For a time around 800‚ Western Europe had a moment of unity when the grandson of Charles Martel built an empire reaching across France‚ Germany‚ and part of Italy. The founder of this empire is known as Charlemagne or Charles the Great. Charlemagne crushed rebellions‚ created as united Christiona Europe‚ kept accurate records and prompted education
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Leadership Camp 2013 Report Theme: Stepping forward Group name: Uranus Facilitators: Tan Renee and Rose Ong Group members: Ng Yann Herng‚ Loo Hao Wen‚ Edzell Swamy‚ Daphanie Oon‚ Pamela Lee‚ Kok Ke Yi‚ Tan Cheah Hui‚ Caryn The‚ Ch’ng Siew Kheng‚ Ng Xiu Yun Index 1. Icebreaker…………………………………………….page 2 2. Mystery Game………………………………………..page 3 3. Morning Exercise…………………………………….page 6 4. Treasure hunt…………………………………………page 7 5. Station games…………………………………………page 9 6. Personal
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by Rome and helped them get through the war by providing safety and strength. A Germanic tribe named the Franks took over the entire Germanic tribes‚ led by a strong leader by the name of Clovis. The Franks controlled a big part of Europe. Charles Martel‚ the mayor of the palace‚ expanded regions in the north‚ south‚ and eastern parts‚ thereby defeating the Muslims. When Charles died‚ his son Pepin the Short took over in his
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The central theme of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi concerns religion and human faith in God. However‚ the novel purposely refrains from advocating any single religious faith over another. Instead‚ the novel investigates the nature of religious faith itself. This theme is embodied most clearly in the novel’s protagonist‚ Pi Patel‚ who is a young follower of three very different religions. Pi has studied and memorized the stories of all the various incarnations of the Hindu gods‚ maintaining shrines in
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Hello everybody First of all I’d like to thanks you all for coming here today. My name is Yann Dumont and I am from France. I am an exchange student in Inha University and I am majoring in business administration. Today we are going to ask ourselves if electronic games are a legitimate sport. I’d like to ask you to keep any questions you may have for the end of the presentation First of all‚ what is a sport? Sport: Definition Sport come from the middle aged word desport‚ which mean distraction
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iuris civilis (The Body of the Civil Law) Byzantine Conquests Muslim Conquests and Byzantine Revival Muslim Conquests The Theme system The Rise of the Franks Germanic Kingdoms The Franks Charlemagne (reigned 768-814 C.E.) Grandson of Charles Martel‚ founder of Carolingian empire Control extended to northeast Spain‚ Bavaria‚ north Italy Charlemagne’s Administration Capital city at Aachen (in modern Germany) Relied on aristocratic deputies‚ known as counts Used missi dominici to oversee local
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Michael Bogda Professor Opitz CSCL 3461: Monsters‚ Robots‚ Cyborgs 14 December 2010 Scanners Live in Vain Years before Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline first coined the term cyborg‚ many authors had described such beings in their work. A cyborg by definition is part man and part machine‚ but not entirely either. In the short story “Scanners Live in Vain‚” Cordwainer Smith embodies the cyborg in a unique being called scanners. Scanners live in the form of men they once were with mechanical
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Human Communication COM1213 ASSIGNMENT 1 Name: Ling You Ping Matriculation ID: J13011504 Section: A3 Lecturer: Ms.Malini Kumar Date: 23/8/2013 Assignment for Week 1 Write a 100-150 word essay on who you found most interesting in your class. Why did this person catch your attention? How similar are you both? How did this person respond to your offer of friendship? Before I start the essay‚ I want to share what I actually think. I was keep thinking that the person
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Childhood Diabetes Today‚ diabetes is a huge problem in society. There are almost three million children and adults in the United States who have diabetes. Children suffer more now from diabetes than they have in the past. The reasons why children have diabetes are genetic‚ societal‚ and their personal body chemistry. According to Steven Dowshen and Elana Pearl Ben-Joseph‚ "diabetes is a disease that affects how the body uses glucose‚ the main type of sugar in the blood. Glucose comes from the
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Assess the argument that Germany should be held largely or solely responsible for the outbreak of World War One. The extent of which Germany should be held responsible for the outbreak of World War one is debatable. One could argue that Germany and her aggressive and competitive nature towards the other European powers‚ highlighted by the Schlieffen plan‚ make Germany largely responsible for the outbreak of war. On the other hand‚ being in the middle of several great powers‚ it is fair to suggest
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