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Men And Women Shake Hands
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Scientific Improvements Of The Arabic Empire
1,200 wordsThe 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 wordsFor 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 wordsAfrica, 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
1,181 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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
1,178 words"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
1,238 wordsKuwait 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 wordsIslam 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 wordsThe 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
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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Discourse Theory And Orientalism Views From Foucault Said
1,772 wordsDiscourse 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
1,755 wordsOrthodox 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 wordsSacrificing 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
1,623 wordsReason 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 wordsPalestinian 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
1,586 wordsThe 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
2,100 wordsIraq: 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 wordsSince 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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