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19 Th Century Art And Architecture
5,152 wordsArchitecture, the practice of building design and its resulting products; customary usage refers only to those designs and structures that are culturally significant. Architecture is to building as literature is to the printed word. Vitruvius, a 1 st-century BC Roman, wrote encyclopedically about architecture, and the English poet Sir Henry Wotton was quoting him in his charmingly phrased dictum: "Well building hath three conditions: Commodities, Firmenes, and Delight. " More prosaically, one wo...
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Why The United States Sent Troops To Vietnam
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Second World War Attempt To Show
1,688 wordsA countrys foreign policy is only partly the result of decisions made by its government: it is mainly imposed by circumstances. Australia, during the last fifty years, has been a country unsure of its place in the world. She has been bouncing from ally to ally, begging for a place under their umbrella of protection, ignoring and denying her place in the Asian region, and struggling to find a foreign policy that is in the best interest of her welfare and security. Australia truly finds herself, p...
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Chief Executive Officer Earnings Per Share
2,393 wordsTwo of the world's most profitable car companies - having a strong presence in Europe, North America and Asia, with the enormous potential for even more growth around the globe - together will now rank third in the world in revenues and fifth in vehicle unit sales. Assets being blended include time-honored brands and speed to market, high-technology advances and product innovations in both the North American and European markets. Together, they form a global powerhouse. One of the chairmen for t...
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Phil Knight Asia Pacific
2,343 words... nd recreate the very best performance product. The company that we know today as Nike (received this name in 1972) was formally known as Blue Ribbon Sports. Between 1957 - 1960, Bill Bowerman, a coach at the University of Oregon was handcrafting shoes for his runners, when he met Phil Knight an athlete at Stanford Business school. Knight, interested in breaking the domination of Germany over the United States athletic shoe industry, thought it would be logical to do so with high-tech exports...
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Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
1,022 wordsThe participation of Australia in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) has long been discussed. It definitely has its gains and losses; this is why it is vitally important to decide what is really important for Australia regarding its future as a significant economic agent at the world market. APEC itself presents rather significant organization in the world. According to World Bank figures, the eighteen members of APEC, accounted for 56 per cent of world GDP and 47 per cent of world trade i...
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Nomadic Tribes Han Dynasty
1,463 wordsThe greatest East-West trade route, The Silk Road, was named so by the German scholar Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen in the middle of the 19 th century. Later on it became the information super highway of its age, serving to trade not only goods but also knowledge and ideas between Western and Eastern civilizations. 1. The Silk Road was founded in the second century BC for military and political purpose instead of for trade. A court official named Zhang Qian was sent to the Western Regions by Ha...
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Weapons Of Mass Destruction War In Iraq
1,528 words... cultures that are separated by the diagonal North-East South-West. In this relation we have to answer the question whether this Anglo-Saxon, materialistic culture based partially on Christian values reminds us the egoistic culture that correlates to no other world cultures. However, the major part of Western political elite raises heated debates under the principle: there are two points of view, one it mine and the second is wrong. The West, actually, is indifferent to the problems of the Ea...
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16 Th Century 20 Th Century
2,812 wordsPhilippines Philippines is a country in Southeast Asia. It is an archipelago consisting of some 7, 100 islands and islets lying about 500 miles off the coast. The total land area of the Philippines is 115, 800 square miles. It is bounded by the Philippine Sea to the east, the Celebes Sea to the south, and the South China Sea to the west and north. The Philippines takes its name from Philip II, who was king of Spain during the Spanish colonization of the islands in the 16 th century. Manila is th...
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Students To Learn Mc Kays
1,379 wordsChapter 7. East Asia and the Spread of Buddhism The History of World Societies of John McKay is a fine example of well-researched history textbook for students. In Chapter 7, Asia and the Spread of Buddhism author argues that the main reason for the spread of Buddhist religion in Asia, particularly in China, is a fact that famous Silk Road made this possible: Besides silk, paper and other goods, the Silk Road carried another commodity which was equally significant in world history. Along with tr...
