The origins of domestic tourism on a mass scale and the seaside resort. ... The origins of the railways as a key transport means can be considered by describing the growth of the seaside resort. ... This is true for all seaside resorts as the railways were the enabling factor in the growth of them, and the seaside resorts in turn were the origins of modern tourism in the UK context. ... The origins of leisure travel and foreign travel. ... The origins of individualism in tourism. ...

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The origin of the word schizophrenia lends itself to the compilation of two Greek words. The first word, schizo, means "splitting". The second word, phrenia, means "of the mind". Hence, a literal interpretation of the word schizophrenia would render a definition of "splitting of the mind". The misuse of this word, perhaps in part due to the aforementioned literal rendering, is twofold. ...

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Most of these conflicts are based on ethnical origins. ... Nagorno Karabakh (in Armenian--Artsakh) is a mixture of the Russian word Nagorno, which means mountainous, and the Turkish-Persian word Karabakh, which means black garden. ... However, to understand the historical origins of nations living in this region we will endeavor to return to that time and find out some interesting aspects of ancient nations. ... Being compelled with considering national territories, the Bolsheviks assured that national peculiarities and origins could be based on Marxist theory. ...

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To know one's origin is to have not only a sense provance, but perhaps more importantly, a sense continuity in which one finds to some degree the personal and social meaning of human existence. ... Concern with origins is a concern with parentage. ... Chapter Two: Ethnic Identity Ethnic identity can best be understood through an examination of its etymological origins. "Ethnic" has Latin and Greek origins – ethnicus and ethnikas both meaning nation (Clark, 1947: 187). ... The second part of the construct, identity, has Latin origins and is derived from the word identitas; ...

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Dickinson's works, in contrast, condense intense feelings and thoughts in a few terse lines, in which, despite innocent and simple language, her symbolic and careful word-choice makes the main message very ambiguous and difficult to interpret. ... The poem's nectar is nothing but the poet's intimacy expressed in her own work; for this reason the word 'me' has replaced 'rose' in the last line. 2.2. ... The word 'Vase' from the letter (note capitalization)as "an open container, often used to hold cut flowers " (www.websters-online-dicti...

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A discussion of the origins of each method provides insight into the ongoing battle being fought within the educational community concerning the most effective reading program of the two. ... The idea is to teach children the written version of what they hear through the use of, 1) rhymes and alliteration, 2) comparing and contrasting the sounds of words, 3) blending and splitting syllables, 4) performing phonemic segmentation (counting the number of phonemes in a word), and 5) performing phoneme manipulation tasks (adding or deleting a particular phoneme and creating a new word from the re...

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It is therefore important to remember that whilst the concept of class was only recognised by mankind in the seventeenth century, its existence may be traced back to the origins of mankind. ... Before any useful debate as to the validity of 'class' can be achieved, it is necessary to summarise the various definitions of the word 'class'. ... The use of the single word 'class' therefore may describe legal or traditional rankings, social prestige or material inequalities, as well as revolutionary or conservative social forces. ...

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David Robinson, for one, exploring Thoreau's "worldly transcendentalism," pursues a similar interest in the emergence of Thoreau's empiricism in the 1850s, but cautions against reading his ecological immersion in natural history after Walden as necessarily divorced from the poetics of "Emersonian idealism" evident in Thoreau's own earlier work: "Over the last decade of his life, Thoreau devised a set of interlinking projects in which empirical observation and metaphysical conceptualization played vital and complementary roles." (7) In this essay, I heed Robinson's caution, ...

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Discuss the ADA laws, who is covered, how can citizens qualify and what do employers need to do to respond to these laws. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-Simply Stated The ADA prohibits any type of employment related discrimination on the basis of disability. When the ADA was first implemented on July 26, 1992, only employers with 25 or more employees were bound to its laws and regulations. The law was amended to include compliance of those employers with 15 or more employees effective July 26, 1994. The ADA is administered by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC...

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It is the personal responsibility of each person in Islam to read the Quran as much as possible, for it is the literal word of Allah and must be taken verbatim. ... The religions are connected through their origins and developed the same manner for which a person can honorably repent for ones misdeeds. ... The moral code of living that is accepted is directly from the Quran, and this is considered to be the literal word of Allah, directly transcribed to Muhammad by Allah himself and it is complete and unchangeable. ...

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The Name of the Rose is full of logical mappings, semiotic systems like the encoded map of the library and the purported plan of the murder sequence, but also of correspondingly arbitrary sign systems like numerology, iconography, mathematics and measurement, cryptography, and language itself, or better yet multiple languages, including the spoken word, the language of gems, of flowers, of the landscape, and of gesture. ...

