What is the continnetal divide?
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It's not just an imaginary line -- it's the Rocky Mountains from the Southwest through Canada.
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Never heard of it...but you *may* be thinking of a FALSE dichotomy.  If not, ignore this answer :)\n\nA dichotomy exists when a problem is divided into two contrary possible solutions, for instance people are either alive or dead.  One or the other.\n\nA false dichotomy exists when you're presented with two solutions as though they are the only ones, when in fact other solutions are possible.  For instance, being told "you are either with us or against us" when in fact you may feel somewhere in the middle.\n\nHope this helps!
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You are misunderstanding a few different concepts here.  That is a pretty good definition of uniformitarianism...but it's important to understand that mountains are also building as they are eroding. An example of this is the Himalaya; they are sill rising about 3 inches every decade.  Hardly any erosion takes place on the higher peaks - too cold/covered in snow and ice.\n\nAlso, mountains build up in some areas, some areas erode, and many areas (of land) remain little changed (that's where you get your (relatively) young bones.  Many areas of land are also deposition areas that add material on top of old material (that's why you dig up bones and fossils).\n\nCatastrophism is now viewed as a very legitimate factor. Think of asteroid impacts, volcanoes, or the massive flooding caused by the end of the ice ages (do you think that little Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon?).\n\nSo we rectify both by seeing the proper blending of the two - a largely uniform Earth that is infrequently influenced by catastrophes.
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In a real sense, there is no dividing line. They are on  the same tectonic plate, and there is no line where the plants and animals change radically.\n\nTraditionally a line is drawn through the Ural Mts. to the Caspian sea and across the Caucasus Mts. to the Black Sea. This line is based more on human history than any physical differences between one side of the line and the other.
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Polarization is when the two competing ideologies within American culture become further separated, and people are forced to either agree with one or the other, with those in the middle left behind and ignored
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A layer of seperation between "things".
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Slavery had little to do with the Civil War. The prime issue was balance of power between Federal and State. Slavery happened to be the issue that fell along this divide. Could also throw in north-south economic disparacy.
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The digital divide is the socio-economic difference between communities in their access to computers and the Internet. The term also refers to gaps between groups in their ability to use ICTs (Information and Communications Technologies) effectively, due to differing literacy and technical skills, and the gap in availability of quality, useful digital content. The divide is seen as a social/political problem. It became an issue among concerned parties, such as scholars, policy makers, and advocacy groups, in the late 1990s.\n\nBroadly speaking, the difference is not necessarily determined by the size or depth to the user, but any ICTs and media that different segments of society can use. With regard to the Internet, the simple access is only one aspect, but the quality of connection and auxiliary services, processing speed and other capabilities of the computer used, and other factors could also be part of the issue (Davison and Cotten, 2003), although one doesn't need even a personal computer to connect to the Internet (see also MSN TV, Webphone, PDA, mobile phone).
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All of them.  States don't share "borders".  Borders are dividing lines between countries.  States share "state lines".
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It's the dividing line between an area drained by a river running in one direction and one drained by another river running in an opposite direction. The figurative sense, “a turning point,” as in The decision marked a watershed in criminal legal theory, is sometimes overused, especially in journalese.
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The government claims equality for it's people but very very old habits won't die away so quickly.  Look at the US, there is still some residue of segregation.
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Question needs to be cohesive.
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I don't remember well this kind of things.\n\nAnyway the key is in the fact that between any two rationals there always exist a non-rational: so there are no intervals of rationals which form a continuum\n\nSorry I don't remember exactly what does the term "open" mean
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1)  Karl Marx.  He laid out the principle that when there is too great a divide between the haves and the have-nots, civil unrest occurs.  This can be as simple as the LA riots, or as massive as Chinese revolution.  Taxes are one of many ways in which the inequity is reduced, thereby staving off the marked Decline of Western Civilization for another few decades.\n2)  Karl Marx.  Try riding the back of the bus through Dorchester and Roxbury while wearing a gold Rolex and fur coat.  Now ask the folks sittin' next to you if they think you should be paying the same rate of tax as they do.  If you make it home alive, you'll have proven to yourself that you probably ought to be paying more.
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(m)\n\nAlienation is estrangement or splitting apart.
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It is a divergent plate boundary found running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Hence the name "Mid Atlantic Ridge".\n\nThis is where two lithospheric plates are moving apart from each other.\n\nWhere they spread apart, new continental crust is being created. It is said that the US & the UK move about 1 - 2 inches apart every year. The US is getting further from Europe all the time!
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contour line is  a curve connecting points where the function has a same particular value ..\n\ncontour interval is any space between vertical lines on a topographic map or globe, representing a difference in elevation between the lines. Small contour intervals are used for flat areas; larger intervals are used for mountainous terrain.