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Date Back 000 Tons
515 wordsGold was discovered around 3000 BC to 1200 BC. Gold probably was found on the ground and used by prehistoric man as a tool. Highly sophisticated gold art objects and jewelry discovered by archaeologists in the Royal Tombs at Ur, in what is now Southern Iraq, date back to around 3000 BC. Similarly, goldsmiths of the Chavin civilization in Peru were making ornaments by hammering and embossing gold by 1200 BC. Where and abundance in nature: Since gold is both durable and carefully guarded, most of ...
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Saddam Hussein Middle East
471 wordsThe United States has become the target of the most recent terrorist attacks because of its political involvement in the middle east. The United States has had involvement in the middle east ever since before the Gulf War which took place in the early 1990 s. Their involvement began in the early 80 s when they were called to help out Isreal, an ally which was being harassed by Palestine. Their presence has been felt there since and the U. S. has acted like International Police. The presence of t...
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Reading The Book King Leopold
1,023 wordsOut of sight mind is very convenient. If we dont see what is really going on it is easier for us as consumers to sleep at night. Capitalism, colonialism and slavery are still practiced today, but in foreign countries and in a different manner. Before reading King Leopold's Ghost, when I thought of slavery I thought of the transatlantic slave trade or Africans working as slaves in the US. After reading the book my eyes were open to a whole new perspective on slavery, capitalism and colonialism. W...
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Death Penalty Democratic Party
762 wordsThe Democratic Party that has produced such great leaders as Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, and Kennedy has fallen to new lows. The corruption started with President Johnson, and has continued with morally weak leaders like Carter and Clinton. Throughout most of the Party are spiritually insane doctrines such as the right to kill through abortion, the approval of homosexual lifestyles, and "the end justifies the means" mentality. While it is true that Republicans are also lacking in virtue, they ...
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Group Of People Soviet Union
1,433 wordsThroughout the history of mankind, wars and conflicts had arisen numerous times among all civilizations. Be it the huge Chinese Empire, the British Empire or the Spanish Empire, armed conflicts had always flared up no matter what forms of government, democratic or a dictatorship, a country belongs to. Strangely, it is only in humans do we see such large-scale slaughtering of each other. The reason for this is because we are sociable organisms and live in groups instead of individually. Humans al...
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Axis Of Just As Evil Axis Of Evil Countries
494 wordsIn Speech, Bush Calls Iraq, Iran and North Korea 'Axis of Evil" -- N. Y. Times, 1 / 30 / 02 ANGERED BY SNUBBING, LIBYA, CHINA, SYRIA FORM AXIS OF JUST AS EVIL Cuba, Sudan, Serbia Form Axis of Somewhat Evil; Other Nations Start Own Clubs Beijing (Satire Wire. com) Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil, " Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil, " which they said would be way eviler than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis Presi...
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Day To Day Life Extended Family
884 wordsIn the 1950 's, a newly married American woman named Elizabeth Warnock Fernea accompanied her husband to a rural Iraqi village, El Nahra, where he was performing field research for his doctorate in anthropology. The adjustment for her was profound, because she lived in a mud hut with no indoor plumbing, didn't speak the local language, and found it advisable to wear the veil in order to fit in with the local conservative Islamic community. Under the advice of friends, Fernea transformed her jour...
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Saudi Arabia Persian Gulf
1,080 wordseverywhere 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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Islamic Movement Muslim Countries
1,117 wordsWhile terrorism - even in the form of suicide attacks - is not an Islamic phenomenon by definition, it cannot be ignored that the lion's share of terrorist acts and the most devastating of them in recent years have been perpetrated in the name of Islam. This fact has sparked a fundamental debate both in the West and within the Muslim world regarding the link between these acts and the teachings of Islam. Most Western analysts are hesitant to identify such acts with the bona fide teachings of one...
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Officials Must Decide Benefits And Costs Oil
610 wordsTo make efficient decisions - decisions that provide the greatest possible return from the resources available -, people and society must weigh the benefits and costs of using their resources to do more of some things, and less of others. For example, to use their time effectively, students must weigh the additional benefits and costs of studying economics rather than listening to music or socializing with friends, or sleeping. School officials must decide whether to use some of its funds to buy...
