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    year or even if it is flowers. Lois E. Felder poem “Garden of Gold” she explains that a single rose is so special to her. The poem is about her walking into the garden and was smelling the roses. When she was walking she spotted this single rose in the middle‚ and says that the rose means so much to her. The rose represents the love that grandma gave to her. She will always remember that garden is a “Garden of Gold”. In “Garden of Gold” Lois E. Felder uses word choice throughout the whole poem. In

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    left with any power after WWII were the US and USSR. America needed a vigorous free market in Europe and the Soviets were apprehensive about Germany invading. The USSR wanted to create a communist buffer in Poland to keep Germany out. The US didn’t like this conception because they thought the communism would spread and that they would lose foreign markets for their goods. Thus‚ the Cold war commenced‚ through the tensions leading up before hand and the policies that were being enacted‚ leaving some

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    Enron's Collapse

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    Enron’s Collapse In the case of Enron’s collapse‚ many would blame the external auditor’s collusion with the management‚ the aggressive accounting policy it had adopted to manipulate its earnings or the Special Purpose Entity (SPE) it had created as a sham to conceal its debts. However‚ everything began from an internal environment with weak controls. The internal environment is the capstone of all other components within an organization’s ERM framework‚ influencing strategy formulation‚ objective

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    Regime In The 1930s

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    What we already knew about the prewar 1930s comes from Barkai (1990) and Abelshauser (1998)‚ among others‚ and on the big questions‚ Tooze reaches the same conclusions.  The German recovery from 25 percent unemployment in 1932 to less than 5 percent by 1936/7 was achieved by a money‐financed fiscal 3 expansion.  These authors ask how and when the Nazis “became Keynesians before Keynes‚” when during the same period the Roosevelt New Deal was failing to bring the US unemployment rate down to single

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    History II 5th 8 May 2014 Cultural Changes for Women in the Postwar World Women are powerful creatures and feminism in the post war world proves this. During the war women were given the jobs that were left by the men off at war. In the Soviet Union women were even fighting in the war. The war did not last forever and soon the men came back to work and the women were sent back to their previous domestic life styles. Many women were not happy about this. From the 1950’s through the 1980’s women

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    Collapse of Civilizations

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    The factors that lead to the "collapse" of civilizations are almost directly related to those that created it. Archaeologists characterize collapse by a number of elements‚ some of which we have evidence for‚ others we do not. Most archaeologists are unsure of exactly what caused the decline of most civilizations in the ancient world‚ yet there are many clues to some of the events that could have contributed. The collapse of the ancient Roman Empire‚ the Mesoamerican Mayan‚ and the Egyptian cultures

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    The Holocaust was the systematic killing of Jews Slavs Gypsies homosexuals and the disabled. Many factors led up to Holocaust such as : The Treaty of Versailles‚ The Great Depression and Hitler’s rise to power were major factors in the Holocaust. The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that ended World War One. The treaty was signed on June 28‚ 1919. The treaty was signed by France’s Premier Georges Clemenceau‚ Britain’s Prime Minister Lloyd George‚ United States President Woodrow Wilson‚ and Italy’s

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    Many Chinese workers made their way to the United States around 1848 during the California Gold Rush. By 1880‚ there was approximately seventy-five thousand newcomers in the Golden State which was nine percent of the state’s total population. These numbers increased because of mining and the hiring of large labor forces to conduct work on the Transcontinental Railroad across the West. Employers viewed the Chinese as “cheap labor”‚ and for this reason‚ Americans welcomed them (Kennedy and Cohen 500)

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    Communism In 1930s

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    The 1930s was a period of depression in the UK. While the US‚ Germany‚ Canada‚ and Canada had all had periods of economic boom in the 1920s‚ (though the US had entered a depression in the 1930s‚ also) the United Kingdom had yet to have their economic breakthrough. As the US had their Wall Street crash‚ they cut off their loans to other countries and stopped importing foreign goods in an effort to stop themselves from plunging into a depression. In response to this‚ many countries plummeted into a

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    Gold

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    Gold Gold is a very commonly used substance in today’s world‚ although it has been used by man since ancient times. Gold comes from the ground or from the ocean and must be mined but has caused major commotion since the early 1900s with people trying to get rich quick. You can find gold in some major regions of the world‚ but the most common places for gold mining are South Africa and a lot of US productions come from South Dakota and Nevada. The symbol for gold is Au for its Latin name Aurum

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