Ottoman Turks’ first appearance The ascent of the Ottoman came after the decline of the Seljurk Turks’s empire. The arrival of the first Ottomans, alias ghazis (Turkish warriors or raiders), to Anatolia (formerly called Asia Minor) was intended to evade the forces of Mongols. At first, the Turkish tribes were nomadic pastoralists but when the Seljuk Empire’s power was slowly falling apart, the Turks, under the rule of Osman (1280-1326), command the ghazis to begin the occupation and invasion of other
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COMMENTARY Long on Aspiration, Short on Detail Report on Universal Health Coverage Sujatha Rao The recommendations of the Planning Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Access to Universal Healthcare are significant because they make explicit the need to contextualise health within the rights. However, the problem with the report is that it does not ask why many of the same recommendations that were made by previous committees have not been implemented. The HLEG neither recognises the problems
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The Ottomans sprang out of Anatolia in the West of Turkey around the end of the 13 century. At the time, the Byzantine Empire, which rose from the fall of the Roman Empire hundreds of years, was in controlled the region. The Ottomans after the came into existence started to continuous expand, during which they spread from the small northwestern to cover most of Anatolia and southeastern Europe The Seljuk Turks controlled the Anatolia and the Middle East at the time, a more vast area than what
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constant, but always changing just as the people and culture change throughout the years. Firstly, language has gone through massive changes throughout the centuries, which in turn will change the way the books and poems are written. It transformed from a West Germanic language like Dutch, which was very difficult to understand, to “Middle English”. It
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feet in width and six feet in length in bed”(11), and continues saying that the boats were small, the food was gross, and you were nearly guaranteed to get sick. This is not how most people treat someone they consider to be equal. He even says “Better black slaves on plantations than white servants in industry, which would encourage aspirations to independence”(10). It is my opinion that independence is something for which everyone should have aspirations, and any attempt to squash those aspirations
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Endangered Sharks Rapidly declining shark populations has already been noticed and will continue to decline unless further steps are taken to ensure their protection as endangered species. 50 out of 307 shark species, listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), are either vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered. However, of those 50, only three, the White, Whale, and Basking sharks are protected internationally under CITES. CITES is the Convention on International
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Background * Chris Prangle…. MBA graduate to manage the mountain man beer company * Guntar Prangle founded Mountain beer 1925. * Family owned business – inherited for 5 years. * Initially was called as West Virginia beer. * In 2005 …generating revenues $ 50 million and selling over 520,000 barrels of mountain man lager. * Price was $ 2.25 for 12-ounces serving and $4.99 for 6 pack in local convenience store. * Was priced similar to premium brands such as Miller and Budweiser
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Economic growth is increases in output. It can occur if previously unemployed resources are employed, there are more resources or existing resources improve in quality (Grant and Stanlake, 2000:285). According to the report, the economic gap between the north and the south of the United Kingdom was significantly enlarged in 10 years (White, 2015). Regional outcomes in Britain have exhibited strong signs of divergence and asymmetries on the basis of a North-South divide for over twenty years (lse
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traditions. In the Caribbean the majority of young adults prefer foreign music, clothes and even sports. For example, there is a severe decline in people who would prefer to listen to calypso over foreign music. In terms of sports, there has also been a reduction of cricket fans. In the past there were masses of people who flocked to the cricket grounds to watch the West Indies. Those who didn’t were usually at home watching from their television or listening to it on the radio. In modern times, other
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In recent years some sociologists have claimed that the west is becoming more secular. Secularisation is where religious belief, practiced and institutions loose social significance. There has been evidence to suggest that church attendance and the number of baptisms and church weddings are declining. However some sociologists reject secularisation theory and argue that religion is simply changing, rather than declining. They believe it is changing as a result of changes in wider society, such as
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