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    Throughout the course of the 19th and 20th century‚ economic considerations played a significant role in shaping both racial discrimination and concepts of white supremacy in South Africa. When large deposits of gold and diamonds were discovered in the latter half of the 19th century‚ the economic structure of southern Africa was dramatically altered. The mining industry necessitated vast amounts of inexpensive labor in order to be profitable. In the post South African War period‚ the necessity to return

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    will‚ not fate‚ that leads to the discovery of the murder of his father and marriage to his mother. On the opposite side of this‚ though‚ is the fact that through all of Oedipus’ attempts to dodge his fate‚ he fulfills what he had been told was his destiny‚ thus proving fate to be true. An example of Oedipus making a clear personal choice that affects his life is after Creon returns from Delphi with news from Apollo. Creon suggests that he speak to Oedipus in private‚ and tells Oedipus "If you want

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    The West: Exploiting an Empire When the civil war was over‚ Americans believed expansion was their “manifest destiny” and began moving in the west direction across the continent‚ conquering the Native Americans through diverse means and created a North American Empire. The Native Americans were pushed from their lands and forced to change their culture by the end of the century because they were seen as threat that might hinder the White Americans migration. The Indians abandoned their

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    Americans started migrating west in the 1800’s due to many push and pull factors. Everyone had their own treacherous reason to go. All the people included‚ white free men and slaves‚ also the government. No one really knows where it all started‚ but it could be because of religious ideas such as manifest destiny. Or it could have been because americans just wanted to expand because they thought that‚ that was their land. From facts that are shown in the US history textbooks‚ americans wanted to expand

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    The Concept of Arabization

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    Arabization The concept of Arabization : Arabization is used in the literature in four different senses: 1) It could be used to mean borrowing foreign words without changing them like أكسجين and نانو. These words are described as دخيلة . Sometimes these words are adapted to the phonological and morphological systems of Arabic; e.g.‚ تلفزيون and they are described as معربة. (linguistic dimension) 2) It could be used to mean translating from other languages into Arabic. In this sense‚ Arabization

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    M.M. (2012). Business ethics: Case studies and selected readings. Mason‚ OH: South-Western Cengage Learning Kellian Clink‚ (2007) "Small Business Encyclopedia"‚ Reference Reviews. (Vol. 21 Iss: 8‚ pp.26 - 26) Mokhiber‚ R. (2003). Ill feelings at HealthSouth. Multinational Monitor‚ 24(11)‚ 7-8. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.proxy1.ncu.edu/docview/208878914?accountid=28180 Shukurat‚ M. B. (2012). Impact of ethical leadership on employee job performance. International Journal of Business

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    NUCLEAR ARMS RACE IN SOUTH ASIA AND ITS IMPACT ON REGIONAL SECURITY INTRODUCTION 1. The nuclear age opened during World War II with a blinding light; a deafening roars fire and blood. The world’s first nuclear bomb exploded at Alamogordo on 16 July 1945. It had a very complex history. The sensational discovery of nuclear fission first came in Germany in December 1938. British research then showed that the manufacture of a nuclear weapon was almost possible. The American technological‚ scientific

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    West African Culture

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    Richard Franke argues that traditional West African cultures invented better adaptations to their environments than were developed later through outside‚ Western Influences. As is stated in the first page‚ "the historical record so far suggests strongly that Western policies have been major contributors to the current degraded state of the Sahel that renders its food production systems so vulnerable to shifts in the weather." (Franke‚ p. 257) The thought‚ is that this is because we do not have the

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    National Defense University (NDU) RESEARCH PROPOSAL THE DECLINE OF THE WEST: A SOCIOECONOMIC PERISPECTIVE Presented to: Sir Bakare Najimudeen Submitted by: Jawad Falak M.Sc. IR-E (1st Semester) THE DECLINE OF THE WEST: A SOCIOECONOMIC PERISPECTIVE Statement of Problem: The group of countries historically designated as the West has carried their dominance of nearly two centuries into the 21st century now under the banner of their champion the United States of America. But at the

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    The Republic of South Sudan‚ colloquially known as South Sudan‚ is located in the eastern region of Africa‚ landlocked by amidst Ethiopia to the east‚ Uganda and Kenya to the south‚ the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Central African Republic to the west‚ and Sudan to the north. Approximately 12.05 million people live in the country‚ and most of its populace are between zero and fourteen years of age‚ meaning that the country’s population will see a lot of growth when their youngest generation

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