... from Procopius through Anna Comnena to the 13th-century writings of George Acropolita and the Acominatus brothers. Medieval Islamic historians such as al-Tabari and al-Masudi wrote histories of great scope, often employing sophisticated methods to separate fact from fable. But by far the greatest medieval Arabic ... the use of much anecdotal material. Less known, but also of great charm and interest, are Plutarch's Moralia (tr. by F. C. Babbitt et al., 14 vol., 1927-76). They consist of dialogues and essays on ethical, literary, and historical subjects, such as The Late Vengeance of th...

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... htm, p.1) Although this view of terrorism is widely accepted by most, many groups, including the United Nations, still have not come to a definitive definition of terrorism they can all agree on "for over thirty years. According to Michael Jordan in his article, "Terrorism's Slippery Definition Eludes UN Diplomats-, (published in the Christian Science Monitor, 3 February 2002) this ... fundamentally religious, Shia Muslim groups now account for nearly a quarter of all terrorist acts.(Coker, p. 3) "Thirdly it [globalization] is also producing new network centered terrorist organizations. ...

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... . She aims to propose the values of the English society during the early nineteenth century. However, although she reflects these values she makes it clear that she does not always agree with them as demonstrated through her subtle satire. Values are reflected in changing contexts, because over time they change. Some of the values reflected in Emma are marriage, manners, education ... obvious pride in his suave manners and good looks. Both similarly practise deception, which is highlighted when Cher decides she is in love with Christian and invites him to watch videos in her bedroom, lik...

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... in a positive environment, one that is away from the hardships of life that are experienced in a poor social environment (Miech et al., 1999). A lack of education and employment skills also contribute to mental illness. Although they do not directly contribute to mental illness they ... most difficult consequences to deal with. This isolation stems from the avoidance (Phelan, Link, Stueve, & Pescosolido, 2000) and social distance (Martin et al., 2000) that others want to have from the afflicted individual. A fear of the illness and of the sufferer causes others to reject them and ... ma...

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... Ronald Slaby, who has studied bullies, states that parents sometimes make the school bullying problem worse by incorrectly teaching their children to hit back at the littlest annoyance (Stephens et al., 1995). Types of Bullying Bullying is composed of direct behaviors such as taunting, teasing, threatening, hitting, and stealing. Direct bullying appears to increase during the elementary years, climax ... 1984 study by the National Association of Secondary School Principals discovered that 25 per cent of students questioned said one of their top concerns was fear of bullies (Stephens, et...

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... more often than females. In fact in Graham's study males were referred to seven times as often as females (Graham 1973 in Thorne et al 1983). It is not far-fetched at all to suppose that part of the reason for this phenomenon is the prominence of the male pronoun ... "Businessman" from "business" etc.). Once again this is a very obvious objection but the repercussions are larger than one would think. Silveira (1980 in Thorne et al 1983) found in a series of studies that while women tended to interpret gender-biased "generic" pronouns as generic men tended to interpret them as meaning "ma...

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... ". And that because there are various schools of positivism (i.e. the new realists), and also because the word "positive" can take different ontological, epistemological and practical forms (Bryant, 1985). Johnson et al (1984) offer us a general definition of the term, stating that it refers to the extension of empiricist models of natural science, to the field of human action, by arguing for ... . "The Rational Properties of Scientific and Common-Sense Activities" in Giddens A. (ed). Positivism and Sociology. London: Heinemann 5. Giddens A. 1971. Capitalism and Modern Social Theory. Lond...

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... emotion and sound flat or monotonous. Autistic children often exhibit a variety of repetitive abnormal behaviors. "There also may be a hypersensitivity to sensory input through vision hearing or touch." (Furneaux et al. 1997) As a result, there may be an extreme intolerance to loud noises or crowds, or visual stimulation. There could, however, be an underdeveloped hyposensitivity response to the same type of ... ...

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... the summer of 2000, it won merely 35,5 percent of the newly elected mayors, but its share had risen to almost 50 percent by the end of 2001 and counts al-most 80 percent today. One or the other of these mayors may have left their original parties of their own free will due to inner party disputes, but it is ... ...

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... . Williams, F. (1989) Social Policy: A Critical Introduction - Issues of Race, Gender, and Class, Cambridge, Polity. Williams, F. (1991) "The welfare state as part of a racially structured and patriarchal capitalism" in Loney, M. et al, (eds) The State or the Market: Politics and Welfare in Contemporary Britain, London, Sage. Williams, F. (1996) "Postmodernism, feminism and the question of difference" in Parton, N. (ed) Social Theory, Social Change ... ...

