Cyrus the Younger hired 10 700 Greek Hoplite soldiers to help press his claim to the Persian throne, and they managed to battle their way over more than 1500 miles and make it back home to Greece. ... This was a battle which numbers wise should not have been won by the Spanish. ... Logistically speaking, there was almost no possible way for the Spanish to even come close to taking down the Aztecs. ... One thing that the Spanish had was the fact that they were so much more culturally advanced than the Aztecs. ... The one thing that helps to prove the point that Hanson is trying to justify is th...

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In many occasions this is the problem of Argentinean politicians they think on their own benefit and not on the benefit of all the society Argentineans seem to be an emotional society because in times that maybe the country is not progressing and many people need help solidarity increases, this shows that Argentineans have feelings and their emotions is very important in the decisions people make. ... The most explicit things in the argentine culture: the first language is spanish, some typical foods are the asado (the most typical argentine food) and the other can be the guiso although, s...

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Communication helps us to establish a relation with other people. ... Intercultural communication also helps us to adapt in different societies. ... It also helped me in my research papers as i used to talk to Hispanic. It helped me a great deal in my spanish classes and also in my projects. ... It also helps us to know their ideas. ...

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The word "siesta" comes from the Spanish culture that is a time of the day when everyone goes home from work to rest and relax. ... Drinking alcohol is a form of leisure that helps separate ones mind from the many worries of life that humans have created for themselves in the modern world. ...

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These factors do, however, influence a person's health, ability to seek medical help, and their response to medical care. ... Based on the patient's physical appearance, the nurse provided him with a booklet written in Spanish entitled "Mexican Foods for Heart Health" and another booklet called "Free Health Service Resources for Non- U.S. ...

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Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication My first language was English, my second Arabic and my third was Spanish. ... My Spanish is much more practical for basic conversation than my Arabic, but it would not be classified as conversational. ... I have come to understand that my close knit family provided me with a system to distribute my stressful emotions from Sam and Donna to one of my older siblings, and I learned to reach out for help and not to be a burden to one person. ...

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It also promotes racial and ethnic identities that help to challenge negative images. ... In addition, the way in which individuals organize themselves along music lines also helps to shape the society in terms of ethnic diversity. ... " while the other languages like Spanish are seen as minor languages because those who speak are Hispanics. ...

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Nowadays, the company H&M is extremely competitive in the market, rivaling with Zara (Spanish company) and GAP (US company). ... Having clear values also helps H&M to attract and retain the right people, further contributing to the success. ... Everyone was willing to help others." ...

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Black Elk's explanation of beliefs and rituals helps give concrete examples of how the relationship between humans with one another, humans with God, and humans with the earth play out in reality. ... Through our conversation of mixed Spanish and English, gestures, and body language, I learned how truly out of sync things are in our American society. ...

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Then those conditions, she argues, even helped the creation of a "...coherent, functional, well integrated, autonomous, and self-confident slave community" (159). ... Hall explains that the reason why the impoverished white class attached itself to the Creole identifier and language, which is a derivative of the pidgin language that was created in Senegambia during the time of first contact and is reflexified with French, English, and Spanish and nativized with Indian languages, was because it was the language of economy of the swamps. ...

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This connection was to the extent that when a runaway woman in Kingston3 was caught and punished, the only way her owners could get her to eat was to solicit her shipmate's help in talking to her. ... The planters tried to teach the enslaved populace their language but somehow this was an arduous task which led to the emergence of Creolese, this was a linguistic syncretism of African languages and the language of the planters, whether it was English, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch. ...

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For automatic washing machines the range is from 72% in Sweden to 96% in Italy; for dishwashers, from 11%in the Netherlands to 34% in Germany; for clothes dryers, from 5% in Spain to 39% in Belgium; for microwave ovens, from 6% in Italy to 37% in Sweden; for vacuum cleaners, from 56%in Italy to 96%in Netherlands. ... Culture can help humans survive in this ever-changing globe. ... It is noted that the cultural orientation of the ethnic group consumers has helped to establish and maintain, through vendor loyalty, plenty of small retailers supported by an inefficient, multi-tired distribution ne...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate