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  • East Asian Economic Crisis

    East Asian Economic Crisis

    A large economic downturn in East Asia threatens to end its nearly 30 year run of high growth rates. The crisis has caused Asian currencies to fall 50-60%, stock markets to decline 40%, banks to close, and property values to drop. The crisis was brought on by currency devaluations, bad banking practices, high foreign debt, loose government regulation, and corruption. Due to East Asia?s large impact on the world economy, the panic in Thailand, Indonesia,

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    Essay Length: 760 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Civil Rights in the Usa - How Much Had Been Achieved by 1945?

    Civil Rights in the Usa - How Much Had Been Achieved by 1945?

    Civil Rights in the USA - How much had been achieved by 1945? Around 1900 the situation for blacks was dire. They suffered extreme discrimination and were frequently the victims of violence in the South. Blacks could not vote and their career opportunities remained limited. White society excluded blacks from equal participation in many areas of public life; they wanted to keep blacks in a position of economic, political, social and cultural subservience. After the

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    Essay Length: 1,139 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Anna
  • East Is East - Movie Review

    East Is East - Movie Review

    East is East was filmed in 1999, and was a very controversial film that dealt with a very complex and dysfunctional family. To begin, this family had many cultural differences of Pakistani and British, which complicated situations between the family and even society. Many conflicts the family dealt with consisted of lack of communication and peer pressures of society. This family was very dysfunctional, just for that fact that there was an immense lack of

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    Essay Length: 625 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Doctors in the Middle Ages

    Doctors in the Middle Ages

    Health, hygiene, and well being had a very important role in the Middle Ages. If doctors didn't know about health, hygiene, and well being in the Middle Ages, then people would have never survived. In the Middle Ages the primary doctors were women. Some of the healers were called physicians. Nuns and servants helped ill elderly, priests, and surgeons. They were very important because they were the only ones who knew about health, hygiene, and

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Vika
  • Life’s Influence on Death, in Art: The Middle Ages

    Life’s Influence on Death, in Art: The Middle Ages

    LIFE'S INFLUENCE ON DEATH, IN ART: THE MIDDLE AGES 25 million Europeans died in just under five years between 1347 and 1352 due to the epic plague known as the Black Death. The great plague swept over Europe, ravaging cities causing widespread hysteria and death. One thirdthe population of Europe died. Simply mentioning the bubonic plague sends shivers down ones spine as it was one of the deadliest epidemics in history. It was originally transmitted

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • American Foreign Policy 1945-2005

    American Foreign Policy 1945-2005

    Once the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, it was clear that the U.S. was a major force in international affairs. Since that time, the U.S. has had some successes and some failures in its international affairs. Following World War II, the U.S. was in constant struggles against the communist nation of the USSR. Our first major success against the Soviet Union was the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Had

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Work and Family Changes in Middle Adutlhood

    Work and Family Changes in Middle Adutlhood

    In my opinion the most difficult change during middle adulthood in relation to family life is caring for aging parents. If a person has siblings, then right off the bat there will be a conflict over who will be the primary caregiver. Generally this task will fall to a daughter or daughter in law (Boyd/Bee, pg. 151 “No Easy Answers”). Perhaps this is because daughters seem to closer, in both proximity and emotion, to their

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Jack
  • Comparison of Middle Ages Music and Present Day Music

    Comparison of Middle Ages Music and Present Day Music

    Stephanie Stout Music 111-Booth Comparison Paper M/W 9am Comparison of Anon: Alleuluia: Vidimus Stellam and Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz The two pieces of music Alleulia and Clint Eastwood Both come from different eras. Both are very different in style but also have some similarities. Anon:Alleulia:Vidimus Stellam is from the Middle Ages time period. It is a Gregorian Chant based on sacred religion. It is sung at Latin masses in the Roman Catholic Church. The chant

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    Essay Length: 584 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Important Developments in the Humanities During the Early,high and Late Middle Ages

    Important Developments in the Humanities During the Early,high and Late Middle Ages

