...Essay "Is the United States following in the footsteps of ancient Rome’s decline?" There are many areas of similarity when contrasting the United States with the Roman Empire. The greatest nation on earth today is the United States. The main factors supporting this are that the U.S. is the economic leader in the world. At this time, the U.S. has the strongest military of any nation. There is relevance with what is happening in the United States today and what occurred during the fall of the Roman Empire. One common and provable fact is that in many ways history does have a tendency to repeat itself. Not only on a worldwide scale does this happen, but in the lives of individuals as well. After all, governments and their political entities are made up people. And as part of human nature, people are prone to make the same mistakes again and again, as the Roman Empire and the U.S. similarities and differences in the functioning of the state. The Roman Empire established a connection between the state and the people. The people were subjected respectively by pride in their country. Their pride was extremely strong in a nation who offered a stable and profound class society. They government’s hierarchy included a military emperor or Sacrificial King, senate, consuls, and the forum. The Romans also enacted a class society of peasant farmers, patricians and plebeians, who were among the higher level in the class society. Ruled by a dictator, the Roman Empire was under strict control...
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...time around Ancient Rome to now in The United States? Ancient Rome’s city population was about 1 million people. They were also overcrowded, noisy and even walking was dangerous. Cities today in The U.S. aren’t as unsafe as then because we have people to keep us safe, such as police officers, firefighters, etc. The United States cities overall are still overcrowded and noisy most of the time. There’s a diverse amount of people now in The U.S., our population didn’t used to be 319,062,017+ (a birth every 8 seconds and a death every 13 seconds). But ever since people started migrating from different countries, our community has expanded. Asian, Caucasian, African American, Hispanic/ Mexican and Multiracial...
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..."The Willie Lynch Letter" by Willie Lynch in the year 1712 William Lynch was a white slave owner from the West Indies, brought to America to spread his ideas on how to keep an entire race enslaved for centuries. This is the beginning... Gentlemen, I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the oldest methods of controlling slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program were implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish, I saw enough to know that your problem is not unique. While Rome used cords of wood as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers, you are here using the tree and the rope on occasion. I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of miles back. You are not only losing a valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires, your animals are killed. Gentlemen, you know what your problems are: I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I...
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...Lady Jane Grey, the successor after Edward. She was Queen for nine days, but was deposed and Mary carried on as legitimate successor. Faction Mary was determined to fill the council with loyal people, but she couldn’t prevent all rivalries! = Gardiner vs. Paget. The rivalry emerged over Mary’s marriage issue. Gardiner proposed that Mary should marry Courtnay, and Paget argued she should marry Phillip of Spain Some were also sceptical of some of her policies, such as the effectiveness of the burning of protestants. However, despite some disagreements with her policies, she managed to obtain agreement for 3 major steps: the full return to Rome in religion, her marriage to the heir of the Spanish throne and the declaration of war on France Faction was much less of a problem in Mary’s reign than her predecessors, with a greater sense of continuity and solidarity among most councillors. Marriage The first question on everybody’s lips was “Who should marry Mary?” Edward Courtney vs. Phillip of Spain Why Phillip? He was a Catholic He was Spanish, and Mary was half Spanish after all! He had more political experience as he had already been regent in the Netherlands Spain has money and owns most of Europe and the Americas It would counter balance the power of France as Spain ruled Netherlands next to France Marrying a domestic noble like Courtney would produce terrible factional problems Why not Phillip? Some councillors, such as Gardiner, feared Spain would have too...
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...“ “Controversies with church music VS. Reformation” Many controversies are over worship and the nature of the music. Although, some are adamant that the only should use the resource of the hymnbook; while others never seem satiated in their quest for new material or the ancillary technology which it presents. There are For many evangelical congregations, the character of worship is determined largely by one or two individual with a specific personal agenda that support a power base. Often, a congregation will work together deliberately to discern what, for them, is appropriate corporate mode of worship language. But rare instances, the question of how to worship is usually part of a larger, ongoing discussion over how to be the Body of Christ in a community. Each perspective, each point of view, carries some part of the totality of what worship signifies in the life of the believer and of the Christian community. The diversity of worship setting can be a valuable asset; it prompts creativity from many voices, and keeps worship vital and energized. But diversity without focus is often destructive; competing forces can tear down a congregation apart, creating pain and wounds, and rendering the whole ineffectual. What lies at the heart of the controversy over current forms of worship practice across the evangelical movement? The declaration of many who have experienced frustration and discord on all sides of the issue, the root cause is simply not one of the contentions over...
