Trojan War‚ in Greek legend‚ famous war waged by the Greeks against the city of Troy. The tradition is believed to reflect a real war between the Greeks of the late Mycenaean period and the inhabitants of the Troad‚ or Troas‚ in Anatolia‚ part of present-day Turkey. Modern archaeological excavations have shown that Troy was destroyed by fire sometime between 1230 bc and 1180 bc‚ and that the war may have resulted from the desire either to plunder the wealthy city or to put an end to Troy’s commercial
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Speeches are used to persuade. Discuss. The art of persuasive speaking‚ or rhetoric‚ has been practiced in the West since the fifth century BC. It traditionally deploys three key elements: ethos‚ being the speaker’s character‚ standing and credibility; logos‚ being the rational appeal of the speech; and pathos‚ being the emotional appeal. Devices typically used in effective rhetoric include: inclusive language‚ repetition‚ metaphor‚ imagery and historical references. Depending on the context‚
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Josie Johnson 5th Period 1/19/15 Free Response Essay Every day there seems to be a controversial subject being discussed on the news‚ talk shows and the internet. Recently‚ the subject of Obamacare (the Affordable Care Ac) is debated everywhere. There are pros and cons to Obamacare. Although Obamacare is helpful to many‚ others see it as unfair‚ but with help from both sides a system that satisfies the needs of everyone should be obtainable. As far as pros‚ the Affordable Care Act contains many
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Employer Branding and its Effect on Organizational Attractiveness via the World Wide Web: Results of quantitative and qualitative studies combined Paper presented at the 4th International e-HRM Conference “Innovation‚ Creativity and e-HRM” 28-29 March 2012‚ Nottingham Trent University‚ UK Tanya Bondarouk1 University of Twente School of Management and Governance Department of Operations‚ Organization and Human Resources 7500 AE Enschede‚ The Netherlands Email: t.bondarouk@utwente.nl Huub
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2013 Word Count: 754 Argument Essay Some individuals would agree that torture would be necessary if terrorist/criminals that were captured possessed information that could potentially harm millions of people or families. Now torture has taken on a whole new meaning. Torture is the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something‚ or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain. In Michael Levin’s essay “The Case of Torture‚”
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Planning Your Vacation INTRODUCTION Imagine getting away from the monotony of your everyday life. You can lie on the beach sipping a cool drink miles away from your worries of getting a paper done or helping a customer at work. You can be on top of a mountain overlooking beautiful lands that are different from your own backyard. Half of the class has taken a vacation less than five times in their lifetimes‚ but let’s face that most of those probably included those little family vacations to Disneyland
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falling over each other to recruit the best talent and employees hop jobs for just a few thousands rupees‚ employers need to stand out in the crowd. That’s why e-branding is increasingly seen as the single-most important factor influencing the selection of an employer by a potential employee. “What employment branding helps in doing is increasing the perception of a company as a potential employer of choice thereby not only reducing attrition but also increasing the pool of available talent. Also‚ most
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German Estrada Mrs. Trejo English 1A 07/09/2013 Argument Essay We live in a small world. People are always going to be rude‚ offensive‚ and uncivil‚ and that’s just how this world is. I am not saying everyone is though‚ but once in a while we see or hear that part of someone who just is not having the best of days and is being the rudest most disrespectable person anyone has ever seen and that automatically makes that person a bad influence in our society. Well I do not think it is‚ every person
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TMA 1 DB123 You and your money. Part A a) In the 2000 column the cells add up to 100% because the sample of the survey is the total of people participating on the survey. b) For the year of 1998 the total adds up to 99% the reason for this it could be because the enquired population didn’t have the same number used an the following years. c) The total of the percentage of children living in families with at least 2 children are of 74% ‚ including the 58% of children living with married/cohabitating
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efficiency. In the long term it could be substantially better‚ because you build based on the 80% of people that are there on any given workweek‚ rather than for the full workforce. Smaller buildings = less energy use‚ in addition to the fewer resources used to put the building up in the first place. 3. Drew Miller says: July 28th‚ 2009 at 2:34 pm Why not just stagger the workweeks on a building-by-building basis‚ so you get the energy efficiency and the traffic efficiency? You’d also
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