friend Yali asked why whites had been so successful and arrived with so much "cargo" compared to the locals. Diamond rephrases this question: why did white Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns‚ population-destroying germs‚ steel‚ and food-producing capability? Diamond’s main thesis is that this occurred not because of racial differences in intelligence‚ etc. but rather because of environmental differences. He wishes to play down Eurocentric thinking and racist explanations
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In Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond is the response to a question Diamond had been asked by a New Guinean politician‚ Yali‚ in 1972. The question was‚ “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people have little cargo of our own?” This refers to the inequality between many different civilizations‚ quite like how Europeans developed great objects and wealth that they used to dominate over other societies
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METAMORPHOSIS OF TATA STEEL -THE CHALLENGES OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand‚ more perilous to conduct‚ or more uncertain in its success‚ than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." — Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (1532) "In times of rapid change‚ experience could be your worst enemy." — J. Paul Getty INTRODUCTION 1. Tata Steel is the largest steel company of the country and at present stands as the 10th largest steel firm in the
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Volume 11 Issue 6 Version 1.0 May 2011 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Inc. (USA) Print ISSN: 0975-5853 Global Journal of Management and Business Research Mobile Phone Usage Habits Of Students Commuting From Rural Areas To Nearby Town - An Exploratory Study Of Visnagar (Gujarat-India) By Atul Patel‚ Dr.Harishchandra Singh Rathod Nootan Sarva Vidyalaya Campus‚ Visnagar‚Gujarat(India) Abstracts - Mobility‚ user-friendliness and convenience
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The article‚ Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ written by Jared Diamond‚ is an argument about how and why things happened differently in history in different continents. It’s about looking deeper into why things happened the way they did. Why did western Eurasian societies become more powerful? What enabled these parts of the world to develop more quickly and in turn be able to conquer less developed societies around the world? The important message to grasp from this article is not about how certain continents
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Rels 2001 Midterm Study Guide Fall 2014 Your midterm exam will be a combination of objective and short answer questions. The content of the exam will be the theorists‚ terms‚ and concepts covered in class discussions as well as the required course readings. It is suggested that along with using this study guide‚ you review the PowerPoints on D2L along with your notes and Coursepack. Objective questions may be in the form of multiple choice or true/false. Short answer questions will concern the
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This book is inspired by just such a cross-cultural encounter as that between Kamal the border raider and the Colonel’s son of the Guides. In the first chapter the author recounts a conversation that he‚ a biologist studying bird evolution‚ had in New Guinea in 1972 with Yali‚ a local politician preparing his people for self-government‚ which culminated in the searching question ‘Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo [goods] and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had
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way or other‚ fastened together with steel and with its sagacious and multifarious applications. Steel is a versatile material with multitude of useful properties making it indispensable for furthering and achieving continual growth of the economy – be it construction‚ manufacturing‚ infrastructure or consumables. The level of steel consumption has long been regarded as an index of industrialization and economic maturity attained by a country. The Indian steel industry is organized in three categories:
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Chinese troops moved to assist North Korea. United Nations To restore peace in both North and South Korea as soon as possible. Chinese troops were preparing to join the war in favor of North Korea. The UN had to come up with a plan. Part 2 – You will create four paragraphs‚ one for each question below. Each response must be in your own words and in complete
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