Life in Ancient Greece: Spartan men and women Bernice Gelin Professor Shepardson November 18‚ 2008 World History The ancient city of Sparta has had a lasting impression on the world today. Sparta was a model of discipline‚ conformity‚ militarism‚ and virtue. It was a prominent city state‚ but its society was unique from typical life in Greece. Sparta was a military state‚ believing in having only the strong and not the weak to maintain the
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Male-male Compensatory Relationship Theory I. Rationale Among many historical figures‚ some have been recorded as having homosexual relationships which may or may not be exclusive to same sex. It is through constant suppression and negative connotations that many of them have been left to perish. Earliest documented same-sex relationships dates back in Ancient Greece where it was indicated that it was normal for adult males (erastes) to have younger males (eromenos) to take as lovers but does
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Athenians Democracy Ancient Athens has two documents that discuss democracy. The first one is “Document A: Pericles” and the other one is “Document B: The The Athenian Constitution”. In document A‚ I found that is truly democratic because your social class is not allowed the interfere with someone’s merit. For example‚ if you’re poor you’re still able to serve the state or be part of the government. In document A it also states that “you get equal justice.” And that’s the way it should be
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Athenian democracy was guided by the principle of isonomy. Isonomy basically means that everyone in Athens is equal before the law‚ and all citizens have equal participation in creating the law (Breaugh‚ 2011). Even though citizens are equal in the political sphere‚ they were not equal in other areas of the polis. The lower classes in Athenian democracy were equal in the sense that they had an equal to vote on the laws‚
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Joe and Janie engaged in many conversations throughout their time together. One day‚ they get into an argument. The argument resulted in the fact that Janie could not find any pig’s feet for a customer. Janie has told Joe that she ordered a whole keg of pig’s feet the day before but when the customer went to get some‚ there wasn’t any left. Joe then asked Janie where the bill for the pig’s feet was. Janie replied that it’s either on the nail or on his desk. Joe said that it was in neither places
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It is easy to say - “conserve water” and lately‚ everyone seems to be saying it! We had several NGOs disturbing us by distributing pamphlets about conserving water. Aiming that crumpled pamphlet to the waste basket‚ I used to wonder “Why are they wasting paper in the name of saving water?” After hearing NGOs blaming the government‚ I had resigned to the notion that “water conservation” is an issue that the government should take care of. It looked like the world is conspiring to make me feel guilty
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an extremely active democracy‚ the Athenians were under various forms of government‚ including monarchy‚ oligarchy and tyranny. Monarchy The city-states in Greece were established some time around the 9th century BC. From around the 9th into the 8th centuries‚ a king‚ or “basileus‚” ruled the city-state with a group of nobles under him. However‚ the Athenian monarchy did not last very long. Government develops from many impulses and threads and the Athenians saw a landed
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An Indiscreet Conversation on Hiring Case Study 2 Jerdson L. Gamble Lasell College Abstract The purpose of this case study is to examine the legitimacy of the hiring agenda of four friends Joe‚ Steven‚ Matt‚ and Andrew. The major issue focused on in this paper will be the hiring process‚ discrimination‚ employment qualifications‚ and employment equity. In all this paper will review the responsibility that managers have when thinking about when decisions to make when hiring especially in high-risk
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give women more rights so they could help out around the town. But women in Sparta were way more influential and useful than Athenian women. Women all throughout history have been the lesser of the two sexes. Sparta was known as a high military power having all men from 7 years old to 65 years old in the military. After the city-state of Messenia got overruled by the Spartans‚ Sparta had
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Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 21 (2010) 365–378 DOI:10.3233/IFS-2010-0457 IOS Press 365 A theorical model design for ERP software selection process under the constraints of cost and quality: A fuzzy approach Semih Onut∗ and Tugba Efendigil Department of Industrial Engineering‚ Yildiz Technical University‚ Yildiz‚ Istanbul‚ Turkey Abstract. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software selection is one of the most important decision making issues covering both qualitative and quantitative
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