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Four Noble Truths Sentient Beings
2,413 wordsA Little History Buddhism 1 A Little History and One Persons View on Buddhism In India, around the 5 th and 6 th century BC, Siddhartha Guatama, also known as the Buddha, founded Buddhism. It is one of the great Asian religions that teaches the practice of the observance of moral precepts. The basic doctrines include the four noble truths taught by the Buddha. Since it was first introduced into China from India, Buddhism has had a history that has been characterized by periods of sometimes awkwa...
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3 Rd Century Century Bc
1,125 wordsBuddhism is a religion and philosophy founded by Siddhartha Gautama in northeast India during the period from the late 6 th century to the early 4 th century BC. Spreading from India to Central and Southeast Asia, China, Korea, and Japan, Buddhism has played an influential role in the spiritual, cultural, and social life of much of the Eastern world. The Buddha, which means the " Enlightened One, " died in northeastern India between 500 and 350 BC. According to tradition, his family na...
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Rule Of Law Hong Kong
1,539 wordsJapanese were encouraged by the outcome of the most recent U. S. China summit in October. Although uncertainties remain, and there are serious differences of views and positions between the U. S. and China, it was encouraging to see that the two principal actors on the Asia-Pacific scene seem to be more willing to cooperate rather than confront. In my view, this is only a part of the broader process in which the U. S. , Japan and China are currently engaged, with the basic question being: How ca...
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Asia Pacific Region South East Asia
1,677 wordsThe disappearance Deforestation 2 Deforestation The disappearance of trees, unquestioningly accepted as an indication of environmental degradation, evoked reactions ranging from disheartening feelings of powerlessness to various forms of cynicism (Kuchli, 1997 Page 8). Not only do forests support plants and animals; but they also have local and even global impact on ecosystem sustainability. It will be the object of this essay to analyze, based on a global scale, the patterns of deforestation. A...
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Hindus And Muslims Council Of Ministers
1,876 wordsKalpesh P. Patel Dr. Cashel-Code Global Economics 271 February 1998 50 Years of Independence; 5000 Years of History INTRODUCTION The Republic of India possesses tremendous contrasts and enormous ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity. Since independence in 1947, the Indian civilization has expanded in every facet from its increasing population to its to its intertwining cultural and social systems. There are over 1600 languages, nearly 400 of them are spoken by more than 200, 000 people. Ethn...
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13 Th Century Power And Influence
1,843 wordsThroughout King Ramkhamhaeng King Ramkhamhaeng Throughout history, there have been many great rulers of many great ancient civilizations. Some of them might be Julius Caesar, Ramses II, Hammurabi, or Octavian Caesar. The list of them could go on forever. One of the most influential of his civilization, known for his wisdom, was King Ramkhamhaeng or Rama the Valiant, of the Thai people. He claimed to be the? sovereign lord of all the Thai. ? Researchers guess that he lived from 1239 AD to after 1...
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Years Of Age Marco Polo
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Back In Time Galileo Galilei
620 wordsThe dead people might left something useful for you. People in the history could keep us from doing something wrong that they had done. In generations, people improved so much because of those individuals in the past gave us experience, so, we dont go to the wrong directions again. There are some people in history I wanted to thanks. If I were given a time machine, I would travel in time to meet Marco Polo, Galileo Galilei, and Muhammad Ali. The first person I would meet is Marco Polo. His disco...
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U S Economy U S Exports
619 wordsThe National Economy National Economy The U. S. economy has been slowly growing since the spring of 1991, growth increased in 1997 when real gross domestic product rose 3. 9 percent from an increase of 2. 8 percent in 1996. At the same time inflation in 1997 fell to 2. 3 percent decreasing the cost of living. Payroll jobs rose from 121. 14 million in January to 124. 29 million in December and the national unemployment rate declined over the year by. 7 %. This combination of events was good news ...
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South East Asia World War Ii
1,982 wordsDuring World War II New Zealand greatly depended upon Britain and her Royal Navy to provide New Zealand with security and protection throughout the Pacific region. But after a while New Zealand and Australia as neighbouring countries began to provide their own defence for the Pacific. So when Britain began to build Naval Bases in Singapore, both Australia and New Zealand contributed to its cost. Also the Royal New Zealand Air Force and the Royal New Zealand Navy were established in order to prov...
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