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  • Final Exam Paper

    Final Exam Paper

    In this paper I will be comparing and contrasting the events that took place in the movie 300 to the real events that were recorded throughout history by many historians that have studied these events of the one of the strongest Hellenic city-states Sparta. The movie 300 was set in the spring of 480 BC when the Persian King Xerxes was trying to follow in his fathers footsteps who continuing his master plan to conquer

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Mike
  • World Culture and the Arts (axia) Hum 205

    World Culture and the Arts (axia) Hum 205

    Art Museum Collection Completion Bobby Washington WORLD CULTURE AND THE ARTS (AXIA) HUM 205 With the opening of this new museum I would like to show art works from different aspects of different civilizations and their cultural development. The first piece that I chose is from the classical Greek civilization. This art form is of Greek literature what we know of this or other famous sculptures comes primarily from historical texts and later duplicates in

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    Essay Length: 1,334 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Health Communication Final Exam Study Guide

    Health Communication Final Exam Study Guide

    * CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW * Social support → An umbrella term for various theories and concepts that link involvement with social relationships to health and well-being * Behaviors that, whether directly or indirectly, communicate to an individual that she or he is valued and cared for by others * Increasing a person’s sense of control * People cope best when they’re well informed and actively involved * Several reasons for the link between social ties and

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    Submitted: April 23, 2015 By: Sean McGuire
  • Macroeconomics for Managers Final Exam

    Macroeconomics for Managers Final Exam

    Arturo Flores Márquez – OneMBA, Class of 2016 Macroeconomics for Managers Final Exam 1. Recently, the central bank of China decided to devalue their currency (Yuan) against the US dollar even though they have a substantial current account surplus in their balance of payments. This comes as an answer to the general depreciation of (almost) all currencies against the US currency that had started approximately a year ago. 1. What are, in your opinion, the

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    Submitted: September 27, 2015 By: afmarquez
  • Islamic Civilization: Its Contributions to World Culture

    Islamic Civilization: Its Contributions to World Culture

    Islamic Civilization: Its Contributions to World Culture Although Islam is not the only civilization that has had a major impact on the world, it did contribute many things. Some of the fields that Muslim’s advanced includes science, art, literature, math, geography, history, and medicine. These achievements were extremely advanced for their time, and some of their developments, such as Algebra, are still being used today. While these achievements are all extremely important, there was one

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    Submitted: May 3, 2016 By: Solgan
  • The Culture of Heavy Metal Music Listeners Around the World:

    The Culture of Heavy Metal Music Listeners Around the World:

    People who listen to heavy metal music are often seen as a minority group in most cultures and countries, but is it possible that heavy metal music listeners have a distinct culture of their own that transcends the dividing lines of nations? This paper is intended to research and report the similarities between heavy metal listeners across the world. In order to do that I will be splitting the world up into four major categories

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    Essay Length: 1,431 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mike
  • Define the Terms Affirmative Actions, Sexual Harassment, and Glass Ceiling. How Are They Important in Today's World of Business?

    Define the Terms Affirmative Actions, Sexual Harassment, and Glass Ceiling. How Are They Important in Today's World of Business?

    AFFIRMATIVE ACTION An “Affirmative Action” refers to methods aimed at increasing the numbers of people from specific social groups in employment, education, business, government, and other sectors. These groups usually consist of women and such minorities as African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, disabled people, and Vietnam veterans. Thus, affirmative action is intended to improve and benefit groups that are thought to have undergone discrimination. Different affirmative-action programs have different features. Some seek

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    Essay Length: 1,407 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Religious World of Amish Culture

    The Religious World of Amish Culture

    The Religious World of Amish Culture Many tourists are fascinated by the Amish people and their culture. People from all over the world have gone to places like Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, trying to catch the meaning and the reason behind the Amish way of life. Throughout the 19th century Amish people have encountered some difficulties in practicing their religion and living they way they desired to. Disagreements did not only generated between the Amish people

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    Essay Length: 1,753 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Jon
  • The Guardians of the World Order Have Sought to Establish Democracy in one Sense of the Term, While Blocking It in a Different Sense' (chomsky). Discuss.

