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"The purpose of this paper is to discuss the book, "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco", by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. This meaty volume is an excellent chronicle of the downfall of a company whose resources and success were legendary in American business circles, but whose leaders during the feverish Reagan years risked everything on a gambit to enrich themselves, and ended up losing all of it. The story centers around one man, Ross Johnson, the flamboyant, free-spending former chief of Standard Brands and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, who wanted more and more control and money, to the point of self-destruction.

Ross Johnson was the perfect point man for such an ill-fated adventure. As the authors point out Johnson was most creative in the area of his expense accounts."

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The paper argues that Coetzee's barbarism in this sense is more like what Strachey means, a failure to act civilized even if the social order is such that it would normally be characterized as civilized. The paper discusses how this defines the way that barbarism is not a universally accepted means of behavior, since the greater and more powerful Empire is now acting in a barbarous manner toward the enemy.

Tags:language, powers, history

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This paper discusses Herodotus' preoccupation with Barbarian customs, and explains how his Histories promote "Greekness" through the examination of that to which the Greeks compared themselves and inevitably found they were superior. The writer looks at Herodotus' cultural and intellectual milieu as well as his stated objectives in writing the Histories, and describes the cultural dualism he created by disparaging as well as giving due credit to non-Greek civilizations. The writer explains that the Histories contain much legend and fantasy and are more about customs and culture than battles or wars.The paper concludes that Herodotus created a past for the Greek people that is part myth and part reality, using Greek cultural superiority over non-Greek Barbarism in order to bring a pan-Hellenic unity to a people scattered over disparate regions and islands.

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"Despite this prevailing view, Herodotus appears to have taken a far more objective approach to determining the worth of people. In his proem, during his opening remarks, he clearly separates Greeks and Barbarians as inherently different but still reminds his audience that Barbarians are capable of great deeds. Herodotus outlines to the audience that his Histories are to be concerned not just with those deeds and the wider Greco-Persian conflict but also their causes. This explicit interest with causality is such that it has led to claims that Herodotus is the father of sociology, the father of anthropology and suggests that the content of his work must be concerned with custom."

Tags:Aegean, Sparta, Athens, city-state, Persian, heathen, Delphi, Cyrus, xenophobia, Sophism

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What is a hostile takeover? How does it happen? What are the consequences for the company that is acquired? Those are some of the questions I plan to answer in this paper. Though not as prevalent today as in the 1980s, a period when hostile takeovers were at an all-time high, such takeovers still exist and, in a few instances, are very visible.

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"This study will provide a review of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, by Bryan Burroughs and John Helyar. The study will include a brief summary of the principal points made by the authors; a description and discussion of the economic, social/cultural, legal, political, and technological environments affecting RJR Nabisco at the time of the leveraged buyout attempt; and a consideration of the strategic options for RJR Nabisco, along with which option was actually chosen.


From the title of the book, we understand immediately and clearly that the authors of the book feel that greed is the overriding force at work in the story of RJR Nabisco. Indeed, the book is an extension of the title in the sense that the story told by the authors is not a story of business, but a story of money. It is not a story of products, or of technology, or of..."

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This paper examines how Matthew Frye Jacobson?s book, "Barbarian Virtues", considers imperialism or colonialism as a part of the United States?s history that is often forgotten. It looks at the trends of immigration and internationalism from 1876 to 1917 and how Jacobson writes that modern American nationalism grew out of the unusual and complex make-up of industrial imperialism. It also examines how Jacobson especially highlights the involvement of the United States in the Philippines to illustrate America?s imperialistic policies.

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"The position of biology and race became part of the thinking of who would be best to come to the U.S. The "science" of eugenics followed by many in the U.S. explains it all: The word eugenics (from the Greek eugenes or wellborn) was coined in 1883 by Francis Galton, an Englishman and cousin of Charles Darwin, who applied Darwinian science to develop theories about heredity and good or noble birth. Phrases such as "survival of the fittest" and "struggle for existence" came into use at the end of the 19th century when eugenics societies
were created throughout the world. "Negative eugenics" relied on marriage restriction, sterilization, or custodial commitment of those thought to have undesired characteristics."

