...An absolute monarch is someone who has absolute power among their people. One absolute monarch in history is Peter the Great. Peter was a Russian czar. Peter was considered an absolute monarch because he strengthen the government and reduce nobility. Peter rise to power when Tsar Alexi died so him and his brother Ivan shared the throne until Ivan died. After Ivan’s death, Peter was left as a solo Tsar. Around late 1600s early 1700s, Peter accomplish multiple things as ruler. He led Russia out of medieval times and made it a leading European state. In order for Russia to reach that position he strengthen the military service in Russia by adding a navy, he expanded Russia’s borders, centralize the royal power by buying all Russian institution under his control. He...
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...2/23/09 Topic: Russian Czars Increase Power (pages 151-155) section 4 • Drill: Identify and define the key terms and names on page 155 of Section 4 Assessment under Exercise 1. • Classwork: Do exercises 2,3, and 4 on page 155 of Section 4 Assessment • Journal Entry: What did you learn today and describe how it relates to what you learned yesterday. • Make an outline of the section 4 .Example: I. From Ivan to the Romanovs A. The First Czar 1. Ivan IV was called Ivan the Terrible. 2. He was three years old when he cam on the thrown 3. more details 4. more details B. Rule by Terror 1. 2. 3. • You can write down how many details you want you don’t have to have only four 2/24/09 Topic: Parliament Limits the English Monarchy (pages 156-159) Section 5 • Drill: Identify and define the key terms and names on page 159 of Section 5 Assessment under Exercise 1. • Classwork: Do exercises 2, 3, and 4 on page 159 of Section 5 Assessment • Journal Entry: What did you learn today and describe how it relates to what you learned yesterday. • Make an outline of the section 5. Example shown above. 2/25/09 Topic: Parliament Limits the English Monarchy (pages 156-159) Section 5 • Drill: Write a paragraph explaining how the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution are revolutions. • Classwork:...
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...In a state of nature without any form of government, humans act only to promote their own wellbeing and to fulfill their desires. People’s actions are determined by their natural desires without any regard for others. He explains that there is no just or unjust in nature therefore no actions are inhibited and there are no restrictions on anything. Their willingness to do anything for their benefit ultimately creates a state of war. All people are created equal that even the “weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others”, which allows for a constant war against each other, which he describes as “bellum omnium contra omnes” or war of all against all (Hobbes). Within this state of nature, life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” (Hobbes). Their fight for self-preservation and power leads to an atrocious life. The only escape from this state of war is to surrender one’s individual interests and rights to create a tranquil and orderly society. They have to give up all their rights to selfish interests to one person, the absolute monarch to ensure the success of an orderly society. He viewed absolute monarchy as the ideal government, which can successfully suppress human’s evilness. Hobbes explains humans as evil beings that live in a constant state of war due to their selfish desires, but can be suppressed by an absolute...
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...a) How can the concepts in this chapter be applied and implemented in an organization? (Fernanda) The current organization is governed by a monarch, the king. Therefore, any problem or unconformity must be taken to him or any of his representatives before any other judgement can be made. Usually, the king punishes whoever he thinks is guilty and they cannot question him. Moreover, decisions are made based on hierarchical levels, meaning that higher up members of the feudal system tend to receive lower or no punishments than those that have no power. This process has raised a lot of unconformity and feelings of inequity; therefore, it would be beneficial to implement a process in which social status and class are not taken in consideration for...
