Essays Tagged: "Borders"

'Warfare in Roman Europe'

d social factors play a part in the history of Roman warfare. Many barbarian tribes lived along the borders of the roman empire. Although many attacks by the Barbaric tribes occured, it was in the fou ...

(3 pages) 88 1 4.1 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History

Tribalism vs. Nationalism

business is not working out. America no longer seems ableto meld all the various peoples within its borders into one harmoniouswhole. As the years go by, Americans seem to identify less with their nat ...

(3 pages) 90 0 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Khalil Gibran's "The Prophet"

is age. However, his fame and influence was not limited to the Near East only, but far beyond these borders. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages. His drawings and paintings ...

(4 pages) 46 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Rawls "Veil of Ignorance"

key problem to Rawls is to show how such principles would be universally adopted and here the work borders on general ethical issues. He introduces a theoretical 'veil of ignorance' in which all the ...

(3 pages) 160 0 4.7 Apr/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Moses

e made the covenant between them and Yahweh at Sinai. He also guided them through the desert to the borders of Canaan. The Bible says he lived a life span of 120 years, but this figure is questioned.T ...

(2 pages) 105 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

The Structure of the Canadian Government

nd civil rights, the administration of justice, the hospital system, natural resources within their borders, social security, health and municipal institutions. The federal Parliament and the provinci ...

(4 pages) 114 0 3.9 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Software licenseing and piracy act for a business lay class

et nearly 85 percent of the software industry's piracy losses occurred outside of the United States borders. The Software Publishers Association indicated that approximately 35 percent of the business ...

(15 pages) 506 0 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

European Expansion beyond territorial borders between 1450 and 1650

Chapter 161.Discuss 2 factors that enabled Europeans to expand beyond their borders from 1450 to 1650.The two main factors that allowed the Europeans to expand were technologic ...

(1 pages) 99 1 4.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

"Will the UK Constitutional reform programme 'save' the state or hasten its demise."

ernal issues there is also the position of the United Kingdom within Europe, with events beyond our borders having affect on our unwritten constitutional set-up. Further changes are in the offing, wit ...

(16 pages) 174 1 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Reading 'At the Edge' - by Ronnie Govender - has led to a better understanding of the Indian community (a personal response.)

ike: Asia, America, Britain and as I clearly came to realise a, very active, Indian part inside the borders of our little South Africa.This, in some cases, has resulted in very vicious and uncomfortab ... f Kwazulu Natal I did not realise that the Indian culture and people were so established inside the borders of South Africa. I did not nearly realise the complexity of their lives or even how importan ...

(2 pages) 33 0 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement

ited factors of endowments and must do its best to make these available to the companies within its borders.        There are two basic sides to the argument over the North American F ...

(7 pages) 442 0 3.3 May/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Location of Brazil

l is in the northern hemisphere. Brazil is bordered by a number of South American countries. Brazil borders Uruguay to the north; Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru to the east; Bogota to the sout ...

(3 pages) 120 2 2.6 May/1995

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Mexico

nd the Caribbean Sea; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.牋牋牋牋Mexico's borders stretch approximately 1,958,201 square kilometers or 756,066 square miles. That figure inclu ...

(3 pages) 88 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Iraq: A Country on the Rise

The terrain in Iraq is mostly broadplains, with reedy marshes in the southeast, mountains along toe borders with Iran andTurkey.The Climate in Iraq is most desert, with mild to cool winters and dry, h ... d to cool winters and dry, hotcloudless summers. The northernmost regions along Iranian and Turkish bordersexperience cold winters and occasional heavy snows. Iraq has few natural resources,consisting ...

(7 pages) 189 0 3.1 Jan/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Thailand, city if wonders

hi, Mekong, Mun, and the Ping.Thailand is 985 miles north to south and 510 miles east to west.Burma borders Thailand on the north and west (across the Salween River),on the north and east by Laos (acr ... ast, corn in the bordering hills, andalthough the plains product no mineral wealth, the mountainous bordersproduce such goods as sapphires, fluorite, and tungsten.The valleys of the northern highlands ...

(5 pages) 148 0 4.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Development of the Atomic Bomb and its Impact on WWII

n in Europe with the invasion of Poland by Germany. Soon after Japan began to attempt to expand its borders with the invasion of Manchuria. Germany and Japan, along with Italy formed the central axis ...

(6 pages) 237 0 5.0 May/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Arab Isreali 6 day War

IntroductionIn the spring of 1967 Arab forces were gathering on the borders of Israel , with the main objective of destroying the Israeli nation, and re-establishing th ... e agreement allowing Israel free use of the Suez Canal and Straits of Tiran, Israel returned to the borders established before the war.In the years following the 1956 war Israel grew into an industria ... ust about complete. Terrorist attacks increased in frequency from across the Egyptian and Jordanian borders, and Syrian forces fired large artillery from the Golan Heights into agricultural settlement ...

(7 pages) 129 1 3.3 Mar/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers

Yoruba mythology and its relevance in modern society.

he Yoruba have lived in Southwest Nigeria and Benin for thousands of years. Due to the redrawing of borders in Africa there is no state called Yoruba. There are, however, approximately 20 million peop ...

(6 pages) 133 2 3.3 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

The Role of the U.S. in the Third World in the Year 2000

The best way to stop illegal immigration into the United States is not to erect higherfences at our borders, but to invest in the third world, primarily Mexico. Providing jobs at homewhere they enjoy ...

(2 pages) 48 0 4.5 Sep/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Origins of the First World War

on Serbia. On the same day, Russia announced that she was mobilizing her troops along the Austrian borders. Since the war between Austria and Russia was inevitable, Germany issued an ultimatum to the ...

(3 pages) 98 0 4.3 Oct/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I