‘strategos’. According to Heracleous (2003) the word ‘strategos’ comprised two Greek words, ‘stratos’ and ‘agein’. The term ‘stratos’ refers to the army and ‘agein’ means to lead. Thus strategy in this sense means the art of leading the army. To some scholars the word ‘strategos’ also implies the art of the general. At this
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Abstract This paper discusses the underrepresentation of blacks in the accounting profession in light of the increasing demand for Certified Public Accountants (CPA). The paper ex- plores the various reasons why blacks are underrepresented in the accounting profession. Furthermore, the paper examines these reasons through the lens of race and ethnicity. The paper also synthesizes multiple sources regarding blacks’ underrepresentation in account- ing. Blacks are underrepresented in accounting because
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Muslims. Main sources of the the Sharīʿah are the Qur’an and the Sunnah. Basic aims of the Sharīʿah are the spread of wisdom and welfare through transferring faith including beliefs and practices. In addition, in the past centuries Islamic religious scholars and jurists have been developing its practical application [arab. fatwa] to a system of instructions; some of them find their way into the constitutions of Arabic countries like Kuwait. Today Islamic jurisprudence is a code of conduct that on the
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new exercise, as you now must embark on a broad independent project of research and documenting findings scientifically in your sphere of interest. In other words, presenting original dissertation marks the stage of transition from a student to a scholar. Rest we forget; the complete dissertation must be defended at a panel of
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Motivations for Chinese overseas graduates returning home The number of Chinese overseas students has been increasing at a dramatic rate, especially since the early 1990s. The “going abroad heat” has never slackened among mainland China’s young people. China is the world’s second largest economic entity and Chinese people are getting better off with the globalization and opening reform, thus studying abroad is no longer mysterious and unachievable for the average families in China. In
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES DEV 1150 TUTORIAL QUESTIONS (TERM 1, 2 & 3) Preamble: Exam questions have different keywords. Your success is not how much data you offload when writing. Neither is it how many pages you have written but how far you have dealt with the keyword in the question. Markers invariably look for quality as opposed to quantity of information. Remember that, some questions may come in form of scenarios, but
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Methods Design and setting We performed a longitudinal retrospective patient record review study in 21 randomly sampled hospitals in 2004, and 20 in 2008 out of the total of 93 Dutch hospitals. Eight hospitals were studied in both years. Both samples were stratified for hospital type, university, tertiary teaching and general hospitals, and a proper representation of both urban and rural settings in the samples were verified. Tertiary teaching hospitals in The Netherlands provide specialised care
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techniques on twentieth century cinema is undisputed by scholars throughout history, but the exact nature of her work is surrounded by ongoing controversy. Riefenstahl’s production of the feature films “Triumph of the Will” (Source 3) and “Olympia” (Source 1) have left a lasting imprint on history; these films established Riefenstahl’s influential career as a film director under the years of the Nazi regime. Although these films are attributed by scholars and critics to be Riefenstahl’s greatest achievements
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Jean-François Champollion (Champollion le jeune; 23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832) was a French scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology. A child prodigy in philology, he gave his first public paper on the decipherment of Demotic in 1806, and already as a young man held many posts of honor in scientific circles, and spoke Coptic and Arabic fluently. During the early 19th-century French culture experienced
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Astrology is a topic that was not discussed enough in the Renaissance times. Many scholars and scientists had challenged astrology and how it could predict future events. They did not believe in astrology enough because there was not a lot of information that people had known about yet. Astrolog is rather important to the Renaissance. Art had used astrology in plays and in written work. The renaissance art was inspired by astrology because they used star scenes that would show the world that people
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