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    CMF Intellectual Property 11/18/13 Modern technology is simply marvelous; it allows one person to listen to another person’s artistic musical work without having to be in the vicinity of that person. The certain technology I am talking about is Internet music downloading. Internet music downloading is when a person downloads music from the Internet. Downloading music from the Internet has a multitude of advantages as well as cons and risks. The risks of downloading music from the Internet

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    “Everyday Use”‚ tradition and culture play a big part in the story’s theme; tradition and culture also play a big part in Sherman Alexie’s “This Is What it Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona.” The effects that culture and tradition had in “Everyday Use” were similar to Sherman Alexie’s story but the ways that they were displayed were not the same. In many ways‚ “Everyday Use” showed the effect that culture had on its’ characters mainly Dee. Through the stories Thomas-Builds-the-Fire tells‚ tradition and culture

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    "Dead Men ’s Path" Chinua Achebe describe the controversy between tradition and modernization in the school of Ndume. Michael Obi is the main character of this story. He is confronted with the villagers and their resistance to change. All the characters go through different changes according to their belief. The theme between the main character and the rest of the characters is controversial. Because Michael is aims with intellectual arrogance‚ and the villagers with resistance to change‚ they are

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    and promising national markets two of the most crucial elements in the strategic decision regarding market-entry are the level of corruption and existing trade barriers. One form of corruption that is crucially important to firms is the theft of intellectual property. In particular‚ software piracy has become a hotly debated topic due to the deep costs and vast levels of piracy around the world. The purpose of this paper is to assess how laissez-faire trade policies and corruption affect national software

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    Indonesia Tradition

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    DEATH CEREMONY RITUALS IN SULAWESI SELATAN WRITTEN BY: ADINDA RIZKI NIRMALA 2012/338097/SV/02553 PROGRAM STUDI BAHASA INGGRIS SEKOLAH VOKASI UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA YOGYAKARTA 2012 INTRODUCTION South Sulawesi divided into 20 regencies. One of them is called Tana Toraja‚ which is located on plateau in the north of capital city of South Sulawesi‚ Makassar. South Sulawesi known with their various ethnic groups such as: Suku Bugis‚ Suku Makassar‚ and Suku Toraja. The latest ethnic

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    Tradition In Beowulf

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    “Wise sir. Do not grieve. It is always better / to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. / For every one of us‚ living in this world / means waiting for our end. Let whoever can / win glory before death. When a warrior is gone‚ / that will be the best and only bulwark. / So arise‚ my lord‚ and let us immediately / set forth on the trail of this troll-dam. / I guarantee you: she will not get away‚ / not to dens under ground nor upland groves / nor the ocean floor. She’ll have nowhere to flee

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    Western Religion

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    this to reflect on their own religious traditions. It has been my experience that Westerners to believe that their faiths are more uniform and less subject to change. Is this accurate? Why or why not? I do not feel that this is an accurate statement‚ especially in the United States. We are such a young country we don’t have the concept of tradition and antiquity that exists in the Eastern cultures. We think 300 years is a long time when in Europe traditions can be traced back a couple thousand years

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    Great and Little Tradition

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    LITTLE TRADITION The issue of great and little traditions did not arise for the first generation of anthropologists who‚ following the example of *Malinowski‚ mainly studied remote‚ self-contained‚ small-scale societies. It was only after World War II‚ when anthropologists began to study communities integrated within larger states and participating in centuries-old religious traditions such as *Buddhism or *Christianity‚ that the problem arose. The terms ‘great’ and ‘little’ traditions were actually

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    Western Civilization

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    Romans took up the concept and applied it to the western half of their empire. Asia—or the East—was similarly a geographical innovation of the Greeks and Romans. Asia was that land that belonged to non-Greek cultures of Asia Minor‚ particularly the Persians. The Romans‚ too‚ regarded lands east of Greece as Asia. The name was retained and applied to other cultures beyond the Turkish peninsula such as China and India. Although what we refer to as “Western Civilization” began in the area that today we

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    Intellectual Power Paper

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    Intellectual power or intelligence is defined as follows: “Intelligence includes the ability to reason abstractly‚ the ability to profit from experience‚ and the ability to adapt to varying environmental contexts” (Bee & Boyd‚ 2012‚ p. 167). Tests to measure intelligence were first developed in 1905 by Frenchmen‚ Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon. The purpose of the tests was to measure these abilities to help children who difficulties in school. At that time‚ the French government began requiring

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