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... was spinning out of the nation's control. Gangsters controlled America's urban underworld during the Twenties. Prohibition failed in many areas, but it successfully created one of the largest black markets. Al Capone, the most notorious gangster of the time quickly became a multi-millionaire. He used his millions to control Chicago's politicians and police officers. Capone had seven hundred gunmen under him ... ...

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... , 2001 Sociology, Letts education limited, London Bourdieu P and Passeron JC, 1997, Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture, Sage Becker H S Social Class Variations in the Teacher-pupil relationship, in Cosin et al, 1997 School and society: A reader. Hargreaves, D 1967, Social relations in a Secondary School Willis P 1977, Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs, London Saxon House. Murray C 1990 ... ...

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Diversity is the " differences and similarities in the experiences, needs, and beliefs of people. " (Lum, pg 3.) There are many ways to classify diversities yet all agree that diversities are not a choice. Diversities relates to age, race, gender, sexual orientation, and size to name a few. The experiences of diversity that a person has make up their life. " Finding ... a minimum. Sexism & Worker-Client Application " Sexism discrimination against women. " (Stein, Pg. 1206). This is the definition associated the most in regards to sexism to work. Yet for myself I can not agree with the defini...

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... immediate, immigrants are making an attempt to assimilate into American language and culture. Fig. C. Persons of Mexican Origin: Should US Citizens and Residents Learn English? U.S. Citizen Not a U.S. Citizen Strongly agree 29.1% 23.6% Agree 62.3% 69.9% Disagree 7.2% 5.3% Strongly disagree 1.4% 1.2% Heer, 1992 Fig. D. Persons of Mexican Origin: Distribution of Language spoken at Home U.S. Born Foreign Born Only Spanish 2.8% 52.3% More Spanish than English 8.8% 26 ... ...

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... , and that there are many different layers to them. I was reminded of this movie every time I tried to explain my theory to someone and used the onion analogy. Overall, I still agree with the theory but I do also think there is something that was missed originally in the theory. I do believe that when a relationship is deteriorating that even more private information can ... become revealed to the other person. This seems to be especially true of romantic relationships, but Altman and Taylor didn't seem to agree with this originally. The book did say that Altman later changed his perspec...

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... immediate, immigrants are making an attempt to assimilate into American language and culture. Fig. C. Persons of Mexican Origin: Should US Citizens and Residents Learn English? U.S. Citizen Not a U.S. Citizen Strongly agree 29.1% 23.6% Agree 62.3% 69.9% Disagree 7.2% 5.3% Strongly disagree 1.4% 1.2% Heer, 1992 Fig. D. Persons of Mexican Origin: Distribution of Language spoken at Home U.S. Born Foreign Born Only Spanish 2.8% 52.3% More Spanish than English 8.8% 26 ... ...

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... feminism involves the representation of women, an emphasis on the patriarch, as well as the privileging of masculine points of view which marginalizes women politically, socially, economically and psychologically. I personally agree with Ruth Vanita, in Proper Men and Fallen Women, who asserts that "Desdemona is killed not only by Othello and Iago, but by all those who see her humiliated and ... the principles of wifely obedience: "This proper I obey him but not now."" [5.2.203] This thrice-disobedience by Emilia is ultimately rewarded with death, as the audience of a Shakespearean cont...

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... were created on the Likert Scale and asked the participant to circle the response that best corresponded to their level of agreement to the statement. The responses range from "Strongly Agree" to "Strongly Disagree". Questions number six and seven deal with how the respondent prioritized their relationship and social adjustment. Numbers fifteen and seventeen also deal with this, by asking if ... ...

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... Scottish weavers. In some commercial event, he met Ann Caroline Dale, David Dale's eldest daughter, and eventually Owen and Caroline wished to be married. Even though Dale was reluctant to agree this marriage, because Dale was not impressed by this "unscrupulous adventurer" (Donnachie & Hewitt 59). In 1799, Owen and Caroline ultimately married in Glasgow, and by the terms of marriage agreement ... ...

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... ... whose values would be dominant, will there be unfairness? Probably there will be but the changes would be beneficial so that the dissappeared useless values wouldn't take much attention. So, I agree that globalization is a good developement in the sense that useless, bad values are eliminated. So that the societies can improve themselves under the ideal values and they will have more ... ...

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... socio-political associations placed last. Only 10,7 % of parliamentary deputies are women, there are no women among the akims, and only 1 female minister - in a position which no male politician would agree to accept (Kanopyanova 2000: 343). A high level of education does not guarantee promotion of female-specialists. If every second man with a post-secondary or specialized secondary education is a manager at ... ...

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