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Charles kernaham
director of the National Labour Committee Education Fund in Support of worker and human rights in central america, he has pushed the problem of sweatshops into the public eye
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Geography
12th Grade
10/01/2009

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Term
Time Space Covergence
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The impression that distances between two locations have decreased because of the advances in communications and transportation systems.
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Time- space  divergence
Definition
the impression that the distance between two points has increased
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Global Inequalities
Definition
One of the results of all the technological changes that have taken place during the creation of the global village has been the growing gap between rich and poor people around the world.
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North South Gap
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The term applied to the great discripancy between the wealthiest and poorest nations of the world. The wealthiest nations are found mostly in the Northern hemisphere.
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