How Successful was the Heath Government of 1970-74? Edward Heath came into power in 1970 in a surprise victory against Harold Wilson. Heath was very different to other conservative leaders; he was a middle class grammar school boy‚ the youngest ever Conservative leader and the first to become a leader through an open election. His accession marked a change in the leadership of the Conservative Party from aristocratic to meritocratic‚ which many people saw as a refreshing change. However‚ the
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Comdsfdsdmunism. China is a single-party republic ruled by the Communist Party. Other opinions: They are not communist. Communism does not have a centralized government. They are closer to socialism than communism. I would say a mixture of totalitarian and socialism. China was never Communist‚ it was Socialist‚ but now it’s basically a single party‚ part socialist‚ part capitalist‚ authoritarian/ totalitarian oligarchy with figurehead leaders. Functionally‚ it is a highly bureaucratic‚ multi-level
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Hammurabi had 282 laws many with extremely harsh punishments like death. Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon for 42 years and was thought to have gotten his laws from the god of justice Shamash. I believe that Hammurabi’s code was unjust because of the family law‚ property law‚ and the personal injury law. First of all‚ it is unjust because of the family laws. Law 148 states that if a man’s wife wife is severely ill the man can remarry but he cannot divorce the ill wife and still has to take care
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Why was Reconstruction a failure? The Reconstruction of the South was a period where the government decided they needed to solve economic and political problems that had become over the years. I think the Reconstruction Era was a failure for many reasons. The Era had a goal of allowing freedom and equality for all‚ abolishing slavery‚ and restoration of the Union and I don’t feel as though any of those were accomplished. President Lincoln issued a proclamation
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IB ToK II 2 December 2014 Why was Hitler defeated? There were many factors why Hitler was defeated‚ the most important being the entry of the US into war in 1942 and the fact that Germany was fighting a 3 front war. By 1940‚ Germany had already gained control of all of Western Europe and was winning the majority of battles against the Soviey Union in the Eastern front. Only Britain hadn’t been invaded and was fighting against Germany.
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China invest in Africa because Africa is rich of oil and China wants the oil‚ so loads of Chinese companies and workers came to Africa. Everyday there are tons of oil shipped everyday. The salary of Chinese construction workers in Africa are double more than the salary of construction workers in China‚ this is also one of the cost that attract workers from China to work in Africa. All the chinese worked very hard just to earn a money and send it back to their homes. China railway companies helped
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world‚ but to himself. I will be naming even more in the following text to help people better comprehend why Wegner was not insane and how reliable his work is to this very day. Wegener was convinced that all of Earth’s continents were once part of an enormous‚ single landmass called Pangaea. To describe continental drift & pangea‚ Wegner used geology‚ biology‚ and ecology; even though he was initially trained as an astronomer. Pangaea existed about 240 million
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ANCIENT CHINA. READING 2 COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS The Unification of China (pp. 105 – 110) 1. Where were Legalist doctrines met enthusiastically? The state of Qin. 2. Where was the Qin state? Western China. 3. Who oversaw the implementation of the Legalist doctrines in the Qin state? 4. What did the Qin state quickly do? 5. What happened to the Qin state in the fourth and third centuries B.C.E? 6. How did Shang Yang encourage farmers to move to the Qin state? 7. Why did the
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CASE STUDY: CHINA’S HAIER : A NON-U.S. MULTINATIONAL QUESTION 1 : Explain FOUR challenges faced by Haier in becoming a successful international company. The first challenge faced by Haier is the government control over their business activity. It is because China is a communist country‚ where they practice command economy system. It’s mean that the government has explicit control over price and supply of goods. Goods or products that Haier produce are not necessarily based on customer’s need
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27‚060 square kilometers of the total territorial size being water‚ China is the fourth largest country in the world. China is located in Eastern Asia‚ bordering four of the world’s major seas and fourteen countries. These countries include Afghanistan‚ Bhutan‚ Burma‚ India‚ Kazakhstan‚ North Korea‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Laos‚ Mongolia‚ Nepal‚ and Pakistan‚ the northeast and northwest borders of Russia‚ Tajikistan‚ and Vietnam. With China having such a large land mass‚ its total population has been estimated
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