Vietnamese education was based on the Confucian concept of the civil service examination system. ... Officials were not chosen exclusively from the landed aristocracy, as in much of the rest of the world, but through a series of civil service examinations that tested the candidate's knowledge of Confucian political, social and moral principles. ... Over the next several hundred years, rivalry with the Champa led to an almost constant state of war between the two countries. ... Until the last years of the Vietnam War, more than eighty percent of the Vietnamese people lived on the land. ......

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It is mandatory for students to show how well they know their area of study and contribute to the general frontiers of such area of study. ... The Concept of Research Research is the systematic study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. ... Improvement of knowledge: The present knowledge in linguistic and literary studies is very far removed from what it used to be in the past. ... Sincerity: A good researcher must abide by the principle of integrity and must uphold the ethical principles guiding research. ... Parsimony: Parsimony and precision are tw...

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The physicians were put through many years of hard training at temple schools where they would study the arts of interrogation, inspection, and palpation. ... The doctors knew a lot about the human body for their time, they were able to study the structure of the brain, cure many illnesses, and set broken bones. ... This papyri is chiefly an internal medicine guide with refrences to diseases of the eye, skin, and some surgical diseases. ... The followers of Hippocrates began a tradition of studying the cause of disease rather than looking solely at the symptoms when prescribing a cure. ...

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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. ... Italy had long-standing problems that were made worse by the war. ... Inflation and unemployment were perhaps the most destructive effects of the war. ... But he was restless and dissatisfied, soon leaving Italy for further study in Switzerland. ... After the war, these groups formed the base of Mussolini's fascist movement. ...

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Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. ... Thus, when the colonial powers returned to reclaim their former colonies, or impose their plans for a guided path to self government within a new 'commonwealth', they found themselves confronted by armed and aggressive resistance movements, many of whom had gained skill and experience in fighting the Japanese. ... In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. ... French p...

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With the decline of the political authority of the Chou dynasty and the emergence of powerful feudal states on the edges of the empire, the Chou dynasty fell during the late 5th century BC and China was plunged into a condition of constant wars among the various states. ... Confucianism was one of the philosophies of government that emerged during the warring states period. ... This adaptation of Chinese culture continued uninterrupted through the 18th century, helping guide Japan to further development and growth. ...

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It is the main and proper study of every citizen."" ... In the summer of 1914 Mises was called back to active duty for World War I. ... Later in the war he served with the Army's General Staff in Vienna working on economic problems until released in 1918. ... To qualify as economic activity in Mises' view, production must be guided by rational principles. ... Instead, the cause of socialism's irrationality is that those highly motivated and competent civil servants have no rational mechanism to guide their productive efforts and thus any decisions they make are necessarily...

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INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO THE PARTNERSHIP AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC AND THE EUROPEAN UNION by Tendik Tynystanov TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . 2 The European Union........................................................" 3 About the PCA............................................................." 8 EU Relations with Kyrgyzstan ..........................................." 10 The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement....................." 11 PCA Institutio...

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Proposal Type of study -Overlooking contrasting approaches to a historical personality, issue or event -How has history been constructed and recorded over time? ... This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. ... Consequently, this subject was dropped in favour of studying the history of the Chinese Communist Party, as it was an area which I was keen to learn about, overlapped in many places with Soviet history and had a relatively large amoun...

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Abstract The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of student led conferences on minority student achievement. The study focuses on the social problem of student achievement and understanding how parental involvement influences minority student achievement. ... The foundation of the study is based on the theoretical frameworks of parental involvement and minority student achievement from Ogbu and Cross. ... Figure caption goes here xx Section 1: Introduction to the Study Introduction Give a little description of the overarching problem before jumping into the description of your s...

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Many of these men were on the battlefields of the Civil War and still would refuse to "put a man out of his mercy." ... They don't know what else to do and need others to guide and help them through this time in their lives. ... In a study done, of the 24 percent of terminally ill patients who requested assisted suicide, all had also been diagnosed with clinical depression (Euthanasia.com). ...

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Just as brothers and sisters belong to a single family and are guided by the love of their parents, so the entire nation should act like a big family based on filial piety, fraternal affection and parental responsibility. ... Unification theology therefore deeply appreciates the many ways God has inspired and guided the religious quest of Koreans throughout their long history. 1 Y. ...

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The Illusion of Utopia Matthew E. Hudson April 20, 2002 INTRODUCTION Since the beginning of history, man has tried to devise a perfect political system. Plato designed a utopian Republic, while Karl Marx radically changed the face of the earth by offering up a secular state that is supp...

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After completing 3 his architectural and engineering education in Paris, he came back to the U.S. and served as an engineer in the Union army during the American Civil War. After the war Jenney settled in Chicago, where he opened his own architectural office, where many members of the Chicago School served their architectural apprenticeships on his staff, including Louis Sullivan. ... After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he spent a year in Paris at the École Des Beaux-Arts and in the office of a French architect. ... This was a new thing for Frank...

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With the birth of man comes the birth of crime and hence with the birth of crime is the origin of punishment. Punishments vary based on the seriousness of the offense; robbery can result to months in prison and murder can lead to the death of the convicted man. Many Americans share the same attitu...

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Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mormon. ... They emphasized a personal and direct religious experience of Christ, which was acquired through both direct religious experience and the reading and studying of the Bible. ...

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was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. ... Sawdust and rat droppings were mixed into the sausage meat and deviled ham that killed about three thousand U.S. soldiers during the Spanish-American war in 1898. ... Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. ... Some of the worst abuses of labor conditions took place in the big cities like New York and Chicago, and it was in Chicago, the cattle and commodity market of the Midwestern United States, that Upton Sincl...

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