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Republican & Democratic America The United States is currently divided almost exactly in half between supporters of the Democratic and Republican parties • The Republican-Democratic division in the country follows clear geographical patterns • The Democratic Party generally controls the large northern cities (the North-East), the industrial region around the Great Lakes and the West Coast • The Republican Party generally controls the South-East, Texas and the mostly rural central part of

Legacy, Lessons, and Lasting Reverberations The Middle East Institute Washington, DC Middle East Institute The mission of the Middle East Institute is to promote knowledge of the Middle East in America and strengthen understanding of the United States by the people and governments of the region. For more than 60 years, MEI has dealt with the momentous events in the Middle East — from the birth of the state of Israel to the invasion of Iraq. Today, MEI is a foremost authority on contemporary

became the world's largest motorvehicles market, both by sales as by production. Sales in China rose 45 percent in 2009 to 13.6 million units.[2] In recent years, private Chinese manufacturers emerge. About 250 million vehicles are in use in the United States. Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly.[3] In the opinion of some, urban transport systems based around the car have proved

•Population •Language •What to see in Florida • Florida is a state located in the Southeastern Unites States, bordering Alabama and Georgia. Florida was admitted as the 27th U.S. state in 1845, after a three hundred year period of European rule. • With an area of 170,305 km2, it is ranked 22nd in size among the 50 U.S. states. Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States, approximately 2,170 km. Florida is nicknamed the "Sunshine State" because of its generally warm Climate

together theories, facts and figures showing the opposite side of the globalization’s impact on human rights. I. Globalization’s positive impact on human rights a. The Liberal view According to Liberals, globalization leads to a better states’ respect regarding to human rights through the economic, political and social benefits it provides (Indra de Soysa and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati – 2005). Indeed, higher economic growth combined with the spread of democratic ideas will obviously

Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of United States. He was elected on January 20th 1961, aged to 43 years old. He was the younger president of the USA and the younger to die during his mandate too. First, we will talk you about his life before his election. Then, we will see what he did during his political career. Finally we will tell you how he is dead. I- His Life before his election John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th 1917

location. In 2002 it was revealed that Tony Blair had agreed to support US President George W. Bush for an invasion of Iraq, with the aim of removing Hussein from power. Despite a UN investigation and refusal to support a US led attack on Iraq, the United States issued an ultimatum on March 17, 2003 to Hussein. When this was not met, a formal declaration of war against Iraq was made on March 20, with the support of Great Britain. Bush has also argued that Hussein refused to conform to the policies on

to visit a Wal-Mart store found somewhere in the world. A total of 1.3 million associates worldwide are employed by the company and are distributed within its 3,200 stores in the United States as well at over a thousand other stores in Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Puerto Rico, China, Germany, Korea and in the United Kingdom. The business is actually divided into three main segments: Wal-Mart Stores, Sam’s Club and International Stores. Years of operation have indeed proved Wal-Mart’s effective

    The “Secret Government” and the Bay of Pigs   In January of 1959, the Cuban Revolution ousted the military strong man and American-ally Batista, and installed the Communist government of Fidel Castro. Beginning in October of 1959, the United States began a covert bombing and strafing campaign against Cuba, and in the early months of 1960, the US even firebombed Cuban cane fields and sugar mills. The CIA had organized the Cuban exile community, largely under the leadership of former supporters