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    Table 4.8 The Use of Hedge by Trump. Type of Disagreement Frequency Utterance The use of Hedge 3 The NAFTA agreement is defective. Just because of the tax and many other reasons‚ but just because of the fact... (Datum 1) Well‚ could I just finish -- I think I... (Datum 2) I think it’s disgraceful. (Datum 3) Datum 1 Utterance above is included into the use of hedge. It is indicated by the present of word “just”‚ this word function to soften the disagreement. In this case Trump try to argue

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    Empire Notes

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    Empire Niall Ferguson Introduction * To the British‚ as to people in the rest of the world‚ imperialism’s golden age is now considered a stain on human history‚ an era of slavery and racism and the plunder of native lands and peoples. The notion that imperialism is inherently evil‚ and that no empire can be a good empire‚ is an axiom in today’s geopolitics. * Examines the British Empire from an economic perspective‚ controversially concluding that the British Empire was‚ on balance‚ a

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    HISTORY OF THE MOGHUL EMPIRE Babur in Kabul: 1504-1525 Babur‚ founder of the Moghul dynasty in India‚ is one of history’s more endearing conquerors. In his youth he is one among many impoverished princes‚ all descended from Timur‚ who fight among themselves for possession of some small part of the great man’s fragmented empire. Babur even captures Samarkand itself on three separate occasions‚ each for only a few months. The first time he achieves this he is only fourteen. What distinguishes

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    byzantine empire

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    This is an extract from: Byzantine Garden Culture edited by Antony Littlewood‚ Henry Maguire‚ and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Washington‚ D.C. © 2002 Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University Washington‚ D.C. Printed in the United States of America www.doaks.org/etexts.html The Vienna Dioskorides and Anicia Juliana Leslie Brubaker Dioskorides of Anazarbos‚ a physician and pharmacologist‚ wrote the Materia medica

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    Ottoman Empire The formation of the Ottoman Empire started about the beginning of the fourteenth century. The first land controlled by the Ottoman Empire was the Anatolian peninsula. The Ottoman Empire would become on of the most successful states because of a variety of reasons including the fall of the Byzantium Empire‚ military tactic‚ and more to be addressed. This combination of reasons was required for the Ottoman Empire to become so powerful. The beginning of the Ottoman Empire can be

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    The Roman Empire

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    capital of the greatest Empire in all of the land‚ at the time. At the height of the Empire they might have had a population of a few million‚ and was worth over billions of dollars.Although great‚ the Empire fell for the most simple things. The Empire let the small things go and the small things built up over time to cause a huge problem in the end which brought the end to the Empire. This great Empire was huge‚ fasting over the entire‚ now‚ Europe continent. The Empire was controlled or ruled by

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    What Is An Empire

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    Survival of Imperialism What is an empire? There is not a unique definition for this term because over the course of history empires took many different forms. However all empires possessed the common capacity to dominate and impose on others. The very first empires started with the emergence of communities and the motivation to conquer came with the need to survive harsh environments which prone those communities to routinely attack other living tribes in search of food and shelter. Progressively

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    Mongol Empire

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    The Mongol Empire quickly covered the largest territory the world had ever seen. The Mongols’ main strategy in acquiring land was conquering by force‚ but they also relied on more peaceful methods and their tightly-knit political and social organization. The Mongols attacked villages until complete destruction using their land-based military techniques (docs 1‚2‚3‚7 and 8). Sometimes‚ they gave civilizations a chance to submit to terms and avoid destructions (docs 6 and 9). He Mongols’ divisions

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    Feared Empire. The Mongols are arguably the best conquerors the world has ever seen. Through brutal military tactics and intimidating physiological warfare‚ they were capable of building the greatest land empire that the world has ever seen. The empire not only was fierce and cruel but they also brought about the rival of Silk Road trading which helped lead to their people to great economic prosperity. The Conrad-Demarest Model of an empire is a basic guideline that all of the empires are said

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    The Byzantine Empire

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    belongs to Greek man named Byzas. The whole Empire of Byzantine was Greek speaking and it was also in the continuation of eastern part of great Roman Empire during the period of late Middle East ages and late antiquity. The capital of this Empire was Constantinople that known in the modern age with the name of Istanbul. Byzantine also survived the fragmentation and it causes fall to the Western Roman Empire. During the period of 5th century AD this Empire was the most powerful in terms of culture‚

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