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    Anonymous Unit 4 During the period of 600- 1450‚ the eastern hemisphere was connected through many trading routes. Although both the IOT and SR resulted in immense wealth being created‚ the IOT promoted islam through its ocean voyages and the SR supported Christianity through the overland routes‚ and it had more drastic effects on society. The SR and IOT were profiting in immense wealth due to being exclusive traders. When the Crusaders or the Christian knights from Western Europe came

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    consists of five campuses. They are located in Shuwaikh‚ Keifan‚ Khaldiya‚ Adailiya‚ Jabriya. Shuwaikh campus is the largest campus. It contains collage of law‚ collage of business administration‚ and collage of social science. Among many services provided by Kuwait University‚ students transportation service is one of these services. Students bus service within Shuwaikh campus is the most used service comparing to other campuses due to its size. Shuwaikh bus service uses twenty buses. The buses are divided

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    for defense or commerce have been important factors in the location of cities. In addition to being a factor of spatial organization‚ transportation is linked with the location of economic activities‚ including retail‚ manufacturing and services. In a market economy‚ location is the outcome of a constrained choice where many issues are being considered‚ transportation being one of them. The goal is to find a suitable location that would maximize the economic returns for this activity. There is a long

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    Public Transportation in Jakarta. Agree? Jakarta is well known for its traffic matter and this matter cannot be separated with public transportation. Public transportation is a public service that facilitates the need of citizens to travel from one place to another. Here in Jakarta‚ we have many kinds of public transportation‚ from a heavy-loaded-type such as train‚ to only-one-person-type such as ’ojek’. However‚ nowadays‚ citizens mostly prefer to take their own private transportation. The reasons

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    "Developments in transportationrather than in manufacturing and agriculture‚ sparked American economic growth in the first half of the nineteenth century." is not accurate. While development in transportation played a fundamental role in America’s growth‚ if it were not for developments in manufacturing and agriculture the new technology in transportation could not have successfully been completed. Without the raw materials‚ and the products which came out of the early US iron and steel industry

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    Indeed‚ both parties did compromises and concessions in order to have a viable parliament. Nevertheless‚ the two-party system cannot be called a success. It was common for people to switch party when they were disagreeing with a policy‚ which proves the artificiality of the supposed division as the same man could be contented by the two ideologies. The two parties were also rather similar to William who disliked both of them and switched between the two in his government. He surprisingly favoured

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    Marketing Practice of Silk Product Product "Marketing mix is a combination of the four elements products‚ price structure‚ distribution system‚ and promotion activities-used to satisfy the needs of an organization ’s target markets and‚ at same time‚ achieve its marketing objectives"‚ Marketer ’s success depends on right implementation of this marketing mix. If there is any problem in marketing mix it requires finding out this problem and solution. Researcher has find out the problem

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    signs on the slopes in Austria‚ bearing the slogan: "It’s not cool to kill friends.” (Bell) Skiers often make fun of us snowboarders for our strange habit of sitting down‚ but what they don’t understand is the reasons why. One of the many reasons is snowboarding is a better workout than skiing is. “When a snowboarder points the nose of his board across the fall line instead of straight downhill‚ he is now positioned in such a manner that to keep from sliding down the hill. He has to be in some more-or-less

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    The author is currently working at the Garden Route Casino as a Pit Manager. The author’s role in the casino is to run the tables section of the gaming floor‚ to ensure that the team performs to optimum productivity levels and customer service is of the highest quality. The author’s team are diverse individuals who possess different attributes and bring different perspectives and are mainly from the millennial generation. (May‚ 2015) The author’s team work in a fast paced environment‚ need to think

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    Writers provide glimpses of other worlds‚ giving readers opportunities to reflect on their own world To what extent do you agree with this view? The Road written by Cormac McCarthy is a post-apocalyptic novel about a man and a boy travelling down across what seems to be a bleak and dull land. In this book‚ we see a world that seems to have a bleak and dark future without a lot of hope. Land is somehow destroyed‚ perhaps by a natural cause. The cycle of seasons has been completely altered and

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