After the defeat of Napoleon‚ at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815‚ Europe had become engulfed in a war of political ideology pitting conservatism versus liberalism. Conservatism was a more traditionalist view held by leaders‚ like Metternich‚ and were for a more subservient populace to the authority. Conservatives further believed the government should be held by the elite class and were strongly against liberal demands for civil liberties. Liberals were a product of the enlightenment which swept over
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History is often a quilt of information that is not always stitched together properly‚ but in the time period from 1914-1918 it is clear that world war one was caused by a single country‚ Germany. Evidence of this comes from the fact that Germany believed that war was inevitable‚ they were in the process of designing military strategies for a war prior to Austria-Hungary having any hostility towards Serbia‚ and tried to pressure countries into unwanted treaties. There is information to suggest that
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What was revolutionary about the French Revolution? Since the beginning of history itself‚ several and numerous people‚ inventions‚ ideologies or behaviours were immediately attached to a particular and self-explanatory concept such as revolutionary. As the time goes by its outreaching characteristics and meaning remains the same. A revolutionary is an individual who either actively participates in or advocates revolution. When used as an adjective‚ the term revolutionary refers to something
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estate was made up of the clergy who made up 10% of the land. They were exempt of Frances taxes because they always agreed and voted with the king. Doing that made them one of the top Estates. The second Estate is made out of the nobility. The nobles made up 25-30% of the land and had leading positions in France and had tax exemptions. They also voted and agreed with most of what the king said which made them another top estate with the king. The next estate is the third estate which was one
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CHAPTER AUDIT REPORTS THE AUDIT REPORT WAS TIMELY‚ BUT AT WHAT COST? 3 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to 3-1 Describe the parts of the standard unqualified audit report. Specify the conditions required to issue the standard unqualified audit report. Understand combined reporting on financial statements and internal control over financial reporting under Section 404 of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act. Describe the five circumstances when an unqualified report with an
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Title: Rate of transpiration I found interesting to know how different environmental factors affect the rate of transpiration. There are different environmental factors‚ such as light intensity‚ humidity‚ wind and temperature that affect the rate of transpiration. Transpiration is a topic 9 in our Biology higher level book. I have read all the information through this chapter and researched some extra information. Based on this information that I had known I decided to take experiment of environmental
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1) What are the ethical issues in this case? There are a few ethical issues in this case‚ making genetically engineered food and distributing to the public without the publics knowledge is unethical. Another ethical issue is not knowing what side affects of the engineered food will do to humans in the long term. It is still not determined whether or not some of these GM foods will cause health problems in humans in the long run and should be tested like new drug have to be tested. It seems to me
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The Most Remarkable Mayan Achievement No one knows how the Maya disappeared. It might have been overpopulation. Perhaps a disease of the heart. Maybe a war of war. Nonetheless‚ it goes without saying that the Mayan civilization was remarkable. Originating on the Yucatan Peninsula‚ the Maya survived for over 3000 years. They were an isolated group‚ in and outside their borders. They were never united by the same government throughout all of their time in Mesoamerica‚ and were divvy-ed up into city-states
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Was Lewis and Clark’s expedition one of the main reasons the U.S is what it is today? Lewis and Clark’s expedition lasted two years‚ four months‚ and ten days. They traveled about 8‚000 miles (13‚000 km). The expedition was planned to go west of Missouri and to discover what was beyond the eastern area of the U.S‚ the government was able to explore this area of the U.S because of the Louisiana purchase. The Louisiana Purchase was bought from the French for $15 million dollars and the land area
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July 2012 The Supporting People programme was launched in 2003 as a £1.8 billion ring fenced grant to local authorities intended to fund services to help vulnerable people live independently. The level of the grant was reduced in subsequent years‚ and in the 2010 Spending Review the Government announced that the Supporting People national funding levels would decrease from £1.64 billion in 2010/11 to £1.59 billion in 2014/15. In 2009‚ the ring fence was removed from the grant thereby allowing all
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