As the Renaissance era progressed, the educational system gradually transformed from placing an emphasis on becoming learned to placing an emphasis on learning practical knowledge. ... In the view of the author of this letter, studying literature is appropriate for only a small percentage of men because farmers, soldiers, merchants, and laborers have no need to learn the classics and fill their minds with intellectual pursuits. ...

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With that being said this is clearly a positive reaction towards training and development from the worker's point of view while placing the employers in disadvantage. ... There was also a small percentage that was against, arguing about some drawbacks that can appear like for example, some of the individuals were concerned with the necessity of staying after hours at their workplace, thus changing their daily routine. Because sometimes the development processes needs to be done in different conditions that the ones from the work place, some employees were terrified by the idea of going ov...

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However, with the extension of foreign affairs, the formalization of the institution took place under new diplomacy in the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which saw most states agreeing to rules on how diplomatic relations should be conducted between states. ... Issues are debated and voted on the basis of sovereign equality, providing smaller states with a forum for conducting diplomacy with countries whose capitals they are unrepresented, but more importantly, to participate in diplomacy on equal terms. ...

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When the cities and territories become wider and expanded, there was a close collaboration with the development of science & technology around the world, the USA's National Academy of Sciences happens to be developing a large effort to promote scientific swap and to help build and support the capacity of local governments in smaller cities in the developing world to address their own serious metropolitan challenges. ... During the heyday of Atlantic slavery, a range of European countries established small forts on the East and West African coasts. ... Two major reasons colonialism took pl...

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More recently, in order to better place the discussion of competitiveness in the societal and environmental context, the World Economic Forum has begun exploring the complex relationship between competitiveness and sustainability as measured by its social and environmental dimension. ...

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Multinational production capitalizes on the resources and skills available in different places, making cars cheaper. ... Marxists concentrate less on efficiency gains (though many accept these may take place) and focus more on how changing production provides new kinds of economic power that can be used to extort profits from those that are weaker. ... If policy is less attractive, business can threaten to move somewhere else, thus creating difficult choices for government about the balance between the need to keep business in place and the desire to tax and regulate it in the interests of th...

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Initially, Louis rejected the idea of conscription due to his pro-Dutch beliefs and concerns of the strain it may place upon the Dutch military. ... For the Russian Campaign in 1812, Napoleon took 14,000 troops from the Kingdom of Holland, which ended in disaster, with only a small number of the initial troops from Holland returning. ...

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For example, if the Union and its member states are prepared to integrate with Hungary and other smaller nations they must be prepared to defend at all cost these nations as they would larger nations like Spain or Italy. ...

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