For the samurai it was all about honor. They would gain their honor through bushido and lose it when they strayed from it. ... Like in Western Europe they had a main ruler. ... In Western Europe the king has most of the power while in Japan the emperor has very little power leaving almost all of the power to the shogun. ... Western Europe was dominated by Christianity while Japan was dominated by Zen Buddhism which had originated from china and accepted by the samurai. ...

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Also just as important were the troops from African nations that fought with the Allies not only in Africa but also in Europe along the Western Front. ... The reason the French Army was so desperate to have these men fighting was due to the massive casualties that they were taking all over the Western Front not to mention as a result of battles like Verdun. ... In total of the 140,000 men from Black French Africa who went to battle in Western Europe about 30,000 of them or 22% of them became fatalities . Algerians were the most common of all African nations to be found fighting in Western ...

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He wished a reunification of eastern and western churches, as well as travel routes to and from holy lands. ... The pope intended to take over land from the Muslims and re-claim it as Christian territory. He offered remission of sins for all crusaders who joined the force. ... As many as 30,000 crusaders left Western Europe around 1096. ... Without the crusades the world might be quite a different way today if Pope Urban II had not given that sermon and initiated a war on the Muslims...

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The means of communication used during the crisis appear quite absurd when considering the high drama and imminent peril both powers found themselves in at the time, and it was these set of circumstances that bought home to the USA and the USSR the need to find a different modus vi! ... This meant that West Germany refused to recognise East Germany, and undertook to break off all diplomatic relations with any states that did so. ... All of Europe (apart from Albania), the US and Canada took part in subsequent negotiations. ... These were all contributions to what was beginning to appear as a ...

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JAPAN: A SOCIETY DIFFERENT THAN THAT OF THE WESTERN WORLD? ... Furthermore, the system of rank is applied to almost all circumstances and to a great extent, controls the social life of an individual. ... This U.S. measurement of ranking greatly differs from the amae-seniority system of Japanese ranking, separating our two societies. The ie system, which represents the family system may also be seen as an attribute of Japanese society which sets it apart from Western society. ... Thus, although Japan and the Western world carry many cultural characteristics and political beliefs that ...

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To follow from that, what happened fifty- six years ago - the end of World War II. ... In the words of Dean Acheson "The great thing which creates purchasing power is people if the people can develop their own countries, they will become an increasing market for all goods including our own"2 Also Western Europe appeared open to influence by the USSR. ... The defense of Western Europe came to rest solely in NATO. By the terms of NATO, the USA took the lion's share of defending Western Europe against attack. ... Indeed the U.S leaped from one extreme to another, instead of going fro...

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In some cases, this mathematics has spread from one culture to another. Now there is one predominant international mathematics, and this mathematics has quite a history. ... Later some of this mathematics was translated into Latin and became the mathematics of Western Europe. ... Everybody is born with this talent all that someone has to do is look into your mind and find it. But now a days, with all of these formulas out their, and all of these textbooks which guide us along, many people think that in math you do not need that much creativity. ...

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The invention of the escapement mechanism, a bit of machinery that allowed more accurate clocks to be built, caused a profusion of publicly available clocks throughout Western Europe (Camille 98). This caused a massive change in society; all manner of public events became regulated by "real" hours rather than the somewhat fluid hours dictated by the Sun and the seasons. ... The work aimed to "waken the torpid from careless sleep to watchful virtue," according to Camille (99). ... When he translated it into Latin in 1334, adding a great deal of content, it experienced a similar popularity thr...

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Setting the Scene As suggested by scholars like Loescher (1996, pp 11-92; 2001 pp21-81) and (Erika, 2001; Labman, 2009), the issue of refugee crisis is old wars and conflicts around the world-from Europe to the Balkans, to the old Soviet Union, Asia, to the Americas and to Africa, the story of wars and conflicts can never be divorced from the associated mass refuge crisis. ... Together with other hybrid of international agencies, national governments and voluntary international nongovernmental organizations, the UNHCR has positioned itself to fulfil its mandate and obligations to refugees in s...

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In fact the Middle ages are split into three distinct time periods, which were all quite different from each other. ... The Middle Ages lasted from about 500-1500, the time between the end of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. ... The economic life for most Western Europeans was not much better than the religious and intellectual quality. ... The purpose of the Crusade was to take Jerusalem back from the Muslims. ... All of these developments helped Western Europe become as powerful as it later did, and led them into the Renaissance. ...

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