I think that this movie is very precise and detailed because it looks as if it would closely resemble what sixteenth century England would look like physically, with the close proximity of the buildings, no sewage disposal except for out of a window, and the clothing that an actual Englishman would where back then. ... This movie creates an extraordinary theatrical performance of "Romeo and Juliet", because all of the parts of the play are played by men, there are no elaborate scene changes except for those created by the narrator in the imagination of the audience, and the deep and profound l...

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Why then, by the end of the decade, had the tide of democratic process receded, and how had Japan's conservative and authoritarian elements reined back power from the hands of the people? ... As well as civilian obstacles to the effectiveness of the elected parliament, there was also the fact that the military had no obligation or accountability to it. ... Criticism of the lower house often stemmed from the fact that it was quick to cooperate with and bend to the will of non-party elites10, and it is true that there was no shortage of political scandals to undermine public confidence in ...

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Pollard, stating that exports were the only reliable figure for international comparison at the time, also notes a "clear dip" during the 1880s and 1890s but says that there was an "equally clear recovery" thereafter. ... He speculates that if the investment rate had been similar to that of Germany, then a 25% increase in consumption per head would have been possible by 1911. ... He claims that there was no reason why British technical and scientific education should have remained negligible, in a period when a wealth of rich amateur scientists and privately endowed research laboratories o...

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These studies were not aimed actually at sportsmen but they would come out of WW2 and were trying to combat hypoxia. ... When the sporting world recognized the effectiveness of transfusions is open to debate, and some papers discovered that there were some runners which profited from blood transfusions but no details were given specially with the identity of the athletes involved or the nature of the transfusions. But there is some confusion regarding this claim, without the evidence there was no way to prove there was any activity regarding blood transfusions. ... But it also contains second...

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The second independent variable was stereotype threat condition: threat vs. no threat. ... After participants were informed that they would take a verbal or math test (although, none was actually given) and then were manipulated across the stereotype threat variable. In the stereotype threat variable, half of the participants were told that either the math or verbal test was indicative of ability (threat level) and half were told that gender differences did not influence test results in the past (no-threat level). The participants were given 4 minutes to look over sample test questions, and th...

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If a non-democratic regime performs these functions then why should we not consider it legitimate? ... However, if such offences were committed on a large scale in a non-democratic country there still remains the threat of popular unrest and revolution which helps to keep the regime in check. ... In a particular area or society (say, the Middle East) where there has been no historical basis for the growth of liberal, individualistic values it seems wrong to lay our values as a standard by which to judge their system and call it wrong. ... There is no need to rely on the benevolence or nous of ...

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In other words, it is the ability to transfer information instantly from one point to another with no time delay. ... The myth basically states that between two twin siblings, there is an invisible connection between them; meaning that if one of the twins were to be in trouble or in a state of danger, the other twin would instinctively, sense or feel when the other twin is in that state of stress or danger all because of that invisible connection in between. ... If one of the prize wheels were to be spun and it so happened to land on a red panel, than no matter what happens, the other prize wh...

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American revolutionaries saw the freedom of language as a natural right, and how property can be claimed and then others can acknowledge that ownership as an aid in equality/inequality. ... The French felt that intuitions were corrupting the nature of man, and believed that starting over without them would be most effective in restoring order within the country. Rousseau argued that man and government were both good in nature, but were corrupted and made cruel by institutions, and that there would be no liberty without a good government protecting it. ... Although the ideas were utilized to ...

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Agamemnon chose to fight in the battle because he wanted his family and his home to be safe because if he did not go over there to fight in the battle then eventually the other side they were fight would had made their way over to his side to fight them and he did not want to take that risk because of his family and the people he had to look out for while they were there. Agamemnon had more of a chance to realize why he actually was a hero other than his daughter Cassandra because he did not really do anything but got mad at him for going to the battle not knowing that the battle could probabl...

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Without HUMINT, there would be a lack in knowing what the true capabilities of the enemy are, what egress routes the enemy takes to either evade or regroup, where ambush positions are located and other vital information in knowing and understanding the enemy. No other intelligence discipline has saved more American and Coalition Forces lives than HUMINT. If there were no HUMINT, then the military would be less effective on the battlefield in every conflict where HUMINT was actually utilized in some form or fashion....

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The annual mean temperature is 25 ∘C, ranging during the year from 23 to 27 ∘C, and the average relative humidity is 80% There are 11,142,600 inhabitants of Cuba, with a density of a little more than 100 inhabitants/km. ... In order to assess the environmental progress experienced by Cuba, we must first look at its environmental history, then at its environmental state at present, after which we will extrapolate the reasons for this literal turn around. ... Many of the problems that arose from this industrialization effort were especially visible in the agricultural sector...

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"# There are several problems with the validity of this argument. ... If Charalambous is suggesting that the past should be adhered to because of a general aversion to change, then he is suggesting that reform is unnecessary. ... Secondly, there is a focal misunderstanding within Charalambous" statement concerning the issue of marriage. ... If a either spouse in a heterosexual marriage were infertile or sterile, would that mean that their marriage were somehow inferior in terms of validity and strength? ... In that case, the options of all forms of birth control between married couples wou...

