“Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚” by Jared Diamond is without a doubt a very interesting read that gives you a different perspective about history. The main thesis of the book involves Diamond trying to answer Yali’s question “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?” Diamond is able to answer Yali’s question with the title of the book guns‚ germs‚ and steel. He believed that these three factors are the main reasons
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Do you agree with the view that the National Health Service was the most important domestic reform passed by Clement Attlee’s Labour government of 1945-1950? Post war Britain was in shambles. Altogether‚ 50-70 million people were dead as a result of World War 2 and 33% of all houses were lost in the war. However‚ Labour shocked Britain when they overtook the Conservative Party in the 1945 elections. Historians argue Churchill’s laid back attitude was the cause of the war leaders’ failure
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annoyed at times. Often I hear my classmates complaining about her during break. They nag about how much she interrupts class with her foolish questions and interpretations‚ yet no one complains about the male classmate. I thought to myself‚ “Maybe he asks better questions than she?” But after a few weeks I began to realize that the intelligence of their questions and comments tends to be the same. So why do my classmates favor the male student’s remarks over the female student’s? Everyone has their
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Question: Othello offers nothing of value to the modern audience. Do you agree? Complex themes of jealousy‚ rejection and revenge are universal due to their ability to relate and remain relevant to audiences. Such themes are explored through William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello where characters are all confronted and invariably challenged with such universal themes that essentially form the ingredients to this tragedy. Throughout the play‚ issues regarding sexism and racism come to light by examining
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Commercial hospitality is just extension of hospitality in the home. Do you agree? Hospitality is a difficult concept to define; numerous authors suggest it is both a social and commercial activity (Lugosi 2008). Nevertheless it’s important to highlight a dominant theme in accepted definitions of hospitality. Brotherton (1999) defined hospitality as “a contemporaneous human exchange‚ which is voluntarily entered into‚ and designed to enhance the mutual well-being of the parties concerned through
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There are many different factors‚ caused by collectivisation‚ which could be seen as things that were overall successes for the Communist party because of things like the Gulags which helped industrialise Russia to where it was the most industrialised state at the start of the Second World War. It also helped Stalin gain control of the party by defeating his rivals on the right. On the other hand‚ collectivisation had many disastrous effects for the Communist Party‚ such as the great famines that
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Do You Believe In Aliens Are we alone or do you believe in aliens? Most people would say no in public‚ but in truth most do believe. A survey was taken of 29 people; they were asked one to three questions depending on their answer. Question # 1‚ “Do you believe aliens exist?” out of 29 people asked 24 said yes‚ they do believe aliens exist. Those 24 went on to the next question‚ Question # 2‚ “Do you believe aliens have visited Earth (even if just to fly past)?” of the 24 that
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Would you agree with the view that Mussolini’s foreign policy was always expansionist? Mussolini’s foreign policy aimed to revise the Paris peace settlement.‚ increase influence in the Balkans and Mediterranean and to expand Italy’s overseas colonial empire. In 1935 Mussolini achieved one of these aims by taking over Abyssinia‚ this increased his colonial empire. He was able to achieve this because of Britain and France’s ever increasing pre-occupation with Hitler’s Germany. Because Britain didn’t
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Knowledge is very powerful. We decide whether we want to know something or not. I disagree with the statement that the lack of knowledge can’t hurt you. The true knowledge often hurts; however it doesn’t mean that lack of it can’t hurt. Why can lack of knowledge be harmful and hurt us? Let’s start from a simple fact like not studying for a test or a quiz may or will result in a bad grade. Not knowing the material that we are studying can and will hurt us. General knowledge in a society is very important
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Conscription in Korea Conscription is the compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service‚ most often military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and continues in some countries to the present day under various names. The modern system of near-universal national conscription for young men dates to the French Revolution in the 1790s‚ where it became the basis of a very large and powerful military. Most European nations later copied the system in peacetime‚ so that men
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