    Important Developments in the Humanities During the Early,High and Late Middle Ages The study of humanities allows us to explore the ways in which the changing concepts of nature and the individual differ in each historical period and helps us to characterize the important developments of each period. Examining specific works of the Middle Ages enables us to describe our views of the changes that occur and helps to explain how and why the concepts

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Yan
  • Law in the Middle Ages

    Law in the Middle Ages

    Law In The Middle Ages Ever wonder how life in the Middle Ages was? Whether its modes of punishment, the court system, Churches, or even medieval justice that played an important role for peasants, nobles, knights, and many more of the important people of the Middle Ages? During the middle ages there were laws people lived by and if broken they would either go to court or battle to survive. There is a variety

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Anna
  • Fact: Middle Children Have It Hard

    Fact: Middle Children Have It Hard

    “Fact: Middle children have it hard” Bello, Fausat Child Development 1 Hammond, Online education Name: Lindsey Age: 15 Grade: 11 Household #: 5 Siblings: 3 Other : Middle child 1. Your favorite nickname? Fritz 2. Do you have any pets? Yes, two rabbits. 3. What is your favorite color? Black & pink 4. What is your favorite scent? Vanilla & strawberry 5. What's your favorite drink? Red Wine 6. What food do you hate?

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Wendy
  • The Rise of the Cold War 1945-1953

    The Rise of the Cold War 1945-1953

    The Monroe Doctrine has been described as a "hands off" warning to Europe. How did the U.S interpret the doctrine in practice? On December second, 1823, President Monroe declared to the public his concerns on domestic and foreign affairs in his annual speech. In his words one could find ideas that did not matter only the U.S, but it interested Europe and the Americas as a whole. Such concerns would turn out to be a

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Janna
  • Anatomy and Functions of the Middle Ear

    Anatomy and Functions of the Middle Ear

    Anatomy and Functions of the Middle Ear The middle ear contains many important parts that necessary for hearing sounds. The middle ear consists of the structures enclosed in a space right behind the eardrum. They are the tympanic membrane or eardrum. The tympanic membrane is a thin membrane shaped like a drum that separates the outer ear from the middle ear. Next is a chain of three ossicles, or very small bones. The chain begins

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Janna
  • East Asia and Pacific Island Region Aids - Hiv Epidemic

    East Asia and Pacific Island Region Aids - Hiv Epidemic

    East Asia and Pacific Island Region AIDS/HIV Epidemic The HIV/ AIDS epidemic poses a very real health problem in many of the countries which make up the East Asia Pacific region. Given the presence of risk behaviors and a population size representing 60% of the world’s people, the potential for an epidemic is real. At the end of 2003, between 700,000 and 1.3 million adults and children in the region were living with HIV. During

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Anna
  • Corporate Governance in East Asia

    Corporate Governance in East Asia

    Corporate Governance in East Asia The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98 was seen as a consequence of poor corporate governance throughout East Asia. Lax corporate governance could be seen in weak internal controls, poor financial reporting and auditing, lack of discretion by boards of directors, mistreatment of minority shareholders and poor enforcement of penalties for law breakers. Throughout East Asia the interest in corporate governance has always been sporadic, however after the Financial Crisis governments

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Monumental Changes: Or How the Reaction to Stalin by Three Social Groups Illustrates the Development of Socialism in the Soviet Union from 1945 to the 1990s.

    Monumental Changes: Or How the Reaction to Stalin by Three Social Groups Illustrates the Development of Socialism in the Soviet Union from 1945 to the 1990s.