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The word "democracy," as well as the concept it represents, can be traced back to the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. ... The word comes from two Greek words: demos, meaning "the people," and kratein, meaning "to rule." ... Democracy nowadays is a word much used and even more misused. It has many meanings and has turned up in surprising places--the Spain of General Franco, the Greece of the colonels, the Pakistan of the generals, the Eastern Europe of the commissars--usually prefaced by some qualifying adjective such as "guided," "basic," "organic," "popular," or the like, which serves...

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Coca Cola also used slogans as a reminder of its origins and values, such as: - "it's the Real Thing" (everything else is just a copy) "You can't beat the Real Thing" (there maybe similar drinks but nothing beats Coke) "The Sign of Good Taste" (makes the consumer feel good about themselves - if I drink Coke I have good taste) "We've got a taste for you" (if you aren't so keen on Coke Classic then we have others you will like - Cherry Coke for example, in other words stick with the brand and all the other slogans will relate to you) Another way to acquire brand l...

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At first glance it seems by the title that Socrates is apologizing for something that he has done wrong, but actually the title comes from the Greek word "apologia" which was the defense's response to the prosecution's case, which in Greek was called the "kategoria". ... The origin of Socratic irony can be traced back to when the Oracle of Delphi told a friend of Socrates that no man was wiser than Socrates. ... Gregory Vlastos argues that the type of irony that Plato uses was not meant to deceive as the word had come to mean in previous writings but more in a wi...

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The word "Kikuyu" serves as the name of a native tribe in Kenya. ... ("Savages" is a controversial term that derives from the French word sauvage meaning wild, and is now wholly derogatory in English. ... While Kikuyus at large were becoming increasingly angry at white rule, a militaristic wing emerged, The Kenya Land Freedom Army, from which the organization Mau Mau grew (origins of this term are unknown but most agree it began as a derogatory label of settlers). ...

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Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides i...

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Although many great names are associated with Romantic literature, two poets who stand out as immensely influential figures are William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Friends during their own lifetimes, Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated near the end of the eighteenth century to create "a volume that many literary historians consider to be the opening statement of Romanticism in England" (Matlak and Mellor, 681). In the Preface of this volume, titled Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, Wordsworth describes the key elements that constitute Romantic literature, among them the ro...

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Identity can be a very powerful and elusive concept, especially with respect to the identity of an entire nation let alone a single human. It is important because,like most things in life, it is easier to group and categorize things in order to sum something or someone up instead of carefully descri...

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Apartheid, literally meaning separateness or setting apart , was the ideology of the South African National Party that made the segregation of and discrimination against non-whites government policy. In this paper I will discuss how two different theories of state repression can be applied to the Apartheid regime in South Africa. I will discuss how High Modernism, a theory constructed by James Scott, and Organic Nationalism, a theory put forth by Michael Mann, contributed to Apartheid ideology. High Modernism rationalized, regulated, structured, and reorganized South Africa into a society t...

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Centuries later, the word became commonly used prisons, used when a male prisoner was perceived to be the property of another male prisoner; forced to acquiesce to dehumanizing demands put upon him, including submission to homosexual assaults and torture. In the 1970's the word "punk" became synonymous with unconventional behaviors which were considered socially unacceptable, disrespectful of standard conservative values, and shocking and appalling to the mainstream society of the time. ... One contention is that the punk rock genre has (its) origins in the United States, The United Kin...

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It retains its origin from HRM. ... India is relatively is young Country with over 700 million people are under the age 35 year and average age only 25 year that could play pivotal role in achieving growth forecast that potentially depend on demographic dividend (http://www.indiatogether.org), life expectancy of Indian population is 63.7(word bank). ...

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However, in this case, it would merely be the case that two plus two appeared to equal five in the dream; by definition, two plus two equals four, therefore only if the meaning of two is changed - for example the word "two" might come to represe...

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Globalisation The word globalisation has become a buzzword since its inception at the beginning of the 1990s. ... Despite this constant usage of the word, very little has emerged in relation to developing a homogenous intellectual framework under which one could place globalisation. ...

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IBM was created as IBM by T. J. Watson, Sr. from a small company, the Computing and Tabulating Company, which he happened to lead near the beginning of this century. Watson Sr. built the company into a leader of office equipment, which at the time consisted largely of time clocks and eventually punch card equipment. Watson is credited for revolutionizing industrial employment practices by instituting at IBM "continuous employment" for life of all employees. ...

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The Legalities of Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sports Introduction Though there exist numerous positive aspects and elements to sports, like everything there exists negative aspects as well. Unfortunately we are at a stage in the development of sports where athletes are turning to non-conventiona...

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