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Divine Comedy Saint Augustine
1,264 words
Female Figures Beatrice is the central figure in
Dantes The Divine Comedy. Beatrice (Italian)
favoring with beatitude. The semantics of this
female character traces back to semantics of Donna
in dolce stil nuovo and in courteous lyrics.
Dantes poetic style constitutes Beatrice's
character as embodiment of supreme beauty and
feminist that are, in their turn, the basis of
beauty in other female characters. Dante perceives
Beatrice's beauty as beauty in its substantial
expression. He states that it...
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Decimal Places Infinite Series
756 words
Biography of the Mathematician Madhava of
Sangamagramma (1350 - 1425) is a well-known Indian
mathematician who made great impact on the
development of Calculus. He was born in 1350 in
Sangamagramma in Kerala state in the southwestern
part of India. Madhava invented the ideas of
Taylor series, Maclaurin series, Power series,
trigonometric series, infinite series, and gave
formulae for? that leads to the approximation 3.
14159265359. He is also considered the founder of
mathematical analysis becau...
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Legalization Of Racism For The Sake National Security
1,355 words
Legalization of Racism for the Sake of National
Security Historically, the government was examined
in the capacity of the mechanism used to guarantee
national welfare and the institution conniving at
organized violence. Evidently, nowadays the
class-race-violence approach to the analysis of
the governments role is not justified. The modern
government is rather the mechanism of coordination
inevitably different demands and interests of its
citizens and their communities with an objective
of natio...
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Native Americans White People
765 words
Cultural Diversity The most important reason why
many White people in United States hold more
benevolent attitudes towards Native Americans than
they do such other subordinate groups as African
Americans and Latinos is because their historical
memory associates Indians with danger. Natives
always remained a freedom loving people, who
actively resisted the colonial expansion of White
men. Many Indian tribes proved to be immune to the
spiritual corruption of Christianity. They never
considered Whi...
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Ability To Create Hospitality Industry
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... essential to believe that what we do is great;
otherwise our activity is doomed to failure.
Summary of the key leadership features Summarizing
the core features of Jobs's unless as leader are
the following: innovation; trust in success;
striving for perfectionism; ability to create
small team of top talents; brand fanaticism;
radical customer devotion; 'killing products'
bringing 'killing profits'; ability to express the
ideas to the team for their realization;
transforming self-interests in...
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14 Th Century Began To Realize
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The Triumph of Death In 1562 Peter Bruegel the
Elder produced his famous painting The Triumph of
Death, which was being inspired by the stories
about bubonic plague that hit Europe in the middle
of 14 th century. This epidemic reduced European
population by half, within a few years and almost
destroyed Western civilization, as we know it.
Therefore, the horrors of bubonic plague remained
fresh in the memory of Europeans, well after
epidemic was over. The bubonic plague originated
in Central Asia...
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Blue Ribbon Sports Phil Knight
1,370 words
Nike If you have a body, you are an athlete. And
as long as there are athletes, there will be Nike.
Bill Bowerman Introduction Undoubtedly, Nike is
one of the most influential world leaders in
manufacture and design of sport footwear, clothes
and accessories. By 2001 the companys annual
income approached 10 billion dollars. Nike is a
multinational corporation that concludes contracts
with 750 factories in 55 world countries. The
quantity of Nike's personnel makes up more than
28, 000 full-time e...
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Affirmative Action Programs Based On Race
1,277 words
I. A policy for discriminated groups. II.
Affirmative actions Historical background; The
Supreme Courts treatment; Affirmative action plan;
DVAAP; Programs based on race; Problems. III.
Results of Affirmative actions: 1. opponents point
of view; 2. pr opponents point of view In Defence
of Affirmative Action Affirmative action has been
created as a policy with the purpose to increase
the opportunities for usually discriminated groups
that are characterized by race, gender or physical
disability. ...
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Legalize Marijuana Marijuana Legalization
385 words
Legalize Marijuana More and more people realize
that legalizing marijuana, on the level of State
policy, is just a matter of time. It has been
observed that Drug Prohibition laws proved to be
really ineffective in governments war on drugs.
The time has come to ask ourselves if this policy
does not result in reducing the number of drug
related crimes, why have it in the first place?
Conservative politicians say it is unthinkable to
even talk about reconsidering our present
anti-drug laws. But why...
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Majority Of People Emotional Shock
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Lens Essay When we look at Edwidge Danticat's
novel The Farming of Bones through the lens of
psychoanalysis, it will allow us to learn a great
deal about the motivational factors that define
main characters (Amabelle) behavior. According to
Freud, the main function of our dreams is to
fulfill our desires, which are often socially
suppressed. It is clear that Amabelle's dreams
correspond to her subconscious desire to be
together with Sebastien. In addition, we can say
that her dreams serve as too...
