WHY LIBERAL ARTS? A majority of students from around the world tend to train themselves during their college years under one subject. But what if there is a chance for you to learn more‚ by paying the same amount for just one single course. A liberal arts education gives a broad knowledge base by increasing your frame of reference. It also helps you exercise your mind‚ problem-solve and generate new ideas. This type of education can prepare you for many fields in today’s workplace. A liberal arts
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Treaty of Paris Overview * Signed on September 3‚ 1783 * Ended Revolutionary War between the United States (and allies) and Great Britain * Other combatant nations such as France‚ Spain‚ and Dutch Republic had separate agreements The Agreement * Peace negotiations began in April of 1782 * American representatives: Benjamin Franklin‚ John Jay‚ Henry Laurens‚ John Adams * British representatives: David Hartley & Richard Oswald * Treaty document was signed at the
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The Indus Water Treaty Pakistan is an agricultural country. Eighty percent of its agricultural output comes from the Indus Basin. Pakistan has one of the world’s largest canal systems built much before Independence by the British. After Independence‚ problems between the two countries arose over the distribution of water. Rivers flow into Pakistan territory from across India. In 1947‚ when Punjab was divided between the two countries‚ many of the canal head-works remained with India. The division
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RALE ÇELEBİ İZMİR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS 20110105008 SOCIOLOGY SUBMITTED TO: SOC 201 10 /01/ 2014 INTRODUCTION From the early days until now‚ women are exploited in their daily life especially by the labor market. In this paper‚ we are going to see how women are exploited in the labor market. Exploitation of women is a social fact in the world‚ so I chose this topic because it started to be a social problem after the Second World War period and Industrial Revolution. In the Second
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The Treaty of Ghent For my assignment on the Treaty of Ghent I decided to choose excerpt four over excerpt three. I chose excerpt four for many reasons but for one main reason that it isn’t just focused on Americas victory and defeating the British but its more focused on why Britain was letting America slide because Britain was more involved in fighting Napoleonic France. I think this is very important because America did not really win the war Britain just ran out of steam and have had
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Both Mark Edmundson (“On the Uses of a Liberal Education”) and Gary Saul Morson (“Empathy with us”) see that college students have become lazy and seems to receive “an education worthy of the name.” Although both authors have some similarities in their ideas‚ they also have their own outlooks on what college students’ attitudes and practices show towards the liberal education. Edmonson’s views on college students is that they are lazy and really only want to take the classes that are easy with
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To what extent should we blame liberal principles for the inequalities that exist in society‚ and should these liberal values be challenged whenever possible? The source expresses the idea that liberalism has created a discrepancy between the rich and the poor‚ inequality among individuals‚ and a lack of services for the people due to little government involvement. The source believes that if the principles of liberalism were to be questioned whenever possible‚ it would lead to a more equal society
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Penang’s Changing Role in the Straits Settlementsi‚ 1826-1946 C.M. Turnbull Email maryturnbull@beeb.net ABSTRACT When the East India Company created the Straits Settlements (comprising Penang & Province Wellesley‚ Melaka and Singapore) as the Fourth Presidency of India in 1826‚ Penang was the capital‚ the most important of the settlements. While it remained the headquarters of the judiciary until 1855‚ Penang soon gave way to Singapore as the administrative and commercial capital in
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Was Stalin a Progressive or a Conservative? Although Stalin was a progressive in the economic aspect that he implemented the First and Second Five-Year Plans‚ which developed industry in Russia‚ as well as in the social aspect that he put forth a new education system‚ Stalin more so portrayed elements of conservatism. Stalin’s social‚ economic‚ and political policies and actions that conserved parts of Lenin’s regime including the NKVD secret police that executed and exiled opposition to Stalin
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The Treaty of Paris 1783 Short after the battle of Yorktown in 1781‚ talks of peace began to linger in the English Parliament and in the Continental Congress. Although‚ back in those days Parliament was infamous for being unstable‚ and most of the time it depended on the House of Commons and the good favor or the King. When the news of the defeat at Yorktown reached England‚ the parliamentary opposition succeeded in overthrowing the embattled government led by Lord North. Unfortunately the new
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