Greece is a collection of city states which have always been independent of each other. The two greatest ones are Athens and Sparta‚ which has a long history of competition and war between them for supremacy. Athens is the birthplace of democracy‚ while the Spartans have adopted an oligarchy ruling system‚ this system extends to them and the rest of Lacedaemonians. The battle of Thermopylae united the whole of Greece against a common enemy Persia‚ fought 495 BC. After this battle‚ Persia continues
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How did Trade and Commerce Contribute to the Development of the British Empire 1680-1763? The role of trade and commerce in the initial establishment of the British Empire bore huge weight. With a financial agreement with another country comes natural relations‚ and from that blooms a possibility to extend those relations into the foundations of an impending empire. Both the East India and Royal African Companies acted as a stem for lasting European presence in native land and so are both significant
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Future of English as a global language “A language achieves a genuinely global status when it develops a special role that is recognized in every country” (Crystal 1997). In the 21st century‚ English is increasingly becoming the dominant language in global communication. However‚ the question of where the future of English lies remains unclear. Will English in the future increase in popularity or should we adopt a better alternative? English is undoubtedly one of the most influential languages
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Existential consumption and irrational desire Richard Elliott University of Oxford‚ Oxford‚ UK If marketing is truly the “ultimate social practice of postmodern consumer culture” (Firat‚ 1993) then it carries the heavy burden of “determining the conditions and meanings of life for the future” (Firat and Venkatesh‚ 1993). Certainly‚ social theory is now focusing on consumption as playing a central role in the way the social world is constructed‚ and it can be argued that marketing is too important
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Basic Communication Theory All theories in mass comm are based on basic comm theory S---M----R “Aberrant decoding” or “encoding” Encoding and Decoding the process of converting abstract thoughts into symbols so that they can be sent is called encoding the process of reconverting those symbols back into abstract thoughts is called decoding We need to understand the relationship between the message‚ sender‚ and the CHANNEL Always mediated‚ there are always forces at work on the message.
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After consultations with its allies‚ Sparta sent a deputation to Athens demanding certain concessions‚ such as the immediate expulsion of the Alcmaeonidae family including Pericles and the retraction of the Megarian Decree‚ threatening war if the demands were not met. The obvious purpose of these proposals was the instigation of a confrontation between Pericles and the people; this event‚ indeed‚ would come about a few years later. At that time‚ the Athenians unhesitatingly followed Pericles’ instructions
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There are many important tools that can be used for social analysis. Each of them provides us with a different understanding of social problems and allows us to think critically about ongoing social issues. Critical thinking is a very important component of social analysis that can also help us to become better global citizens. Below are three examples of social analysis tools that can be used to help us engage in social analysis: 1. Ideologies are important tools in framing the source of social
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Tutsi tended to become more categorical o The dichotomy between the advantages of being Tutsi and the disadvantages of being Hutu increased enormously in the following period o this notion of ethnic differences between Hutu and Tutsi was first constructed by the Germans who originally colonized Rwanda. the Belgians further entrenched this distinction o Extremely tall and thin‚ and often displaying sharp‚ angular facial features‚ these cattle herders were obviously of a different racial stock
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the globalization of Post-Modernism NeoLiberalism and the emergence of the industrial society .Thus globalization moved in rapid leaps skipping time phases especially after the Information and communication revolution‚ the arm race‚ the unipolar hegemony over third-world countries and countries of the previous socialist bloc . Globalization was introduced at the beginning as a modernizing aspect that brings about changes in the scientific‚ cultural and political fields that aims at linking economic
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Germany did fight a defensive war to some extent‚ overall German aggression did lead to the outbreak of a general European war. Firstly‚ the idea that Germany did fight an aggressive war can be seen through Germany’s increasing desire for European Hegemony. The fact that Germany was slowly but surly disabling European peace in its quest for Weltpolitik shows how Germany were looking for confrontation. The Moroccan Crisis’ of 1905-11 highlights the Kaiser’s desire to expand the German empire into other
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