavy metal gained massive popularity in the United Kingdom, with the rise of what is now dubbed "The New Wave of British Heavy Metal." What set this subgenre apart was its...

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... for money of already-wealthy business tycoons. At the end of the Civil War, there had existed less than 35,000 miles of railroad in the United States; by 1875, not only had that number more than doubled to 74,000+ miles, but the country has now been efficiently linked between the East and West Coast. This was a huge break-through in ... of the national government. In 1890, when the government's income was a mere $403 million, the railroad took in a whopping $1 billion in. With such a booming business emerging, everyone wanted to be apart of it. So many people, in fact, that social Darwi...

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... are also being larger dismissed. What's more, the friendly partnerships that major airliners are offering regional carriers like participation in the airline scheduling database and granting frequent flyer miles to passengers on regional airlines also help to promote the industry. The growth that regional airlines exhibited in the 1990's was exacerbated by the events of September 11, 2001 ... healthy bottom lines were all welcome news to airline executives thanks to the regional jet. Regional aircraft operating characteristics changed, too. By 2000, trip length had grown to 300 miles; th...

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... throughout the United States and abroad. During 2001, United carried on average, more than 210,000 passengers per day and flew more than 108 billion revenue passenger miles. United's network is supplemented with strategic airline alliances, provides transportation service within its North American segment and to international destinations within its Pacific, Atlantic, and Latin ... United", 2002). Demographics/Socio-culture: During 2001, United carried, on an average, more than 210,000 passengers per day and flew more than 108 billion revenue passenger miles. United's network, supplemen...

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... , disparate within our country. Before moving on to possible solutions for our education system, I want to note an interesting point made in the final chapter of Ryan's book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart that is the basis for my thesis. In discussing the PISA scores of United States versus other nations, Ryan says, "students who attend predominantly middle-income schools compare ... ...

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... information that would be distributed to every citizen. The founders agreed that the best way to select a president would be to elect responsible trusted people of the government to become apart of the Electoral College. Each state is allowed a vote for the "total number of senators and representatives it sends to the U.S. Congress (National Archives and Records Administration)." With this system ... nowhere near as apparent as it was in 1776. The second problem the founders faced was that the United States "contained only 4,000,000 people spread up and down a thousand miles of Atlantic...

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... information that would be distributed to every citizen. The founders agreed that the best way to select a president would be to elect responsible trusted people of the government to become apart of the Electoral College. Each state is allowed a vote for the "total number of senators and representatives it sends to the U.S. Congress (National Archives and Records Administration)." With this system ... nowhere near as apparent as it was in 1776. The second problem the founders faced was that the United States "contained only 4,000,000 people spread up and down a thousand miles of Atlantic...

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... types of race courses in automobile racing. The first type, the oval track, which can be dirt, asphalt, or concrete, can range in length from 0.16 to 2.5 miles. Some oval tracks, longer than 1 miles and highly banked, are called superspeedways. The second category of track, the road course, comes in two different forms: courses that are created by temporarily closing off city ... streets, and courses specially designed to duplicate the driving conditions of country roads but only used for racing. Road courses of both types are generally 1.5 to 4 miles long in the United States, although...

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... China), Tiaoytai (Taiwan), and The Senkaku Gunto Islands (Japan), to which they are most commonly referred ("How Uninhabited Islands," 2014). The Senkakus are 205 miles from China, 105 miles from Taiwan, and 105 miles from the closest island of Japan (McDevitt, 2014). In the late eighteen hundreds, Japan surveyed the islands as "terra nullius," which translates in Latin as ... would not only bring great pride, but would also be beneficial for their maritime goals, in regards to EEZs due to the stipulation that an EEZ stretches out 200 nautical miles from the coast line. Thus allowing Ch...

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... and Border Protection is sub divided into Customs, Border Patrol, Air and Marine division, and Agricultural specialist. The Job of Border Patrol agents alone in Arizona cover over three hundred miles of border between Mexico and the United States where the government built some fence but it does not cover the whole border with ... miles of gaps in between points. According to Zoltan, "The border between the United States and Mexico stretches some 2,000 miles along the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas." (Mexican Border Wars an Overview). The one major problem ... opp...

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Hybrid cars are much more efficient in terms of miles per gallon due to their use of batteries. This new concept is starting to become main stream in hybrid cars and the automotive world in which the hybrid cars can ... mph it turns the gasoline engine part of the car back on. This not saves in the amount of energy being used by the car but it also increases the miles per gallon that the car can acquire by saving gas. In addition by using the batteries to accelerate the car after stopping, the car is able to gain even better ... release much less pollution and fewer greenhouse gases unlike ...

