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    Because of hot weather in Rome the house was very open. * Tiled pictures called mosaics decorated the walls and floors‚ keeping the house cool as well as beautiful‚ and wall paintings (murals)‚ statues and fountains were also popular. * Furniture consisted mostly of timber-framed beds‚ timber stools and couches on which people reclined.  Insulae. * An insula was a kind of apartment building * Housed most of the urban citizen population of ancient Rome‚ including ordinary people

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    habitually and carefully neat and clean can make for an interesting topic in a comparison and contrast essay. Dave Barry compares the differences of how women and men clean in his compare and contrast essay‚ Batting Clean- Up and Striking out. In Suzanne Britt’s compare and contrast essay‚ Neat People vs. Sloppy People she compares the differences of personalities between Sloppy people and neat people. Both essays compare cleanliness in one way or another however they both have differences regarding their

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    to watch films with big spectacle and great stories. They love to get lost in a world that takes them outside of themselves. Most of all‚ people love the themes represented in these “Epic” films. In the Ancient films we screened during this quarter‚ we screened the epic pictures of Ancient times. There have been many themes revolving around man’s most primal wants and desires. Themes such as; lust in Cleopatra‚ or Greed in Quo Vadis‚ are just examples of the basic primal wants that take over

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    In ancient Rome slavery was considered normal as well as a necessary part of Roman society. People in ancient Rome became slaves through a number of ways. One of the main ways was through the capture of enemies on the battlefield. When Rome would defeat their foes they usually left some survivors who would then become slaves. The Romans tended to associate conquest and slavery together; they almost always took slaves after they conquered an area. They sometimes reduced an entire population to slavery

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    Ancient Rome existed around 756 BCE to 476 CE‚ In that time‚ Rome transformed from a monarchy‚ to a republic‚ and then finally to an empire. To a major extent‚ the lives of senators in Ancient Rome were shaped and influenced by their social group and status within the Roman Republic. This is shown through how they became members of the group‚ what their daily life was like and what different roles they undertook in the senate. The senate was an exclusive society People became members of the group

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    Modern Day Prisons Patricia A. Farley Abstract This paper explores compares and contrasts the Pennsylvania Correctional System and the Auburn Correctional system and explains why the Auburn Correctional system most closely explains our modern day prisons. “In the early decades of the nineteenth century there arose two competing models of prison discipline in the United States; one was the “separate” or “solitary” system employed in Pennsylvania‚ and was kept as much as possible in total

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    Compare and Contrast - China and Korea Most American people can’t recognize the differences and similarities between China and Korea. When I came to the U.S‚ many people guessed my nationality‚ but most of them gave me a wrong answer. Because of the racial mixture between the two distinctive groups‚ people can confuse a Korean for a Chinese. Many Americans think that Asians are Chinese because China is well known as the biggest Asian country and has the highest population in the world. Both China

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    I believe America gave me many gifts to me from my family to my education. But i had to narrow it down to Three choices. It was difficult to choose but here it is. Three gifts america gave to me is Technology‚ Food‚ and History. One gift America gave Was technology a few example are. The computer because we could search stuff easly. Then we got the phone the fastest way to talk to someone. Then finally we got the Xbox which is to entertain people with games like puzzles‚ building‚

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    During (c)1750-1914 both Africa and Latin America Europeans invaded but in Africa they had a mix of peaceful Europeans as well as non-peaceful Europeans and In Latin America they had only non-peaceful Europeans. In Latin America they were constantly fighting with the Europeans for their independence‚ while in Africa they both fought and helped the Europeans. also in both Africa and Latin America some used to hate abolitionists then decided it better to free slaves. In Africa they supplied

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    Q1: Defend or refute one of the following statements: The European encounter with the Americas can be viewed as a disaster and a tragedy. Or The European encounter with the Americas can be seen as inevitable development in the history of humanity with long-run positive results. The European encounter with the Americas has more of a negative affect than a positive affect. After Columbus had came back from America with gold‚ many monarchs and countries got excited by the gold and sought formal confirmation

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