The Roman Empire was one of the longest lasting and most successful in history. Although the exact date isn’t known it’s widely believed that the Roman Empire began around 27 BC and lasted‚ at least the eastern part‚ until 1453 AD. That’s practically 1‚500 years of running a successful regime. For a little comparison the United States has been around for a paltry 240 years‚ less than one-sixth of the time. So if Rome was so incredibly successful‚ why isn’t it still around? What happened that caused
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The One and Only‚ Bill Gates Who was Bill Gates? Is he an anonymous man who is rich‚ or a successful person? William Henry "Bill" Gates is more than just an ordinary being. Born on October 28‚ 1955‚ the current chairman of Microsoft‚ Bill Gates founded the world’s largest personal-computer software company. He was the world’s wealthiest people and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2009. During his career at Microsoft‚ Gates was CEO and big computer programmer. He has also authored several books
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The Industrial Revolution in the 18th century was an immensely important time period in the world’s history. The revolution brought about changes throughout the whole world that transformed countries from premodern to modern. Typically‚ students in school are taught about modernization by examining The West: Britain‚ United States‚ Germany‚ and France. This is because The West had enormous success during the Industrial Revolution‚ which leads many people to believe that the Industrial Revolution
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As early as the 11th Congress‚ House Bill No. 8110 was already filed‚ proposing to establish an integrated population and development policy through a law which is supposed to be known Integrated Population and Development Act of 1999. During the 12th Congress‚ House Bill No. 4110 was filed‚ seeking to establish a reproductive health care act‚ or The Reproductive Health Care Agenda Act of 2001. The following bills were filed during the 13th Congress: Senate Bill No. 1280 (13th Congress)‚ proposing
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Bill of Rights A democracy must ensure that individuals have certain rights and that the government will always recognize these rights. Therefore it is often a practice in most democratic countries to list the rights of the citizens in the constitution itself. Such a list of rights mentioned and protected by the constitution is called the ‘bills of rights. A bill of rights prohibits government from thus acting against the rights of the individuals and ensures a remedy in case there is violation
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Blythe and named after his father‚ who had recently died in an auto accident. He took his stepfather’s last name Clinton‚ after the birth of a stepbrother. After high school Bill went to Georgetown University‚ University of Oxford‚ and Yale University Law School where he met his future wife Hillary Rodham. Clinton then became a law professor at the University of Arkansas. In 1976 he was elected state attorney general; while serving in that office he was elected as the youngest governor in Arkansas history
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Ancient Egypt‚ a magnificent civilization‚ but just how did they treat their dead kings? This essay will explain what and why pharaohs became mummified‚ and how they did. The Egyptians believed that a body had to be properly prepared in order to live on in a similar way in the afterlife‚ more importantly‚ they thought the body had to be preserved. The Egyptians embalmed and mummified their dead to preserve them‚ the body needed to be accompanied by its Ba and Ka‚ the person’s dead spirit
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Bill Proposal Nur 550 April 4th‚ 2011 Bill Proposal To Senator Carolyn Allen‚ A Bill for An Act Entitled: Improved Continuity of Care Law for People with Co-occurring disorders In the Arizonan House of Representative A severe mental illness (SMI) is an assembly of mainly psychotic conditions that are‚ by description‚ extensive and related to compromised societal functioning. As stated by the surgeon general’s report of 2010‚ one out of five adults‚ or nearly 40 million Americans
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How the Bill of Rights Affects My Life In 1791‚ the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States‚ also known as the Bill of Rights‚ become ratified. The Bill of Rights contained freedoms that Americans held to be their inalienable rights‚ and were so important that before ratifying the Constitution many states insisted on a promise of amendments guaranteeing individual rights. It was created to set limitations on the power of the United States government‚ protecting the natural
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city-states in a relatively small area that all had different political ideologies. These City States had highly regarded philosophers that wrote great lengths about them. This gives us a great foundation to try to understand the different systems and how they were based. The goal is to analyze some of the different ideologies and find why they were thought to be so good‚ and what made them good. To begin there is Pericles’ Funeral Oration written by Thucydides‚ which documents a speech that Pericles
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