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    together with over 100,000 Japanese residing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the suffers many would endure from cancers caused by radiation. But given that in the weeks before the deployment of Colonel Tibbs and the Enola Gay, and the other units of the USAF, the most important consideration was pre-empting Soviet involvement in an invasion. Hasegawa suggests, maybe the decisive factor was having the engagement of the Soviet Union, and not the dropping of the two bombs. But if one…

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    Mercantilism was a highly pervasive economic theory, which advocated for governmental regulation of the mother country 's economy for the purpose of augmenting national power, necessitating a great aggregation of colonies so that the nation’s exports may exceed its imports. It was quite clear in the seventeenth century that the colonies of North America would serve as vital providers of wealth, thus England seized control of North Atlantic trade, solidifying its grasp of North America’s Eastern…

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    Fall Of France

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    WWI waged on for a devastating four years, yet in only six weeks, France succumbed to German attack and plunged society into its next world war. Historians wrestle with explanations, trying to pin-point specific political, psychological and military French failures which were the catalyst for the actual Fall of France. For these researchers, trying to demystify events often resurrects their own personal perspectives on history. Sometimes their bias seeps into their works. None-the-less, Julian…

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    Medea's Revenge

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    Jason, son of Aeson and great-nephew of Athamas, was sent on a quest by King Pelias to bring back the Golden Fleece as part of his three labors to gain back his rightful place at the throne of Iolcus. The goddess Hera wanted revenge on Pelias for not honoring her, so she asked Jason to bring back Medea, daughter of Aeetis, as a means to bring down Pelias. Along with the help of the goddess Aphrodite and her son Eros, Jason was able to bring Medea back to Iolcus, after she committed several acts…

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    The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…

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    Background to the Palestinian Nationalism Introduction One very widely recognized conflict of our time is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This bloody struggle has endured for over a century and involves a complex web of players, alliances, and grudges that have brought about the death of many and disrupted the lives of countless others. According to one source, at least 1,104 Israelis and 6,836 Palestinians have been killed since 2000 alone, and many more have been injured. The same source…

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    increase in foreign visitors to the country (De Nicola 2010). TOURISM POLICIES IN RIO DE JANEIRO Tourism as an activity in Rio de Janeiro is contextualized from the moment when the city becomes the capital of the country, at the time in which the imperial family takes up residence in the city. This takes place in the early nineteenth century, but there is great difficulty in obtaining materials that explain the evolutionary process of tourism due to the dissipation and closing of…

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    Complementary Field Exam RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN: APPROACHES, INTERPRETATIONS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS Race and ethnicity are both important aspects of identity in the modern world. Given their centrality in today’s identity politics, the study of race and ethnicity has naturally found its way into the pages of studies on the ancient Mediterranean. The Greeks and Romans are thought to have been the progenitors of ideas and philosophies which the modern “Western” world…

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    Estore Case Study

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    Richard lvey School of Business The University of Western Ontario 9806E020 ESTORE AT SHELL CANADA LIMITED Chad Saunders wrote this case under the supervision of Professors Deborah Compeau and Barbara Marco/in, and Roger Milley solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect…

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    After the Second World War, Germany was divided into four zones. “These occupation zones had been drawn during the war by the European Advisory Commission” (Maddox 1320) the four zones were; the American Zone of Occupation, the British Zone, French Zone and the Soviet Zone. Frankfurt was under the control of the Americans, Bad Oeynhausen under the control of the British, Baden-Baden under French control and East Berlin under Soviet control. With Germany being divided in four, issues began to…

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