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    What was the main reason for Italian Unification? In 1815 after the battle of waterloo and the end of the Napoleonic wars‚ the victorious powers met to discuss what to do to at what became to be known as the Congress of Vienna. To ensure that war on the same scale never broke out again they decided to make very little changes to the current map of Europe‚ except strengthening all of France’s neighbours. I was agreed at the conference that the ruling powers should meet in the future whenever

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    Black Gold: Wake Up and Smell The Coffee The film Black Gold: Wake Up and Smell The Coffee takes us through the lives of Ethiopian coffee growers and the complicated journey of coffee beans. We meet Tadesse Meskela‚ a representative of the Oramia Coffee Farmers Co- Operative Union trying to help his farmers from going into poverty. We learn how the lives of the Ethiopian coffee farmers depends on the price that the New York Board of Trade decides on. Throughout the film we see Tadesse Meskela

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    Gold Rush

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    7 Dec 2012 1849 Gold Rush In the Early 1840’s a wealthy man by the name of John Sutter headed West to a place very few people had ever seen or heard of‚ called California. His plans were to start his own private empire. Then gold was discovered. People came from all over the world to find the mother-lode of gold. Gold was a very valuable substance and back then even a little bit could satisfy you for life‚ therefore triggering a stampede of half a million people. There were two men who founded

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    The 1930s are designated has Hollywood’s “Golden Age” because of the various innovations made in the industry during this time. Classic films released during that decade include Gone With The Wind‚ The Wizard of Oz‚ King Kong‚ and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. One major development that came in the late 1920s was the advent of the synchronized sound system in film. This allowed mass audiences to watch feature length films with dialogue‚ music‚ and sound effects for the first time in history.

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    Hume’s Response to Standards of Taste In this essay I shall assess David Hume’s thoughts and assessments on the standards of taste in the aesthetic world. As a philosopher who was more interested in critiquing art rather than explaining it‚ Hume began to formulate how art should be perceived or understood by form of ‘taste’ and the standards that accompanied it such as impressions. Hume relates aesthetic judgments to moral judgments as well‚ and differentiates between two types of aesthetic taste

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    How the gold rush affects San Francisco today San Francisco has been affected by one of the largest migrations in so many different ways. Teams‚ bridges and even restaurants have been named after the SF gold rush. This also was partly why so many people live in the bay area today. The gold rush brought life around San Francisco in the hills where redwood students grow up today. The SF gold rush influenced the names of bridges‚ teams‚ restaurants and even brought life to the city and its surroundings

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    movie Black Gold Analysis Wade Popel Black gold examines the coffee supply chain and follows it back to its origin‚ Ethiopia‚ which is the biggest coffee producer in Africa. Ethiopia is also the birthplace of coffee. Harvested and drank for thousands of years‚ Ethiopia produces some of the world’s finest coffee beans. Yet‚ despite the rise of the coffee industry over the last decade‚ Ethiopian coffee farmers still struggle to feed their families. There are 15 million

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    orientation and asset-led marketing. When a business bases it’s marketing mix on what the business sees as it’s internal strengths‚ the business’s marketing is said to be ’product orientated’. When a business bases it’s marketing mix on it’s perception of what the market wants‚ the business’s marketing is said to be ’market led’‚ or ’market orientated’. Asset led marketing uses product strengths such as the name and brand image to market both new and exist- ing products. With asset led marketing‚ Marketing

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    Chilean mine collapse George Montenegro BCOM/275 March 24‚ 2013 Allen Sutton Resource: “Over 30 Workers Trapped After Chilean Copper Mine Collapse” article found in the Electronic Reserve Readings.   Research additional articles and information about the Chilean mine collapse. There are two parts to the assignment‚ as detailed below.   Part 1: Write a 700- to 1‚050-word paper using this and other articles as a resource. Because communications must be designed with the audience in mind

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    Nothing lasts forever. Government‚ societies‚ and empires are no exception. Government corrupts‚ societies collapse‚ and empires fall. The disintegration and eventual failure of an empire is often the result of bad decisions and fatal mistakes. Even the smallest of mistakes can send an empire into a sudden and uncontrollable decent. Making the society and its people accessible to foreign attacks. The Roman Empire began its deterioration shortly after Diocletian split Rome into two halves‚ the East

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