    The Guardians of the World Order Have Sought to Establish Democracy in one Sense of the Term, While Blocking It in a Different Sense' (chomsky). Discuss.

    Chomsky is one of the most astute and notorious outspoken critic of liberal democracy that is promoted by the guardians of the world order or simply the western world. He especially direct his criticisms towards the United States and the United Kingdom who seek to establish democracy all over the world in order to have some sort of control over the people either for political or material reasons . Hence Chomsky sees this campaign to

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Steve
  • Western Culture and Policies That Have Shaped the Modern World.

    Western Culture and Policies That Have Shaped the Modern World.

    Western culture and policies have shaped the modern world, especially the Middle East, in many ways. Since the sixteenth century, the nations of Western civilization have been the driving wheels of modernization. Globalization is simply the spread of modern institutions and ideas from one high power to the wider world. Technological innovation and economic growth along with such concepts as democracy, individualism, and the rule of law administered by an impartial judiciary, set Western

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Max
  • World War 2, Race, Popular Culture

    World War 2, Race, Popular Culture

    paper from: http://www.kevincmurphy.com/dower.html John Dower, War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War. List: 20th Century. Subjects: World War II, Race, Popular Culture. John Dower's War Without Mercy describes the ugly racial dimensions of the conflict in the Asian theater of World War II and their consequences on both military and reconstruction policy in the Pacific. "In the United States and Britain," Dower reminds us, "the Japanese were more hated than the Germans

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    Submitted: June 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • Modern World Terms

    Modern World Terms

    1. War of the Spanish Succession- (1701-14), conflict that arose out of the disputed succession to the throne of Spain following the death of the childless Charles II, the last of the Spanish Habsburgs. The battles raged across Europe for eleven years. In an effort to regulate the impending succession, to which there were three principal claimants, England, the Dutch Republic, and France signed the First Treaty of Partition, agreeing Prince Joseph Ferdinand, should inherit

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    Submitted: June 9, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Mid-Term Exam Sample

    Mid-Term Exam Sample

    Working Capital Management Sample Mid-Term Exam January 2014 Name (Print): _____________Sample Exam_______________________________ Student Number: __________ Sample Exam______________________________ This exam has two parts. Part I is 20 true or false questions and Part II gives you the choice of answering three of five case questions. Total 50 marks. The exam is 1-½ hours in length and is closed book. There are 6 pages to this exam. Part I – mark with X either true or false

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    Submitted: July 6, 2014 By: christina
  • Warfare & Culture in World History

    Warfare & Culture in World History

    Warfare & Culture in World History LE300FDLA: War & Culture October 4, 2015 Abstract Warfare has played a significant part in not only the specific historical developments, many of which are well-known, of human history but have also impacted and affected cultures as well. It is particularly relevant given the expansion of various cultures in the 1800’s to review and appraise the manner in which certain wars and periods have represented watershed moments across society

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    Submitted: December 10, 2015 By: mwarren107275
  • Causes of World War II

    Causes of World War II

    Many historians have traced the causes of World War II to problems left unsolved by World War I (1914-1918). World War I and the treaties that ended it also created new political and economic problems. Forceful leaders in several countries took advantage of these problems to seize power. The desire of dictators in Germany, Italy, and Japan to conquer additional territory brought them into conflict with the democratic nations. After World War I ended, representatives

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    Submitted: December 1, 2008 By: Jessica
  • How Nationalism in Balkans Contributed to First World War

    How Nationalism in Balkans Contributed to First World War

    How Nationalism In Balkans Contributed to First World War Nationalism in the Balkans helped contribute to the outbreak of WWI. Beginning in the late 19th century, the social unrest in the Balkan States became the focal point of many European powers. The Balkan peninsula was that of great importance due to its territorial and economic significance; however, the Balkan States consisted of many proud ethnic cultures who did not wish to be ruled by any

