Franco's fellow officer, General Queipo de Llano, instructed his subordinates on how to treat the 'Bolshevik' activist with this chilling sentence: 'I authorise you to kill him like a dog and you will be free of all responsibility'. ... (Spanish). ... It was the military intervention of foreign nations that fuelled the Spanish Civil War, and from one perspective, actually On the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War the leaders of the military uprising immediately asked the German government for help. ... (Spanish). ... The Soviet Union provided considerable help to the S...

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However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all too often acted in its own interests and has allied itself with some very unsavory characters to promote such interests. ... America's imperialist tendencies already were manifested in the subjugation of various Native American tribes and a key piece of legislation that would help determine US foreign policy for years to come and have repercussions to this day. ... Now a...

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According to survey data, even Spanish, a language thought to be particularly enduring in the United States, seldom lasts beyond the second or third generation. ... The exposure must involve interaction; a child growing up in an English-speaking household who is exposed to Spanish only through Spanish-language television won't become a Spanish-English bilingual, but a child who is regularly spoken to in both English and Spanish will. ... Some people worry when they see Spanish showing up on billboards and pay phones, but in a neighborhood with a high Spanish- speaking population, it mak...

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Later, in 1957 the Treaty of Rome was signed, which enabled a free flow of goods and investment between Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. ... In 1991 to further integration, the leaders of the 12 European Community nations--Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Luxembourg signed the Maastricht Treaty on European Union, which laid down the path for the formation of the Economic and Monetary Union. ... Today, the EU, comprised of 15 member s...

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On other hand, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina, to Ernesto Guevara Lynch, a Civil Engineer of Irish descent, and Celia de la Serna of Spanish descent. ... At home he was impressed by the Spanish Civil War refugees and by the long series of squalid political crises in Argentina which culminated in the 'Left Fascist' dictatorship of Juan Peron, to whom the Guevara de la Sernas were opposed. ... Ernesto joined other Castro followers at the farm where the Cuban revolutionaries were being given a tough commando course of professional training i...

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This helped in its acceptance and also meant that for the first time, the history of the Celts was written down. ... The acceptance of Christianity was also helped by the fact that it developed in Ireland solely along monastic lines. ... They even took on Christianity as those had done before them and they also left us the name of the country with the help of the Gaels. ...

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This ideology of emotional attachment helped Putin to justify his action to annex Crimea. ... This way, the NPT will safeguard it integrity by improving detection, deter and costs for noncompliance. 4.0 President Obama dream of Nuclear Free World The challenges facing nuclear nonproliferation will likely deter member states from achieving what Obama think will be a world without nuclear weapon. The world has frustrated Obama's goal of a nuclear free world. the greatest irony is that the United State has finally admitted that Russian has violated the Reagan INF treaty by testing long rang...

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Dale's policy of giving away free land to settlers encouraged white people to continue to take land that was not theirs, pushing Indians further and further West, away from the land and culture they were familiar with. ... The colony adopted a policy of extermination and enslavement, borrowed from the Spanish conquistadors, (Morgan 130). ...

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President Washington understood this and also realized that engaging in this war did not make sense geographically due to the fact that the United States was still occupied in parts by the Spanish and British. As Kaufman notes, "if the United States became embroiled in the French Revolution, the young nation would become perilously vulnerable to France's British and Spanish enemies sitting athwart its vital flanks " (Kaufman 8). Washington took a practical approach to United States involvement in the French Revolution and while he may have desired to send military help abroad, he showed r...

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This situation, being caught between two cultures - the Jewish and the Russian, the ghetto and the outside - helped her realize very early that rules and laws are often simply accepted, even though they may be contrary and senseless. ... Especially the character of Vera Pavlovna, in her distrust of the state and ruling classes and her ideal of a free association of producers, inspired Emma profoundly and prepared her for the anarchist views. ...

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In 1521, Spain conquered and colonized the territory its base in Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Mexico won its Independence from Spain in 1818. ... Mexico is considered the world's largest Spanish-speaking nation. ...

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But many other examples are found in other European towns (and in the Spanish Americas). ... The Baroque rapidly developed into two separate forms; the strongly Roman Catholic countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Flanders, Bohemia, Southern Germany, Poland and Austria) tended toward freer and more active architectural forms and surfaces ; in Protestant regions (England, Netherlands, Northern Europe) architecture was more restrained and developed a sober, quiet monumentality impressive in its refinement. ...

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The political life in Italy was characterized by instability, fear, and invasion as the small states of Italy were pulled into the wars and politics of Europe by the larger, more powerful states of France and Spain. ... This Republic, however, was soon also crushed in 1512 by the Spanish and the Medici's were allowed to return to power. ... In this sense, he was the first to free politics from its historical ethical and religious constraints so that it could be a science in its own right. ...

