CHAPTER 1: WHAT WAS THE COLD WAR * Periods of hostility and high tension between two great post-war superpowers‚ the United States and the USSR in the period of 1945 – 1989 * An ideological conflict * A conventional and nuclear arms race * Wars fought on proxy on the battlefields on Asia‚ Africa and Latin America * Economic rivalry * Development of huge espionage networks * Harry S Truman: “the war of nerves” COMMUNISM VS. CAPITALISM THE WEST | THE USSR |
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Why Children should not go to prison When an adult leaves prison‚ they take baggage home with them‚ one can imagine what an adult who grew-up in prison brings home? A young man celebrated his 18th birthday in a juvenile detention center; his gift from the state was a transfer into an adult prison. The crime had been committed eight years earlier and by-law this inmate is now an adult. After hearing some of the risqué’ comments from the other inmates‚ the youth blushes
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Marketing Book Notes chapter 18 Marketing Impact * The basic objective * To satisfy consumer needs as the consumers see them * Marketing’s effectiveness must be measured by how well I satisfies consumers * Many firms such as J.D. Power and Associates‚ marketing research firm‚ studies consumer satisfaction Marketing Success * Firms that fail in satisfying consumers and thus failing in making products is high * Lack of foucs on 4Ps and customer orientation
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poor countries. How can we explain such astonishing disparities? While some of the academics believe that poverty is determined by its geography‚ others instead point to cultural attributes. Why Nations Fail is a nonfiction book by economist Daron Acemoglu and political scientist James A. Robinson. In this book‚ Acemoglu and Robinson try to explain world inequality and investigate which factors are responsible for the success or failure of states. Which factor is the destiny of world inequality
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This was essentially a Book Report assignment that my grade 8 teacher gave me. It basically summarizes the book from chapter 6-10 chapters of the book Underground to Canada‚ by Barbara Smucker via Book Report format. This should be quite use full for students under TDSB Scarborough area. =========================January 7‚ 2008 Danish KhanFirst Steps WritingCH 6-10 RecountStolen and ripped away from her loving mother‚ Julilly travels in a wooden cart with other slaves from Massa Hensen’s plantation
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Civil War brought profound changes to the United States. Reconstruction changed some things‚ but it did little regarding social equality and political turmoil. In the end‚ the government established black suffrage‚ but this reform proved insufficient to remake the South or to guarantee human rights. II. Wartime Reconstruction A. Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan Lincoln planned for a swift and moderate Reconstruction process. Under his 10 Percent Plan‚ he proposed that as soon as 10 percent
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CARBOHYDRATES 1322 Classification • Simple carbs consist of 1 or 2 sugar units • Monosaccharides • Glucose‚ fructose‚ galactose • Disaccharides • Sucrose‚ lactose‚ maltose • Oligosaccharides consist of 3-10 sugar units • Not a simple or a complex carb • Complex carbs consist of 10 + sugar units • Polysaccharides • Starch and fiber Monosaccharides 6 carbons= hexose Monosaccharides • Glucose • Most abundant carbohydrate • Preferred source of energy for the RBC‚ brain‚ and nervous system
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I have finally reached my destination: Canada. My decision was clear; I could not go to the war. As soon as I received the letter stating that I was drafted into war‚ my mind was made up and I had to leave home as soon as possible. I brought some necessary supplies with me so that I would be able to survive during my journey considering I have nowhere to go and will be traveling through the forest for a majority of the time. The first thing I needed to do was find an open place to set up my tent
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Math Exam Notes Unit 1 The Method of Substitution -Solving a linear system by substituting for one variable from one equation into the other equation -To solve a linear system by substitution: Step 1: Solve one of the equations for one variable in terms of the other variable Step 2: Substitute the expression from step 1 into the other equation and solve for the remaining variable Step 3: Substitute back into one of the original equations to find the value of the other variable Step
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elements make up approximately 96 percent of living matter? 7. Why is each element unique with respect to its chemical properties? Each element has a distinctive _____. 8. Knowing the atomic mass of an element allows inferences about which of the following? 9. Carbon-12 is the most common isotope of carbon and has a mass number of 12. However‚ the average atomic mass of carbon found on a periodic table is slightly more than 12 Daltons. Why? 10. From its atomic number of 15‚ it is possible to predict that
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