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    Nature of Athenian Imperialism Changing Relations with Allies Lars Hoogvliet After the conclusion of the Persian Wars (492-479BC) with Athens being the true victor‚ and before the Peloponnesian War‚ a period of prosperity covered Athens‚ and they needed to devise new ways to protect themselves and expand their wealth‚ and how this would affect their relations with allies. ’The Athenians and their Allies’ was an organisation led by the Athenians in the 5th century‚ but is now referred to as the

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    equality for all and true religious freedom. Slavery in the antebellum period was a critical issue that led up all the way to the civil war. One of the biggest issues during the reforms was abolition movements. People like William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglas promoted abolition to slavery. Escape routes were created such as the underground railroad which was a network of secret routes and safe houses that would keep slaves in their houses so that they would be able to escape to the

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    John brown the radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of slavery. Brown was born in Torrington‚ Connecticut and he spent most of his childhood in Ohio. Brown’s father‚ was a very religious man‚ whose Calvinism formed the pillars of this family’s household. His professional life and some business failures which made him go into bankruptcy at age 42 and making him have more than 20 lawsuits filed against him. During the bleeding Kansas Brown led attacks on pro slavery and justified

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    Throughout the corporate world‚ businesses are transforming labor into a more flexible (and variable) cost.  Among such companies are Hewlett-Packard‚ General Electric‚ DuPont‚ Sun Microsystems‚ and British Airways.  Discuss whether direct labor is a fixed or a variable cost.  What are the pros and cons of management treating direct labor as a variable cost?  Are there ethical issues to be considered here?  Direct labor can be classified as a fixed cost or a variable cost‚ depending on how flexible

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    THE SPARTAN HEGEMONY

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    democracies within the Greek city-states and replaced these with oligarchies. This was done with force Lysander‚ a Spartan‚ was the hero of the Peloponnesian war. He planted a Spartan governor‚ or harmost‚ in the democratic cities and supported them with a garrison Spartan rule was soon hated by garrisoned states. Unfortunately for Lysander‚ he also has his own political opponents in Sparta‚ who conspired against him. Harmost’s ruled with a local decarchy (local group of 10 oligarchs) The Athenian navy had

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    The 1800’s was an interesting time‚ our country was still developing and the problems our earlier presidents sought out to finish were still lasting. One of the main problems that now has forever been changed in the United States is slavery and we can see the heavy impact abolitionism has had on this social problem so this is where social reform or social reformation comes in. Abolitionism was a movement to terminate slavery. Major occurrences of abolitionism occurred in Spain and France as well

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    Nursing is a great career path. It is a hard job but it is well worth it. Amanda Garrison is a 29-year-old multigravida at 28-weeks gestation. She has received prenatal care since 8 weeks gestation at a perinatal practice that is staffed by an RN‚ a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM)‚ and a physician specializing in Perinatal Medicine (perinatologist). She comes to the clinic for a routine prenatal visit. Maternal/Child Clinical Nursing Assignments Genetics is Relevant Now: Nurses’ Views and Patient

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    States like nothing else before‚ and could have been the main event leading to the Civil War. Although Brown was a major factor toward antislavery‚ he was not the first Abolitionist to take serious action in order to reach his goal. William Lloyd Garrison is another example of a white reformer that was serious in his intent to destroy slavery‚ no matter what it took. Garrison’s newspaper‚ The Liberator‚ was first published on January 1‚ 1831. He published this newspaper to spread his opinion on slavery

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    Black slavery in the South created a bond among white Southerners and cast them in a common mold. Slavery was also the source of the South ’s large agricultural wealth‚ which led to white people controlling a large black minority. Slavery also caused white Southerners to realize what might happen to them should they not protect their own personal liberties‚ which ironically included the liberty to enslave African Americans. Because slavery was so embedded in Southern life and customs‚ white leadership

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    The final section of the essay will examine the role of war in uniting the three kingdoms. Between 1739-1815‚ Britain spent fifty-two of these years at war. Demonstrating the importance of war in the eighteenth century. These wars would be fought; in the British Isles‚ in the colonies of the empire‚ and against other major European countries. War was a major part of Britons lives‚ so the government needed to keep the kingdoms loyal and committed. But how this worked out in the three kingdoms was

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