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    1ª TAREA Mundos Anglófonos en Perspectiva Histórica y Cultural COMENTARIO DE TEXTO soraya ordás cáceres curso 1º grado en estudios ingleses Elizabeth I. Speech to the Troops at Tilbury. 1588 My loving people‚ We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety‚ to take heed how we commit our selves to armed multitudes‚ for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself

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    Saddam Hussein was the leader of Iraq for over 30 years who made a “promising‚ oil-rich nation”(MacFarquhar) into a war-filled‚ police state. After growing up fatherless and in a poor village‚ he found violence to be a quick solution to his problems. In 2003 the United States invaded Iraq due to various threats and conflicts the two nations had run into. Was the United States justified in invading Iraq? Some might say that Iraq should deal with their own problems and not have another nation come

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    | Research Paper on the Recession of 2007-2009 | Cynthia Funes | | American Government 2301 | 9:40-11:40 A.M. | Mr. Jacobs June 28‚ 2011 | Everybody in the United Stated was affected by the recession that began in December of 2007 and spanned all the way to June 2009. Even though the recession is over‚ many people are still being affected by it and have still not been able to recover from the great recession. “The recent recession features the largest decline in output‚ consumption

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    gender-based violence and discrimination through criminal laws that condone male violence while punishing women who transgress cultural norms‚ and through laws that are either discriminatory or are harmful to women in their implementation. Throughout Iraq‚ there are no programs to deliver legal services with a gender-focused approach‚ and women in the family court system do not have access to lawyers who will advocate for them by presenting facts and legal theories that account for their experiences

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    common goal‚ drop their munitions on preselected targets deep inside Iraq. The Gulf War was about to begin. Downtown Baghdad was off-limits to conventional aircraft due to their sophisticated air defense network. The only thing permitted were cruise missiles and the most advanced fighter/bomber the world had seen‚ the F-117 stealth aircraft that was invisible to radar and could deploy their bombs with deadly accuracy. Storm over Iraq was written by Richard Hallion and provides a history lesson of sorts

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    Iraqi Diplomacy President Qsim started to move Iraq’s foreign policy away from Western influence and its close ties to the UK after the revolution in 1958. He wanted to build stronger ties with the Soviet Union. Even though Iraq relied on Soviet weapons and economic help‚ it kept trading with the West after it officially left the pro-Western Baghdad Pact in 1959. The US started to think that Qsim might be a communist because he had joined the Iraqi Communist Party and was building stronger political

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    Plan: Intro * British troops morale better than that of the French and the Germans in 1918 on the Western Front * Petain stated that morale had become the essential factors of the struggle * Whilst there is little dispute between historians over the motivational factors there are different areas historians focus on when determining factors that sustain morale. * Gary Sheffield suggests the bond between the officers and the troops as a factor * Rachel Duffett suggests that

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    part of the central provincial of Baghdad. Iraq was not as affected by European ideas as the Arab countries that bordered the Mediterranean. This was true even though there were European consuls and traders there. The small group of Christians living in Iraq didn’t have much contact with ideas from other countries. On the other hand‚ the wealthy Jewish community stayed out of politics and usually liked Ottoman rule. Tribal leaders and well-known Shi’is in Iraq continued to protest using traditional language

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    the hands of a country so dependent on foreign profits and revenue streams. Regardless of the administration‚ the United States continues to employ the methods of the past against the current conflicts of the middle east; it happened in Iran‚ then Iraq‚ and Libya‚ and it is happening once again in Syria. Will this time be different? To quote Michael Reisman‚ a Professor of International Law at the Yale Law School‚ “In each context‚ let the strongest and best-intentioned government contemplating or

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    speeches for battle? There are two speeches that are about battle‚ “Beowulf” and “Speech Before Her Troops.” In “Beowulf” it is about a general named Wiglaf that is going with his comrades to fight a dragon for his king and his land‚ but then they left him and coward out. This speech is about Wiglaf’s words to his men to come back and fight‚ to also remember that he needs them. “Speech Before Her Troops” is about a queen that talks to her people that she won’t let her enemies invade her country‚ promising

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