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    Submitted: December 8, 2008 By: Fonta
  • Zoom: How Much Information Is Changing the World

    Zoom: How Much Information Is Changing the World

    As many know that I work for Google, I came a lot of letters with strange questions or complaints about the policy Google, questions about how the Google made any belongings. Obviously, I can not answer questions about Google. And even if it could - would not have. This is not a blog Google - this is my personal blog, a hobby that I do in their free time. But between my work and my

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    Submitted: December 14, 2008 By: Mike
  • World War Poets

    World War Poets

    Georg Trakl, Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg are all World war 1 poets. They all three also took part in the war. They all three died during the war as well. Owen and Rosenberg were both English as well while Trakl is Austrian. They all wrote of people dead or dying but they all did that in different ways. Georg Trakl was an Austrian that served as a pharmacist on the eastern front. He did

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    Submitted: December 18, 2008 By: Jon
  • Hamlet Analyzed in Terms of Aristotle's Poetics

    Hamlet Analyzed in Terms of Aristotle's Poetics

    Hamlet Analyzed in Terms of Aristotle's Poetics Aristotle's Poetics is considered the guide to a well written tragedy; his methods have been used for centuries. In Aristotle's opinion, plot is the most important aspect of the tragedy, all other parts such as character, diction, and thought stem from the plot. Aristotle defines a tragedy as "…an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind

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    Submitted: January 11, 2009 By: Jon
  • Third World Countries

    Third World Countries

    What are some of the major problems faced by "Third World" Countries today? Who should be held responsible for these problems? Why? What has Canada done to help "Third World Countries"? There has always been a dominant country in the world that sets the economic standard throughout powerful countries. Canada has always been a top rated economic country, usually behind the United States and other large Commonwealth countries. Starting back in the early to mid

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    Submitted: January 14, 2009 By: Yan
  • Butterfly World

    Butterfly World

    Butterfly World Stages of a Butterfly A butterfly is an insect which is notable for its life cycle. The four stages of a butterfly's lifecycle are as follows: egg, larva or caterpillar stage, pupa or chrysalis stage, and a final adult butterfly stage. As such, a butterfly's life starts out as an egg and matures into a caterpillar. The butterfly eggs are usually laid on top of plants. Each species of butterfly has its own

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    Submitted: January 16, 2009 By: Anna
  • Catholic Church in the New World

    Catholic Church in the New World

    During the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church played an all-encompassing role in the lives of the people and the government. As the Dark Ages came to a close, the ideas of the Renaissance started to take hold, and the church's power gradually began to diminish. The monarchies of Europe also began to grow, replacing the church's power. Monarchies, at the close of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Renaissance, did not so

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    Submitted: February 16, 2009 By: Vika
  • Causes of World War I

    Causes of World War I

    The First World War had many causes; the historians probably have not yet discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes than what we know now. The spark of the Great War was the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife by a Serbian nationalist on the morning of June 28, 1914, while traveling in a motorcade through Sarajevo, the capital city of

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    Submitted: February 16, 2009 By: Fatih
  • 2 Accounts of World War 2

    2 Accounts of World War 2

    Matthew Terhune #302899169 1/30/02 Fussell believes that the soldier of world war two, "suffers so deeply from contempt and damage to his selfhood, from absurdity and boredom and chickenshit, that some anodyne is necessary", and that the anodyne of choice was alcohol. I would argue that Fussell is correct, especially regarding the connection between the absurdity of the war and the associated damage to soldiers image of themselves as good and patriotic, and the use

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    Submitted: February 17, 2009 By: Steve
  • The Culture of the Umuofia Society Before the Colonial

    The Culture of the Umuofia Society Before the Colonial

    The culture of the Umuofia society before the colonial infiltration, may be hard to understand but we are forced by Achebe to realize it has traditions and customs that make it work. Although, looking at it from our Judaeo-Christian point of view we may be appalled by some of their practices. We also have to realize that they have strengths. Things Fall apart is the idea of balance and interdependence, earth and sky, individual and

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Edward

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