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SPA works closely with the FBI and has also written an enforcement manual for the FBI to help them investigate pirate bulletin board systems and organizations (audits). With the help of the FBI, the result of enforcement actions resulted in recoveries from anti-piracy actions totaling $16 million since the program started in 1990. ... The SPA also publishes brochures (free of charge) about the legal use of software for individuals and businesses. Also available to help corporations understand the copyright law, is a 12-minute videotape, which is composed of the most commonly asked questions...

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After that, based on the company's objective it wants to achieve, we will be providing our strategies and tactics that help Colgate to keep its oral care industrial leadership in this competitive environment. ... Finance, 2] Excluding the impact of foreign currency, sales have risen by 4% largely due to volume increases in Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland, Greece and Russia. ...

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There is no agreed starting point, but understanding of globalisation is helped by considering the following. ... This was brought to a halt by the First World War and the bout of anti-free trade protectionism that led to the Great Depression in 1930. ... The growth of trade is helped by the lowering of barriers, such as tariffs and import quotas, which is the object of WTO agreements. ... For example, the International Telecommunications Union sees globalisation as the innate human desire for the integration of individuals in villages and cities and the integration of people of all races an...

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The philosophers were elite members of society, and despite the context of their messages, they were not always free from discrimination. ... Rousseau conquered in his vision that "man is born free and everywhere he is in chains". ... Once realized, this brand of political association would be one which "will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before". ...

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In the first half of the 16th century, Western Europe experienced a wide range of social, artistic and geographically political changes that created conflict within the Holy Roman Empire. This conflict is called the Protestant Reformation, a religious and political movement that gave birth to Prote...

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In 1987, Il Giornale acquired Starbucks assets for 3.8 million dollars (Entrepreneur, 2008) with the help and backing of local investors, merged the stores with Il Giornale, and changed the company's name to the Starbucks Corporation. ... These decisions helped to create a more loyal and hard working work force and promoted an extremely high level of customer service. 1989 the number of Starbucks stores continued growing and equaled fifty-five stores. ... From 2000 to 2005 stores are opened in Australia, Bahrain, Hong Kong, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Scotland, Swi...

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Given that tax evasion is still a problem faced today, we will conclude by introducing three recommended solutions to help eliminate this crime as a global problem. ... Lawyers                      Lawyers help facilitate tax fraud in two ways. Firstly, if an individual or corporation commits tax fraud and is accused, lawyers help defend the criminal act. ... Secondly, lawyers help individuals and corporations avoid paying taxes by assisting them in aggressive tax planning. ... Tax Havens As previously mentioned, tax havens help provide an unfair advantage. ...

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Given that tax evasion is still a problem faced today, we will conclude by introducing three recommended solutions to help eliminate this crime as a global problem. ... Lawyers                      Lawyers help facilitate tax fraud in two ways. Firstly, if an individual or corporation commits tax fraud and is accused, lawyers help defend the criminal act. ... Secondly, lawyers help individuals and corporations avoid paying taxes by assisting them in aggressive tax planning. ... Tax Havens As previously mentioned, tax havens help provide an unfair advantage. ...

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The peasants, who comprised the largest portion of the population, were low in literacy rate and wanted little to do with political matters but sought to free themselves from the ancient requirements of the feudal system and gain relative economic parity. ... He lost his navy, he lost to guerilla warfare in Spain, and his fatal loss occurred when he attempted to invade Russia and led his army into the unrelenting winter, which destroyed his troops and his hope at ever succeeding at his plans for world dominance. ... The very important thirty-ninth clause stipulates that "no free man shall...

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Mária is happy to have a woman to talk to, and Antonio's two older sisters are happy to have someone to help with their chores so that they can spend more time playing together with dolls. ... However, Ultima helps him appreciate the beauty of the plains that his father loves so much. ... There, he must address the conflict between Anglo and Chicano cultures, yet another set of identities for him to deal with along with the Spanish/indigenous and Luna/vaquero identities. ... Part of Ultima's authority in the community and in Antonio's family comes from the fact that even ...

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With over half of this massive population being from just south of the border, it is no wonder why discussion surrounding immigration in the news is dominated by topics such as violence in border communities due to drug trafficking, the "takeover" of Spanish speakers in the U.S., the competition for jobs amongst American citizens and Mexican immigrants, and the financial burden placed on border states to support this illegal population. ... The blurriness also serves as a symbol to the characters losing sight of the technology-free society they once lived in. ... Furthermore, techn...

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An eighty-page mixture of short, fragmentary chapters, photographs, and illustrations of medieval architecture and manuscripts, the Postscript is partly a poetics designed to "help us understand how to solve the technical problem which is the production of a work." ... This prototypical Benedictine community was not intended to be built, so the designers were freed from practical constraints like lot size, features of the site, or economics. ...

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