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Men And Women Shake Hands
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Cultural History: The modern state of Syria was
not established until 1946, after the Second World
War, but it is a land, which has been inhabited
since ancient times. Archaeologists have unearthed
evidence of habitation dating back to about 5000
B. C. and Damascus is probably the world's oldest
continuously inhabited city. Greater Syria, a land
area incorporating Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and
present-day Syria, was the site of much conflict
and conquest throughout the days of the Ancient
World. T...
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Scientific Improvements Of The Arabic Empire
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The Scientific Improvements of the Great Arabic
Empire. Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 a lot of people take
them for granted, however do most of them think
about how these numbers came to be? These numbers
were introduced to the Western world by the Arabs.
Among this, the Arabic Empire made a lot of
tremendous improvements in the field of scientific
knowledge. By being open-minded and tolerant
towards other cultures and science the Arabic
Empire made great and numerous improvements in the
field of science, ...
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Middle East Jewish State
879 words
For at least two thousand years Jews were
dispersed all over the world. Some of them
inevitably assimilated with other nations. Yet
many kept their identity as a nation by staying
loyal to their religious faith and by their desire
to survive as one people preserving common racial
features and cultural traditions. Some European
anti-Jewish tendencies and the suspicious attitude
to Jews in oriental cultures contributed to their
solidarity. For centuries Jews cherished the idea
of returning to thei...
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Ethnic Groups Tropical Rain
992 words
Africa, until the middle to late nineteenth
century was known as The Dark Continent. The
reason for this reputation was that at the time no
outsider was able to go in land of the big
continent and see the diversity and the complexity
of it... The first impression the European got was
what they saw that the coastal areas of Africa and
took this impression back to their countries and
labeled the continent as being dark, not only
because the encounter they had with dark skinned
people also because ...
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End Of The War Saudi Arabia
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The republic of Lebanon, located on the eastern
coast of the Mediterranean Sea, is bordered in the
north and east by Syria, and bounded by Israel on
the south. One of the smaller countries in the
Middle East, Lebanon's area measures 4036 square
miles. The country is 135 miles long, and its
width is only 50 miles at its widest point. About
89 % of Lebanon's 3, 619, 971 citizens live in
urban areas. Beirut has regained most of its
prewar population and is still the country's
largest city. The nort...
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Wedding Ceremony Personal Interview
1,390 words
... s if they appear outside their homes with
their husbands they usually walk behind them. also
if a husband entered a room where the wife is
sitting she has to rise up as soon as he enters
and do not seat except if he is seated. Most of
the wives do not call their husbands by their
first name, this is a symbol of respect, for a
wife to call him (Have or by calling him the
father of her son) (Robin: 12). there is a strong
preference in the Arabia for the marriage of
cousins. In the book of kins...
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Life And Death Mothers Funeral
1,524 words
The Relationships of Meursault's Character, And
His Perceptions of The Worlds Senses. In the book
The Stranger by Albert Camus, Meursaults was the
main character who lived a simple and an
uneventful life as a shipping clerk. Life was not
all that important to him, except for daily
physical pleasures. He was content with only of
his existence and was not concerned or reacted to
the responsibilities that society dictated to him.
He had a casual attitude about his life and the
relationships with ot...
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The Road Not Taken In Choices Of Life
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"The Road Not Taken" in the Choices of Life "I
shall be telling this with a sign Two roads
diverged in a wood, and I And that has made all
the difference. " (Frost 751) The narrator of this
last stanza of "The Road Not Taken" is Edward
Thomas, eluding that the choice he has just made
may be the wrong, or the right; but only time will
tell. On the surface, Robert Frosts poem is a
story about a walk on a wooded road, but it had
deeper meaning to him and how he feels about the
road. Also, the poem ...
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Iran Iraq War Facts On File
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Kuwait is located on the Northwest coast of the
Persian Gulf in Southwest Asia. It is bordered by
Iraq on the Northwest and North sides, and by
Saudi Arabia on the South side. The countrys total
area, including the islands of Bubiyan, Warbah,
and Faylakah is 6, 880 square miles. (Encarta)
Virtually the entire country, except for some
small coastal areas, is barren desert, with a flat
to rolling terrain. Soils are practically
nonexistent. The average annual temperature is 77
F, and the average an...
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Islamic Religion Muslim Faith
1,141 words
Islam is the Arabic term meaning submission or
surrender, this is the will of their God Allah. It
is interesting because the Islamic religion
believes it was founded by through his first son,
Ishmael while Judaism is believed to have been
founded by his second son Isaac. It is said that
after the birth of Isaac, Ishmael left his fathers
country and went to live in Arabia with a group
who were not of any religion of the time apart
from their own belief, that there was only one
God, the Hanifs. Th...
