These parties will be described from their goals of what they wanted to accomplish and the American voters they affected in that time period. ... This conjunction provides the setting in which "truth" is seen as an achievable state. ... Popular culture, with its shallowness, rudeness, and lack of intellectual seriousness, is almost always seen as a fall away from these standards. ... As the Granger Movement fell apart, the Farmers' Alliance was established. ... This does two things: gives them immediate credit and the opportunity to hold their crops until the market improves. ...

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Apart from the tremendous service they provide to women, they often exert considerable influence on local health practices. ... For many women in the world, childbirth is considered a normal life event which does not fall into the medical realm. ... It would be nave of me to think that I can enter their homes, relatively young and without children of my own, and tell them what they should be doing. ... It is important to understand why things are done before we try to change them. ... Evaluations of the practices of trained TBAs ( Pigg 1997) show that while they do gain new knowledge, ...

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Questions I and II What are the central concerns illustrated in the article "The Crisis of Belief"?" ... "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." His poem was published after World War I, when he thought society had broken down and fallen apart, and it reads as a prediction of a dark future. ... Question V What are the central elements and concerns developed by Childs to explain the phenomenon of Modernism? ... It finds its identity by differentiating itself from what it is not; for example, not Realism, its predecessor, which is characterized by its attempt objectively to offer up a mirr...

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Ryszard Kapuscinski uniquely authors The Emperor through the perspectives of nobles', dignitaries', and servants' views and what their thoughts and perceptions were of Selassie's nefarious reign as Emperor. ... Furthermore, Selassie's performance, micromanaging, and political maneuvering of his government will be scrutinized and evaluated through subjective views (which suspense subtly grew throughout the book as to how the inevitable fall finally came) inside the unsanctified palace. Summarily, the genesis of the fall of Selassie's empire will be examined, reac...

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The fall of the Macedonian Empire following the death of Alexander is very controversial as it was an empire built by King Philip II to survive. ... The Greek historian Arrian describes the drunken events leading up to the murder of Cleitus at the hands of Alexander III: "When some of them, again trying to please Alexander, suggested without any justification that the achievements of Philip were neither great nor wonderful, Cleitus was no longer able to restrain himself, showing respect for what Philip had achieved, but belittling Alexander and all he had done; he was now very drunk and he r...

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Apart from nuclear power (24 per cent of total power supplied), the generation portfolio for the company included coal (37 per cent), natural gas (18 per cent) and solar (less than one per cent) - about 20 per cent of the power was purchased from outside sources. ... The key projects initiatives supported the shift to strategic work by setting in motion a series of projects geared toward integrating service-oriented architecture into the design of IT projects. ...

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Some strategic configurations change, others remain the same, while new patterns of strategic geometry appear, as the old forms dissolve--the explanations behind the shifting pattern of strategic geometry is what enables us to understand the transition from the Cold War era to the post Cold War. ... Though from this perspective, certain things stand out. ... "Normally triangles are not thought of as a stable form in social or political relationships nor as a stabilizing influence within a larger setting. ... Relationships among the three countries scarcely changed, apart from fluctuations in...

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The problems of Britain's cities fall into this category; if we look back over the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries we find problems of poverty, unemployment, crime, etc, constantly reoccurring (see Steadman-Jones, 1976). ... What perhaps distinguishes New Labour's approach from previous ones is the emphasis on developing a holistic, strategic and integrated approach – what is referred to as `joined-up thinking, policy and action'. ... In addition since the 1950s there has been a concern with the impact of what might be termed `urban sprawl' and demographic ch...

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