Overview: As Kenneth Waltz put it, states operate in a "self-help" system in which threats to national security are omnipresent. ... A few others, such as Switzerland and Sweden, adopt postures of self-reliance, attempting to meet security challenges without outside help. Other small states augment their military capability by allying themselves with other countries. ... Despite this fierce independent posture, Israel has long realized that it was a small state surrounded by numerous Arab countries, and therefore, the help of extra regional powers has been sought to offset asymmetries in re...

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It is vital the students see that all abilities can produce work to help break down any inhibitions and an inclusive experience is achieved. ... A whole-class involvement in the 'Active Learning' process will help cement understanding among the students. ... Students can make their own annotations on the script, which extend the sense of ownership and help engage students. ... She advocates a circle seating arrangement to help redistribute the relationships and focus of the class. ... I would be interested to see if using some circle time in the lesson would help focus and engage ...

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And understanding how schools and community stakeholders establish meaningful partnerships helps make sense of why it is that some career transition programs are more successful than others. ... With these issues in mind, this paper reports on research undertaken between 2009 and 2010 involving one inner city school in the western suburbs of Melbourne. ... Community stakeholders were recruited by the school principal, in conjunction with the researchers, based on the stakeholders' work inside the school and their subsequent connections with career programs. ... Career programs that equip ...

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And understanding how schools and community stakeholders establish meaningful partnerships helps make sense of why it is that some career transition programs are more successful than others. ... Community stakeholders were recruited by the school principal, in conjunction with the researchers, based on the stakeholders' work inside the school and their subsequent connections with career programs. ... Successful career and transition programs are of the key components currently linking communities with local schools. ... Career programs that equip young people with the skills necessary to ...

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Its archipelago layout, rather than making communications more difficult, makes it more easier to link together, with sealanes, the economic wealth of the nation, into a single economic unit. ... The world-wide environmentalist non-government organization phenomena ( such as the World Wildlife Fund, directed by Prince Phillip ) was created top-down, with a complex web of financing, from the circles of the British oligarchy. ... A country with a less developed economy, would tend to have a cheaper currency. ... All with the goal of acquiring US dollars. This 'New International Division ...

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Apart from affecting other sectors, an economic system is also impacted by social, cultural and geographical forces along with the regular inputs of land, labor, and capital. ... This helped the economy develop and caused standards of living to improve significantly. ... Therefore, rather than limiting ourselves to these three narrow systems, we can look at all aspects contributing to an economy to get a better understanding with the modern approach. ... Organization is vital to an economic system because it provides participants with goals, motives and order. ... The former is usually as...

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Vision and Movement are created in new spatial relationships, producing an effect both real and illusionary, often with spectacular visual effects. ... Effectively, it was successfully developed in Rome, where Baroque architecture widely renewed the central areas with perhaps the most urbanistic addition (or, more properly, revision). ... Buildings of the period are composed of great curving forms with undulating facades, ground plans of unprecedented size and complexity, and domes of various shapes, as in the churches of Francisco Bromine, Guarino Guarini, and Baithasar Newmann. ... It was ab...

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They need to be in sync with the psyche of their target segment. ... The Taj Group of Hotels is grouped into strategic business units to get consistency across the different units in the same brand and standardize the product and service across the brands, making them distinct and identifiable. ... The Taj presents holidays with as much panache as it does business. ... The people world-over relate the word Taj with India. ... Managers need to communicate their brand's purpose to employees clearly in order to inspire them and help them understand how their roles relate to it. ...

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During the seminar, the researcher had an informal interview with the other mathematics teacher, teaching Grade 7, in the district. ... The same is true with that of the experience of the researcher. ... This scenario encourages the researcher to conduct the study and at the same time helps the students to improve their competence in mathematics. ... With the mastery exercises, it can help Secondary schools to achieve higher performance in Mathematics 7. ... The learning competencies in Measurement includes describes what it means to measure; describes the development of measurement from the...

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Within a faith tradition, historical personas help to define, or at the very least provide a general understanding of acceptable and intolerable behavior within that tradition. ... Here, Mary's depiction starkly contrasts with that of the canonical gospels in two fundamental ways. ... Following this train of thought, the event of the woman with the alabaster jar could instead be considered, as Margaret Starbird in her book, "The Woman with the Alabaster Jar," suggests, a "symbolic ritual enacted between two lovers about to be separated.... "12 Bourgeault delves further...

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In this light, the factors that helped lead to the Korean War are: First, the division of North and South Korea post World War II along the thirty-eighth parallel with Russia overseeing the North and the United States overseeing the South. ... Truman was forced to re-evaluate the future of the corporative relationship with Russia (Cumings 1983:68). ... This confusion over what to do with Korea and how to involve the Soviets would become an issue in the period leading up to the Korean War. ... When the American army moved in to occupy South Korea eight days after the Soviets had moved into t...

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Rather, he once told a black audience that there "must be a position of superior and inferior.4" James A Rawley clarifies this stating that Lincoln "placed the nation uppermost – above peace, above abolition, above property rights, and even above the constitution.5" Other ulterior motives are suggested by Hutchins who believes the Emancipation Proclamation "helped ease the Union army's shortage of soldiers6" and Chambers who believes it favoured "helping the Union sustain itself domestically and internationally.7" Neither historians sugges...

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The original OTA report on technology and education (OTA, 1988) dealt with the entire field. ... One area of that report dealt with teacher education. Then in 1995, OTA commissioned a series of studies dealing specifically with technology and teacher education. ... But a growing dissatisfaction with quantitative empirical research spawned other research paradigms. ... The greater differences, as we see it, are in what they do with the data and the purpose of the research. ...

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Operations Management deals with the design and management of products, processes, services and supply chains. ... Operations Management is important to an organization for at least two reasons, Firstly, "It can improve productivity, which improves an organizations financial health " and Secondly, "It can help organizations in meeting customer's competitive priorities ". ... Thus, operational capabilities are guided by strategic requirements and so help provide competitive advantage. ... Also it has the greater opportunity to merge or form strategic alliances with other global re...

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Nations friendly to England thought a war with America would be a relatively quick and easy triumph for the British. ... More than a few came from families with a long tradition of military service. ... Military careers required great sacrifice, keeping them away from family, threatened continually with losing their lives. ... If we take their capabilities seriously, then the achievements of American military commanders, with much less storied careers, seem that much greater. ... In 1757, he took leave from his army post to travel to Europe with a Prussian military officer, debating battle ta...

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