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    Running head: BUILDING CAPABILITIES AT THE WESTWARD HILTON Building Capabilities at the Westward Hilton Hiller Hotels is a very prominate hotel business in Phoenix‚ Arizona. This company has a wide range of middle class and upscale hotels and also has a few restaurants. Peter Green‚ executive vice president for operation‚ has been employed with the company for more than 10 years. Hospitality has been a part of Green’s life since his teenage year. Green worked over the years and gained experience

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    know began in New York in the early 19th century. "Reformation" was the goal of the founders of the system. During the colonial period and in the early years of the nation‚ long-term imprisonment was not a common form of punishment in prison. Instead‚ execution was the prescribed penalty for a wide range of offenses. People who committed less serious offenses faced public punishment such as pillorying‚ whipping and maiming. At the beginning of the 19th century‚ imprisonment had replaced public punishment

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    Throughout the Seventeenth and Eighteenth century‚ the development of the New World colonies in British North America and Barbados by Britain and its colonists made use of the option of slavery to benefit the new colonies economy. The reason that slavery was appealing towards the settlers was due to the strenuous labour and long hours necessary to grow cash crops on plantations. It takes time and effort to grow these crops‚ and the main crops we will be focusing on are sugar‚ tobacco‚ and rice. Since

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    Triangle Trade: a trading system between the Americas‚ the gold coast of Africa‚ and the West Indies. For example‚ liquor would be traded for slaves‚ which would be brought over the West Indies. There‚ he would trade the slaves for molasses‚ which he would bring to New England to be turned into rum. Great Awakening: A religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s. First started in Massachusetts by pastor Jonathan Edwards. He proclaimed that believing in salvation through good works and affirming the

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    Through six days of armed conflict in an all-encompassing citizen uprising‚ Irishmen and Irishwomen alike led their own people to freedom from an outside power. This came to a compromise in the form of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic‚ which gave the Irish freedom‚ while stopping the assault of innocent British. While the Irish followed in the revolutionary footsteps of the Americans‚ they blazed their own trail for other nations such as India to follow and learn from. The Removal of Home

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    The War of the Spanish Succession was a war over the succession of the Spanish kingdom. Conflict started when Charles II had died on November 1st‚ 1700 but had no obvious male heirs to the throne. However there were candidates within the Austrian and French kingdoms. The countries battled over who is going to take the kingdom. During the war‚ countries had used privateers who are privately own armed ships who are commissioned by the government to fight or harass other countries on the sea (Privateer

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    written by the British poet and engraver William Blake. It has 4 quatrains with alternative lines rhyming. Written in iambic pentameter‚ the poem is beautifully rhymed. London deals with the dreadful scene in the industrialized London in the 18th century. In the first stanza‚ Blake gives an overview of the city and successfully creates the gloomy‚ dark and suffocating atmosphere. Blake applies varied rhetorical devices in the poem‚ of which the most striking and significant is repetition. For example

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    pros and cons of imperialism affected the Africans’ social‚ religious‚ and political lives from the 16th to 18th centuries. As the Africans were vulnerable in such ways that they didn’t know how to fight back‚ other regions‚ primarily Europe‚ dominated them and took complete control over them. Africa’s unexplored lands offered plenty of raw goods for European factories and prompted expansion into central Africa’s coal and gold mines. This was another reason why imperialism spread throughout Africa

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    1. What was the goal of Ottoman (and Egyptian) reforms of 18/19th century‚ who drove them and with what result? In Ottoman Empire the goal was to at first modernize military in order to sustain the Empire and it’s old order. Most radical reforms during the late 18th and early 19th century were introduced by Sultan Selim III‚ he intensified the military reforms which were introduced by his predecessors in the 18th century. The model for these reforms were European armies‚ Selim III wanted to reorganize

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    The medical field during the eighteenth century was comprised of unsanitary‚ heinous‚ and uncustomary practices‚ such as blood letting‚ trepanation‚ and the overcrowding of hospitals. Even though these practices didn’t help in the development of the medical field‚ there were auspicious practices that were beneficial‚ such as midwifery‚ ingrafting‚ and faith in God. Midwifery‚ during the 1700’s‚ was one of the most womanized practices of the century. To get the help of a male midwife was a belittlement

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