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...The International Criminal Court: Idealpolitik vs. Realpolitik and the special case of the United States ABSTRACKT The Rome Statute that was adopted on July 17st 1998 was a controversial treaty that despite initial backing from great and small powers alike ended up facing fierce opposition for a number of reasons. Internationally it was widely accepted that there was a need to stem the tide of an ever-increasing number of human rights violations and that the institution best suited for achieving this goal, following the relative successes of ad hoc criminal tribunals, could be a permanent International Criminal Court, ICC. This essay will attempt to clarify the contrasting ideas and interests of key actors that ultimately shaped the compromise that became the Rome Statute of the ICC. It will go on to assess the relative influence of idealpolitik - that is the altruistic idealism embedded in a genuine desire to create a court to bring an end to the reality of perpetrators of war crimes escaping justice - and realpolitik - the realist notion of national interest and power politics as the main catalysts behind the politics of the Rome Statute. The judicial powers entrusted to the ICC became, as stated above, a matter of compromise. The final text of the Rome Statute was the result of intense negotiations that revolved around the concepts of national sovereignty and security politics on the one hand and the desire of non-great powers to establish a court with as much authority...
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...Let’s get down to business on this subject. Discrimination based on sexual preference is discrimination based on gender, and because of that, it is a violation of the Equal Protection law. The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ("Equal Protection", 2004) Another example of this is Loving vs. Virginia. When a white man wanted to marry a black woman back in 1967. He was not allowed to do so. He obviously took on the Supreme Court and won. So because of that it was a landmark of the Civil Rights movement that ultimately changed the United States Supreme Court decision on prohibiting interracial marriage. Marriage should be an expression of peoples love and devotion to one another and should not be limited to one man and one woman. On another note. Marriage has not always been between one man and one women. As far as ancient cultures go. Rome and the Fujitan Provence in ancient China had Gay Unions. Gay Unions were also allowed in ancient Indian cultures and in France as well. France had something called Brotherments dated as far back as 600 AD. Historical evidence, including legal documents and gravesites, can be interpreted as supporting the prevalence of homosexual relationships hundreds of years ago, said Allan Tulchin of Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. (Bryner, 2007). So the fact of the matter is that this topic has been around longer...
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...After the notion of the Christian Trinity was established by the Holy Roman Empire in the 3rd century AD, all who lived within the borders of Rome and opposed this notion, primarily the Unitarians, were cast out and/or forced to practice their beliefs in hiding. In the 8th Century A.D., an Islamic military force comprised of Muslims and the Unitarians invaded the Iberian Peninsula and began a conquest of what we know today as Spain. A small Muslim army arrived on the southern shores of Iberia in the year 711 and by 720 almost the entire peninsula was under Muslim control. Many Christian Westerners like to classify this conquest as fuel for the negative view of Muslims. Still, this war is a very complex conflict that cannot be classified into “Islam vs. Christianity” or “East vs. West.” Many scholars today attribute the European and American Christian misunderstanding of Islam to the distance that separated the two distinct cultures. Still the Christians of Spain, who were forced to live within Islamic borders, elected to close their minds to the new religion and reacted with hostility against it, a hostility that still remains in existence throughout the West till this...
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...could approach this discussion. One way being from a political realist/power-politics perspective, and the other from a moralist idealist perspective; and while both can start in the same place; they end up in some very different conclusions. So for all intents and purposes I’m going to stay within a political realist perspective on this issue. Since the Second World War, the U.S. has increasingly achieved a sort of empire and has in fact become the new Rome, as Chalmers Johnson would put it. Much like its predecessors in order to maintain the empire it needs to enact the security of its interests in it. In the U.S.’s case, instead of traditional colonies, it is some seven hundred and thirty-seven DOD acknowledged bases as of 2005, spread out strategically around the world in order to ensure that the status quo remains in favor of U.S. interests around the globe. As George F. Kennan, in the late 1940’s put it, our foreign policy is designed to protect our raw materials. In this case, Kennan was referring to Central and South America,...
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...and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" And many rebuked him, telling him to shut up. But he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" And Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." And they called the blind man, saying to him, "Take heart; rise, he is calling you." And throwing off his mantle he sprang up and came to Jesus. And Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" And the blind man said to him, "Master, let me receive my sight." And Jesus said to him, "Go your way; your faith has made you well." And immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way. Learning the Story Verbal Threads "Jericho." The first episode is tied together by Jericho: "He came to Jericho"/"as he was leaving Jericho" (vs. 46). "Cried out…'Son of David, have mercy on me.' " The first sentences in the episodes of Bartimaeus's crying out for Jesus have this extensive verbal thread (vss. 47-48). 69 Story Journey: An Invitation to the Gospel...
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...Santa Ana College ART 100 ---- Winter Intersession 2016 --- Intersession INTRODUCTION TO ART CONCEPTS Instructor: Michael Fremont Redfield Email: redfield_michael@sac.edu Office Phone: 714-564-5600 Mobile Phone: 949-293-9737 Office Location: by appointment ART 100 --- Introduction to Art An introductory course for both the general interest and art major student: a survey of the nature and role of the visual arts in society. Art theory, art practices and an overview of art history will be required. The Medias of art will also be explored. Field trips are required. This course will enable the student to understand the historical, social, and psychological factors involved in the creation of works of art through an analysis of the language, media, and rationale of visual communication. Prerequisites: None. Units: Three Required Text: Artforms, 11th Edition, Patrick Frank, Pearson Prentice/Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 07458. Method of Presentation: Lectures with PowerPoint presentations and class discussion. Student Learning Outcomes: Art 100 – Introduction to Art Concepts is a survey course whose purpose is to develop the ability of students to see an art object or building on objective, perceptual, and interpretive levels. The student will learn the vocabulary of art; recognize the materials and techniques of art processes and learn to recognize the historical styles and changing tastes of the public and the art market. ...