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However, the Protestant governments that then emerged used their powers in "religious bitterness"1 to strengthen their power. ... I saw no shooting at the troops. ... This interpretation was supported by the explicitly biased findings of the report which found that "there was no general breakdown in army discipline"8, this to nationalists showed the British judicial system as corrupt and rather than ending distrust for loyalist institutions it instead deepens this distrust. ... The Saville inquiry then spent years collecting witness statements including those from the army...

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Generally, however, no single approach is usually adopted, but, rather, a combination or mixture of the three is used. First, there exists the extreme liberal, or neoliberal, view. ... As with liberalism, there is no single Marxist viewpoint, but instead degrees of Marxist variation. ... Globalization, then, can be said to increase the exploitation of workers everywhere "and rising global inequalities will testify to such a fact." ... Similarly there exist restrictions on foreign investment or the movement of capital. ...

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system of monarchy, of leisurely and privileged gentlefolk_s, of rather despised industrial and trading people and of downtrodden and negligible laborers, and poor and common people, seemed the most stably established way of living that the world has ever seen Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century, in this period there was no ruling unifying idea in men's minds. ... The failure of the great creative ideas as they had been formulated in the Middle Ages had left human thought for a time destitute of the guidance of creative ideas; even educated and imaginative men saw the wo...

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Although the range of IQ was undoubtedly restricted, there was a considerable range of intellectual ability in the sample and a considerable range of success in living, so there was ample opportunity for a relation to be demonstrated if one existed. ... Yet, there was no evidence within any domain that intellectual ability was a significant predictor of success. ... For example, 7% of men with IQs under 80 were unemployed for 10 or more years, but so were 7% of the men with IQs over 100. ... Interestingly, among the many studies and analyses of practical intelligence presented in Sternberg and...

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Japanese Americans have developed no less than their own brand of civil religion"" (939). ... These stories also were meant to serve as a reminder that "never again shall any group be denied liberty and the rights of citizenship"" (945). ... Though the article has strong points, there are some limitations. ... She then goes on to state that the larger goal of the museum is to: "promote understanding and appreciation of America's ethnic and cultural diversity"" (949). ... As American citizens, the Japanese living on the pacific coast were put into camps and suffered for unjust reasons. ...

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Lincoln believed that whites were fundamentally superior to blacks and was opposed to them holding office, the right to vote, and the right to serve on a jury in the years before the Civil War. ... "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of white and black races and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality" (Gienapp, 57). ... They believ...

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If, as Gachadodow says, the two were never from the same source to start, how should they expect to ever be bound together? At the Treaty of Lancaster the English and the Iroquois were unable to transcend the gulf between them because the English were unwilling to recognize the Iroquois as their equals leading them to manipulate their cultural differences and the purpose of their meeting in order to further their own anti- French agenda. ... If the English really sought to strengthen the Covenant and overcome boundaries then the offer would have been more of an exchange of children so that bo...

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The reader then starts to see that the good intentions of this case brought up problems that were beyond the topic of education. ... Then seeing the efforts made by the white residents of the country to try and desegregate schools by not sending their children to predominantly black schools. ... We see that there is a correlation between the success rate of minorities with less net income and non-minorities with a higher net income; this correlation brings us back to the fact that the education of the minority race is one that is very important to this society and without this education and ...

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It is then reviewed by a team of city or county managers and commissioners, as far as the local level is concerned. ... According to John Mikesell, author of Fiscal Administration, this process creates unrealistic requests that are then cut without much thought of other programs and priorities. Budgeting problems such as these tends to arise in smaller governments in local areas in which there is little or no executive training, vision or number of members in the process. ... These revenues were expected to decrease, even though, the previous years saw a modest gain. ... The budget must be...

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So, there's "monumentally brilliant" Shakespeare whose name is embedded in the realm of "historical genius"- and then there's Kyd. ... These truths, which serve as some of the largest differentiating divisions between Shakespeare and Kyd--i.e. the hype and astonishment surrounding one but not the other-are, in all honesty, of no faults of their own making. It is in many ways (so to speak) a direct result of one lucking out in obtaining a long line of "publicists" that were far greater in effectiveness than that of the other. During the time in which he w...

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In contrast, as the title of 'Princeps' became more deeply embedded in Roman society, and there were no longer calls for a return to the republic, emperors were more willing to flout their power and ignored the facade, for example Gaius, Nero and most notably Domitian who made no attempt to mask his power and wished to be referred to as 'Lord'. ... Those thought unfit were shamed into resigning and those who were accepted would in future be heavily scrutinized and in critical debates would be called upon at random and forced to speak by Augustus. It could be argued, then, t...

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Long before any sort of schooling system was introduced into modern society, human beings (including children) were fully capable of learning on their own through natural processes, even if such learning is not always considered "academic." ... However, this learning style does raise an interesting question regarding the fact that there is no set curriculum organized by the unschooling method. ... If it appears that a child's interests lie in a subject unrelated to algebraic concepts, then there is no apparent reason to teach them algebra. ... People were learning to read because they wan...

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Elizabeth's use of language to describe herself resonates with the way gender, power and sexuality were used in the literature of the time. ... In traditional gender hierarchy, the male leader dominates over the female state, when there is a female head of state, the symbolic body is inverted, "For who would not judge that body to be a monster where there was no head eminent above the rest, but that the eyes were in the hands, the tongue and mouth beneath in the belly, and the ears in the feet?" ... Alfred Bill states that despite the "background of forest shepherd and shepherdesses, fl...

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