tax income. ”The Florida Department of Corrections confirmed this when they performed an audit calculating a ratio of $1.66 return for every taxpayer dollar invested‚ and a return of $3.53 for every dollar invested in inmates who completed degrees”(Kirchner). Buy giving prisoners a education you not only help them you are saving the states money. A education isn’t just a way to pass the time for these prisoners it is a new beginning. These prisoners don’t want to go back to the way they were
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Houssou Atodjinou Professor: R.W.W Greene ENGN 101-4 Spring 2015 Education in USA vs. Republic of Benin Kautilya‚ an Indian philosopher‚ royal adviser‚ and professor of economics and political science very rightly underlined the importance of education‚ some two thousand years ago. He has highlighted the fact that education enriches people’s understanding of themselves. He also strongly
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I find the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn very difficult to read. I often find myself re-reading the paragraph just to understand what it means after not getting it the first time. Some of the more difficult aspects for me to understand in the book are based on the way they speak and the dialect they use. I do understand that most of the people in the book were uneducated and just basically spoke different than we do now. For example "Yo’ Ole Father doan ’ know yit what hes a-gwyne to do"
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with the Portuguese traders who revered the Benin people‚ if you look closely at the way that it has been written‚ the biased opinion towards the European community is quite unfounded. The Europeans had little knowledge of the Western African people; they heard stories of sacrifice cannibalism‚ slavery and the worship of fetishes a savage race. These stories would be reflected in the articles and publications that would be written about the people of Benin‚ a powerful kingdom on the West African Coast
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father to Benin City at a very tender age; he attended Baptist primary school in Oke Eruvbi‚ a river Valley‚ in the rural area of Benin City (and now‚ only a few kilometres to Ugbowo campus of the University of Benin). He had his Standards 3-6 education in Sapele; later‚ he returned to Benin City in 1947 and attended Western Boys High School‚ where he was taught art‚ among other subjects‚ by Edward Ivehivboje. Onobrakpeya also attended drawing classes at the Art Club of British Council in Benin City;
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that- for example- the re-unification of the “weary Herakles” was anything but a positive development. This essay will cover the arguments for and against repatriation‚ look to establish a structure of principles and then use as an example the Benin “bronzes (actually brass) held not only in the British Museum but in museums worldwide‚ including the Pitt Rivers in Oxford. The key arguments for repatriation are that:- 1. Artefacts are enriched by being viewed in their place of origin
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Art History World Art Exam II 1. In this paper were going to look at four different cultures and two pieces of art work from each. These are cultures that we have discussed in class over this last semester and our found in the book Art a Brief History by Marilyn Stokstad and Michael W. Cothren . The four cultures of art that we are going to look at are Japanize‚ Chinese‚ Indian‚ and African. The Japanese started out in the beginning borrowing the Chinese and Korean culture‚ and blending
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The object chosen to analyze from the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the Queen Mother Pendant Mask: Iyoba. It was created in the 16th century in Nigeria at the Court of Benin and is classified as a bone/ivory-sculpture.The culture involved is the Edo peoples. The medium used is ivory‚ iron‚ copper with dimensions H. 9 3/8 x W. 5 x D. 3 1/4 in. (23.8 x 12.7 x 8.3 cm). The accession Number is 1978.412.323. In simplistic terms the piece chosen is an ivory pendant depicting the image of the Queen Mother
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What was West Africa like in the 1500’s? Benin was a city that dated back to the eleventh century – and no relation to the West African nation of Benin of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Benin was a large city for its time – a walled city several kilometres wide in a forested region inland from where the Niger River emptied into the Atlantic. In the mid-1400s the ruler of Benin‚ Ewuare‚ built up his military and began expanding. Captives taken in battle he traded to the Portuguese. Benin’s
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MAT NO MGS0803060 DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF BENIN‚ BENIN-CITY‚ EDO STATE‚ NIGERIA. OCTOBER‚ 2012. AGENCY THEORY AND ACCOUNTING CHOICE: ISSUES AND HALLENGES BY OMEJI IKECHUKWU MAT NO MGS0803060 DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF BENIN‚ BENIN-CITY‚ EDO STATE‚ NIGERIA. OCTOBER‚ 2012.
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