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...%,%/,2*5$3+< Abila, R. O., and E. G. Jansen. 1997. From local to global markets: The fish exporting and fishmeal industries of Lake Victoria: Structure, strategies and socioeconomic impacts in Kenya. Socioeconomics of the Lake Victoria Fisheries No. 2. Nairobi: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Eastern Africa Programme. Aerni, P. 2001. Aquatic resources and technology: Evolutionary, environmental, legal, and developmental aspects. Science, Technology and Innovation Discussion Paper No. 13. Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.: Center for International Development. Ahmed, M. 1997. Fish for the poor under a rising global demand and changing fishery regime. Naga—The ICLARM Quarterly (supplement). July–December: 4–7. Ahmed, M., and M. H. Lorica. 2002. Improving developing country food security through aquaculture development—lessons from Asia. Food Policy 27: 125–141. Ahmed, M., C. L. Delgado, S. Sverdrup-Jensen, and R. A. V. Santos, ed. 1999. Fisheries policy research in developing countries: Issues, priorities and needs. Manila: International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management and International Food Policy Research Institute. Allan, G. 1998. Potential for pulses. International Aquafeeds 2: 17–20. Alston, J. M., G. W. Norton, and P. G. Pardey. 1995. Science Under Scarcity: Principles and practice for agricultural research evaluation and priority setting. Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A.: Cornell University Press. Anderson, J. L. 1985. Private aquaculture...
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...Leo Dudziak HLS 301G Human Sexuality Library Research Project 6/21/2015 1. Religion and Sex 2. International Human Sexuality Issues Female genital mutilation Female genital mutilation is a ritual removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice of female genital mutilation is concentrated in 27 African countries. Although cases are found in other countries those 27 countries compose a vast majority of worldwide female genital mutilation. It is an appalling tradition that is practiced for religious and cultural reasons. There are four types of female genital mutilation according to The World health organization. Type 1 is partial or total removal of the clitoris. Type two partial removal of clitoris and labia minora. Type three is narrowing of the vaginal orifice and type 4 is any other harmful procedure to female genitals for nonmedical purposes. 85% of women who have had female genital mutilation have had type one or type two performed. The practice significantly affects females the sexuality of those that have had it performed to them. Woman can be severally affected because removal of part of the vagina or clitoris has many negative physical and psychological affects. The physical effects that can happen are severe bleeding, problems urinating, cysts, infections, infertility as well as complications in childbirth and increased newborn deaths. Female genital mutilation can take some or all pleasure away from sex. It also reduces orgasms...
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...covers: * The general description of each product * Accessories * Specifications * Exclusive games for each individual system After extensive research, I found that both systems are fairly comparable from a technical standpoint. However, I recommend the PS4 over the Xbox One based on value and services. General Description of Products PS4 Mark Cerny, lead architect of the PS4, said the development of the eighth-generation console began in 2008 (“PlayStation 4”). The PS4 is developed and created by Sony Computer Entertainment (“PlayStation 4”). On February 20, 2013, Sony announced that the PS4 would be the successor of the PlayStation 3 during a press conference at Gamescom (Rivington). The PS4 release date in North America and Canada is November 15, 2013, and November 29, 2013, for Australia and Europe (Rivington). A noticeable improvement for the PS4 will be the use of a simpler AMD processor rather than the complicated Cell processor used in the PlayStation 3 (“PlayStation 4”). Sony is hoping the change will increase support for the...
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...Read Annie Dillard’s essay “The Wreck of Time.” Study her rhetorical style (diction, sentence structure,rhythm, voice, tone), the ideas she explores, and the way she puts bits of information together for a larger, philosophical purpose. In this digital age, we're confronted with numbers and statistics and information (and lies) on a daily basis. It can seem overwhelming, sometimes deadening. Select some facts/numbers/details about topics or events that reflect the wreck of the time you have inhabited this earth, and with your own purpose, craft a shorter imitation of Dillard's piece in which your attention to particulars brings some larger theme into focus. Due Nov. 8 The Wreck of Time My wrecks in time are all the wars I’ve experience over the years starting with 1961Bay of Pigs and Cuba over nuke missiles being sent to be installed in Cuba. With the cold war scare of a war with Russia and Cuba. Vietnam 1960-1975,Then to not so known Cambodian Laos wars with Pol Pot ( Khmer Rouge) Pol Pot 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998)[1][2] was a Cambodian revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge[3] from 1963 until 1997. Here is a look from 2004 about the pros and cons of war against Iraq from information available at that time. It is included here for historical purposes. The possibility of war with Iraq is a very divisive issue around the world. Turn on any news show and you will see a daily debate on the pros and cons of going to war. The following is a list of the reasons being discussed...
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