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    Title page Title of project - Production Candidate Name Shonette Gasper Candidate Number Center Number 0900021 Name of School East Ruimveldt Secondary School Territory Guyana Date of submission 11/12/12 Content Page Introduction 1 Acknowledgement 2 Description of Business ` 3-5 Justification of Location 6 Selection of Appropriate Labour

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    Boudicca Research Paper

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    Boudicca’s Revenge Boudicca is one of history’s most powerful and respected women. According to historians her story was nearly lost until it was retold by a man named Tacitus‚ whose work‚ the Annals (109 AD)‚ was rediscovered in 1360. However‚ her story was not regarded until it became popular during the reign of another queen who headed an army against another foreign invasion‚ Queen Elizabeth I. (Parke 1) Despite my efforts I could not find very much information on the life of Boudicca before

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    Why Do Bog Bodies?

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    However‚ they were also put into bogs‚ so the reasons behind the different types of executions‚ as recorded by Tacitus‚ don’t exactly explain why they were both hung and interred in a bog. If a hanging were a way to create a public example‚ why would the body then be hidden immediately? Why not just leave it out for people to see? Tacitus also records that one of several punishments for adulterous women was to have their hair shaved off. Because of its reliance on records

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    Gladiators were “created by the enactment of Roman justice and Roman authority” (Futrell 121). Thus‚ the lifestyle of the gladiator quite possibly originated from prisoners of war. During the second Sicilian slave war‚ the last standing survivors surrendered themselves to Aquilius who then took them to Rome where he “consigned them to fight with wild beasts” (Diodorus Historical Library 36.10). From there on‚ gladiators largely comprised of criminals‚ prisoners‚ slaves and other members of lower

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    Dominance In society humans use stratification to organize groups of people. In doing so they are creating what is known as a social hierarchy. Social hierarchies show one of the ways humans achieve asserting dominance over others. Wanting to assert dominance over others and be “above them” is human nature‚ whether it is asserting dominance over the opposite sex or one society over another. In history the human nature of asserting dominance over the opposite sex happens quite often. In

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    Before the middle ages‚ the spread of Christianity to Europe was complicated and it was accompanied with a number of persecution acts by the Roman Empire. There is a question that whether the Roman Empire persecuted Christians for ideological reasons or not. It is apparent that in that period of time‚ Christianity has been approached as a threat by Roman religion which has performed a major role in the development of the Roman Empire (Wasson‚ 2013). So‚ the persecutions of Christians were accompanied

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    placed some of her clients into key positions. In AD49 used her influence with Claudius to have Seneca recalled from exile and give position as Praetor. She helped Seneca as she wanted him to tutor her son. Another of Agrippina’s Protégés was Burrus‚ Tacitus argues that she wanted to “remove the commanders of the guard‚ Lucius Geta and Rufrus Crispinus‚ whom she regarded as to loyal the memory and the cause of ….. Messalina children.” So Agrippina asserted to Claudius that the guard was split by their

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    In this essay I am going to research the area of persecution in the early church‚ I will be exploring where persecution began‚ what caused it and how the Christians themselves responded to what was happening. I will do this with a particular focus on the role the emperors of Rome During the first and second century. Persecution of the church in the empire can be split into two main periods‚ the first being the persecutions under the Emperor Nero in AD 64 leading through until Decius’ reign in AD

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    Evaluate Augustus’ relations with the Senate. After a century of civil wars and wide-spread fear and chaos‚ a new and promising leader arose‚ who‚ despite his comparably humble origins was soon to be called Augustus‚ the revered one‚ by the Senators. This once‚ dominant body placed hope in this single man and bestowed numerable honours upon him‚ concentrating the power of patronage and promotion through which he eventually outranked all the other Senators in the state. By general consent of the

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    Fluorine

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    structure is cubic. To continue Fluorines name origin came from the latin word fluo (flow). Fluorine went through a long process before being discovered. Georgius Agricola german mineralogist in the 1530s described the use of the mineral fluorspar in metal refinal. “Fluor” in fluorspar is where fluorine got its name. Although Agricola didn’t realize fluorspar was a mineral of Fluorine. During that time Fluorspar became an intense subject to chemist. Around the1800s chemist carried out experiments

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