NIGERIA @ 53; THE ROLE OF PASSION IN DRIVING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE Each time the National Anthem is sung‚ I am often burdened with this unanswered question; ‘’Where are the fruits of the labour of our heroes past? ‘’ Then I realize that the fruits of their labour only once existed; we can no longer see them. Of course what we see today in our country is moral decadence‚ unequalled indiscipline‚ high rate of crime‚ to mention but a few. Our nation’s independence on October 1st‚ 1960‚ could be said
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Response Machiavelli’s suggestion that a ruler should rule like both a lion and a fox is exemplified to very different degrees with the monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain‚ and Louis XI of France. Isabella and Ferdinand were strong‚ ferocious leaders who implemented local and state level authority impressively. They also cleverly established a guilded appearance as religious figures connected through diplomatic alliance to the Catholic church. They follow Machiavelli’s suggestion to the T
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Viewing Report: Open Range Although Open Range (2003) is made in the tradition of a classic Western‚ it questions the social and political aspect that often seems to define the western genre. The paradigm of the film sets out to give the “villainous” characters a chance to be heroes and have love and suggests that the law of the land‚ well‚ disrupts the land. The title of the film gives reference to a time when cattle owners were still forcing free grazers from one open grazing area to another
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profession‚ but his real interest lies in bird watching. It is because of this that Diamond traveled to Papa New Guinea. It was there that Diamond was presented with the question that spurred his research. A New Guinean named Yali‚ asked Diamond “Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans so little?” This question was one that Diamond was unable to answer right away‚ although he figured it would not be too difficult to figure out. Through his years of research‚ Diamond claims that race
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A’Lexia Wright AP Lang/Comp Commentary Throughout my speech I used many rhetorical devices and figures of speech. These devices include imagery‚ simile‚ parallelism‚ polysyndeton‚ tone‚ emotional appeal‚ logos and rhetorical questions. Thess devices gave me the ability to convey how I felt about teens practicing sexual abstinence. I used a rhetorical question to introduce my speech. "Whats your favorite sex position?"‚ was my introduction because I wanted to hook onto my audience
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cane (this was known as cannes bruleés‚ anglicised as Canboulay or Camboulay). For each group‚ masks and mimicry were an essential part of the ritual. After the emancipation of slaves in 1838‚ Canboulay became a symbol of freedom and defiance. In response‚ the British colonial government outlawed drumming‚ stickfighting‚ masquerading‚ African-derived religions (like those of the Orisa faith and the Spiritual Shouter Baptists or Shango Baptists)‚ and even tried to suppress the steel pan – but was never
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Systems theory is an extension of the humanistic perspective that describes organizations as open systems characterized by entropy‚ synergy and subsystem interdependence. The systems theory is one of the recent historical trends of organization and management (the other two are contingency view and total quality management). General systems theory grew out of the organismic views of L. Bertalanffy and other biologists during1950s and K. Boulding‚ D. Katz‚ R. Kahn‚ F. Kast‚ J. Rosenzweig‚ W. Buckley
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AP US History Chapter 1 Homework Definitions: On a separate sheet of paper‚ define the following words/phrases and discuss the significant of each Prince Henry the Navigator Mercantilism Hernando Cortes Roanoke John Cabot Mestizos Martin Luther Enclosure Movement John Calvin Merchant Capitalists Predestination The Plantation Model Encomiendas Conquistadors The English Reformation Separatists Questions: On a separate sheet of paper‚ answer
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1. The promotion of the acquisition of wealth through plunder‚ colonization‚ and the protection of home industries and foreign markets during Europe’s rebirth was called mercantilism 2. What ultimately proved to be the undoing of monarchical absolutism and its system of patronage during Europe’s rebirth? growing economic power of merchants 3. Which is not characteristic of unitary state governments? Concerned with fostering diversity of regional cultural expression 4. Nigeria is a state
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Stephan Crane’s "The Open Boat‚" is based upon Crane’s own experience of being in a dinghy after the ship he was on sank. This story was largely about hope‚ working together‚ and not giving up despite the hardships you face. One of the expressed ideas in this story is the feeling of community and working together for a common good‚ survival! He communicates the importance of each individual’s role within the group. Crane uses a frightening situation indicating that the lives of these individual men
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