From the mid-1990s, cocaine markets in several European countries, such as the UK, Spain, Italy, and France began to grow. ... There are several factors that made West Africa a prime region as an intermediate between South America and Europe. The first factor is the geographic location of West Africa, which lies in between South America and Europe and directly on the 10th parallel4. ... Once the drugs reach West Africa, it is then transported to markets in America and Europe, similar to cocaine. ... Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Benin are also key transit points for transport to the US and E...

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Had Turgot been allowed to pursue his policies of free trade and less government intervention, France may very well have become Europe's first common market and avoided violent revolution. ... As more soldiers were needed to liberate the rest of Europe, France instituted history's first universal levy, the ultimate in state control over the lives of its citizens. ... Had it not been for the unyielding spirit of the average Frenchman and France's position as the largest country in Europe, France might never have recovered. ...

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At the local level, 286 municipalities (Kommuner), each Kommuner with its own parliament and government, perform many important tasks in Swedish (and Scandinavian) society, more than in many other European countries. ... Unlike the traditional county councils, the new regions have greater impact on regional policy goals and the formal responsibility for the county's regional development. The new regions are formally still county councils', but have assumed greater responsibility for regional development than other county councils They still handle health and medical services, but u...

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Eventually he returns to Europe and goes to see Kurtz's Intended (his fiancée). ... Unlike those who truly confront or at least acknowledge Africa and the darkness within themselves, Marlow does not die, but unlike the Company men, who focus only on money and advancement, Marlow suffers horribly. ... His perverse honesty leads to his downfall, as his success threatens to expose the evil practices behind European activity in Africa. ...

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Unlike most African colonies, the South African colony became the Union of South African in 1910 and was internally self-governed. ... This was because importation of European goods was very difficult during the war, and to compensate South Africa began to produce its own consumer goods. ... Unlike Stalin's regime, Apartheid did not attempt to use high modernism to benefit the whole of the people of South Africa. ... Barbara Rogers argues that, "the idea of establishing "native reserves," is almost as old as the European occupation of South Africa." ...

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However the appeal for new workers was primarily aimed at white Europeans people who had all gained immigration to Britain during the century before the Second World War and still played a very important role after 1945.Even in 1970s the Irish remained the largest immigrants' community in Britain. In the years immediately after the war, new arrivals came from all over Europe. These included a small number of German prisoners of war, a large number of refugees from the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the soviet union (130,00uprising poles arrived the first few years after the war ...

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There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. ... Beginning in the colonial period, African Americans provided most of the labor on which European settlement, development, and wealth depended, especially after European wars and diseases decimated Native Americans. ...

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Emerging Markets Index of Morgan Stanley's consists of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey. Some of the Developing countries are known as the emerging markets. Their co...

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Due to these setbacks, President Yanukoych wanted to establish a stronger relationship with the European Union. ... Unlike a realism view, which fosters around military might, a liberal perspective believes that military power is not the only form of power, but also social and economic powers play a large role in the relationship between states. ...

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Capitalism is defined as an economic "system of wage-labour and commodity production for sale, exchange, and profit, rather than for the immediate need of the producers" (Marshall, 1998: 53). As observed by Karl Marx, capitalism transformed a small proportion of a society's population into capitalists, or those who own the factories and industrial businesses, while the larger proportion of the population became wage labourers, a grouping which Marx called the proletariats. These workers gain the wages needed to live through the sale of their labour to capitalists in the capitalistic ind...

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(D"Netto & Sohal, 1999:531) Unlike the notion of traditional HRM, diversity management acknowledges the differences between employees rather than seeing people as a generic category (Benshchop, 2001: 1167) Diversity is a combination of people who have different group identities from each other inside a specific organization. ... (Barrile, 2003: 5) The ethnic formation of workplace has been changing since the 1970s with a decrease of proportion from Southern Europe and Middle Eastern countries while people come from South-East and Northern Asia has increased. (Teicher et al., 2002: 321 sited AB...

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Lombroso began studying the bodies of renowned criminals unlike the studies conducted by the criminologist who believed in the classical school. ... Lombroso was concerned about the isolated parts of the European country side where he conducted his research. In addition to the growing ghettos that surrounded Europe's manufacturing communities. ...

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Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. ... He expected him to be a superhuman hero, unlike the ordinary and normal-seeming man that he really was. ... Unlike the intellectual party members, his contribution to the cause was practical, not theoretical. ...