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The Battle Of Algiers Terrorism Torture Ethics
1,524 words
The Battle of Algiers The Battle of Algiers,
directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, produced in 1966
depicts the 1950 s Algerian war of independence
with chilling authenticity. Cast almost entirely
with nonprofessional actors, and filmed in
documentary neo realist style in the serpentine
alleys, stairways and archways of Algiers Muslim
Kasbah. Pontecorvo used newsreel film stock,
telephoto close-ups, and a percussive,
hard-driving musical score to create a swiftly
moving political thriller (Hornaday). It...
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Saudi Arabia Persian Gulf
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everywhere in the world. It seems that every month
or even more frequently, gas prices are either
rising or dropping but never staying stable.
Gasoline prices are affected by many factors,
including the price of crude oil in the world
market, supply and demand for gasoline, local
market competition, temporary supply
interruptions, government regulations, or taxes.
Gasoline is produced by a distillation process
where crude oil is heated and fumes are captured
and converted into many products such...
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Discourse Theory And Orientalism Views From Foucault Said
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Discourse Theory and Orientalism: Views from
Foucault and Said Said describes Orientalism as,
... the generic term that I have been employing to
describe the Western approach to the Orient;
Orientalism is the discipline by which the Orient
was (and is) approached systematically, as a topic
of learning, discovery and practice. (Said, p. 77)
By this, Said is saying because we treated the
East like a school subject, we have learned to
treat the East as an inferior. Which has developed
into somethin...
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Osama Bin Laden War Against Terrorism
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Orthodox Jews in Americas views on Terrorism in
Israel In the hours after the twin towers came
crashing down, a tidal wave of support for a war
against terrorism swept across the country;
Americans had not been so united about anything in
over a haft-century. But almost immediately, an
undertow of perverse opinion was created by the
"semi-apologists" - those who deplore the acts of
terrorism but, at the same time, shift an
appreciable amount of the blame onto America. In
so doing, they not only ...
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Racial Profiling George Orwell
1,388 words
Sacrificing Freedoms Temporarily to Enjoy Them in
the Long Run In the wake of events of 9 / 11 many
people in America began questioning whether civil
rights in our country need to be provided to them
at any cost. There is no doubt that, those who
declared war on America, would do their utmost to
undermine the security of Americans. The fact that
all the citizens enjoy certain freedoms makes it
easy for international terrorists to blend in
society. This problem especially became acute
recently. M...
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War With Iraq Weapons Of Mass Destruction
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Reason for War in Iraq Without a doubt, almost all
of the attempts to contain and deter the current
Iraqi regime have eventually failed. The only
policy that has a proven success against Saddam
Hussein has been the use of military force. As the
worlds only superpower, the United States of
America has the capability to remove Saddam
Hussein from power. But is a war with Iraq the
only option? Iraq became an independent kingdom in
1933, have the destruction of the Ottoman Empire
in World War I. Pro...
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Yasser Arafat Yitzhak Rabin
668 words
Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat The Middle East,
once an area of severe fighting and active
terrorism, is now free of violence due to the
actions of one man, Yasser Arafat. Yasser Arafat
has helped create a place where the Palestine and
Israeli people can live together. This peaceful
environment did not come easily though. It took
years of work and controversy for Yasser to make
the two Arab nations live peacefully together.
Through Yasser Arafat's successful leadership
qualities, the once warr...
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Eastern European Countries World War Ii
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The Cold War was a conflict of values and
ideologies between the United States and the
United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). Western
countries wanted the liberated states of Eastern
Europe to be ruled with a democratic government
and a capitalist economy. Joseph Stalin felt
entitled to rule the Eastern European countries it
occupied in World War II. Stalin wanted these
countries to be used as a buffer to protect USSR
boarders. Communist governments in these Eastern
European countries would be...
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Shatt Al Arab Billion A Year
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Iraq: A Country on the Rise Lauterbach, Kevin
History, Period 4 January 7, 1996 Iraq is a
country that is on the rise. After being crushed
by allied troops for their invasion of Kuwait,
they have begun the slow rebuilding process. In
this report, I will discuss the basic geographic
features of Iraq, and other various important
features such as mineral wealth, vegetation, ect.
Iraq's total area is 271, 128 square miles (just
slightly more than twice the size of Idaho). Its
capital, Baghdad, is lo...
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Byzantine Empire Islamic Culture
1,138 words
Since Islam came into being, it has clashed
numerously with the already established
Christianity. Their rivalry has never ceased until
today. Modern Examples would be Bosnia and
Lebanon. There were not only military clashes but
political as well as economical. Although, the
rivalry was incredibly intense, ironically, Arab
or Islamic culture managed to severely influence
the Christiankingdoms. However, Christianity used
all the advantages provided by Islam their
advantage and through that they ma...
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