The West and The Middle East This report examines differences in the business cultures of the US and the Middle East, specifically the Arab nations. ... Westerners can be put off by some Middle Eastern interactions and expectations, and those Westerners choosing to remain ignorant of local customs can be seen as being offensive. ... Morocco offers a venue unlike any other African or Middle Eastern nation. ... It identifies more closely with Middle Eastern nations than it does with those of sub-Sahara Africa and shares more similarities with Arab nations than with any interior tribal groups...

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Today when Americans travel up and down the eastern seaboard, they can recognize differences among the people. ... The middle colonies were by far the most diverse colonies during the 1700s. ... Immigrants flocked to the middle colonies. ... Most of the peoples of the middles colonies were for the most part farmers and laborers. ... Wheat became the cash crop for middle colonies. ...

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Any person who has visited the Middle East will vogue for how strikingly different it's culture is from the American, and I believe myself lucky to have such different cultures influence my life. While my favorite meal may be the cheeseburger, my second favorite is "macluba" a traditional Middle Eastern dish consisting of rice, tomatoes, meat, traditional spices, and other vegetables cooked purposely so that when served each ingredient is presented in a different layer. ... While the gown would've been considered conservative by American standards, the Middle Eastern belief saw ...

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The record shows that a man identified as the appellant, distributed to the inhabitants of his predominantly Middle-Eastern New York City neighborhood, pamphlets stating "the American government is controlled by Zionist agents and is using it's arrogant power to murder believers around the world." ... In a speech on the day of his arrest in this same Middle-Eastern neighborhood, the appellant catalogued "America's crimes against humanity and the believers," as well as declaring "We must not sit by idle. ... Due to the acute acts of terrorism on September 11, 2001, and the current in...

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They would tie their captives to poles in the middle of camps and slowly torture them to death. ... They did not need continued migration from Europe to sustain or expand their settlements, in part because New England and the middle colonies were very healthy places to live by seventeenth-century standards. ... In much of eastern North America, women had been the agriculturalists, responsible for planting and tending crops. ... By 1800 the remaining Native American women in the eastern third of the continent had largely succumbed to these pressures, primarily because it was impossible for I...

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Its dispersal includes the eastern Mediterranean, Southern Italy, India, and parts of the Middle East. ... The gene that controls this trait was brought to Africa by merchants from parts of the Middle East where it had risen in correspondence to the early progression of agriculture. This proves that not only is it a stereotype that only the black race has sickle cell anemia, but it also proves that people from the Middle East integrated with Africans. This shows that Middle Easterners are closely related to Africans, even though they do not have the same skin color (Brace). ...

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Before the presentation I looked at the veil as unfashionable attire worn by Middle Eastern women. ... The rate of divorce in Middle Eastern countries was next to none until recently. ... As traditional and old fashion as that might seem, Middle Eastern marriages outlast most other cultures marriages in not having divorces. ...

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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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A lot of it is directed at us because of our alliances with Israel and other Middle Eastern cultures and governments; and with the general hatred which is so prevalent with the conflict of have vs. have-not groups of people. With the United States as one of the most targeted nations on the face of the earth, it is no wonder that we have become paranoid about the countries that surround the Middle Eastern region of the world. The vast majority of all attacks on the United States originate in the Middle East. ...

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In the Middle Eastern country of Yemen, a battle is being fought leaving much destruction to infrastructure and hundreds of lives lost. ... The civilians are caught in the middle of a civil crisis with foreign involvement and can't quite figure out where the danger is truly coming from. ...

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The United States has intervened in Middle Eastern countries such as Afghanistan and Israel. ... If the United States did not keep peace in the Middle East and throughout the world, WWII may have already occurred. ...

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The first colonies in North America were along the eastern coast. ... The people who founded the Middle Colonies were looking to practice their own religion (Pennsylvania mainly) or to make money. ... The Middle Colonies were part agriculture, part industrial. ...

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The United States has intervened in Middle Eastern countries such as Afghanistan and Israel. ... If the United States did not keep peace in the Middle East and throughout the world, WWII may have already occurred. ...

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The Spanish settled the region through three major corridors; central, western and eastern. ... The eastern corridor was through modern day Texas and led to the establishment of San Antonio. The eastern expansion was caused by the French expansion into modern day Louisiana. ...

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McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. They pointed to evidence of the Soviets objective to support and set up governments in Eastern European countries that reflected not only their communist views, but also the Soviet way of running those governments through a " return to doctrinal belligerence by Russian leaders. ... In the middle of the 1960's, inspired by th...

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During the 1940's, Americans were beginning to recover from the Great Depression. People were beginning to go back to work and make more substantial incomes so they could provide for their families. It was also a time of intense hostility due to the political and global upheaval of World War II. On ...

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To find asylum, the refugees migrated into European countries, such as Turkey, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Middle Eastern countries like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and many countries around the world. ... In more than 4.7 million Syrian refugees also are received supporting from the Middle East countries, such as Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq. ... In 2014, America along with some Middle East countries started to attack ISIS inside Syria. ...

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The goal is to fight terrorism with out creating further resentment and hatred among the Middle Eastern public (Walker). ... An excellent example of this is the current conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine. ...

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From the times of the Anglo-Saxon wars of pre-middle ages to the struggle for hegemonic power with Spain and France over colonization rights and the system of mercantilism. ... The rise of the imperialistic attitude in the middle ages led England to flourish as a global power for centuries and became one of the most influential national powers the world has ever seen. ... The treaty was a major response by the west in order to combar the cold war against the aggressive threat of a continued mobilized Soviet military presence in Eastern Europe. ...

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Because of these similarities, the two revolutions are often assumed to be essentially eastern and western versions of each other. ... There was no middle class or working class in France. ... In France, capitalism's growth was apparent in the development of middle, mercantile, class. ...

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It also resulted in drawing of "iron curtain," which divided Europe into Western and Eastern spheres, this ensured the expansion of USSR by the installation of pro-Soviet governments in countries like Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. ... Decolonization over the period took place in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. ...

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Pennsylvania is called The Keystone State because it lies in the middle of the original thirteen colonies and has played a large role in the development of the United States. ... These Iroquois nations took up a large part of New York and were the largest group of Native Americans in the eastern United States. ...

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September 11, 2001 changed the United States. Not only did it change individuals" personal lives, but also the perspectives of every citizen. This event proved the U.S. was and still is vulnerable, an idea many people would've doubted until that point. The U.S. was put in a defensive position and...

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There were 645 wagons in the middle of winter that set out with all the people. ... The Mississippi River was running full o ice, they had to wait on the eastern bank. 60 yeas later the miseries of that halt beside the frozen river, with hundreds of sick and dying penned up in wagons and stretched upon the ground, barefoot has not been wiped out from the memory and never will. ...

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He was different from the federalists because he appealed more to the middle class, rather than the upper. ... Appleby talks about how thousands of workers got jobs in little factories along the eastern coast which brought steam engines and water power. ...

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