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With over 39,000 American mass layoff events during the Great Recession, December 2007-June 2009, corporate downsizing seems like an integral practice of modern organizational life (Bureau of Labor Statistics). Downsizing refers to the deliberate reduction of workforce size to improve organizational performance (Nair, 2008). Companies turn to downsizing, or layoffs, in hopes to reduce labor … Read more
Greece is one of most excellent nations in Europe and holder of most vital piece of it’s history. It is known for its trademark perfection and enchanting history. Out of date archaeological areas, endless islands, sandy shorelines, and a direct Mediterranean climate make Greece one of Europe’s prime guest objectives. Other than the capital, Athens, … Read more
The Siege of Bastogne took place in Germany in the year of 1944. It was a part of the last major German offensive campaign during World War II called the Battle of the Bulge which involved 250,000 German forces and 80,000 American forces. Germany’s main goal during this operation was to capture the harbored city … Read more
Form The Parthenon in Athens was constructed in the style of the Ancient Greek Doric order, whilst the Temple of Apollo in Didyma was constructed in the Ionic order. This differentiation was due to location and time period, for example the Parthenon was constructed in mainland Greece between 447-438BC whilst the Temple of Apollo was … Read more
FACTS Denmark, Netherlands, and Germany are positioned adjacently to the North Sea. Denmark and Netherlands, as members of the Geneva Convention of 1958, had adopted the equidistance principle to draw partial boundary lines. With the wish to make the partial boundaries concrete, Denmark and Netherlands agreed to adhere to the equidistance method as their basis … Read more
The year 1857 indicate the year in which Indian local would revolt against the British superpower that had exploited their people for over 200 years. The Indian Mutiny and was a major turning point in Indian liberation. Although it was somewhat unsuccessful, it initiated a process that would eventually be cause the East India Company … Read more
Queen Elizabeth II was born on April 21, 1926, in London, England. She was the oldest child of Prince Albert and his wife Elizabeth. Her father was second in line to the throne and later became King George VI of Great Britain and Ireland in 1936 when his older brother Edward VIII gave up the … Read more
Behind the glamorous stories of heroism and great manuscripts of philosophy, the creation and prosperity of the ancient Greek city-states did not happen suddenly nor easily Unlike other contemporary civilizations such as Egypt or Mesopotamia, the ancient Greeks did not have the luxury of depending on fertile soil from a river valley for agriculture. Neither … Read more
Julius Caesar was a popular leader of the Rome Republic. When he was born it was a new chapter in Roman history. When he turned 31, he was going into several wars and got involved in Roman politics. After several alliances he became the dictator of Roman Empire, he made a rule that only lasted … Read more
The Suez Canal crisis was an event that permanently changed the landscape of the middle east and was the cause of a shift in political power during the cold war and the subsequent decades. The Suez Canal, located in Egypt, was a major shipping route for many major countries including Britain, France, Egypt, and the … Read more
The tower that has been leaning for hundreds of years is actually falling. Have you ever wondered why as we keep adding blocks to the tower of toy blocks it gets harder to keep it from falling? As we all know, all objects have mass and center of gravity. The center of gravity is a … Read more
A standout amongst the most surely understood type of tamed rabbits is the Netherland Dwarf rabbit. As its name proposes, it started from Netherlands and is littler contrasted with most rabbit breeds. It has an immature appearance in light of its adjusted face. It weighs just around 500 grams to 1.13 kilograms. It isn’t typically … Read more
“Education is the sharing of Skill, knowledge, Attitude, and information from teachers to students”. The significance of Education in Islam: Are those Equal, those who know and those who do not know? (Al-Zumr 09). According to the saying of Last Prophet (P.B.U.H) for the sake of knowledge you can travel to the longest distance like … Read more
During the early 1990’s, Spain was in prime time from its rapid economic growth. To which it became the 5th largest economy in the European Union. Spain’s economic growth encouraged a boom un property marketing. So, in 2006, Spain started to build 800,000 new homes. It is important to take note that this was more … Read more
Greece is more than what it seems. Have you ever thought that just maybe, even if it’s for a second that you could got to Greece. Thinking about it why wouldn’t you want to go there. Atlas once that sec on is over you think of places that might be great as well, but hold … Read more
U.S. History Honors Break-Up Letter Dear King George III, We colonists are sick of the fact that so many Acts are being forced upon us including the Molasses Act, the Proclamation of 1763, the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Quartering Act, the Townshend Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts. It is unfair … Read more
Cincinnatus: The Hero of Rome After his appointed year in office, Cincinnatus retired to his farm. Rome continued to fight both internally and externally. Military disaster followed when a Roman invasion force against the Aequians, led by the Consul Mincius, were trapped in the Alban Hills. In such a time of emergency, a Dictator with … Read more
Paris is the capital city of France. With over 12 million inhabitants, it holds around 19% of France’s total population. Paris is most popularly known as the center of fashion. The city is also popular for its fine cuisine, art, and architecture. There is a popular saying in France ‘Quand Paris eternue, la France seen … Read more
The Italian civilization hosted different arts for ages , it was the home for discoveries and sciences and most importantly for buildings. Through the previous centuries architecture was developed and many styles were created. Taking into consideration the renaissance period and the baroque one. Renaissance is an intellectual movement and an artistic development that occurred … Read more
Paella? yeah I’m trying to be more easily understandable in my writing than having that bla bla in foreword which I’ve been doing all this time, and now I’m trying to avoid it which is not easy, so the goal is to achieve rather brief gastronomical history yet full of reading point. So what is … Read more
In the years which led to the revolution in November 1917, the First World War had left Russia in a disastrous state, where there was much discontent among the peasants and the industrial working class, as they suffered from low wages, poor housing and many accidents. In February of 1917, after the collapse of the … Read more
“The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work in themselves whenever they feel joy, love and peace. Strife, on the other hand, is the … Read more
What was the status of women in Anglo-Saxon England? In 1985, in Butler’s Field, Lechlow, a grave of an Anglo-Saxon woman buried over fifteen hundred years ago was discovered. The extraordinary richness of her grave goods, its abundance of amber beads and gilt bronze brooches making it one of the most opulent burial sites in … Read more
Robert Walser’s “Berlin Stories” is a collection of vignettes that track his observation during his jaunts through the city. Walter Benjamin’s “Berlin Childhood Around 1900” is an attempt by Benjamin to recollect his urban childhood as an adult in exile. They both write about Berlin at the turn of the century but are able to … Read more
Tension and mistrust arising from the war between New France and 13 English colonies led to the expulsion of the Acadians. The British thought the Acadians were a threat to appropriation of the land. The Expulsion (1755–1764) occurred during the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years’ War) and was … Read more
There are many things that Ancient Greece gave to us, one of those things just happens to be our court system. That’s right the Jury and trial system we got from those weird naked people…aawwkkwwarrd. Anyways, here are some things about the one in ancient Greece. Size Matters By modern standards, ancient Athenian juries were … Read more
On the afternoon of Sunday the 30th of January 1972 soldiers from the British Parachute Regiment, one of the fearsome UK militia units fighting the battle in the north of Ireland, attacked a civil rights march in the town of Derry, killing or fatally wounding fourteen civilians and injuring two dozen more in an event … Read more
The Medici and the Renaissance John Fowls wrote that, “In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization’s hardest winters” (1969). He could not have been more correct. The world before the Renaissance was bleak; a place filled with war, plagues, and poverty. The Renaissance brought (among other concepts) beauty, art, … Read more
Nationalism in Italy Nationalism is described as “loyalty and devotion to a nation” (Merriam-Webster). In places like the United States, the sense of pride in the American people is apparent. However, countries in Europe did not start showing a sense of pride until 1800’s like with the unification of German and Italian states. Camillo di … Read more
In ancient Rome, the domus was the type of house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen during the Republican and Imperial eras. It could be found in almost all the major cities throughout the Roman territories. The upper classes of Roman society constructed their residences with extravagant marble decorations, inlaid marble paneling, … Read more
The Ancient Agora of Athens If you look outside your door maybe you would notice the houses around, the perhaps natural landscape of the field across the way, maybe it’s even your neighbors walking their dogs down the street. But I implore you to try to look out and picture what it would’ve been like … Read more
Introduction Imprisonment and its effectiveness has been under great debate in the recent years. Prisons were relied upon as a means of social control and this has further increased in the 20 years in the United Kingdom and especially in the United states. We rely on imprisonment by remaining blind to the falseness of our … Read more
Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith both censured how British social orders functioned and how they treat poor people. Quick, be that as it may, condemned the absence of empathy with unforgiving, gnawing parody. For instance, the storyteller of “A Modest Proposal” recommends that the starving Irish stuff and pitch their year-old children to well-off English … Read more
The United States is very different from Norway when it comes to the structure of its health care system. Norway’s health care structure went through a radical change in 2002 when a hospital reform occurred that had the government take over the responsibility of running the entire hospital system throughout the country. As a result, … Read more
American colonies need labor forces to sustain and maintain their economic growth. As a tenant farmer in England, in the early-mid 1700s, I labor from early morning to night working the fields. Life is difficult; a challenge for the poor. At times I feel there is no hope, just a mere existence farming another’s land. … Read more
Rome was able to control a vast empire due to their military success. According to Bee Breeders, an Architecture competition organisers, Roman architecture was at its peak during the Pax Romana period, a period in which the Roman Empire didn’t expand and wasn’t invaded, and which lasted over 200 years. One of the Roman inventions … Read more
Mussolini’s Rise to Power After serving in the Italian army during WW1, Mussolini returned home, looking for a way to unify the Italian people. In 1918, he began to deliver emotional speeches, calling for a dictator to head the country. He argued that only a strong leader could unite the people to overcome Italy’s postwar … Read more
“The Laramie Project” Review “The Laramie Project” tells the story of a group of young people creating a play about the events that happened in the town of Laramie, Wyoming. The group conducted interviews about the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student that had accusedly hit on two straight teenagers at a bar. These … Read more
The history of Italy can be characterized as two periods of unity separated by a millennia and a half of division. In the sixth to third centuries BCE the Italian city of Rome conquered Peninsular Italy; over the next few centuries this empire spread to dominate the Mediterranean and Western Europe. This Roman Empire would … Read more
Over the years, there has been several debates and discussions on the legalization of cannabis in the UK. Cannabis legalization has been a subjective issue in many countries. Different countries differ on the various use necessitating its legalism; this raises a serious question about the legality of cannabis. My project centers on the legality of … Read more
Why Philosophy? Philosophy can be confusing to almost all who studies it, mainly because for many of the questions, there are no definite answers, just more questions. Philosophy is studied simply to not only to attain knowledge, but to create speculation of all that we currently think mankind understands. Unlike finding answers such as in … Read more
‘Henry VIII broke from Rome because he wanted to increase his own power.’ Explain why you agree or disagree with this view. It could be interpreted that Henry VIII broke from Rome because he wanted to increase his own personal power, however there are two main contradicting views. Firstly that Henry realised the wealth of … Read more
The term, “Elizabethan Era” refers to the English history of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history and it’s been widely romanticized in books, movies, plays, and TV series. The Elizabethan age is considered to be a time of English renaissance that inspired national pride through … Read more
The ‘Crime and Punishment’ is a novel written in the mid-1860s by a well known author named Fyodor Dostoevskys in Siberia. This novel has six parts with an epilogue, it has a serious, dramatic tone and Dostoevskys made use of a dual character-personality. This book presents a student with the shallow-type of beliefs on philosophy … Read more
Rome vs. Carthage: The Bitterly Fought Punic Wars The Punic Wars were the consequences of the expansion of Roman rule southward; bitter rivals with competing interests, Rome and Carthage pitted their military powers against each other. The strength of the Romans (which was their army) matched wits and strategies against the strength of the Carthaginians … Read more
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela. Education has always been a crucial part in forming a countries identity. Many believe that an education is a privilege. Some believe that an education is a right or even an obligation. But the only obligation we might have … Read more
Emilio Pucci born 20th November 1914, he was a Florentine Italian designer and a famous politician. Early life Pucci was one of Florence’s oldest noble families, and he would live and work in the family house, because his house was in the heart of Florence and this was ideal location for professional life of his … Read more
The doctrine, originally coined by Samuel T. Coleridge in his 1817 publication of Biographia listeria, ‘suspension of disbelief’ is built, principally, on the idea that, in order to fully immerse in the fictional world, it is paramount that we force ourselves to believe in premises not ordinarily accepted in the ‘real world.’ In engaging, impermanently, … Read more
“Want to go have some sushi?” “How about some pho?” “I feel like some Italian.”“Let’s go have Russian.” Everyone turns their head and looks at THAT guy. Who asks for Russian food? Russian cuisine has a deep, rich history that dates as far back more than a thousand years. As time progresses and cultures intertwine, … Read more
A Small Office Home Office (SOHO) network is used mostly used for communicating locally via a Local Area Network (LAN) in small business environments (Bell, 2004). Before coming up with such a network, it is, however, advisable to determine a good foundation for the needs of the company. Following this criterion, the following scenario is … Read more