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Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social system just one year before local elections, which in turn would lead to the country's accession to the European Union on January 1, 2007? ... But the account of Adrian Nastase's Government should be viewed in the light of dif-ferent considerations: Thus, the Romanian foreign policy has produced some positive results, as for instance the lifting of the visa requirement for Romanians traveling to the European Union since January 1, 2002, the invitation received last year in Prague to join the Nato and...

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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to fin...

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On the surface, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, seemed to be the cause of the events that led to a European and, eventually, a world war. ... The new philosophies which evolved from Darwin's theories were decidedly secular, not unlike Darwin's theory itself. ... As the nineteenth century came to a close, Europe had been exposed to new ideas, made credible through scientific evidence, and began to think differently about themselves and about their nations. ... One of the most striking influences of these revolutionary ideas was the rise of nationali...

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Shelley uses these characters to challenge the male orientated values and attitudes of the time by creating them as stereotypical constructs of 19th century European society. ... However, unlike Rousseau's happily lived existence, absent of consequence or judgement of his irresponsible actions, Frankenstein is subsequently punished for ambitious pursuits. ... It is revealed that the world of scientific discovery in 19th Century Europe was not one which included the female gender. ... Whilst such scientists reflective of Frankenstein's pursuits living in 19th Century Europe would h...

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The economic growth of Europe, Asia, the Middle East as well as the Americas is growing after the economic downturn of 2008 that we are ever so slightly beginning to overcome, which provides a ready market for luxurious good. ... However, the economic muscle of the Eastern Europe is low, thus low consumer reception of the goods of this firm in the region. ... Europe and America enjoy a widespread use of the Internet. ...

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European visitors such as Alexis de Tocqueville noticed the spirit of equality that pervaded the United States, unlike anything known in the Old World. (Not all Europeans, nor Americans, for that matter, were sure that was a good idea terms like "mobocracy" and "anarchy" were thrown around from time to time.) ...

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According to the Prussian constitution, the parliament had neither the power to initiate legislation (unlike Canada's parliament which does have this power), nor reject legislation brought forth by the king or his ministers (the executive). ... In a Europe rich with competing ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, and socialism, he must have had a guiding political philosophy from which concrete policy would flow. ... Lutheranism especially-unlike Catholicism within the last century and a half-never claimed to lay down moral principles for public policy. ... As foreign minister, ...

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Over the past decade, the notion of zombies - dead humans who've died and come back to life as drooling, growling, flesh-eating monsters - has risen to new heights in popular culture. In this essay, I will discuss the scary, violent role zombies have played on TV and in movies. George Romero's, "The Night of the Living Dead" and its' sequels, spinoffs, satires and remakes are a seemingly endless bank of inspiration and lucrative investment1. The entire "Resident Evil" franchise; from games to the most successful and profitable game-to-movie conversions, comic books, novels and a...

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Let us begin with a simpler model of strategic geometry which existed in Europe during the Cold War. From 1948 onwards, a more or less clear-cut line divided Europe into two main political and military blocs: the communist bloc and the free world of Western Europe, resulting in an almost perfect bipolarity. However, the politics in Asia during the same period were more dynamic and nuanced than just the simple East-West divide of Europe. Here, there was none of "the sharp structural clarity of Europe," no drawing of a line, no Iron Curtain; rather, there existed a more complex web of internatio...

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The Developments Caused by Liberalism in the Rise of Socialism Early theories of the Enlightment philosophy formed an underlying theme through the history of liberalism and the development of socialism. However often contradicted through our own human err of bias perception, the works of great thin...

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Four definitions emulating these differences come from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), The Mitchell Commission, Title 22 of the United States Code, and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs. ... Unlike terrorism, there is as much debate as to when "globalization- started, as there is to a definite definition on the association. ... Intercontinental Globalization began from the discovery of the American continent by Columbus, then European culture and norms of life began to be exported from Europe to the American continent. ...

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Athens University of Economics and Business Department of Business Administration Discussion questions for case three: The US Airline Industry in 2002 Alessio Rossi AP. MHTP. 2030297 Athens, 10/11/2003 1. Use Porter's Five Forces of competition' framework to show how the structure of the airline industry has caused low profitability during the past twenty years. Since domestic deregulation occurred in 1978, competition in the airline industry has intensified and become more concentrated. This situation can be analyzed through Michae...

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