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    submit a review the “End-to-End Argument in System Design” paper [1]. In our your submission you need to briefly summarize the main idea(s) and contribution(s) of the paper. In particular‚ your review needs to address the following: 1. Discuss the three most important things the paper advocates‚ 2. Discuss the most glaring problem(s) with the paper‚ and 3. The paper was written with the design of the original Internet in mind. Discuss what impact‚ if any‚ may the argument presented in this paper

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    “How could a society that was once so mighty end up collapsing? What were the facts of its individual citizens?”(Diamond 3). I think it is very interesting to see the correlations Diamond presents in his five factors‚ and real societies destruction. While learning the correlation between the factors and a scenario‚ I learned a lot from the animated movie‚ The Lorax

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    GUNS‚ GERMS‚ AND MCNEILL                                          Noah Neerdaels  Mr. Kelly  AP World History  November 24‚ 2014    Jared Diamond’s bestseller Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel has gathered lots of praise and  popularity‚ but also has garnered lots of controversy and speculation. Diamond writes of how  Europe came to dominate the world in expansion and conquest‚ while attempting to find the  ultimate factors that caused their success. There are many historians who dispute his theory on 

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    Why do societies collapse? An Analysis of the Rapa Nui civilization in the Easter Islands "I have often asked myself‚ ’What did the Eastern Islander cut down the last palm tree say while he was going it?’ "(Diamond‚ p.114). The collapse of societies are a very deep and complicated problem that have been taking place in so many political‚ environmental and archeological investigations during the last few decades and showed so many results and theories about their original cause of collapse.

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    In Jared Diamonds book Collapse‚ he talks about different issues that can hurt the environment. These issues varied from environmental damage‚ climate change‚ hostile neighbors‚ and friendly trade partners‚ but most importantly is how society responds to the problem. Today a major problem that our society is facing is Electronic Waste. With technology becoming more advanced each year the demand for new products is increasing. Though this might seem good for the people‚ it actually is hurting are

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    The Easter Offensive By 1972‚ President Nixon had been in office for four years‚ dealing with the inherited quagmire that was Vietnam. With both sides tiring of the seemingly endless cycle of successes and setbacks‚ the North Vietnamese military decided to mount an invasion into South Vietnam commencing on Good Friday of that year. This was done in order to better their position at the Paris Peace accords‚ which would be closing soon‚ by gaining control of more land and crippling Nixon’s political

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    The main reasons for this is that PMMA has mechanical similarities to one and it is largely able to withstand the load forces generated in the body3. Although PMMA cement is ideal due to its mechanical properties‚ it is not bioactive. However‚ PMMA can still anchor prosthetics to adjacent bone through penetration into the polymer by spongy bone3. The spongy bone enters the polymer and forms a cross-linked section referred to as the bone cement interface. The main limitation in the application

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    Germs‚ and Steel‚ author Jared Diamond centers his argument around the idea that “societies developed differently on different continents because of different continental environments” (Diamond‚ 9). Dissimilar to the prevailing belief that genetics play a role in determining societal development‚ Diamond argues that geographic factors and environmental influences substantially shape the distribution of wealth and power. J.R. McNeill’s article‚ “The World According to Diamond” correctly identifies the

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    [pic] Druga gimnazija‚ Sarajevo IB Diploma Programme Extended essay Business and Management Standard Level TOPIC : Human Resource Management Research question What motivational methods “Bosnalijek” might apply to increase employees’ motivation and improve performance? Word count: 3546 Supervisor : Dzenana Rustempasic Candidate name: Adna Hodzic Candidate number: 001258-015 Sarajevo‚ December 2009. TABLE OF CONTENTS |Title page

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    Diseases Diamond makes various arguments about diseases. The argument he makes that I will mention is that deadly disease came from Europe and spread to other places killing people that were unfamiliar with the disease. This is a good point that he makes‚ and the example he uses helps support his argument. His example is that smallpox came to the Aztecs from Europe. This disease killed a lot of Aztecs because they were unfamiliar with the disease‚ and because of that they couldn’t cure themselves

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