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...A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard. Bangladesh, a country in southern Asia that is home to 140 million people, is widely known as a land of natural disasters. It is highly vulnerable to floods, famine, drought, earthquake, cyclones, and river erosions. Due to the effects of these disasters, the country is now permanently in distress. These disasters have become regular phenomena and have been causing suffering to millions of residents for many decades. Natural Disasters are occurring every year in our country. And so found to suffering in it. In Bangladesh Natural Disasters can be of many different kinds, but We suffer most, Some of this like floods, cyclones, earthquake and river erosions. The similarity in all is their massive destruction in the area of their occurrence. In the wake of all these, in one sweep there is complete devastation and destruction, due to which normal life comes to a standstill. Loss of life is well high complete, and belongings of people get lost, blown away or swept away. In Bangladesh we depends on the annual rainfall for our source of water, if there is no rain, for the water supply, the obvious famine comes in its wake. This condition of getting no rain is called drought, and with it, as its automatic corollary comes famine. For with the scarcity of water there is no vegetation and food scarcity follows. The crops get burnt up with heat, the earth gets parched for water, and all life comes in End. Just the opposite condition...
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...Unibersidad De Manila 659-A Justice Cecilia Munoz-Palma Street, Ermita, Manila, Metro Manila Parliamentary: A Good Form of Government Aira C. Adao UC-48 Prof. Marvin Ignacio Politics and Governance January 20, 2015 I. Title: Parliamentary: A Good Form of Government II. Abstract HYPOTHESIS 1. What is Parliamentary Government? 2. What are the types of Parliamentary Government? 3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Parliamentary System? 4. What countries are implementing Parliamentary System? 5. What is the difference between Parliamentary System and Presidential System? OBJECTIVES * To point out the good sides of the Parliamentary system. * To discuss the process of legislation of the Parliamentary Government. * To tackle the important topic about Parliamentary system. * To form a good information to the readers about the essence of Parliamentary system. SIGNIFICANCE * This term paper gives information to the reader about the system of Parliamentary Government. * This paper will benefit the ones who search information about the essence of Parliamentary system. III. Introduction Parliament, (from Old French: parlement; Latin: parliamentum) the original legislative assembly of England, Scotland, or Ireland and successively of Great Britain and the United Kingdom; legislatures in some countries that were once British colonies are also known as parliaments. The British Parliament, often referred...
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...Age of Conquest or Age of Exploration: Taking place around the early 15th century, Europeans began to seek new lands and resources. Began to venture out into the Western world to claim new lands and colonize. The Europeans exploring the west were mainly the Spanish, Portuguese, English and the French. The Age of Conquest would be referring to the Europeans taking over native inhabitants of the new world by a hostile method and implementing their new ways of life. It also brought slavery to the people, harsh working conditions, religion and exploiting them in any possible way. As for the Age of Exploration referred to the royal crowns back home sending out conquistadors and travelers to discover new lands, routes, trading posts, resources and map out the world. * Upon arriving to the new world, the Europeans began to kill off any resistance to their campaign. Attacked the natives, destroyed their lands, began to farm for natural resources, and enslaved some of the indigenous people. * Europeans believed by law and their given rights that their Gods had permitted them to take over and exploit any new cultures they encountered. * The Spanish Reconquista of 1492 made it so that it justified Christianity by exiling all of the Jews and Muslims. Therefore Christianity had to be spread, making it “alright” to overpower others and take over. * Christopher Columbus is sent out in 1492 to the Americas. The exploration lead to them colonizing, which later leads to the...
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...How far do you agree that population growth was the most important factor in causing social change between 1625 and 1688? * Population growth * Colonisation- North America colonies and also The Caribbean * The growth of London and its impact on economic development Throughout the 17th century Britain underwent substantial social change beginning most prominently under the Stuart monarchs Charles the 1st and 2nd. Many things changed drastically in and around this period which lead to drastic social change for example firstly there was a big spurt in population going from around 2 million inhabitants in Britain in the 15th century to around 5 million in the 16th, Britain’s great colonisation successes in the North Americas and the Caribbean building its economy and strength as a world power competitively and finally the growth of London and the impact it had on the rest of the country and Europe as it emerged as the no1 trading centre in the whole of Europe eventually which bettered the lives of many. I believe that population growth was by far the most significant factor in causing social change between 1625-1688; this is mainly because this was in a way a catalyst for change as the economy and infrastructure had to cope with the ever-growing and demanding population of Britain. For example the development of the national markets in the country only came about after the much smaller and local markets which existed where becoming too small, so this here lead to...
