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    C H A P T E R O N E INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Accounting as a profession or discipline, has always been seen as an information-generating one, which fittingly makes the job of the Accountant to be that of observing economic activities, recording the observations in the prescribed books, analysing the recordings, interpreting his analysis and preparing reports to all users of Accounting Information. The prepared reports are generally referred to as financial statements, which clearly

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    The United States Armed Forces is based on the principles oh honor. “Honor is a strict adherence to the military standards of conduct…lying, cheating, stealing, and deceit are forms of behavior that will not be tolerated” (Benin 32). Adultery is grave action that includes three of these four forms of behavior. It is the epitome of “breaking a promise,” and “deceiving someone” because of the serious commitments made within a marriage (Wasserstrom 192). The breaking of a

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    In the kingdom of Benin, making castes with bronze was introduced to the rest of the world. “Now this kind of work is done with clay, and wax, and red metal (copper), and soldier (zinc) and lead, and fire…Next it is set aside to cool, then (the outside covering of clay) is broken off,” (Document 7). The art of creating bronze castes was very popular in Benin and the popularity soon spread to most of Northern Africa. Even before Europeans

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    0001-6837 Polish Pharmaceutical Society HYPOTENSIVE EFFECT OF AQUEOUS EXTRACT OF THE LEAVES OF PHYLLANTHUS AMARUS SCHUM AND THONN (EUPHORBIACEAE). *FABIAN C. AMAECHINA and ERIC K. OMOGBAI Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria Abstract: The plant of Phyllanthus amarus is used as diuretic and to lower blood pressure in traditional medicine practice. The effect of the aqueous extract of the leaves of Phyllanthus amarus on blood pressure was evaluated in

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    EGYPT INTRODUCTION The essay analyses the economic trajectory of Brazil pre and post Independence, focusing on Import substitution Industrialization (ISI) model of economic growth and development. The discussion about Egypt and its economy begins with its geographic and demographic description (Mitchell, 2002). Egypt holds a very geographically strategic location in the world, from being a bridge between African ad Eurasian continents to being a bridge between Mediterranean and Red Sea

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    market positions at home and abroad as explained by the interviewees: With the additional capital that the bank brought from the recapitalisation program, it also strengths our ability to expand our business beyond our first point of call which was Benin ((Beta_g2 December 2015). The bank expansion strategy is enhanced specifically through its business and retail banking strategy for example the strategy entails the

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    In almost every country, an education is one of the most desirable things for a person to have. Achieving that is not as easy for some is it is for others. Many things about different countries’ education greatly differ from each other. Some countries have many things to help their students become educated, while others make very difficult. Education for some students isn’t as easy as it seems. All around the world, there are different limitations and barriers that can compromise students’ success

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    This paper will be describing and analyzing the African Art Galleries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The galleries that will be critiqued in this paper are 350, 351, and 352. Gallery 350 (Samuel H. and Linda M. Lindenbaum Gallery) is an averaged size rectangular room that spans about the length of a sidewalk. The gallery contains several carved wooden sculptures, primarily located in the center of the gallery that immediately take over upon entering. While most objects are not enclosed in cases

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    gods of the Yoruba religion (Faulkner). The Yoruba people and their culture originates from a mixture of West African communities. Currently, the only countries that still use Yoruba as their native language are Nigeria, Benin, and Togo (Howard University). Kidjo was born in Benin and the Yoruba culture has had a large influence on her life and music (Faulkner). The Yoruba religion is based off of the connections that are formed between human beings and Orisha’s, which are emissaries of the God Olodumare

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    Within his book Visual Time, which offers an unorthodox approach to the study of art history, Moxey writes: “The history of art faces the disconcerting possibility that the time it imagines, history’s very architecture, is neither uniform nor linear but rather multivalent and discontinuous (Moxey 1)”. Indeed, though time within the practice of art history may in actuality be anachronic, or without a distinct order, it is not regarded as so at Wellesley’s Davis Museum; here, the architecture of time

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