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    History of Coffee

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    History of Coffee The global spread of coffee growing and drinking began in the Horn of Africa‚ where‚ according to legend‚ coffee trees originated in the Ethiopian province of Kaffa.  It is recorded that the fruit of the plant‚ known as coffee cherries‚ was eaten by slaves taken from present day Sudan into Yemen and Arabia through the great port of its day‚ Mocha.  Coffee was certainly being cultivated in Yemen by the 15th century and probably much earlier.  In an attempt to prevent its cultivation

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    History of Olympics

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    History of the Olympics The Olympic Games originated long ago in ancient Greece. Exactly when the Games were first held and what circumstances led to their creation is uncertain. We do know‚ however‚ that the Games were a direct outgrowth of the values and beliefs of Greek society. The Greeks idealized physical fitness and mental discipline‚ and they believed that excellence in those areas honored Zeus‚ the greatest of all their gods. One legend about the origin of the Olympic Games revolves around

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    Fall Semester 2011 History H-217: The Nature of History (15471) Tuesdays 3:00PM-5:40PM Cavanaugh Hall 215 Professor Modupe Labode Office: 420 Cavanaugh Hall Email: mlabode@iupui.edu Telephone: 317-274-3829 Office Hours: Tuesdays‚ 1-2; Thursdays 1-3‚ and by appointment. Mailbox: 504M Cavanaugh Hall Course Description: This course is an introduction to the study of history. Readings and discussion will explore the sources that historians use to interpret history and construct narratives

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    Katie Dobersztyn English IV Accel Ms. Gutierrez History Personified History the Mob Boss Arundhati Roy personifies history as a mob boss‚ with Baby Kochamma‚ Chacko‚ Inspector Thomas Matthew‚ Comrade Pillai‚ even Vellya Paapen acting has the mob boss’s thugs‚ who maintained order and came to collect what you owe when you don’t follow the rules. When you owe the mob money‚ the boss’s thugs will come for you. Roy uses the personification of owing the mob boss to show what happens when you

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    What Is History

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    /WHAT IS HISTORY WHAT IS HISTORY? E. H. Carr Edward Hallett Carr was born in 1892 and educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School‚ London‚ end Trinity College‚ Cambridge. He joined the Foreign Office in 1916‚ and‚ after numerous jobs in and connected with the F.O. at home and abroad‚ he resigned in 1936‚ and became Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University College of Wales‚ Aberystwyth. He was Assistant Editor of The Times from 1941 a‚ 1946‚ Tutor In Politics at Balliol

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    Importance of History

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    CHAPTER I Introduction History is the science whose business is to study events not accessible to our observations‚ and to study these events inferentially (Philippine Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 1993). History is not merely the records of past events: it is the record of what one’s age find worthy of note in another. History as a narrative (which of written‚ visual‚ oral or a combination of all these) about past events that has a meaning to a certain group of people in a given time and

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    HISTORY OF SPECIAL NEEDS IN IRELAND AND CHANGES RELATED TO RANGE OF CONDITIONS I CHOOSE Under the English rule‚ the National Education System in Ireland was established in 1831 year. Since then all children between the age of six and fourteen were obligated to go to school but government still didn’t consider that education for kids with special needs was necessary. They were still ignored by society and their special needs were seen like purely mental‚ they were seen like mental handicap. Treated

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    Global History

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    as World History. For the historical events‚ see History of the world. For a compilation album by Christian rock band Mad at the World‚ see World History (album). World history‚ global history or transnational history (not to be confused with diplomatic or international history) is a field of historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s. It examines history from a global perspective. It is not to be confused with comparative history‚ which‚ like world history‚ deals with

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    History & Memory

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    History‚ a struggle over the past in the present to shape the future‚ is an exploration of the causal relationships between individuals and events. History has always been contested terrain‚ due to the fact that history is established through individual and collective memories‚ which by nature are subjective and coloured by circumstance. In the post modern era‚ the conventional ways of thinking which dismiss memory due to its bias have been challenged‚ and the credibility of history has been diminished

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    History and Memory

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    combination of the two that we uncover a more reliable account. Peter Carey’s prose novel True History of the Kelly Gang and Christopher Nolan’s 2000 movie Memento represent history and memory in unique and evocative means by exploring the interplay between one’s individual perspective and the established ‘truth’. In True History‚ Carey adopts the persona of Ned Kelly‚ taken from the Jerilderie letter. Ned’s history is represented in the form of an epistolary account to his daughter‚ one which creates

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