... in human intelligence." (Perry, 52) Because Rome tried to maintain a republic it had different needs compared to the Greeks. "The Romans, unlike the Greeks, were distinguished by practicality and common sense, not by a love of abstract thought. In their pragmatic and empirical fashion, they gradually developed the procedures of public politics and the legal state." (Perry 88) The fall of the Greeks was a direct result of a breakdown of social theories. "When people no longer ... regarded the law as an expression of sacred traditions ordained by the gods but saw it as a merely human cont...

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... considered acceptable behavior in one culture is not always true of another. We are under the assumption that because we speak the English language, all cultures that share our mother tongue will understand and behave like we do this is far removed from the truth, and in many cases travelers to foreign countries fall into the miscommunication trap. One just needs to travel to a country like ... Australia to see this first hand. Australia is an English speaking country but over the years Australians have developed a verbal dialect that in some cases sounds Chinese to ... conclusion, I p...

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... considered acceptable behavior in one culture is not always true of another. We are under the assumption that because we speak the English language, all cultures that share our mother tongue will understand and behave like we do this is far removed from the truth, and in many cases travelers to foreign countries fall into the miscommunication trap. One just needs to travel to a country like ... Australia to see this first hand. Australia is an English speaking country but over the years Australians have developed a verbal dialect that in some cases sounds Chinese to ... conclusion, I p...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate