My most significant contribution to a community‚ without any doubt in my mind‚ has been to both of my local Boys and Girls Club of America branches. I first began to go to the Boys and Girls Club shortly after the divorce of my parents. In the beginning‚ I was at my lowest point‚ until I learned many of my peers were in a similar situation. From that point on‚ I helped the staff at the Club‚ mentored younger kids‚ and provided assistance to anyone who needed it. Quickly‚ I became the Club’s youth
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CHAPTER I COLONIAL POWER AND THE INTRODUCTION OF RAILWAYS IN INDIA Transport is an important infrastructure inevitable for the developmental process of a country. The progress of a country depends upon the availability of a viable system of transport facilities. Without proper means of transport and communications it may not be possible for any government to administer a vast country like India. Indian Railways played a vital role in the 1 economic development and national integration
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Contribution of Enterprise Systems E.K. Axia College of University of Phoenix IT/235 Huy Tran November 11‚ 2010 With just about any successful business‚ there is almost certainly an enterprise system working behind the scenes to ensure optimum productivity and effectiveness. For this reason‚ enterprise systems are invaluable to businesses both large-scale and small. An enterprise system is classified as a system of integrated application-software packages that use data storage and transmission
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The Rise of The Ottoman Empire By: Hunter Starr HIST 130: Muslim History From the Rise of Islam to 1500 CE Professor Matthee November 27‚ 2007. The Ottoman Turks emerged on the periphery of the Byzantine Empire and the Saljuk Turks. Under a Turkish Muslim warrior named Osman‚ raids were conducted in western Anatolia on Byzantine settlements and a vast number of Turks were united under his banner. Those Turks who flocked to Osman’s banner and followed him into the history books came to be
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n "The Civilizing Process" Norbert Elias marks the ruling courts as a site in which western habitus was forged and later broadly circulated. Separated and independent warrior societies began to consolidate into growing political and physical entities. This was due‚ according to Elias‚ to social and economical developments. No one predesigned these changes and they had no clear objective‚ they were just warranted on account of shifting modes of social existence. This process of the monopolization
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II.The decline of the Ghaznavids and rise of the Seljuk empire‚ 1040-1200 it was a new dynasty that was no longer run by a caliphate or family member of a religious background it was run by the sultan. The relationship of the sultan and the caliph relationship started when the Turks entered Islam. The caliphate‚ was replaced by a new institution the sultan. The Turks were brought in to fight in the military by them either being slaves or adventurers. Through their service they became excellent soldiers
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Aztec Empire‚ also known as Mexica‚ was formed by certain ethnic groups in Central Mexico‚ especially those who spoke the Nahuatl language and politically and militarily dominated a vast region of Mesoamerica in the XIV‚ XV and XVI. Tenochtitlan in the Valley of Mexico‚ was the capital of the Aztec civilization. In Nahuatl‚ the language of the Mexica‚ Aztecatl means "one who comes from Aztlán". In 1810‚ Alexander von Humbolt coined the term Aztec applicable to all persons associated by commerce‚
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“What is an Empire? Rome and the Greeks after 188 B.C.” South Central Review‚ 26(3)‚ 20-37. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40645984 In the ancient Mediterranean‚ Rome wins the game of survival and hegemony‚ and achieves a political term‚ which called “unipolarity”. Romans built up the Roman Republic at that time; Roman Republic is seem as hegemony since it shows the aggressive to his weaker neighbors and Greece. Many modern studies argue that Roman Republic is an informal empire based on
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British officials were paid out of the India treasury. Imperialism drained India’s wealth. It destroyed India economically and politically. India became dependent due to imperialism. It destroyed India’s handicraft and small scale industries. The imperialistic powers treated India as a place to extend their power. Imperialism gradually destroyed India. While destroying India economically and politically‚ imperialism also had some good effects on India. With the spread of imperialism and colonialism
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WOMEN ’S EMPOWERMENT IN INDIA Introduction Women’s empowerment in India is heavily dependent on many different variables that include geographical location (urban/rural)‚ educational status‚ social status (caste and class)‚ and age. Policies on women’s empowerment exist at the national‚ state‚ and local (Panchayat) levels in many sectors‚ including health‚ education‚ economic opportunities‚ gender-based violence‚ and political participation. However‚ there are significant gaps between policy advancements
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