Tokushima Public High School Entrance Examination - Social Studies case studies
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The Tokushima Prefecture Public High School Admission Examination in Social Studies (徳島県公立高等学校入学者選抜 社会) is the social studies component of the entrance selection used by prefectural public high schools in Tokushima. It is taken by students finishing compulsory education who wish to enter a prefectural public high school, and by others eligible under the prefecture's selection rules. The Tokushima Public High School Entrance Examination - Social Studies case studies are 5 cases and about 3,448 words.
1Clinic siting in the Yoshino River plain
Three municipalities in the Yoshino River plain are considering one new wide-area clinic. Town A has 18,400 residents, of whom 2,100 are 75 or older; its aging rate is 34%, and it is 12 km by road from the prefectural hospital.
705 words, about 4 min2A village petition and factory statistics in Meiji Tokushima
In 1887 the headman of a village in Tokushima Prefecture petitioned the prefectural governor. He wrote that 40 households had once spun cotton thread by hand, but that 31 households now bought machine-spun yarn from Osaka; 12 young women had left for a silk-reeling factory, and three families had lost land after borrowing to buy looms.
681 words, about 3 min3Cotton, debt, and the limits of a export boom in Egypt
In 1861–65, the American Civil War cut off most cotton reaching European mills. A British consular report from Alexandria recorded Egyptian cotton exports rising from about £5 million in 1860 to £18 million in 1864, while the price of cotton in Liverpool roughly quadrupled.
652 words, about 3 min4An advisory referendum on a regional waste authority
A town of 42,000 people must decide whether to join a regional waste-treatment authority. The assembly has approved the merger by 14 votes to 9, but a petition forces a referendum.
685 words, about 3 min5Tsunami evacuation and shelter investment in a coastal ward
A coastal ward of 6,200 people has one elementary school at 4 m elevation and 900 m from the sea, a community hall at 12 m and 1.4 km inland, and a gymnasium at 7 m and 2.0 km inland. A 1946 tsunami reached the ward in about 20 minutes and flooded to 5 m; a new forecast says the next event could arrive in 18 minutes.
725 words, about 4 min