THE COLD WAR in the 1960’s * MAD Theory (Mutually Assured Destruction) * The Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962) * Why the crisis happened? (Khrushchev‚ Fidel Castro & Cuba) * Was JFK a hawk or a dove? * Impacts of the crisis: flexible response & trend toward détente * Missles out of Cuba * Missles out of Germany * Can’t invade Cuba with force. THE WAR IN VIETNAM * It was America’s longest war * Some numbers: $ 150 billion ($600
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What is Post-Modernism? The aim of this essay is to explain how Post-Modernism has influenced our contemporary built environment and explain what other movements have derived from it. I would argue that Post-Modernism is a worldwide movement in all arts and disciplines. A definition of postmodernism will provide a better understanding of the trend that would show how it is relevant to contemporary culture and important for the future. Postmodernism became an important movement right after
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arguments for both sides. Arguments against allowing refugees into Australia are the strongest in terms of financial cost and economic consequences for Australia. Those consequences are real and affect all of us. I have decided to argue in favour of allowing refugees enter Australia for the following reasons. A refugee is a person who is forced to leave his or her own country without the ability to return because of a war or a real risk of persecution because of their race‚ religion‚ nationality
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the Great to the present day. Under the Ptolemaic Kings‚ Alexandria blossomed as one of the great centres of learning in both science and literature. All Ptolemaic Kings; from Ptolemaic I Soter to Ptolemaic VI Philometer have contributed to the development of Alexandria. The first three Ptolemaic rulers had hope of their new home as together the capital of a new empire and a royal residence‚ filled with palaces and temples. These Ptolemaic rulers were responsible for the major buildings for which
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Our office had received a request from Andre‚ owner of Andre ’s Styling Saloon to perform an evaluation on his business. Andre has five barbers that work in the establishment and each employee received a salary of $9.90 per hour and works a 40-hour week and a 50-week year‚ regardless of the number of haircuts. As rent and other fixed expenses he expends $1‚750 every month‚ plus $ 0.40 as the cost of hair shampoo used on all his clients. This saloon is performing haircuts exclusively and each client
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ANTH1150 - THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA The Aboriginal people of Australia have been an ostracized ethnic group throughout their native land since being discovered by the English Captain James Cook on April 23 1770‚ which marked a dramatic turning point for the last significant land mass to be colonized by European settlers. The development of the Aborigines class status‚ welfare and rights have gradually evolved to a somewhat humane level over the past four decades‚ significant government
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group of convicts were transported to Australia. Convicts are the people who found guilty of crime. All the convicts were transported Australia by ship and fleets. After the first fleet arrived to Australia‚ there were a lot of fleets arrived to Australia as well. Consequently‚ The Australia’s government were kept for each convict and up till the mid-1800s they recorded names‚ date and place of trial and sentence. The convicts were transported to all over Australia such as New South Wales‚ Queensland
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Implications for Researching the Organisation [a] Post Fordism? i) The 1980s: Flexible Specialisation and ’Disorganised Capitalism’: Piore and Sabel (1984) argue in The Second Industrial Divide[i] that new production systems must orientate towards multi-skilling and rapid re-skilling in order to accommodate the search for shifting and newly forming niche markets in a post mass production/mass consumer world. This implies economies of scope rather than economies of scale and a more creative
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Functionalism is the perspective that social events are best explained as the contributions they make toward society. Functionalism interprets each part of society and determines its contribution to the society as a whole. Functionalism originated from the works of Emile Durkheim who was mainly interested in the idea of what held society together. Conflict theory is the idea that society tends to reinforce inequality and give power to the dominant groups; it emphasizes division of society. Conflict
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Brief Historical Development and Contributions of Chemistry for Modern Civilization Introduction: As defined by Oxford Dictionary‚ Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances‚ how they react when combined or in contact with one another and how they behave under different conditions . In other words‚ Chemistry is the study of the materials and substances of the world in which we live. The materials‚ which make up the earth‚ sea and air‚ are called raw materials. These include
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