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...How democratic is the UK political system? In the UK we have a political system which is, essentially, democratic. As there are some 63 million people living in the UK, complete democracy – whereby the public decide on everything – would be impossible, as there would need to be constant referendums. Representative democracy means that elected politicians represent each constituency in the country; this aims to be a democratic system where each politician acts in the interests of their constituents. However, this system could be undemocratic as each MP belongs to a specific party, and therefore could vote on behalf of their party rather than with the opinions of the constituents. Although Britain is a democracy, some people and institutions which have power have not been elected by the people. This could be seen as undemocratic. An example of this is the House of Lords; the members are unelected, yet still hold power as bills cannot be passed without being considered by both Houses. The House of Commons could be viewed as more democratic than the Lords, as all MPs are elected, for example Ian Lucas was elected as the MP for Wrexham. The UK has a ‘first past the post’ electoral system. Many seen this as undemocratic as it allows a political party to gain seats in parliament even if another party had thousands more votes. An example is the Green party, who gained a seat in parliament with around 300,000 votes in the last election. UKIP had over three times this amount of...
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...1. Pest infestation has gone up: Pests which we used to control by bio degradable methods have become resistant to many pesticides and now these chemical pesticides have become non effective. 2. Loss of Bio Diversity: Due to heavy use of chemical pesticides, insecticides and fertilizers we have lost many birds and friendly insects and this is a big loss in long term. 3. Chemicals in water: These chemicals which we have been using in our farms go down and contaminate ground water which effect ours and our children health. 4. Excess use of fertilizers have made the soil infertile. 5. Overuse of chemical fertilizers may affect human's health. The Story of Village Palampur I. SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT A. NCERT TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS Questions Within The Lesson Q.1. What is the difference between multiple cropping and modern farming methods? Ans. Difference between Multiple Cropping and Modern Farming : Multiple cropping and modern farming are two ways of increasing production from the same piece of land. Under multiple cropping, production is increased by growing more than one crop on a piece of land during the year. It is the most common way of raising agricultural Under modern farming method, production is increased by using modern technology in place of traditional agricultural practices. Under this method, high yielding varieties (HYVs) of seeds are used in place of simple seeds. HYV seeds promise to produce much greater labour and capital. They...
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...state-church mixing and melding, led to the execution of Socrates, for his disrespect for the gods( in Biblical times, like kings of Israel were anointed by Priests, as a sign of God’s approval. This is why separation of church and state is bad for America. For centuries, Monarchs ruled by the idea of divine right. This later metamorphosed into monarchs ruling over church’s administration in a way. There was this catholic doctrine that the Pope, as Vicar of Christ on earth, should have authority over the church on earth and indirectly over the state. This led to claims in the middle ages that the pope has authority to depose Catholic kings and they did try to exercise this authority. Thus in the medieval times in western world, monarch who ruled in secular world tend to encroach on the church’s rule of the spiritual sphere. This led to power struggles and crises. In the 1530s, Henry VIII, rejected the annulment of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon by the Pope. He consequently, formed the Church of England (Anglican Church) and set himself as the ruler of the new church, thus ending the separation that had existed between the church and the state of England. From that period on, the Monarchs of Great Britain have retained ecclesiastic authority in the Church of England with the title Supreme Governor of the Church of England. This eventually led to anti- Catholicism and others who were against The church of England, subsequently religious persecution....