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Central And Eastern Eastern European
635 wordsNorth Atlantic Treaty Alliance, NATO, was created after World War II in 1949 to protect Western Europe from the threat of Communism. In April 2004, seven countries between the Baltic and Black seas, that is, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Rumania, Slovakia, and Slovenia joined the existing 19 members, bringing the total size of the transatlantic military alliance to 26 states and pushing the NATO map eastward across most of the former Soviet satellite states and linking Western Europe all...
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Presidential Race George Bush
1,433 wordsElection Strategies The coming elections in United States are marked with unusual aggressiveness with which both candidates supporter teams pursue their goals. A variety of dirty tricks had been applied on the part of Bush and Kerry. The latest one is revelation of some army veterans, who served with Kerry in Vietnam, about his, not always honorable performance there. Although George Bush rejected any accusation of applying dirty tactics to undermine Kerry's support, it nevertheless did cost Dem...
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George W Bush University Of Michigan
1,271 wordsAffirmative action is destined to be a hot-button issue in the 2004 campaign one that puts black Republicans in the awkward position of opposing a policy a majority of blacks favor. Many black conservatives say they want to end preferences based solely upon race. Affirmative action in the United States government programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. (The Columbia Encyclopedia...
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Le Bon Public Opinion
769 wordsMasse Responce to Events In order for us to understand the main factors that form public opinion about the events, we need to know what are the driving forces of mass psychology. Gustav Le Bon in his book The Crowd: A Study of Popular Mind says: Notwithstanding all its progress, philosophy has been unable as yet to offer the masses any ideal that can charm them; but, as they must have their illusions at all cost, they turn instinctively, as the insect seeks the light, to the rhetoricians who acc...
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War Veterans Foreign Policies
722 wordsWhat a Veteran Means To Me We live in time when young generations of Americans are being continuously assured that the new era of universal love and peace is on the horizon. The wars are being discussed in very negative terms and usually referred to as attributes of the past. Numerous left-wing activists organize campaigns, where children are encouraged to surrender their toy guns in exchange of dolls. The next thing we see is planes flying into the buildings and fanatical Muslims pledging to ca...
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War In Iraq Hip Hop
745 wordsHow Break Dancing is being used as a political vehicle. Dancing is one of the oldest ways to express emotions. It is unknown where and when first dance was actually danced. Maybe this happened in some cave after the successful hunt on mammoth, nobody knows. Dance can be relaxing, or seductive, or angry, or sad. Like a code written on the body, dance is an essay, epic, novel, or poem about culture articulated through the vehicle of the body. Pointing out gender, ethnicity, and class as an inheren...
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One Can Find Newspapers And Magazines
1,274 wordsThere is nothing perfect in our world. If we look meticulously on different things from different angles we are able to see some defects in them. Newspapers and magazines are not exceptions from these rules. Even in well-known and authoritative editions one can find a number of logical fallacies. What is a logical fallacy? It is a technical flaw which makes an argument unsound or invalid. To prove this point I will try to find them in different newspapers and magazines on such subjects as aborti...
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5career Management At Merrill Lynch Investment Part 1
1,542 words/ 5 Career Management at Merrill Lynch Investment Bank 1) Do I know what is expected from me at work? Working as a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch investment bank I know well what is expected from me at work for the following reasons. First of all at a large financial institution that a Merrill Lynch represents, most of the duties and responsibilities are highly documented with a single small nuisance being assigned the personnel employed. As a financial analyst I know that I am supposed to p...
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George W Bush Saudi Arabia
994 wordsWilliam Jefferson Clinton, by far the MOST controversial President of our Time On January 20, 1993, our current presiding president, William J. Clinton was sworn into office. For the past six years, one of the most flamboyant presidencies has been lived out and still continues to this very day. In the eyes of some Bill Clinton has been a savior to the United States, while others openly consider him the Anti-Christ. Either way, he has put us all on the track we are on now. Bill? s first changes w...
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20 Th Century Mountain Ranges
1,381 wordsOne of the most common questions asked, relating to UFOs, is about the theories behind these unidentified flying objects. Throughout history many theories have been developed to give reason for this unexplainable phenomenon. While most theories that are raised are quickly dismissed; one particular theory of the 20 th century seems to have grabbed the world s attention. It is a theory proposed by Erich Von Daniken in his book entitled Chariots of the Gods? . He states that there is scientific evi...
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