best of the Greek city-states. The rising of Athens inevitably caused jealousy and strife amongst its competing city-states‚ leading to the Peloponnesian War in 431 BC. Ironically‚ in the end‚ Pericles falls to the plague along with his two sons in 429 BC. Without his guidance‚ Athens ultimately lost the Peloponnesian War and‚ after that‚ it never managed to recover its glory. It can be said that Pericles was the man whose life gave Athens its power ‚ as well as the man whose death deprived Athens
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Alalayan vs. NAPOCOR Alalayan and the Philippine Power and Development Company assails the power vested in NAPOCOR that "in any contract for the supply of electric power to a franchise holder‚" receiving at least 50% of its electric power and energy from it to require as a condition that such franchise holder "shall not realize a net profit of more than twelve percent annually of its investments plus two-month operating expenses." Also it could “renew all existing contracts with franchise holders
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subdivision of one sovereign nation‚ but not intended‚ however‚ to be an “imperium in imperio‚” the local government unit is autonomous in the sense that it is given more powers‚ authority‚ responsibilities and resources (Alvarez vs. Guingona‚Jr.‚ 252 SCRA 695 [1996]). Unfortunately‚ the free exercise of such autonomy is hampered with the imposition‚ in the absence of full consideration by Congress‚ of unfounded mandates on local government units. These unfounded mandates displace other essential local
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LEJ 2 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF F A^ SUPREME COURT CASE NO. 1051361 BARBARA MORRI S N ‚ Plaintiff /Appellant versus PATRICIA T. SPIVEY ET AL‚ Defendants/Appellees 1 Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry County ‚ Alabama 1 BRIEF ON BEHALF OF THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT ‚ BARB RA ISON Submitted by. . .... . ORIGINAL t Appellant Bar Russell Lee I y Albert H. Ada s‚ Jr. Attorneys for Plaintiff / ara Morrison Post Office ox 910 Eufaula‚ AL 36072-0910 TEL:
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Lianne George’s article “Why Are We Dressing Our Daughters Like This?” published in Maclean’s magazine (2007)‚ details the disturbing trend of the hypersexualization of young girls in society. George’s main purpose is to express how sexuality through the media‚ marketing and toys influence girls in their style of clothing. George’s work examined how the Lolita trend‚ along with celebrities‚ helped fuel young girls perception of themselves. These observations are then adhered and continued onto their
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Ashford and Lecroy discuss formal operational thinking during adolescence‚ and Juno seems to be assimilation during the movie. Ashford and Lecroy describe assimilation as consolidating new information with old information‚ in order to make a decision (p.429). Juno expresses assimilation when attending the local women’s clinic with the decision to have her baby aborted. She decides not to go through with it when her friend mentions how her baby already has fingernails‚ this new information along with her
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Symposium Symposium‚ by Plato‚ contains information regarding the author’s life‚ provenance‚ genre‚ language‚ and intended audience. Plato was born in 429 BCE into one of the richest and most politically active families in Athens‚ Greece. When he was a young adult‚ he learned from the great Athenian philosopher Socrates‚ and later used Socrates as the main character of many of his dialogues. After Socrates death‚ Plato traveled to Megara‚ Cyrene‚ Italy‚ Sicily‚ Egypt‚ and Syracuse‚ spreading his
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Why did empires of the ancient world rise and fall? According to the statement of Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel in their book The Dynamics of Ancient Empires‚ the first empire we have known in the world “took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf‚ beginning around 2350 B.C.E” (Ian Morris‚ Walter Scheidel. 2009). From then on‚ a large number of imperial powers with a growing share of humanity sprung up in the next 2500 years. Among these‚ there
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MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Andrew‚ personal injury‚ mental injury‚ accident compensation‚ common law action FACTS: A is a cleaner employed by the University of Ewewhon. He nicks a finger on a broken test tube on the floor of a laboratory. A small spot of blood forms. He is assured the test tube was clean. A becomes extremely fearful that the glass might have been contaminated and that he might contract a serious illness. 1.0 ISSUE: Application of the Accident Compensation Act 2001 Assuming A is
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It has been argued that most of the crucial political and ideological battles of the Cultural Revolution were fought over the issue of the nature of social class structure in post-revolutionary China. What does the Cultural Revolution teach us about class structure and struggle under socialism? The Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution[1] was a political and ideological struggle spanning the decade from 1966-1976. More implicitly‚ it was a struggle spurned into motion by Mao Zedong to reinstitute
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