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    Zygmunt Bauman is the writer and author of consuming life and liquid modernity. He is among the pioneering founders of the post-modernism theory that is characteristic of most theories in sociology and philosophy. The concepts and positions posited by Baunam will be heavily relied upon in the composition of this essay – albeit subject to diverse opinions in analysis and with reliance of critique that is presented from various avenues such as contradictory theories to those of the author. In consuming

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    The Western Roman Empire

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    The Western Roman Empire was a magnificent realm, ruling for over 500 years, but even the greatest fall down at some point. There were multiple variables, in the fall of this empire, but four aspects stood out amongst the rest. There were multiple political issues, economical problems, deadly diseases, and foreign invaders who devastated Rome and caused the empire's downfall. One critical aspect in the fall of the Western Roman empire were the political issue in the government. Several Emperors

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    It is simple to contemplate money as dollar bills and quarters, however money is one factor that a community of people can agree on for suggests that of exchange. If enough people in one town are willing to accept donuts as money, then donuts are money to any or all of the people inside the one town. however it's not going to work once someone tries taking donuts and spend them in a town that accepts burritos as currency and not donuts. It is necessary to know how currency started, because millions

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    Analysis of Popular Press Article A question all women have asked; are men more attracted to physical beauty or intelligence? After asking myself this question, I soon found an article online titled, “Are Men Attracted to Clever Women?”. In this article, Adam Karbowski and his colleagues from the Warsaw School of Economics, analyzed data from a speed-dating experiment at Columbia University. Over 500 students of both sexes participated in what was supposed to be a regular speed dating event. After

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    that were made in this time are now hanging in museums for all to see the beautiful needlework of the pioneer women. The native Americans did not have all of the advantages in technology like the pioneers did. Native American women had to grow or barter goods such as cotton, twine, and dye to create such beautiful quilts, which also, are some of the most beautiful works done that are hung in museums today. Quilting was a big technique that the Native Americans borrowed from the Europeans.The natives

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    A Prisoner of War is someone who has been caught by taken as a prisoner by the opposing team in the war in this case it was the Australians, Chinese, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore and many more were captured and taken into the Japanese camps. The conditions of these camps were nothing like anyone ever imagined. They were surrounded with barbed wire, or a high wooden fence. Anyone who ever attempted to escape these camps would end up being executed in front of the other prisoners. The conditions

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    Genghis khan Genghis Khan was also known as Chinggis Khan, he conquered more territory than any other conqueror and his successors established the largest contiguous empire in history. He also unite the nomadic tribes of the Mongolian plateau and then conquered huge chunks of central Asia and China. He was a Mongol leader from 1162-1227. The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous empire the world has ever seen. He forged the initial Mongol Empire in Central Asia, starting with the unification

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    Mali Rise To Power Essay

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    Desert to the region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Gold was exported and salt was imported along this trade route. Salt was needed by the Malians to preserve food, and gold was used in the Mediterranean as a currency. As trade continued, a barter system was established where one pound of gold became equal to one pound of salt. (Fortified Towns of the Trans-Sahara Trading Routes, 2017) Towns were built outside the desert and were used as supply and fueling stations to make the three-month

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    countries in order to secure the things that they did not produce (Hope 16). Some villages, for example, specialized in fishing, others concentrated on metallurgy, while others made weapons, utensils, and so on. Traders traveled from place to place to barter and to purchase. Upon returning they were laden with goods that they sold within their own community (Hope 17). As the Atlantic route expanded, accounting for nearly two thirds of all Africans leaving the continent, it created systems for the

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    Rousseau, in his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality of Men, discusses the beginning and development of inequality of individuals. Rousseau seeks to discern whether the unequal treatment of men is dictated by natural laws or if it is a man made creation. When Rousseau analyzes humans in the state of nature, he claims we are all animalistic by nature. Humans in the state of nature are motivated by self-preservation much like animals and also pity. The difference between man and animals according

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