The Middle East has experienced a roller coaster of growth and decline over the last thirty years. ... The non oil-producing Middle Eastern states also gained some benefits from the oil-producing states. ... Somehow there was an increasing gap between the Middle Eastern states subsequent to this pristine wealth, meaning that whilst most the states increased their national wealth during this period, some states grew at substantially faster rates than others. ... (The Middle East, n.d.). ... The world cried and alertness was created about the unknown Middle East. ...

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By the beginning of World War I, although the Middle Eastern Conflicts did not play a significant part during the war, the Middle Eastern Conflicts is best understood as a power struggle between Arabs and Jews because of Zionism and Arab Nationalism before WWI, three essential agreements during WWI, and the affects following World War I. ... "[1] Almost forty thousand Jews emigrated from Eastern Europe to escape anti-Semitism into Ottoman occupied Palestine to create a safe haven for all Jewish people. ... After 1918, the Middle East became complicated due to the Balfour Declaration. .....

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If it followed the pattern of Middle Eastern history up to that point, Islam would have been virtually discarded after its leader's death. Instead, the Rashidun, the "rightly guided" Muslim leaders who were closest to the prophet, namely Umar, Uthman and Ali, took the reins of Islam, beginning a campaign that would, within two centuries, make Islam the dominant religion in the Middle East. ... Middle Eastern leadership, prior to Mohammed, was capricious at its best. ...

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In the six centuries before the Mongols, Islamic culture had dominated the Middle East. ... Genghis khan was arguably the starting factor in what made the Mongols so significant in the Middle East. ... This led to the Mongols coming into direct influence of Islamic and Christian states in the Middle East. This suggests that Genghis Khan and his Mongol forces were already affecting the spheres of Middle Eastern power. ... Hulagu himself even had a very deep hatred for everything attached to Islam furthering the significance of the Mongol impact on the Middle East due to invasion of the Middle E...

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What is a Middle Easterner? What is a Middle Easterner American? ... Despise criminal acts against individuals of Center Eastern cause or drop expanded from 354attacks in 2000 to 1501 assaults in 2001 (Oswald). ... Indeed before September 11, 2001, Middle Easterner stereotyping was frequently horrible. ... Middle Easterner is as legendary as the old representation of the Jew. ...

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Many countries throughout Africa, Middle Eastern, and Asian hold religious and cultural beliefs that condone and often require female circumcision. ... Female circumcision is considered a very deeply rooted tradition and is still practiced throughout African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries. ...

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Due to Islamic integration into north African and middle eastern countires, these practices have spread throughout a larger area in the eastern hemisphere, and have been taken on by the Islamic society as a whole. ... The oppression and mistreating of women in Islam originated from the cultures and traditions of north African and middle eastern countries in which the religion is dominant in. ... One third of all Islamic followers are found in north African and middle eastern countires, predominately in Iraq, Somalia, Saudia Arabia, Turkey and Sudan (Desilver, 2013). ... From its roots in Saudi...

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Due to Islamic integration into north African and middle eastern countires, these practices have spread throughout a larger area in the eastern hemisphere, and have been taken on by the Islamic society as a whole. ... The oppression and mistreating of women in Islam originated from the cultures and traditions of north African and middle eastern countries in which the religion is dominant in. ... One third of all Islamic followers are found in north African and middle eastern countires, predominately in Iraq, Somalia, Saudia Arabia, Turkey and Sudan (Desilver, 2013). ... From its roots in Saudi...

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In an age where television and music dominate children's culture it is easy to fall victim to these false representations of the Oriental world, namely Asia and the Middle East. ... In order to fully understand how Walt Disney exerts such influential control over children's culture and how it portrays Eastern cultures, it is important to understand both how Disney works and the concept of Orientalism. ... These films take place in the Middle East and Asia and it is interesting to see how interpretations of the Arab and Asian world are falsely represented. ... This was a period wh...

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Early in each dynastic period leading pharaohs conquered new territories, sometimes pressing up the Nile River into present-day Sudan, once even moving up the Mediterranean coast of the Middle East. ... Elements of Egyptian medical knowledge were gained by the Greeks, and so passed into later Middle Eastern and European civilizations. ... Other Egyptian deities included a creation goddess, similar to other Middle Eastern religious figures later adapted into Christian worship of the Virgin Mary; and a host of gods represented by partial animal figures. ... They were followed by attacks from th...

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The Byzantine Empire, the Greek eastern section of the old Roman Empire, survived the disintegration of the Latin West by approximately a thousand years. ... He was one of the most important figures from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, a period of time referred to as Late Antiquity in Europe and the Mediterranean. ... Instead, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and sacked the Christian city of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. ... The Euphrasian Basilica was built in the middle of the 6th century and decorated with mosaics depicting the Theotokos fla...

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All of these are main causes of anti-western fundamentalism that is spread throughout the entire Middle East. ... Further more, Islamic Fundamentalism grew mainly from the middle class (Wahhabi) who were for the antinationalist struggle. ... As described by Achcar in the above passages, the US has directly caused heavy burdens for Middle Eastern states, and has created its Islamic Fundamentalism response. ... All of these are main causes of anti-western fundamentalism that is spread throughout the entire Middle East. ... As described by Achcar in the above passages, the US has directly caus...

