The Illiad Book 1: Summary: The Iliad begins with the Trojan War already in progress. Greek audiences would have been familiar with the background of the story‚ and here a brief summary of events is necessary to help the reader to put these events in context. It is important to remember that these stories had a life outside of Homer: he did not invent his characters or the main events of the epic. He did make key choices regarding which events and characters were to be emphasized and reinterpreted
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cultural changes in the period of 200 – 1000 CE. With several large and powerful empires with borders very close together‚ there were constant conflicts. From 200-1000 CE‚ the Mediterranean region changed with the breaking up of the large governments into small feudal systems and continued with a wealthy patriarchal society and Christianity as a main religion. The Mediterranean region changed with the breaking apart of large governments into a feudal system. Around 200 CE‚ the Roman Empire was a strong
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Case Study#1 Summary Problems facing by Strategic Marketing Unit Two (SMU2) of Fine Food: Unfairly allocated costing system Unreliable performance evaluation standard leads to undervaluation of SMU2 and negative motivational effect on employees. Key Findings: Fine Foods allocates some period costs (including sales and marketing costs‚ media and sales promotion costs‚ and freight out cost) based on weight of product sold. SMU2 thus seems less profitable because the main product of SMU2 is Product
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Executive Summaries are much like any other summary in that their main goal is to provide a condensed version of the content of a longer report. Definition of Executive Summary The executive summary is usually no longer than 10% of the original document. It can be anywhere from 1-10 pages long‚ depending on the report’s length. Executive summaries are written literally for an executive who most likely DOES NOT have the time to read the original. • Executive summaries make a recommendation • Accuracy
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Tutorial 7 ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY In this lesson we will look at the concept of scientific controversy and examine a scientific controversy for its main arguments. Then‚ we will look at the structure of an argumentative essay in order to develop awareness of its structure‚ and in particular how the introduction and the body paragraphs are developed. 1. What is a scientific controversy?
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Summary [icon] | This section requires expansion. (March 2012) | During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands‚ Anne Frank received a diary as one of her presents on her 13th birthday. She began to write in it on June 14‚ 1942‚ two days later‚ and twenty two days before going into hiding with her father Otto‚ mother Edith‚ older sister Margot‚ and another family‚ Hermann van Pels‚ his wife Auguste‚ and their teenage son Peter. The group went into hiding in the sealed-off upper rooms of
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TOPIC 1: MARKET STRUCTURE AND MARKET POWER 1.1. Competitors Anyone that produces a substitute for a firm’s product. - Cross price elasticity: Measures the substitution degree of a product for another. P.E.>1 – The demand is elastic‚ a change in price is reflected as an even major change in demand. The extent of the variation is higher as higher is the substitution degree of a product for another. We can say two firms are competing when a price increase by one firm‚ drives its customers to the other
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The Silk Road was an important trade network that established cross-cultural trade; people from Han China all the way to the Roman Empire were involved. The Roads came around at about 200 B.C.E‚ and persisted for another 1‚700 years. Luxury goods‚ religions‚ diseases‚ food‚ and ideas have emerged within that time. The Silk Road and its trade remain constant even though its patterns of interaction have been altered through the plague and Islam‚ Christianity‚ and Buddhism. Over time‚ the Silk Roads’
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2010 tinySLAM : a SLAM Algorithm in less than 200 lines C-Language Program Bruno STEUX - Oussama EL HAMZAOUI Robotics Center. Mines ParisTech Paris‚ FRANCE {bruno.steux‚oussama.el_hamzaoui}@mines-paristech.fr Abstract—This paper presents a Laser-SLAM algorithm which can be programmed in less than 200 lines C-language program. The first idea aimed to develop and implement a simple SLAM algorithm providing good performances without exceeding 200 lines in a C-language program. We use a robotic
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China all the way to Eastern Europe. The trade route was at its greatest use from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E. The society that began the Silk Road was the Han Dynasty in China in approximately 200 B.C.E. The Han Dynasty facilitated trade in the east‚ while the Roman Empire facilitated trade in the west and in Europe. The two empires traded many goods‚ as well as cultural aspects of each society’s way of life. From 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E.‚ the Silk Road changed in terms of trade‚ such as what items were
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