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    Book Of Judges Analysis

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    take place during a time of great upheaval- more than likely in the eleventh century BCE. The Israelites and the Canaanites are at odds with each other. In regards to Judges 4:17-23, the events take place outside of Mount Tabor, where the Kenites were residing at the time. It not known where this is exactly because the Kenite people were known to be nomadic ("Boadicea.".) The exact date of this particular passage is unknown due to a lack of historicity within the book. This passage is somewhat different than the entire book of Judges due to the fact that a judge is not the focus of the story. Immediately before this passage, Sisera and his army are defeated at the hand of Barak. Sisera is the only one to survive which is why he flees the scene. In verse nine of Judges four, Deborah, a judge, reveals to Barak that “Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” A few verses later, it is revealed that Jael is that woman. Immediately after this passage, the Israelites destroy King Jabin. This would not have been possible without the defeat of the powerful army commander Sisera. This is why Jael is a direct link to the Israelites victory. She is not a judge but she plays a significant role. Verse seventeen of Judges four, says that Sisera “fled away on foot.” Sisera was a high ranking army commander. The fact that he was on foot and not on a horse/chariot reveals that he was defeated in battle. This verse also reveals that there is some kind of level of friendship between…

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    Ehud Barak Essay

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    Ehud Barak is a politician from Israel who served as the Prime Minister of the country from 1999 to 2001. Barak was the leader of the Israeli Labor Party from 1997 to 2001, before leaving with four other members of the party to create a new party that was centrist, Zionist, and democratic. Before Barak’s time as a politician, he served in served in the IDF, or Israel Defense Forces, which he joined in 1959. There, he served 35 years, and rose to the highest rank in the Israeli military -- Rav…

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    is enormous changes by comparison in 2007. In 2007, only over half of Americans said to ready to vote a woman as president. But, now, many Americans think comfortable with the idea between woman and man in the important roles in politics. There is no reason why female cannot be president of the U.S anymore. Broken Berlin wall led unification of Germany. Today America president Barak Obama broke the barrier which African-American can 't be the president in U.S. He broke that…

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    March 18th, 2008, Barak Obama was running for president. His campaign actually hit a small snag when some words were being roamed around about what Obama’s reverend had said about the candidate. Barak Obama knew this was a crucial time in his campaign because everyone not just voters but the world was watching and waiting to see how the YOUNG candidate would respond to the accusations. Obama silenced these words with a complex and well written response speech about his goal to bring together and…

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    In 2008 the economy had hit a historically all time low. The American people were flustered and felt like there was a burden weighing on America. Barak Obama noticed this despair and ran with it. Obama create a campaign based on the darkness in America and gave the people a light. He did this by creating the Hope campaign. Along with this campaign came the “Hope” video ad. The ad targeting the middle and lower class United States citizen making them feel welcomed and apart of the government.…

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    The CSI Effect

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    Although it would seem that this might not have any consequences because it is making jurors more cautious when convicting, it is, in fact, making jurors too cautious and causing an expectation of scientific evidence in every case which is resulting in defendants being “wrongfully” acquitted (Barak…

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    definition, and as afforded by Barak (2008), refers to the specific categorization of certain human differences. According to Shore, Chung-Herrera, Dean, Ehrhart, Jung, Randel, & Singh (2009), these differences are what make up the dimensions of diversity such as race, age, gender, disability, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. There is no question as to the fact that there is an influx of diverse populations into the worlds labor market (Groschl, 2012). While the causes of the diversification…

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    CSI Effect Essay

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    What these shows using real cases does, is familiarize some people who might recognize the story and think that everything they are watching is the truth which can then lead those people to think that how the crime was solved on television is how it was really solved (Barak 150). One example of this is from a past case where they did not convict the defendant and when asked why one juror said they did not convict “because the prosecution did not deliver television-style forensic evidence”…

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    Synaptic Plasticity

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    et al., 1998; Dittman et al, 2000 and Wang et al., 2006). In parallel, other studies revealed the intricate details of the neurobiological explanation implicated in STP (Loebel et al., 2002 and Barak et al., 2007). Additionally, dynamical synapses or STP (Stevenset al, 1995; Markram et al, 1996; Abbott.,et al, 1997; Markram., et al 1998; Dittman et al., 2000;Zucker., et al, 2002 ; Abbott, et al , 2004 and Wang., et al, 2006 ) is suggested to represent the changes…

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    Women In OT Times

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    of Israel. There are three relationships that Deborah has, those are: with the people of Israel, with Barak, and with God. Taking a look at the first relationship, with that of the people of Israel, the people described her as having a special relationship with God. “She is one of only two in the history recounted in the Hebrew Bible to whom the Israelites would come for judgment. This status is held by only one other: Moses.” Since she is viewed with the same status as Moses, it is no wonder…

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