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    Civilization of the Greeks-Chapter 4 The sea influenced Greek society. Greece had a long seacoast surrounded by bays and inlets that provided numerous harbors. The Greeks also inhabited a number of islands to all points (north‚ south‚ east‚ and west) of its mainland. So it is no accident that they became skilled sailors. They used the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas to establish colonies with the outside world and to spread Geek civilization to those areas. Mycenae was the first of the Greek states. Mycenaean

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    Africa‚ forcing upon it their religious views. Religiously‚ the Muslims converted the Africans and Europeans with their beliefs in Islam‚ thus removing the old pagan and Christian faiths. Thus‚ Muslims have effected and influenced African and European culture in three striking manners‚ culturally‚ scientifically‚ and religiously. Socially‚ Muslims have had a profound affect on both Europe and Africa. The Muslims brought with them much of their lifestyle‚ such as their art. They resurrected mosques and

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    Critical Analytical Essay Humans are constantly living under the presence of threatening forces. More often than not‚ human’s immediate reaction to threatening forces is to escape from it. In her play‚ The Shape of a Girl‚ Joan MacLeod demonstrates that an individual often reacts in an inhumane manner towards a moral issue when under the pressure of threatening forces in order to prevent any potential harm. Nevertheless‚ it is the fear of being harmed that ultimately causes greater damage to oneself;

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    The Importance Of Teaching Culture In The Foreign Language Classroom 1/14/10 11:34 PM Radical Pedagogy (2001) ISSN: 1524-6345 The Importance Of Teaching Culture In The Foreign Language Classroom Dimitrios Thanasoulas Member of TESOL Greece and the AILA Scientific Commission on Learner Autonomy akasa74@hotmail.com I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor‚ Dr. Doreen Du Boulay for her assistance and insightful ideas‚ and record my thanks to my friends Joshua Jackson and Eleni

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    Things like funerals became less likely to happen. “Funeral rites became perfunctory or stopped altogether…” The need of funerals decreased‚ people just didn’t think they needed to hold a funeral for the loved ones they lost. What people wore also changed. Since the peasants started earning more‚ the line between the different social classes blurred. The wealthy wanted to make sure that people knew they were wealthy. “ The fashions of the nobility became more extravagant in

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    settlement in North America contributed to the spread of European artistic traditions in colonial painting‚ architecture and furnishings. Many trained artists arrived from Europe to New England to make a living and incorporated the styles of their culture in their work. For example‚ many painters arrived with a preference for Elizabethan – Jacobean style portraiture. The paintings displayed wealth and social position‚ and alluded to domestic interiors popular in 17th century Dutch paintings. Portraiture

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    VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE April 27th‚ 1975‚ North Vietnamese soldiers had finally reached the outskirt of the southern capital‚ Saigon. The war in Viet Nam that lasted 20 years is about to come to an end with communism taking over. It was all over‚ Saigon was surrounded by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. Presiden Nguyen Van Thieu resigned as president and gave his farewell speech and denounced the United States for failing in aiding the South before the North would later come into the city

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    according to the Iliad‚ leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the War. Prominent in both the Iliad and Odyssey‚ Menelaus was also popular in Greek vase painting and Greek tragedy; the latter more as a hero of the Trojan War than as a member of the doomed House of Atreus. Menelaus fought bravely at Troy‚ although he did not occupy as important a position as his brother Agamemnon‚ who was the commander-in-chief of the Greek forces. At one point he agreed to settle the conflict by single

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    were usually formed in what was called a “bookhand‚” a writing style that used rounded‚ elegantly formed‚ all capital letters that were slightly separated for clarity and beauty (fig. 1). The text was written in a succession of vertical columns that ran from left to right‚ the width of the column being narrower than the height (fig. 1). Though they were hand produced‚ there was remarkable precision and craftsmanship involved in the layout of these rolls. Books‚ of course‚ did not have to be made

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    Cumnor in the 1860s: How Far Did Dependence on Agriculture Shape its Social Structure? ‘We stood in Cumnor ..A straggling line of scattered cottages with mud or rough stone walls uncemented and rude and low overhanging thatched roofs with here and there the bee hives on a bench by the gate in the low stone wall or a few brown faced urchins who peeped slily at the unaccustomed stranger….(Anon 1850) .. ‘We turned our back upon the line of cottages or huts perhaps they might be called’ the writer

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