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- 7261: Brief Look At Jewish History
- ... to the God of Israel. The Maccabees made there last stand on a mountain and was able to hold back the syrians for more then a month. There is a distinct similarity between the two stories and that is possibly why they are both recognised as holidays in the Jewish faith. These horrific events of the holocaust have let to some consequences which are beneficial and some are unfortunate to the ...
- 7262: Break Stalin
- ... of the working week was reduced by two hours and maternity leave extended from 70 to 112 days. Between 1953 and 1964 the area of housing space was doubled, although it still remained in very short supply, and less on average than the minimum prescribed by US prison regulations at the time. The minimum wage was doubled, although social service professionals remained among the lowest paid.15 From the excitement of ...
- 7263: Brazil Context
- ... corporation income tax. There is a strong control over foreign currency transaction which is monitored by the National Monetary Council. All foreign currency loans have to be approved by the Central Bank. When Brazil is short of foreign exchange, the Central Bank centralizes all foreign currency repatriation and remittance requests, and releases foreign currency when it becomes available. Therefore delays occur, though the Bank pay interest compensations. Foreign ownership is restricted ...
- 7264: Brazil 2
- ... hard work," but that he could also have evoked another Churchillianism to explain what had happened that month in Brazil: never before had so much been given by so many to so few in so short a time. The Brazilian population's anger that the real plan had collapsed is not difficult to explain. Brazil's recent history is littered with failed economic programs and abandoned currencies. Brazilians had hoped against ...
- 7265: Stalin
- ... book. He was a "model" of 20th century dictatorship, and places where conditions are ripe will unfortunately be drawn to Stalinism as a means to radically transform a backward or semi-backward country in a short time (see for example, Barry Rubin, Modern Dictators, New American Library, 1988). Since the death of Stalin in 1953, it is ironic that perhaps no political issue has been of greater importance to the countries ...
- 7266: How To Use Commas
- ... month and year in a date: NOT November, 1990, The comma stops two sets of numerals from running into one another. WRIGHT November 20, 1990. * Some style guides call for omitting the comma after very short dependent clauses at the beginning of a sentence: NOT On Saturday, the office is closed. WRIGHT On Saturday the office is closed. But do use a comma after long dependent causes: Because the entire epic ...
- 7267: National Constituent Assembly
- To what extent did the reforms of the Constituent Assembly create discontent? The National Constituent Assembly solved some of Frances short term problems, but caused significant discontent due to its inability to resolve long term problems, that had been destroying France economically, politically and socially. There were some groups of society that were quite content with ...
- 7268: Birth Of Nazism
- ... some familiarity with the works of Hegel and Nietzsche. Hitler s belief about himself as expressed in his autobiographical work Mein Kampf echoes of Hegel and Nietzsche. Cynical though he was, Hitler s cynicism stopped short of his own person. Hitler recognized himself as a person taking the chaos and developing new order in Germany with the direction of reason, or Providence. He came to believe that he was a man ...
- 7269: Taking The Hard Road
- ... 5) which is the basis of her book. The female perspective though is sorely lacking in numbers, an important half of the population. In most of the various genres of within autobiographies, such as success stories, conversions, etc., there were few female contributions. Maynes therefore tries to be especially cautious in her discussion of them because there were not enough writings to make them a subgroup and because of this, the ...
- 7270: Billy The Kid
- ... struggle between two rival groups of businessmen and ranchers. Murders and depredations between the two groups culminated in a three-day battle in Lincoln, New Mexico during the July of 1878. There have been many stories that Billy was in the gang that shot Sheriff Bill Brady dead, but probably isn't true, Billy the Kid was not a cold blooded killer. Governor Lew Wallace (also the In 1880-1881? Billy ...
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