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Corporate Culture Japanese Society
744 words
Sociology P 2 DB 2 (1) It would be wrong to
suggest that the biggest difference between
Japanese and American understanding of concept of
corporate culture can only be discussed within a
context of salary. We cannot argue with the fact
that in Japan, the difference between workers and
executives salaries is not quite as drastic as in
U. S. However, it is not the main reason why
Japanese companies comercial efficiency is much
higher. We need to understand that Japanese
society is based on the pri...
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Caroline Manchester Paintings Northern Quarter Manchester Artistic
845 words
Manchester artist Caroline Johnson is considered
as one of Manchester's most prominent artists. She
was born in 1947 and, by the time, she was 10
years old, Caroline was already known to be
talented, in artistic sense of this word, because,
even at that early age, she was able to produce
interesting drawings. These early drawings,
produced with a pencil, leave no doubt, as to what
artistic style Caroline was going to become
associated with in the future. While being able to
portray the details o...
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Pros And Cons Developing Countries
675 words
Migration from a Developing Country to a Developed
Country: Pros and Cons Although the pace of
international migration has somewhat slowed down,
the number of international migrants, who are
moving from a developing country like Jamaica, to
the developed world, is consistently increasing.
In this respect, international migration becomes
the issues of the day, as more than any other
issue, it puts into stark relief really enormous
economic, social, political, and cultural
transformations. While s...
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Criminal Investigation Independent Variables
1,027 words
Building Face Composites The hypothesis of a
research study Building Face Composites Can Harm
Lineup Identification Performance, by Gary L.
Wells and Steve D. Charman, is contained in the
name of the project. Authors task was to gather
evidence that would support their claim that
building face composites, on the part of witnesses
to the crime, affect the objective properties of
their memory. This is the reason why criminal
investigations that rely on eyewitnesses
identification of potential susp...
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Las Vegas Space Exploration
1,002 words
Shoot For the Stars It seems that those, who love
extreme and adventures, finally have a chance not
only to settle into orbit being the guests on
private space ships, but also to be guests in a
real space hotel. Their dreams may come true due
to Robert Bigelow, a well-known magnate from Los
Angeles, who made a $ 500 million bet that not
later than in 2015 his space hotel will open its
doors and meet the first guests. Be it as it may,
but the latest events show that the billionaire
didnt joke. Th...
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Diego Rivera Mexican Revolution
768 words
Frida Kahlo Contents Introduction 2 Childhood 2
Education 3 Love and Family Life 3 Life as a
Painter 3 Conclusion 4 References 4 Frida Kahlo
Introduction Frida Kahlo, one of the
all-time-great painters in the world, was born on
July 6, 1907 in a small town at the outskirt of
Mexico City. By the time she was 19, she has
matured into an outstanding painter performing all
kinds of magic on the canvas using unique ideas
and striking colors. Bulk of her work was self
portraits that reflected her own ...
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Quid Pro Quo Civil Rights Act
1,016 words
Principles of Business - Phase 1 IP Although the
government and business companies undertake all
efforts to reduce the cases of sexual harassment
in the workplace to minimum, the cases of sexual
harassment still remain the issue of the day. In
the context of the situation described in the
present assignment, Frank, the corporate sales
supervisor, known for flirting with his female
sales associates, flirts with Mary, a young female
sales professional. Frank discusses one of her
clients and says t...
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Credit Rating Interest Rates
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Hello, Sis! Glad to know you have given me this
kind of confidence even if I am still just taking
this particular class. What I am going to do is
give you the basic factors which usually influence
credit rating. The criteria used by credit
institutions are usually similar so all you have
to do is keep these things in mind. The credit
rating evaluates and appraises the credit
worthiness of an individual or group. The rating
is a calculation derived from the creditors
financial history as well as ...
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Health Care Professionals Bipolar Disorder
1,804 words
Bipolar and the Mind (1) The term bipolar disorder
refers to the variety of psychological
abnormalities that are defined by the irrational
swings in patients mood, which sometimes are
associated with anti-social behavior. It is only
in recent times that this term was being adopted
by psychiatric community, as such that has a
neutral sounding and does not imply perceptional
negativity. In fact, the term bipolar disorder is
nothing by politically correct equivalent of the
term manic depressive dis...
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Playing Video Games Cell Phones
2,269 words
How has Technology Impacted Parenting? (1) The
fast pace of technological progress in recent
years had a great affect on parenting, despite the
fact that the process of childrens upbringing is
traditionally associated with conservative values.
We can even say that the concept of parenting is
now being transformed to have an entirely new
meaning. Children are becoming increasingly
independent of their parents, because the
realities of post-modern living result in
situation when the notion of pare...
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