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    Have you ever decided to go to war? If so‚ would you believe that you would return back home as a whole‚ the same way you joined the battlefield? Do you know the consequences that you will be risking? Many soldiers who joined the army and fought in a battlefield have been badly affected. Young soldiers end up suffering. Soldiers get physically‚ mentally or emotionally affected from the war they were involved in. The most common affected issue that soldiers end up having is called “Post-Traumatic

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    obsessed with creating this near-impossible to achieve standard for beauty by which everyone should be judged‚ women‚ men‚ children‚ and now the dead not excluded. And what is not attainable in life‚ is made attainable‚ and almost mandatory‚ in death. Western obsession with beauty is reflected in how they prepare the body of the deceased. On the first page of the essay‚ it is said that that practice of embalming and primping a corpse for its burial has become so “universally employed in the United States”

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    Shane the Western Hero

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    Shane the Western Hero A Western is a major defining genre from the American film industry on the border of civilization and the wilderness. Western is one of the oldest most flexible genre/hero types in the world. If you are looking for characteristics of a western hero Shane is the character to go to.. Shane is bound by legal codes of behavior‚ ethics‚ justice‚ honor and chivalry (or the code by which knights were supposed to live by). He is a passive‚ mysterious man who says little about himself

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    Western Civilization Notes

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    -Egypt stayed within the confines of its borders -Hyksos invaded; Egyptians became more imperialistic; -Amenhoptet III is rejected and if he was mentioned in hyrogliphics they carved those sections out. He tried to get rid of the polytheistic and worship the god Aten -marriages in Egyptian life were generally arranged by the parents and they could end in divorce but they rarely did because of a moral code. Food was a grain based diet‚ because the grain was so plentiful. There was very little

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    Western Film Genre

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    American Western Film Western films are truly an American genre. The Western genre is usually based on the American cowboy hero‚ and usually involves conflicts with things such as outlaws‚ bandits‚ Indians‚ and many other things. Other conflicts included in the Western genre include societal conflicts and problems during expansion or travel. Overall‚ all the elements and things such as cowboys‚ Indians‚ robberies‚ gunman‚ sheriffs‚ and other things make up the Western genre. Through several examples

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    Ethnicity: Political Conflicts in Europe Instructor: Dr. Tommaso Chiamparino Final Paper: The Conflict in Western Sahara (Morocco‚ Algeria‚ Mauritania and Spain) Written by: Tahiri Joutei Idrissi Hassani Driss July‚ 3rd SUMMER 2009 Western Sahara is a region located in the North West of Africa‚ occupying an area of around 260 000 km2. This land is subject to serious

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    Midterm Western Civ

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    The Greco-Roman tradition is our own. To understand ourselves we need to understand the forces that shaped the ancient Greeks and Romans. They are both similiar and different when it comes to development and their traditions. I will discuss the ways in which the society‚ military‚ and political forces have caused these two cultures to develop. The Greek’s society is unique in the way it developed. It developed around the poleis. A city usually formed around a hill that also encompasses the

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    Introduction China’s open door policy has not only brought in economic reforms but as well as cultural and social influences from the West. The United States has been one of the biggest role model for China in terms of developing into a first world country. China has acquired from the United States different skills for developing the economy‚ but along with the inflow of foreign knowledge also comes foreign cultural practices. The McDonald’s to Hollywood blockbusters‚ it is evident that China

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    Best Western international is the largest hotel company operating under a single company brand name with 4‚200 independently owned and operated hotels. Western employed over 1‚076 people and offers more than 316‚095 quality guest rooms located in 80 countries and territories throughout the world. The Western founded in 1946 by M.K. Guertin‚ a California-based hotelier with 23 years of experience in the lodging industry. By 1963‚ Best Western was the largest chain in the industry with 699 member hotels

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    03/08/2012 Religion Paper #2 What is Western Civilization and how does one describe it? Where does the west begin and were does it end‚ what exactly is the meaning of civilization? These are the questions that we have to ask ourselves. Because people are often both partial and biased‚ our definition of Western civilization is going to be comparative to how we see ourselves in this day and age. So let’s take a look into a brief description of what is meant by Western culture‚ and two specific examples

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