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past, which is now gone, and his son is the future (the founding of Rome), and he is the transitionary figure destined to bring th...

be wise and benevolent at times, but at other times it became clear that he was "a tyrant bent upon retaining the Dominican Republ...

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

kept separate from others, and how many different policies worked to keep the Japanese under the thumb of the government. He indic...

giri. Osan says, "I could see that you were drifting towards suicide. I felt so unhappy that I wrote a letter, begging her as one ...

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

motor vehicles were sold, 180,166 of them were not Japanese brands (Kyi, 2003). German brands had the greatest share of foreign ca...

narrates her story with forthright honesty. She explains that--while she is named after the Virgin Mary--she is far from saint-lik...

In four pages this essay examines two books by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto in a consideration of how her works capture young ...

to ones social superiors was the supreme value, tended to foster hypocrisy. Modernization, while sweeping away the old system, fai...

war on terrorism, people were at first agreeable and like most other "wars" on anything, the cause lost its fervor after awhile. P...

survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...

in which: "most of the meaning is either implied by the physical setting or presumed...

greatest focus currently is China, a country that will likely become the second largest consumers of automobiles by 2010 (behind t...

The "Carter Doctrine" was later used to justify U.S. intervention in Kuwait under the first Bush Administration as well as Libya a...

In three pages this paper examines how in the Star Wars' trilogy George Lucas incorporated elements of myth. Two sources are cite...

This paper examines the uniqueness of Japanese culture in 5 pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

their first contact with Europeans these people have literally been under attack. From approximately 1640 to the present date, w...

Since the publication of its first English translation in 1974, A Book of Five Rings has become an underground classic in the Amer...

boom in both economic and political strength. As the twenty-first century began, Japan had new and stifling issues to deal with: ...

dropping bombs from 30,000 feet or sitting in a headquarters building and pushing a button to annihilate soldiers thousands of mil...

were very aware of, and proud of, their ethnic heritage. In addition to saying "Im Catholic," a person might also identify their e...

levels of power and position. It would be foolish to argue that women havent made progress, because they have, but it would also ...

dwelling places are like that, always changing (Chomei). The water imagery calls Walden Pond to mind; it also is strongly remin...

Spanish-language rhetoric on the radio and in the cafes" (29). In addition to conveying the flavor of Latin-American life, Tobar ...

was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...

Belgium (History, n.d.). Carrefour went public in 1970. Promod?s created the convenience store format in 1977; the two merged in...

readers would be going backward and forward in terms of years. however, it is the concept and theme of civilizations that is prima...

(Tanenhaus, 1999). The struggle between the two countries was both strategic and ideological, with the "future governance of the i...