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    A Raisin in The Sun

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    Dreams in the Raisin in the Sun In Lorraine Hansberry’s play ‚ A Raisin in the Sun ‚ she uses the Younger family to show that as individuals strive to reach their dreams they often disregard the aspirations of others but they may eventually learn to support one another in attempt to better their lives. In the play Walter Lee was so excited and thrilled to buy a liquor store the one he had always dreamed about‚ but he did not realize that just like he had a dream his wife‚ son‚ mother

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    time many Arabs settled at Indian ports‚ giving rise to small Muslim communities. the growth of these communities was not only due to conversion‚ but also the fact that many Hindu kings of south India (such as those from Cholas) hired Muslims as mercenaries. A significant aspect of the Muslim period in world history was the emergence of Islamic Sharia courts capable of imposing a common commercial and legal system that extended from Morocco in the West to Mongolia in the North East and Indonesia in

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    the old traditional justice system at that time. Later he is sent to investigate a series killer who has killed a lot of people in Sleepy Hollow and the heads all are taken. People there believe the killer is the headless horseman who is a Hessian mercenary was killed during a war and his head was chopped off. Ichabod doesn’t believe the superstitious story. He begins the investigation to search for a logical explanation for the murder. Through investigation‚ he falls in love with Baltus Van Tassels’

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    Persian Empire

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    Chapter Four Persian Empire Persians first to achieve a complex political organization during the end of the second millennium. Medes played a major role in the destruction of the Assyrians Empire Persians now call themselves Achaemenids because they were ancestors of Achamenes. Cyrus(Kurush) son of a Persian chieftain and median princess‚ united Persian tribes and over threw the median monarch around. Cyrus Redrew the map of the west 550 b.c.e Like most Indo-European people the early inhabitants

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    A halberd has many functions to it. The axe is used for hacking opponents‚ the spike is used for thrusting‚ and the beak was used for pulling enemies from saddles. In the 1500s the halberd was used for battle by shock troops‚ German‚ and Swiss mercenaries. By the end of the 1500s the use of halberds in warfare became little‚ they ending up being used as a ceremonial for palace guards. The halberd I picked was a Parade Halberd (from the state guard of Elector Christian I of Saxony [ 1560- 91])‚ 1586-1591

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    Stuxnet

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    Stuxnet and the Future of Cyber War David Adams Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing CIS 4253 The discovery in June 2010 that a cyber worm dubbed ‘Stuxnet’ had struck the Iranian nuclear facility at Natanz suggested that‚ for cyber war‚ the future is now. Yet more important is the political and strategic context in which new cyber threats are emerging‚ and the effects the worm has generated in this respect. Perhaps most striking is the confluence between cyber crime and state

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    sophisticated distribution system and have generated an extraordinary amount of wealth. Because of their financial stability‚ they are able to buy planes‚ ships and warehouses as well as bribe government officials and pay the top lawyers and strongest mercenary groups for protection. The Tijuana Cartel‚ also known as the AFO‚ or Arellano-Felix Organization‚ runs out of Mexico and is known as one of the most violent drug organizations in the world. The group is headed by Benjamin Arellano-Felix and his

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    Johannes Kepler

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    Hum300GD Johannes Kepler was born the son of a poor mercenary solider in 1571 in Weil der Stadt‚ Wurttemburg in the Holy Roman Empire. He began his education in Wurttemburg through a scholarship program designed to produce teachers and Lutheran pastors. In 1589‚ Kepler entered the theological seminary at the University of Tubingen. It was here that he first learned of Copernican astronomy from Michael Maestlin. The University of Tubingen awarded Kepler his MA in 1591. In 1594 Kepler interrupted

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    One of the most widely accepted timeframes for the Middle ages extends from the end of the Western Roman Empire in the year 476 A.D.‚ up until the beginning of the Renaissance in the 15th century. However‚ the Middle Ages can be broken into three different parts for the purpose of this expository paper: Early Middles Ages‚ The High Middle Ages‚ and the Late Middle Ages. Each of these periods are characterized by the historical events that shaped Europe‚ but Western Europe and more specifically‚

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    Darfur

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    including forced displacement‚ starvation‚ murder‚ torture and rape against Darfur’s civilian population‚ leaving an estimated 400‚00 people dead and more than 2 million ejected from their homes. The Janjaweed militia group is a ruthless collection of mercenary fighters who share the same racial outlook as the Sudanese government. The government of Sudan cut a sinister deal. The administration promised land‚ livestock‚ and war booty to its Janjaweed allies. In return‚ the Janjaweed would attack villages

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