    Monumental Changes: Or how the reaction to Stalin by three social groups illustrates the development of Socialism in the Soviet Union from 1945 to the 1990s. Monumental Propaganda relates a bottom-up history of the Soviet Union from the end of WWII to Post-Socialist Russia of the 1990s. The story is presented from the perspective of an unwavering defender of the cultural mores of post-war Russia, Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina. It is through this outlook that the

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Fatih
  • America 1945 Soviet Union Case

    America 1945 Soviet Union Case

    The Soviet Union was very concerned about its security after having been invaded and almost defeated twice in the twentieth century. It felt vulnerable being surrounded by hostile democratic states and preferred to have smaller communist states protecting it, thus the Iron Curtain descended. The Iron Curtain refers to an imaginary barrier through Europe that separated Russia and its communist allies from the rest of the democratic nations in the west. The states on each

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Drama of the Middle Ages

    Drama of the Middle Ages

    DRAMA OF THE MIDDLE AGES THROUGH practically a thousand years while the European theater was "dark" the Christian Church was unable to stamp out completely the festive element among the common people that manifested itself particularly at the spring planting time and the harvest season. It is probable, had not the church itself responded to the primitive desire of people to "act out" the stories of their lives, that secular drama would have sprung up

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Janna
  • South East Asia’s Tsunami Recovery

    South East Asia’s Tsunami Recovery

    Stephen Rupert Mr. Longo English April 3, 2006 South East Asia’s Tsunami Recovery Southeast Asia is slow in its efforts to make the once beautiful cities and homebound areas a livable place again for its previous residents. There are many different aspects contributing to this specific problem. Several of the most apparent problems are lack of strategy, motivation and caring. The most prevalent reason however, is that there is no clear strategy in recreating a

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Victor
  • Culture of Renaissance Vs. Culture of Late Middle Ages

    Culture of Renaissance Vs. Culture of Late Middle Ages

    Following the period of time known as the Late Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance is significantly marked by several cultural and artistic achievements. With artists such as Jan van Eyck, known for his remarkable attention to human personality, and Michelangelo, painter of the Sistine Chapel, the quality of art during the Italian Renaissance greatly surpasses the generic faces and gothic-like qualities of the Late Middle Ages. As far as technology is concerned, the invention of

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: July
  • Genocide in East Timor

    Genocide in East Timor

    This is a report about genocide. Genocide is the deliberate assassination of entire peoples. There are many different types of genocide. There are also many different times and places at which it has occurred. The one that this report is on is East Timor . East Timor people had a unique and different belief than most people. Like Native Americans, they believed that everything that walks, flies, swims, and crawls is a person. In their

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Middle Ground, a Review of Gilead

    Middle Ground, a Review of Gilead

    Middle Ground, A Review of Gilead The eager followers of Marilynne Robinson have been granted their wish of a second novel. The author’s most recent work in Gilead has been awarded with the gold seal of the Pulitzer Prize. Readers receive the gift of a thoughtful story which takes on views on the morals and spirituality of all people. The book does a wonderful job at allowing the reader to form their own beliefs

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Yan
  • Women in the Middle Ages

    Women in the Middle Ages

    Women In The Middle Ages The women of the middle ages had a standard and void to fill as a wife and a mother. they were pawn pieces in middle age society that the patriarchal males used gain money, property or even advancement in nobility. Women were to be obedient to their fathers and loyal to their husbands. Meanwhile, there were many other women in the Middle Ages that made there own way, fortune, and

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • Community Service in East Africa-John Ahere

    Community Service in East Africa-John Ahere

    CHAPTER ONE 1.0. Introduction This report is about the Tanzania Red Cross written after community service fieldwork by eleven students from the East African Uongozi Institute, between 04th and 10th July , 2002. The Community service involved working with the Red Cross in the Dar es salaam International Trade Fair[DITF] which was on at the time and we were allocated to work at the Red Cross tents at the Fair ground to help administer first

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Yan
  • Music History Through the Middle Ages, Rennisance, Baroque, Etc...

    Music History Through the Middle Ages, Rennisance, Baroque, Etc...

    Music has evolved too many different forms that we recognize today. We trace this development throughout time. Beginning in the middle ages, we have seen advancement from the Gregorian chant all the way to the Jazz of the 20th century. The current events, politics, religion, technology and composers can shape musical eras during time. Here I will look at the middle ages, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic and twentieth century periods. I hope that a better

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Tommy

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