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    then looking into how childhood is seen in today’s societies. The concept of childhood in relation to medieval society shows us that “child” is a word that was used in common speech such as today’s generation using the word “lad” as seen in Aries (1962). Childhood in medieval times did not exist, this was not to say that children were despised or neglected but once children got to a stage that they no longer needed a mothering figure as support such as their mother,…

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    INTRODUCTION Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is an American multinational retail giant that was founded in 1962 by Samuel Walton. Walmart’s vision statement: “To be the best retailer in the hearts and minds of consumers and employees.” Walmart is headquartered at Bentonville, Arkansas, USA and is the largest private employer and biggest grocery retailer in the USA. It does business in almost 11,530 locations all over the world dealing in various variety of products and services. Walmart operates…

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    Mexican Immigrant Culture

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    the early 1900’s. The relationship between the United States and Mexico has been strained for a while and has degraded as time has progressed. This was mostly due to both the Bracero Program between 1942 and 1954 and Operation Wetback from 1954 to 1962. In the early 1900’s, immigration from Mexico to the United States started to be discouraged. Mexico realized that they would need the people leaving to help industrialize their country and its economy. At this time, their biggest asset was cheap…

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    Orson Welles Auteur

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    The debate of whether a director can be called an auteur/have authorship is one with strong arguments on both sides. Orson Welles was an outsider to the studio system and directed only 13 full-length films throughout his career. Due to this, Welles often struggled for creative control over his films from the major studios, and his films were either heavily edited or remained unreleased. He has been praised as a major creative force and as ‘the ultimate auteur’. Welles and his editor, Robert…

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    In a 1962 book entitled The Least Dangerous Branch American legal scholar Alexander Bickel coined the term “counter-majoritarian difficulty” to refer to the inherent issues between judicial review and democracy (16). When a judiciary strikes down a piece of legislation and declares it unconstitutional it is going against the will of democratically elected representatives (Bickel, 1962, 16-17). Although Bickel was not the first scholar to point out the issues in reconciling judicial review and…

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    analysis is on chain retail discount department stores, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and two of its leading competitors: Target Brands, Inc. and H-E-B. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. was founded by Sam Walton and first opened its doors in the city of Rogers, Arkansas in 1962 (Wal-Mart, 2015). At the same time in Roseville, Minnesota was the opening of Target Discount Store and Supermarket (Target, 2015). In the early 1900’s 1905, to be exact was the opening of C.C. Butt Grocery Store, later to be known as…

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    The Vietnam War was the longest conflict that Australians have been involved in. The Australians involvement in the Vietnam War lasted for 10 years (1962-1972) and involved approximately 60,000 personnel. The Vietnam War was fundamentally a component of the Cold War, a war based on ideologies of communism and capitalism. The Vietnam War had many long-term and short-term effects that impacted Australia socially, politically and economically. Socially through the change in attitudes, politically…

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    experienced by people in a large crowd? An example of mob hysteria is from a book called, The Crucible, which says that a large group of villagers are on their toes trying to find this “witchcraftery” user. The Salem Witch Trial began during the spring of 1962, after an incident caused by a group of young girls. The McCarthy Era all started when there was a lot of communists supporters in the U.S. Another reference from the book, The Crucible, had a saying where the word “witchcraft” was created…

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    Norton Pond Case Study

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    Table 2. Recorded data of Physical and chemical properties of Wakefield Pond. Figure 3. Graph of temprature vs Depth in each lake. Figure 4. Graph of oxygen concentration vs Depth in each lake. Figure 5. Graph of light vs Depth in each lake. Figure 7. Sketches of plankton and relative aboundace from all two lakes Figure 8. Sketches of plamkton and relative aboundance from all two lakes. Figure 6. Fish in Wakefield Pond variety and numbers. Discussion Lake…

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    To protest against Hallstein, de Gaulle recalled all the French ministers from Brussels which resulted in the renowned Empty Chair Crisis. It started from the mid 1965 to January 1966 when European partners came together in Luxembourg. As the Empty Chair Crisis must not continue as without the unanimous support from all six Member States, the EEC could not pass any proposal and was practically in stagnant. Thus, the Member States came into agreement on the summit in Luxembourg which stated that…

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