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... to a million. Truman then determined that the use of the atomic bomb would bring the war to a swift end. Hiroshima was a manufacturing center of approximately 350,000 people located 500 miles from Japans capital Tokyo, was selected because it not only held an important military base, but also it had not been targeted by conventional bombing raids, and it had been ... then exploded approximately 2,000 feet over Hiroshima, with a blast equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT, which instantly killed between 60,000 and 80,000 people, and destroyed five square miles of land2. Although this bomb had...

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... . The test of the atomic bomb was named "Trinity," and it was a major success. The test bomb was detonated resulting in a shockwave that could be felt over 100 miles away and heard as far as El Paso, Texas. The bomb created a crater at the test site spanning 250 feet and a mushroom cloud reaching ... 7.5 miles into the air (Wikipedia). President Truman was told of the success of the project during a conference with the leaders of Great Britain (Winston Churchill) and the Soviet Union (Stalin) in ... . The allied military leaders estimated extremely high casualties in the event of the in...

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... a mild year for ozone destruction. Instead, this year has been as bad as any previously recorded, matching 1987, which was the worst on record. In the region 10 to 11 miles above the Earth, ozone depletion this year is almost 100%. Throughout the entire "hole," the loss averages 50% this year, just as it did in 1987. The extreme losses in ... admit that their theories need to be revised because the situation is clearly worse than they thought. The ozone "hole" is not small; this year it covers 12 million square miles, more than three times the area of the continental United States. Furt...

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... runs along the Russian boarders that have an existing pipeline; it leads from the Baku port to Grozny and then to the Black Sea port. The pipeline runs about 850 miles long; it's estimated to cost $8 to 10 billion over 3 decades; and, will produce 4 billion barrels of oil. Using an existing pipeline appears reasonable, except that Russia is rated highest in ... this pipeline route to offer the greatest political risk. Route 2 The second pipeline proposed travels through rough mountainous terrain, which bypasses Russia territory. The pipeline is expected to be 550 miles long. The Russian...

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... without a trace in the summer months. Other cutting edge techniques would use fewer wellheads. Once underground, engineers can drill horizontally in several directions to reach oil deposits up to four miles away (Kelly). Oil companies have already spent millions of dollars and gone to great lengths to reduce any harm that may be caused to the environments and its inhabitants (Lee ... by concern over the existing oil supply. To save gasoline, the federal government imposes Corporate Domestic energy policy standards on automobile producers that require all new cars to average 27.5 miles p...

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... , Hold the Line in El Paso and Rio Grande in Brownsville, all serve to push the flow of immigrant traffic away from traditionally popular areas. Technology such as new lighting, miles of fencing, ground sensors, mobile infra-red night scope cameras, more vehicles and computerized systems assists the Border Patrol in doing so. As a result, border crossers are forced into more ... without the change in border policy tactics that was assumed (Navarrette A1). Phase I of Operation Gatekeeper was implemented in October 1994. Its purpose was to seal off the westernmost fifteen miles of the bord...

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... deter the increasing American influence in the region." (Bucheli). By the early 1900's, United Fruit created its "banana empire" with no ominous competitor. The company owned 112 miles of railroad, over 200,000 acres of lands, in which 60,000 acres were in production. "Land was exceedingly cheap in the vast undeveloped lowlands, and eager government made ... passenger transportation or other cargos shipment beside fruits. "The line never went further inland than San Pedro Sula. The fact that to this date, although there are over 900 miles of railroad in Honduras, all are within the rich...

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... ;the wire." Across the Wire offers a compelling look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border-a world that is only twenty miles from California, but a world that few have seen.  Urrea gives us an intense account of his work as a member and "official translator" of a crew of relief workers that provided aid ... and still stay sane. But, he did give the chance to you and I as readers to learn about what is actually happening in these slums that are literally less than 5 miles away from our nation of freedom and liberty and give us the chance t...

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... . The original drone is the MQ-1 Predator and its successor is the more advanced MQ-9 Reaper. The Predator has a cruise speed of 81 to 103 mph and a range of 2,000 miles. At 172 to 195 mph, the Reaper's cruise speed is nearly twice the Predator's and its range exceeds the Predators at 3,200 ... miles. Both drones have a normal service ceiling of 25,000 feet, but the Reaper has a maximum operational altitude of 50,000 feet. The Predator is equipped with two weapon stations and ... ...

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... health and safety, the government should have our back. One area I strongly feel the government should step up regulations is child consumerism. There are mandates on video game ratings, song lyrics, movies and age appropriate toys. I feel this is just. From this point, adults must take responsibility by choosing befitting entertainment for their child. Where I feel the government falls short in ... ...

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