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    In this book, author Gwendolyn Leick, an anthropologist and Assyriologist, describes the ancient history of Mesopotamia by way of ten cities: Eridu, Uruk, Shuruppak, Akkad, Ur, Nippur, Sippar, Ashur, Nineveh, and Babylon. The cities are given separate chapters which are arranged roughly chronologically over an immense time span, from the beginnings of Eridu in the fifth millennium BCE to the end of Babylonian culture in the first centuries of the Common Era. The chapter are further divided by…

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    When Pony Boy says “ Just don’t forget some of us watch the sunset too”. It all means something, because Pony Boy is trying to figure out why the Socs are always trying to fight the Greasers and why they don’t all get along and make agreements. And In the story the Inaugural Address it says “ His color is not mine”, So what they are trying to say is people aren’t agreeing on things that they really should be agreeing on and they also don’t understand why everyone is fighting. When in the…

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    Newgrange Art

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    The first piece of art that I have decided to discuss is a prehistoric monument in Ireland called Newgrange. It was built during the Neolithic period around 3000 BC to 2500 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. The Newgrange monument primarily consists of a large mound, built of alternating layers of earth and stones, with grass growing on top and a reconstructed facade of flattish white quartz stones studded at intervals with large rounded cobbles covering part of the…

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    What would you change about ur school cafeteria if given a chance? What do you think you would like to change about ur cafeteria if you was giving a chance? I am gonna tell you what I would change in mine if I was giving a chance to change what I didn’t like about it. The reason I would like to change my cafeteria is because it is not the way I like. I will tell you what what like best about it below, as said before. My first idea is if the food would not be 100% whole grain. For example,…

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    satisfied they gain from working at the organization. Job satisfaction has a positive effect at work place. When job satisfaction is high, employees feel motivated at work, which can lead to high productivity and good quality work from employees ( Saad-Ur-Rehman, Mansoor, & Bilal, 2012). Since leadership management…

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    civilization, are stepped structures of large size that lead to a platform on top where spiritual/religious rituals took place.The pyramid that will be used in this paper is the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Ziggurat used will be the Great Ziggurat of Ur. One similarity is how big they are in their physical properties. One of the main reasons to build these structures so hugely for Egyptians and Mesopotamians alike was to show off growing wealth, prestige, and loyalty to the gods they…

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    Conditioning Theory, Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) Classical conditioning theory is learning by association. Here a neutral stimuli (Condition Stimuli) which on its own would not produce a response (unconditioned response/natural response), can produce a response (UR) after being associated with natural triggers (unconditioned stimuli/US) of the unconditioned response. This news response is now called the condition response (CR). Here the natural, innate/biological responses are the same however,…

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    Diabetes type 2. Prevention is better than treatment. Jóhanna Guðmundsdóttir Diabetes type 2 is common disease a disease that couse cronic hyperglycaemia. The disease and it´s complications can by life threatening and reduse the quality of life. It‘s lifelong disease and usually begins in people over forty. The disease is strongly assosiated with obesity and physical inactivity.1 Over the last few decades the disease has been increaseing in the western countries following the obesity pandemic…

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    Islam is said to have ‘interacted’ with its Indian environments in various ways. First off, South Asia, the region known as Hind, has one of the largest Muslim populations of any region in the world. According to the 2010 figure, India has a Muslim population of about 177 million, identifying as the second largest religion in India behind Hinduism. Islam began to spread through maritime trade, Arab merchants would go to south Asia and settle there, learning the local language and marrying the…

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    1.In self-directed learning( SDL) the individual takes the initiative and the responsibility for what occurs.individuals select, manage and assess their learning activities , which can be pursued at any time, in any place, through any means,at any age .in schools, teachers, can work towards( SDL)stage at time . The essential aspect of self-directed learning is establishing a climate of trust To learn effectively we must trust our selfs -understanding the way of self-directing learning…

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