Tags:eugenics, internationalism, immigration, imperialism, colonialism

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This paper will examine the representation of barbarians in Roman art, and particularly sculpture. It will be argued that the primary mode of representation of barbarians in Roman art occurred within the iconography of empire, where the barbarians represented the Roman "other" whose existence as defeated figures reflects on the power and grandeur of Rome. However, it will be seen that there exists significant variations in the depiction of barbarians even within this iconographic code. The primary variation, it will be argued, occurs between the sculpture of the imperial center and that of the periphery. While in Rome the obsession with realism governed the artistic representation of barbarians for centuries, on the frontiers of the empire barbarians were often represented by "barbarian" artists, with significant departures from the dominant mode of realism.

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The Great Wall of China is perhapos the largest man made construction effort in world history. First developed some 250 B.C. to defend a newly unified China against Barbarians, the Wall was lengthened ofver time and finally stretched from the Yellow Sea to the Gopbi Desert. Not only wsas it a fortification, and entry-way for traders, but it served as a method of communcation through smoke signals from one watch tower to the next.

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THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA To get some idea about the momentous achievement of the construction and long-lasting miracle of ancient China, the Great Wall of China is actually visible from an orbiting spaceship. Shih Huang-ti, whom historians credit with unifying China about 250 B.C. was the Wall's originator. In order to keep out what he termed "barbarians" he had the Great Wall built. "The Great Wall, 1500 miles long, and adorned at intervals with massive gateways in the Assyrian style, is the largest structure ever reared by Man" (Durant 605). Construction took ten years and there is no estimate how many thousands of laborers worked on the project. In those days, what

Tags:great wall, shih huang, ti, han dynasty

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In this article, the writer discusses that, in the work 'The Fall' by Albert Camus and 'Waiting for the Barbarians' by J.M. Coetzee, there is a consistent theme of guilt. The writer notes that guilt pervades the minds of the main characters in the novels as a pervasive conflict of character. The writer maintains that each main character attempts to reconcile his guilt with regard to his inner desires and outward actions and does so with ruthless self-loss. The writer discusses that each of these novels is contentious of the human condition and the main characters range between absolution for inaction and action in a corrupt human system and the allowance of guilt and punishment for the same. The writer concludes that neither character truly comes to or even really seeks true forgiveness, even from himself as both go about their daily lives realizing over and over how cruel the human system is and how each one of us knowingly and unknowingly becomes a cog in the wheel of human cruelty and destruction.

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"The Magistrate is seeking self resolution and absolution by choosing not to witness the bloodthirsty destruction of these prisoners at the hands of the imperialists. He has decided to save himself the grief and absolve himself from further blame by refusing to allow the spectacle to burn into his memory the nature of the system he supported and aided for so long. The magistrate is the purest example of the imperialist "going native" as has occurred in so many other real and imagined situations, where the innocent and ambitious person is blindly led by the convictions of their corrupted system to seek out fortune in a foreign land and then comes face to face with the more similar than different faces of the "natives" he is bound to expel, kill and control.
"His ideas pervade him as he endures the public humiliation of torture and thinks about the ways in which he and his administration will be remembered. The resolution is that there is not great memory for the man and he wonders why he objects to public spectacles, like that of his own public hanging, which he is currently enduring."

Tags:corruption, self, destruction, conflict, of, character

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This paper deals with the theme of responsibility in three works of world fiction; Iain Bank's "Complicity" (Scottish), Coetzee's "Waiting for the Barbarians" (South-African) and Sartre's story "Le Mur" ("The Wall") (French). It analyzes whether the characters in these different works are responsible for their own fate and whether they can also be held responsible for the fate of others. It attempts to show through the literature how our actions or even the lack of them bring forth ethical questions on our responsibilities towards the consequences of our actions and on the degree of responsibility we have in this regard towards others.

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"Sartre makes the question of responsibility even more complicated. In his story le Mur he asks the question if an individual is responsible for something he caused but could not expect to cause. The protagonist of the story is Pablo, as a member of the resistance captured by soldiers he is given two choices by his captors. Or Pablo gives away the hiding place of the leader of the resistance or he is executed. At the beginning of the story he refuses to give his leader away and is put in prison. In the room where he is held prisoner Pablo goes trough many different stages of fear, and at the end his (regular) life now seems precious, but far away: C'est un sacre mensonge.

Tags:fate, actions, pablo, cameron