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    The Origins of the Hyksos

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    The Hyksos? The Hyksos? The origins of Egypt ’s Pharaohs during the Second Intermediate Period is an answer that has eluded scholars since antiquity. Egypt between the Middle and New Kingdom had become a complex puzzle in which many missing pieces needed to be ascertained through diligent research of the historical and archaeological record. The label given to these Pharaohs is Hyksos‚ this is derived from an Egyptian phrase meaning ’rulers of foreign countries. ’ (Save-Soderbergh 1951:56)

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    The origin of the Philippines The Philippines is a country of Southeast Asia‚ with its 7‚107 islands strewn over the Western Pacific Ocean‚ approximately 13 N of the equator and 122 E of Greenwich. Its collective land area is about 300‚000 sq. km‚ about the size of the state of Arizona. This island archipelago is one of the most megadiverse countries in the world‚ housing over 5% of the entire world’s flora in an area not even 1% of the world’s total. An estimated 10‚000 to 11‚000 species of

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    Beef and Substitute Items

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    price of beef as a result? The price of beef went up. Matter of fact‚ it hit record highs. Resulting in better sales for substitute items. •What was the impact of mad cow disease on the supply and demand for substitute items? It seems to me that once the issue of mad cow disease became bigger‚ the demand for substitute items went up. The article says that Americans will act in one of two ways. We will either “run from beef” like the Europeans did in the nineties‚ or “rally behind the beef industry”

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    The Origin of Birds

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    The Origin of Birds For as long as cohesive evolutionary theories have been in place‚ the heated debate regarding the origin of birds and their relationship to dinosaurs has raged on. After the 1860s birds have been hypothesized as being closely related to an ample assortment of extant and extinct reptile lineages. These include a diversity of basal archosaurs and archosauromorphs‚ pterosaurs‚ crocodylomorphs (including modern crocodylians and their Mesozoic relatives)‚ and various theropod ornithischian

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    Topic:Does globalization make the poor poorer? Since the Industrial Revolution happened in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840‚ the world has gone through a quick booming and the trend of globalization is becoming more obvious in terms of the active communication and intensive trades among the countries. Nowadays‚ globalization becomes a common term that everyone know and can talk about. Hence‚ it is followed by lots of arguments because of various vision from different

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    The Origin of Yankee

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    fictional stories have also been created describing its origin. One known story as believed by Virginians is that the word Yankee derived from the Cherokee word “eankke” and was said to have the definition of slave or coward. This theory has since been rejected by Oscar G Sonneck of the Librarian of Congress after a thorough study and being unable to prove any such Cherokee word exists. (The Encyclopedia Brittannica Inc.‚) Regardless of its origin Yankee is a term that has developed in to geographical

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    Street gangs have been a part of American history for years. According a report from the Immigration Customs Enforcement‚ MS-13 is the most violent and rapidly spreading gang in the United States. Their major areas of concentration are in 33 states which not limited to: California‚ Texas‚ New York‚ Maryland‚ and Nebraska to name a few. The origin of the MS-13 can be traced to Los Angeles in the 1980s. Salvadoran families have fled to L.A. to escape from the civil war that was happening in El Salvador

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    Kate Grenville’s episodic novel Joan Makes History (1988) is also "good to think with" in term of national identity. Grenville deviates from exploring Amanda Lohrey’s suggestion of a "suitable past" (1996). Instead of celebrating what Lohrey describes as "mindless nationalism" (1996‚ p 150)‚ in the invented traditions of Australian society‚ national identity‚ political progression and territory‚ Grenville explores the key periods of Australian history through the first-person narration‚ presenting

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    Essay and Rubric Item

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    [Date] A1. [Name of Rubric Item] Even though the assignment may indicate that you should write an essay‚ the essay format makes it hard for the grader to identify answers to rubric items. To ensure the best chance of success‚ it helps to break out each rubric item into a separate section. You may have to overlap information across sections since rubric items sometimes can’t be explained alone without covering another rubric item. Do your best to answer each item and go into more specific detail

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    Origins Of Inequality

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    innately good self due to the modernization of society and lack of strong social contract as Jean Rousseau asserts jointly in his work “The Origins of Inequality” and in “The Social Contract”. After an in-depth analysis

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