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...Thomas Curran February 15th, 2014 Western Civilization Spring 2014 Rashmi Chilka Sparta and Athens, the two greatest city states in all of Greece could not be more different. One is the yin the other is the yang, one is the great center of politics while the other a hard working oiled war machine. No two greater powers have ever lived so close to each other and coincided peacefully. Yet peace is a short term idea and one thing you can be certain of is that humans will always war with each other and these two super powers of ancient times were no different so every Greek eventually had to pick a side, Democracy or a Monarchy, philosophy or fighting, Athens or Sparta. Athens was like the California of the ancient world, always so innovative and open minded to a great many ideas. Athens was one of the first places to introduce democracy into a world full of feudalism and monarchies, not that all of the monarchs across the world were bad but overall the lifestyle was much fairer for the average citizen in Athens. The power came from the people and this made the people happy which is the goal of any government no matter what it is. Now Sparta was a little different, Sparta was a city focused on martial prowess, discipline and simply being physically better than all other. Spartans were the pinnacle and prime example of the Warrior. Every Spartan dreams of a glorious death in battle and to them dying any other way would have been seen as cowardly or weak. Once a Spartan...
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...CHAPTER 5 ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING AND ACTIVITY-BASED MANAGEMENT 5-16 (20 min.) Cost hierarchy. 1. a. Indirect manufacturing labor costs of $1,200,000 support direct manufacturing labor and are output unit-level costs. Direct manufacturing labor generally increases with output units, and so will the indirect costs to support it. b. Batch-level costs are costs of activities that are related to a group of units of a product rather than each individual unit of a product. Purchase order-related costs (including costs of receiving materials and paying suppliers) of $600,000 relate to a group of units of product and are batch-level costs. c. Cost of indirect materials of $350,000 generally changes with labor hours or machine hours which are unit-level costs. Therefore, indirect material costs are output unit-level costs. d. Setup costs of $700,000 are batch-level costs because they relate to a group of units of product produced after the machines are set up. e. Costs of designing processes, drawing process charts, and making engineering changes for individual products, $900,000, are product-sustaining because they relate to the costs of activities undertaken to support individual products regardless of the number of units or batches in which the product is produced. f. Machine-related overhead costs (depreciation and maintenance) of $1,200,000 are output unit-level costs because they change with the number of units...
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...differences in economic institutions. To solve the problem of development will entail reforming these institutions. Unfortunately, this is difficult because economic institutions are collective choices that are the outcome of a political process. The economic institutions of a society depend on the nature of political institutions and the distribution of political power in society. As yet, we only have a highly preliminary understanding of the factors that lead a society into a political equilibrium which supports good economic institutions. However, it is clear that it is the political nature of an institutional equilibrium that makes it very difficult to reform economic institutions. We illustrate this with a series of pitfalls of institutional reforms. Our analysis reveals challenges for those who would wish to solve the problem of development and poverty. That such challenges exist is hardly surprising and we believe that the main reason for such challenges is the forces we have outlined in this paper. Better development policy will only come when we recognize this and understand these forces better. Nevertheless, some countries do undergo political transitions, reform their institutions, and move onto more successful paths of economic development. We also can learn a lot from these success stories. JEL classification: O10, P10, P17 Keywords: economic growth, development,...
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...held to have begun during the Late Renaissance period and ended about the time industrialization changed the face of the world. It was an amazing time of scientific discovery, an age of exploration and a time where the very boundaries of knowledge were expanded since the end of the Roman Empire. One of the first things a student of the time is struck by is how similar the arguments at the dawn of this age are with the ones faced by contemporary people. Before analyzing that, it may be a good idea to get an idea of what the world was like, how people thought and what the hopes and dreams of the people of the time were. To do this, we first need to understand how that Europe came to be. The Black Death was the pivotal event of the High Middle Ages. In the span of a few short years the entire face of Europe changed. The plague began with the end of the Medieval Warm Period, which ran from the tenth century to the fourteenth. This shift to colder weather in Europe leads to widespread famine and years of uncertainty. Up until this time, Europe had enjoyed a rising population as well as a rising standard of living. People will increase their population to the limit of their food production. When people can no longer expand food production, then a day of reckoning will occur. Most good arable farmland was under cultivation and most of the marginal farmland was cultivated which produced much less food than the good arable farmland. The change to colder wetter weather proved devastating...
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