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Because of geography and population growth, these Middle East nations are faced with a shrinking water supply and an ever growing demand .The population of the Middle East is rapidly increasing from population growth and sub-Saharan migration. The demand for water to serve the ever expanding Middle Eastern populations and growing industry continue to increase, but because of finite fresh water supplies it is becoming more difficult to utilize them on a sustainable basis. ... The Middle East is arid by nature with few major water sources that need to be shared among many nations. ... Most Mid...

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Fukuzawa urged middle class people in Japan to nurture a civilization because they have knowledge and intellect. He used examples from Europe to show some middle classes did there such as the lays of polictial economy and changed the way of commerce by Adam smith. ... Granted that a nation's destiny depends upon the education of its people, there must be some fundamental differences in the education of Western and Eastern peoples. ... For example, there was a concern among some not to lose the soul of the nation in the rush towards modernization, which leaded to the popular slogan, "Easte...

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Moreover, news programs have helped legitimize Arab stereotyping by choosing to show violent images of extremist militants, with traditional eastern clothing, beards and holding AK47's (Altheide, 2009; 120). ... It is easier to define what the Middle East isn't rather than what it is, thereby rejecting the "foreigner". The separation of the Middle East serves only to strengthen American national identity and the separation of identities as potential threats. ... Orientalism refers to the Wests superior attitude and the stereotypical interpretation of Eastern people and th...

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Due to United States oil interest in the Middle East, and the availability of Middle Eastern oil in the 1950, quotas were enacted. ... The oil producing countries in the Middle East and oil corporations attempted to gain better profits through negotiations. In what led to the oil crisis of 1973, Middle Eastern countries attempted to raise prices to certain countries (like United States and an oil embargo on Israel). With Middle Eastern countries rising oil prices, the call for Venezuelan oil was heard. ...

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In contrast, there is virtually no human trafficking in the eastern northern hemisphere in the north American continent and in almost all of the southern hemisphere especially in the Australasian continent. ... In the Middle East, particularly in countries such as Saudi Arabia, women have very low social status and are often seen as the property of the men in their lives, either their fathers or husbands. ... In the middle east the low value of women and the belief of ownership of them my men can be linked back to the pattern where a cluster of tier three countries can be found in the middl...

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This anger with the events that transpired during the middle of twentieth century was what motivated Miller to write The Crucible. ... Nurse is accused by neither Abigail Williams nor Mary Warren, but by a middle-aged woman named Ann Putnam. ... During the middle portion of the twentieth century, an epidemic of intense terror and anxiety about the growth of Communism spread throughout the country. ... For example, both the Communist advances in Eastern Europe and the Korean War helped to generate a mass anti-Communism hysteria in America. ... Also, "Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attac...

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Health is about the overall physical, social, spiritual and mental well being of a person. In the 1980s the World Health Organisation (WHO) defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity' There can be no absolute fixed...

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How did Europe catch up and eventually surpass the great civilizations in the Middle East and the Orient? ... As Crusade after Crusade sent massive waves of Europeans to the Middle Eastern "Holy Land" and back again, traders began to take their wares with them, in order to bring back Middle Eastern spices, textiles, and any other goods they could possibly sell in their homeland. ... As merchants gained power, other middle-class professions appeared to cater to them, such as lawyers, bankers, accountants, and notaries. ... The new middle class allowed craftsmen to specialize entirely in the ...

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Judaism originated in the Middle East, but Jewish communities have existed at one time or another in almost all parts of the world, a result of both voluntary migrations and forced exile or expulsions. ... Struggle The Catholic Church experienced a split between the eastern and western parts of Europe. ... During the 600s and 700s eastern centers were captured by the dynamic new faith of Islam, with only Constantinople remaining unconquered. ... Medieval Christianity in the West, unlike its eastern counterpart, developed into a single entity. ...

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In North America the era began with the downward thrusts of the earths crust along the eastern, southeastern and western sides of the continent while the interior was dry land. ... The term, meaning middle life, was introduced in 1841 by the English geologist John Phillips. ... The Appalachian Mountains replaced the downward thrust of the earth's crust, while the eastern part of the Appalachian Mountains was deposited along the coast or into the Atlantic Ocean. ...

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They can legally conduct searches on a person who may be "relevant" in the search for terrorists, which includes individuals of Middle Eastern descent (Wolfe). ... To date, there have been thousands of innocent victims detained, and most of them are of Muslim or Middle Eastern descent (Masci). ...

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The Tamils historically settled in the Northern and Eastern provinces as well as the descendants of South Indian immigrants who are mainly Hindi. ... The most important source of foreign earnings for decades has been migrant worker remittances largely sent by women employed as domestic labor in the Middle East Receipts from exports of tea are the second largest contributor of foreign exchange followed by industrial goods, largely ready-made garments sold in the European Union and the United States. ... Around two-thirds of the coastal districts of the island were affected, mainly in the Easter...

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There has been an erosion of the middle class to near non-existence, and the economy is completely dependent upon oil, a market that is very volatile and unstable at times (Sterngold 3). ... To begin with, there need to be drastic changes made to the economy of Iraq, so that the country may be able to prosper, and its people along with it will gain wealth, and create a strong middle class. ... The three main divisions within Iraq are those of the Kurds in northern Iraq, the Shiites in southern and western Iraq, and the Sunnis in eastern and central Iraq. ... And after all this planning, the...

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