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Adolph Hitler lead the Nazi Party and rose to power in 1932 after being appointed chancellor by the German president. People in Germany were upset by how they were being treated under the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler exploited the increasing ethnic nationalism and the suffering that Germany was experiencing caused by the Great Depression. He promised to conquer territory and give the land to impoverished Germans justifying this by promoting the idea that citizens such as Jews and Slavic people…

(1920-1983), who studied the Ndembu tribe of Zambia, and studied their use of symbols in rituals and rites of passage. Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was an American anthropologist whose largest and most important works were on the Balinese cockfights in Indonesia, and defined culture as a web of ideas expressed in symbols, that can have multiple meanings. Stanley Tambiah (1929-2014) was a Professor Emeritus at Harvard that formulated a performative approach to ritual, where every human action was…

fins and meat (White et al., 2008); as a result, they were recently listed on Appendix 2 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Since the stocks of these species are likely shared between Indonesia and neighbouring countries (Ovenden et al., 2009) , the effect of…

are happening almost unceasingly. Some earthquakes can cause major events like broken dams, landslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and destruction of cities. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2015) The densest areas of the map – appendix 2 – is around Indonesia and New Zealand. This is because they are on plate boundaries, since the plates can cause earthquakes from the contact between them. The size of the earthquakes are also a lot more extreme around places that are right on the border of two or…

online for them, go to shoes when shoes are first released, and go to conventions to sell and buy shoes. According to the text, “Calling all Sneaker heads,” it states, “Sneaker heads attend to large conventions, in 2006, a sneaker show in Jakarta, Indonesia, drew 13,000 people. Buying and selling is not only fun, but profitable.” All in all, sneaker heads go…

Daoism is another part of the Chinese religions. The ideas of Daoism is centered on nature and being a free spirit. The book stated that human needs were best met when individuals rejected all artificial restraints and lived spontaneously in harmony with nature (Bilhartz, 267). This idea prepared me for the article and the video. I am not surprised that the Daoist are worried about nature and the environment. Their teachings and traditions are still important even though the concepts are old.…

This episode helped me understand how important the finding of Turkana Boy was, the 1st earliest Homo-erectus skeleton ever to be discovered. The finding of this skeleton lets us know besides having a smaller brain, wider hips, and a small bit of longer arms homo erectus are very much like us. The main difference though is their growth rate represented a chimpanzee rather than a human. This allowed me to stop for a moment and reflect on my thinking and perception on what I have learned in…

Journal Three 1. Title Policy Strategy of Government Services to Women Victims of Domestic Violence 2. Author Hamdanah 3. Source Public Policy and Administration Research 4. Summary of the articles main thesis or premise basic components/propositions In this research paper we will discuss the policy strategy of government services to women who have been affected by domestic violence. This study will “1).describe the expectations of women victims of domestic violence to public organizations, 2)…

for good performance in an organization. Moreover, Owusu-Bempah et al. (2013) claim that the combination of transactional and transformational leadership styles results in a productive behaviour management which is based on empirical studies in Indonesia. Likewise, Bryant (2003) describes that the leadership of Steve Jobs has led Apple incorporated produced respected invention as a result of consequent vision transformations because of good organization schemes that enable employees to do so.…

announced in 2007 that there would be major capital injections in the transportation sector, there is a still a lot of work to be done. According to the World Bank report, there were five major transportation infrastructure projects undertaken in Indonesia in the past decades. As result of focusing on solely physical completion of the projects, while paying no attention to political and institutional climate in the country – the projects had “very modest” overall institutional impact. 3.)…