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Julius Caesar's invasions of Roman Britain in 55 BCE

According to Peter Arnott, writing in the Romans and Their World, the island of Britain, often referred to as Britannia by the Romans, was a "black, legendary place" with an "evil reputation born of unfamiliarity." Arnott also points out that early descriptions of Britannia were similar to "H.G.

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Managed care and the decline of quality in American healthcare delivery

When managed care appeared to have the American health care system in a strangle-hold, health care executives began giving speeches that described how the managed care entities were trying to stabilize an industry that had seen run away costs, and was alleged to have committed patient and insurance…

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The Allied invasion of Normandy and Operation Overlord in 1944

World War II opened on September 1, 1939, with Hitler's wehrmacht invading Poland, followed shortly by Belgium and the Netherlands. By May 1940, the Nazis had conquered France and nearly won the eventual war against Britain, its last remaining adversary in Europe.

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Materialism and illusion in The Great Gatsby's shirt scene

I've got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall."

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The Barbary Wars and the founding of the U.S. Navy

Wars of the Barbary Pirates: To the Shores of Tripoli, the Birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines, by Gregory Fremont-Barnes

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Familiar names and speech segmentation in infant language acquisition

In their article, Mommy and Me: Familiar Names Help Launch Babies Into Speech-Structured Segmentation, Bortfeld, Morgan, Golinkoff, and Rathbun discuss infants' grammatical development with a specific emphasis on sentence construction.

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Applying Boudon and Eskensberger's theories to adult education instruction

What concepts in the articles of Boudon (2001) and Eskensberger (2001) can current instructors apply in an adult education program?

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Cultural relativism and absolutism in Western and Mongolian cultures

Western culture idealizes individual autonomy and choice above all things -- better to make a mistake in choosing a partner, it counsels, so long as it is your own mistake, than to have the choice made for you, for good or for ill.

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Ireland's foreign direct investment strategy and economic transformation

Ireland was one of the poorest countries in European Union (EU) two decades ago (Berry, 2001).

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Michael Walzer's analysis of Exodus as political metaphor

Walzer, Michael. Exodus and Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 1985. Go down Moses, way down in Egypt land.

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