of Blue Cross Blue Shield Betty Bogart Kaplan University Author Note Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Betty Bogart‚ Student‚ Kaplan University‚ 1801 East Kimberly Road‚ Davenport IA 52807. The Changing Face of Blue Cross Blue Shield Since their founding as individual companies in the early 20th century‚ Blue Cross Blue Shield has grown to become one of the largest insurance companies in the United States. Blue Cross coverage for hospital care and Blue Shield
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Barcelona‚ Spain just so I can go see my favorite professional soccer team play which is FC Barcelona. I was so eager to go I could almost hear the sound of the ball swooshing through the air or it hitting the cleats of the player‚ but the most I could imagine is the crowd going wild and crying with joy as a goal is been scored. It was then in mid-July were my parents surprised me that we were going to Spain for a family vacation. As soon as I heard we were going to Spain I couldn’t
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The Role of Women in Spain Introduction The field of women’s studies has tried to restore the place of women in history by looking at a wide range of women’s roles and achievements in different historical periods. For example‚ Sanchez and Saens’ (1996) compilation about Spanish women during the golden age explored the lives not only of queens but of women artisans and female religious figures. What is clear from these explorations is that women’s lives were complex and their roles ambiguous
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------------------------------------------------- King Phillip II of Spain ------------------------------------------------- PHIListhebomb@gmail.com 21 Spanish Way Madrid‚ Spain 93827 (985) 453-9647 Objective: To secure a position on the King Phil Show. Accomplishments: * 1556- Crowned King of Spain * Inherited Naples‚ the Netherlands‚ Sicily‚ Milan‚ and the Americas from his
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CHAPTER THREE 3.0 HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF THE MULTELATERAL TRADING SYSTEM By the end of World War II [1939-1945]‚ the World was in total political and social-economic disorder. It quickly occurred to the major powers that there was urgent need to establish and build institutions to assume global governance. The United Nations [UN] was founded on the belief that there was need for collective action at the global level to cause and guarantee political stability. In the same belief the International
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In Spain it is a very festive time at Christmas. On Christmas Eve after Midnight Mass and Christmas Dinner‚ streets fill with dancers. There is a special Christmas dance called the Jota and the words and music have been handed down for hundreds of years. They dance to the sound of guitars and castanets. Children think of the Three Wise Man as the gift bearers. Tradition has it that they arrive on January 6th‚ the date the Wise Men gave gifts to Jesus. Shoes are be placed on balconies on the night
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nation‚ which is openly shared around the world. For this‚ I find it very ironic that the turning point in our country’s march to distinct nationhood was actually achieved during a bloody battle in World War I‚ infamously known as the battle of Vimy Ridge. It was in this victory that many Canadians‚ and historians since‚ argue was the key to making Canada a nation. A country who has since always looked for peaceful resolutions rather than war‚ was discovered both internally and externally on Easter
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The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. The aim of the project‚ founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland‚ is to study the brain’s architectural and functional principles. The project is headed by the founding director Henry Markram and co-directed by Felix Schürmann and Sean Hill. Using a Blue Gene supercomputer running
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BAROQUE NATURALISM IN SPAIN: VELAZQUEZ The greatest master of Spanish painting and one of the greatest painters of the Baroque was Diego Velazquez. Inspired by the simple‚ realistic paintings of Caravaggio‚ his approach to art would fly in the face of the flamboyant trends in his day and go even further in the direction of “naturalism.” Surprisingly‚ when he was twenty-four‚ the honest realist was appointed the court painter to the king. More surprisingly‚ Velazquez succeeded in his new role without
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**this was written as the first stage of analyizing Spain for the introduction of a franchise** In the beginning‚ Spain endured a diversified number of cultures. Around 1600 B.C.‚ the Iberians arrived in Spain. Migration into Spain continued from Europe beyond the Pyrenees‚ the Mediterranean‚ and North Africa. Following the Iberians‚ came the Celts. The two cultures merged and established a distinctive Celt Iberian culture. In 1492‚ the Moors‚ a nomadic‚ Muslim tribe of North African origin‚ were
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