“DETROIT EAST” : Business Week‚ 25th July /2005. Eastern Europe‚ with its cheap labor and high skills‚ is becoming the world’s newest car capital In the Verdant Hills north of Bratislava‚ the capital of Slovakia‚ workers at the sprawling Volkswagen plant turn out efficiency-boosting ideas as steadily as the Polo compacts and Touareg sport-utility vehicles gliding off the production line. One recent suggestion was to bring emergency repair teams inside the factory instead of housing them outside
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FEATURE: GLOBALIZATION OUR GLOBAL VILL AGE: Prospects for Globalization and National Borders Q I N G G U O J I A ‚ ASSOCIATE DEAN & PROFESSOR OF THE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES‚ PEKING UNIVERSIT Y A S T H E W O R L D B E G I N S A N E W C E N T U R Y‚ some aspects of international politics are experiencing rapid changes amidst other more rigid aspects which refuse change. Two concepts may best capture the nature and scope of this simultaneous static yet fluid state: namely‚ globalization and
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The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe The collapse of communism in eastern europe can be based on three disticnct factors. Factor 1: People Power May: Hungary opens its borders with non communist Austria. Hungarians had already been granted the rights to free travel. However many east germans started using this route to get to west germany. June-August: protests against communist rule In poland continue throughout the summer. In august‚ communist party leaders agree truly free elsections
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Religion in Europe: How did Black Death and World War II affect religious beliefs in Europe‚ with a focus on the effects it had on both the Roman Catholic Church and Jews? Candidate Name: Katie Miller Candidate Number:____________ May 2013 History Extended Essay Supervisor: Mr. Derek Parsons Word Count: 3‚133 Abstract This essay is a comparative analysis of the effect that two major crises in Europe had upon religion. Europe was a
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The Black Death The Black Death almost wiped out all of Western Europe. The Black Death was carried by flea infested rat. These rats came from ships coming from Asia. The rats thrived in the filthy streets of Western Europe. The Black Death killed 1/3 of Western Europe’s population. Although the Black Death devastated Western Europe it also had many benefits such as higher wages for peasants‚ job opportunities for women‚ and innovations in the work place. One of the benefits of the Black
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Before 1500‚ Europeans had already established a trading network with Africa‚ Asia and America. The products that they traded during that time period included food clothing‚ weapons and other goods. Today their trading networks are very sophisticated and connect to every corner well to every other aspect of the planet. Trading became an essential part for our society to function and prosperous into what it has become today. Some might think that today’s trading landscape came from the Europeans around
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40. The Ottoman Empire Why was the ‘Ottoman Empire’ the ‘sick man of Europe’ at the end of the nineteenth century – and was this judgement justified? Through an analysis of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the nineteenth century it can be seen that the country was immensely unstable due to a vast array of events. These events fall under social‚ political‚ religious and economic categories and range in time from as early as the sixteenth century to the later years of the nineteenth century. The
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In response to the growing threat of the Muslim expansion against the Holy Roman Empire and the rest of Europe‚ Pope Urban II set forth a hazardous request at the Council of Clermont in 1095 for an army of Eastern and Western Christian warriors and nobility to fight a Holy War against the Muslims and other religious heretics. Four crusade missions were led‚ three of which were sent in hopes of recapturing the Holy Lands in Palestine from the Muslims‚ but ultimately failed. The Fourth Crusade was
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When interested in the religious culture of medieval Europe in late antiquity‚ “The Cult of Saints” by Peter Brown is a magnificent source to turn to. Among receiving honorary degrees‚ prizes and book awards‚ Brown is also a historian at Princeton University who focuses on social and religious aspects of medieval Europe. Brown critically analysis the significance of saints and their holy remains to the people of Europe following the fall of the Roman Empire. These sacred figures in Christianity heavily
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Relationships between the individual and society vary between cultures‚ religions and ethnicities. Nevertheless‚ throughout history‚ how the individual is seen in society varies accordingly. In Medieval Europe‚ China and Islamic countries‚ religious beliefs and different philosophies greatly contributed and effected how individuals in a community acted and interacted with their society and other countries. Different lifestyles and common norms contributed to the differences in relationships because
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