credit derivatives structures.[3] Germany‚ for example‚ received €15.5 billion from the securitization of pension-related payments from Deutsche Telekom‚ Deutsche Post‚ and Deutsche Postbank in 2005‒06‚ but guaranteed payments so investors bore only the risk of the German government’s credit and the transactions were ultimately recorded in Europe’s fiscal statistics as government borrowing‚ not asset sales.[4] From late 2009‚ fears of a sovereign debt crisis developed among investors as a result
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Although she led the French to great victory‚ the men executed her as a heretic on May 30‚ 1431. Marriage occurred at a later age (mid- to late-twenties for men‚ early to mid-twenties for women) in the 16th-18th centuries than it had previously in Europe and England. One reason for this shift was that‚ in a time of population growth‚ it took couples longer to accumulate the capital needed to raise a family. Parents were
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Ce este Diplomaţia Publică? ‚‚Diplomaţia publică este faţa publică a diplomaţiei tradiţionale‚‚ (Ross‚ 2002 in Leonard‚ 2002:1) În cadrul diplomaţiei tradiţionale putem localiza şi conceptul de diplomaţie publică. Cele mai des folosite definiţii fiind celeale lui Signitzer şi Coombs (1992: 138) prin care se defineşte diplomaţia publică ca ‚‚o cale prin care guvernele‚ companiile şi diverse grupuri pot influenţa în mod direct sau indirect opiniile şi poziţiile publice care influenţează în mod direct
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Marketing Analysis for the Sonic 1000 PDA Liberty University Strategic Marketing Management – BUSI 520-B06 July 4‚ 2010 Introduction Years of research and development‚ along with millions of shareholder dollars‚ have been invested in the latest technological breakthrough from Sonic. The next step for any new product on the concept-to-consumer road is the development of a marketing analysis. The following pages will provide evidence of countless hours of research the marketing team has
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Critically assess‚ with reference to William James‚ the argument from religious experience. A religious experience is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework. Refer to cases where a person encounters God in a direct way. Otto said the central element of direct was an ‘apprehension of the wholly other’‚ called the numinous. This means the world that is beyond the physical observable universe in which we live. They are experiences of the wholly other; completely outside
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Religion 100‚ Paper #1‚ Who I have become today We may all be different people‚ but we each have a religion we belong to which describes who we are and who we will become. My name is Maritza Lopez-Portillo and I will be telling you my personal experience and what brought me to where I am now due to my religion. Throughout my life I have always been a Catholic‚ but never took much meaning of it into my life‚ till I was in my junior year of high school. Growing up I was always a Catholic and I
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Early Religious Wars “In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.” - (Quote from former President Richard M. Nixon) The timeline below depicts the major wars of Religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that will be covered in this paper. The French Wars of Religion: 1562-1598 The “St. Bartholomew Massacre” was the
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From The Concert of Europe to the Cause of the First World War After the fall of Napoleon there was a need to create a balance of power that would preserve the peace between European monarchies. Also to redraw the map of Europe and to restore the countries in crisis after their defeat of Napoleon. The main goal of the Concert was to contain France and prevent another ascend of authority such as Napoleon Bonaparte. The origins of The Concert of Europe begin from the international conference called
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Region : Ottomans ( RELIGIOUS) 1750 By the beginning of this timeframe‚ the Ottoman Sultans have already been successful at re-establishing an Islamic Empire in the Middle East. The religious tensions between the Ottomans and the Safavid (Sunni/Shia) have already been quelled with the Ottomans winning the Battle of Chaldiran and reconfirming their superior military and religious views. The religious tolerance that was institute
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The Decline of Christianity in Europe The twentieth century was a time of great flux and anxiety in Europe as the supremacy of Christianity in Europe was being challenged by the fronts of biblical criticism‚ and evolution. According to Rev‚ Andrew Greeley‚ a social sciences professor at the University of Chicago‚ belief in God has increased in Russia and Hungary and decreased in Britain‚ the Netherlands‚ western Germany and France. Atheism thrives in eastern Germany‚ Russia‚ The Czech Republic
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