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    traveler up to many dangers while making their way to their destination‚ such as mugging‚ murder‚ not being able to find nutrition‚ or not having a place to stay. To avoid these hardships‚ almost every Greek abided by the concept of hospitality. In The Iliad‚ hospitality was shown when Achilles accepted the heralds into his camp‚ when the story of Bellerophon and Oeneus

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    Class of Civilization

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    This article was a review of Samuel. P. Huntington’s thesis “The Clash of Civilization‚” where the thesis outlines a future where the "great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural" (Huntington‚ 22) and not primarily on the basis of ideology or economic. And the clash of civilization will dominate global politics. Conflict between civilizations will be the latest phase in the evolution of conflict in the modern world. Prior to the Treaty of Westphalia‚ which

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    The claim that ancient cultures and civilizations developed in isolation due to limited technology and travel overlooks significant evidence of shared practices and institutions. Despite the distances and cultural variations‚ ancient societies shared fundamental aspects of social organization‚ governance‚ and labor systems. By examining examples from the textbook‚ we can argue this notion and demonstrate how civilizations shared commonalities in areas such as patriarchy‚ social hierarchy‚ conquest

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    barbarism and great civilizations. Mesopotamian culture reached its peak between ca 3000-550 BCE. Yet‚ much of Mesopotamian culture goes unnoticed‚ despite its rich heritage. A vast bulk of the great early civilizations developed in the land known as Mesopotamia. It can‚ in fact‚ be proven‚ without question‚ that because of Mesopotamia’s extensive trade routes‚ its excellent leaders‚ and the astronomical growth in technology that occurred‚ that Mesopotamia was one of the greatest civilizations to have ever

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    PART 1: Hospitality industry is very wide and prosperous. All the businesses providing accommodations‚ catering‚ transportation‚ for people away from their homes are considered as hospitality organizations. The growth and the challenges of this industry are not solely dependent on the organizations and companies involved in it but also on the business environment. Business environment can be explained as set of external factors and forces‚ i.e. social‚ economic‚ political‚ technological‚ which

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    Ten Blessed Companions

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    bin Al-Jirrah Introduction Among the Sahaaba is a group of ten Companions who are known by the title Ashrah Mubash-sharah which means the ten Sahaaba about who Rasullullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) gave the glad tidings of Janaat. Rasullullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) informed that these ten Sahaaba have already been promised Janaat‚ hence we have to believe with certainty that the following ten Companions are Janaati. The Blessed Ten Companions are: 1-Abu bakr Siddiq 2-U’mar-e-Farooq 3-Uthman

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    Character in the Odyssey

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    disrespectful throughout the story. He did try to convince Odysseus that he was innocent but Odysseus was too smart to believe him. | |Activity 1 – Character Analysis Activity 10 – Biography of Homer Homer is the author of the Illiad and the Odyssey and is considered

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    Civilization Paper

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    Civilization is a term used in many different ways. It can be defined as; people who eat the same kind of foods‚ People who live together‚ people who speak the same language‚ and so on. Yet each way that it is defined relates towards the same topic; Humans and their existence on the planet. Civilization is known greatly as a group of humans or animals that live generally together and practice the same habits. Civilization‚ according to some historians‚ first came into

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    submission of assignments Please complete all of the following details and then make this sheet the first page of each file of your assignment – do not send it as a separate document. Your assignments must be submitted as either Word documents (with .doc extension‚ NOT.docx)‚ text documents with .rtf extension or as .pdf documents. If you wish tosubmit in any other file format please discuss this with your lecturer well before theassignment submission date. |Student Name:

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    Diction In The Odyssey

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    In this passage of Demodocus’ Song from Book VIII of The Odyssey ‚ “A Day for Songs and Contests”‚ Homer creates a contrasting effect in presenting the nature of Odysseus between the two paragraphs‚ one conveys strength and power‚ while the expresses melancholy and mourning. This is shown though the usage of diction and imagery. In the first paragraph‚ Homer uses diction such as ruthless‚ monstrous‚ death‚ slaughter‚ and ravaged. The usage of these words convey strength and ruthlessness. Odysseus’

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