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Imperial Spain in Decline, 2002.
This paper reviews the book "Spain in Decline: 1621-1700," by Reginald Trevor Davies.
995 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper reviews the book "Spain in Decline: 1621-1700," by Reginald Trevor Davies that outlines three factors for the decline of Imperial Spain: Economic and financial debilities, a military decline and a decline of patriotic and religious feelings. The paper describes the revolution in the Basque Provinces. The author states that this book of history reads like a novel.
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"These revolts helped in Spain's decline by weakening the government's position and creating unrest in the people, so they did not trust or follow government reforms meant to strengthen the country. Too many people wanted autonomy from Spain's government, and this division left the remainder of Spain weak and unprepared for further problems, inside or outside the country. Clearly, this was an important juncture for Spain; and had they handled it with more aplomb, they might have avoided some of the unrest and division that separated the country, and helped lead to its decline in world exploration and domination."
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Philip II and the Decline of Spain's Wealth, 2006.
This research paper considers the factors that led to Spain's economic decline under Philip II's rule.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 8 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper presents a consideration of the economic decline of Spain under the rule of Philip II, in the late 16th century. The paper discusses the major issues involved in Philip's mismanagement of the economic and foreign policy of Spain that contributed to the decline. The problems of inflation, foreign wars, debt and lack of Spanish productivity are highlighted.
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"When Philip II ascended to the throne of Spain in 1556, by all appearances he was the wealthiest king in the Western Hemisphere. Spain had, since the beginning of the 16th Century, extended its kingdom over much of the Mediterranean and it was the leading power in the race to colonize the New World of the Americas. It appeared that Philip II had inherited a financially powerful empire from his father, Charles V, and was set to govern a growing and important nation into an era of riches and conquest (Elliott). However, by the time he abdicated the throne in 1598, Philip II had overseen the disastrous decline of Spain's wealth and prominence, resulting in a bankrupt and weakened nation and a crumbling empire (Kamen). This research paper will consider the factors that led to the economic decline of Spain under Philip II's rule."
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Causes and Consequences of Pollinator Decline, 2005.
A discussion about the importance of pollination services and the causes, consequences and possible counter-measures of pollinator decline.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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This paper examines the importance of pollination services. As the author explains, the health of ecosystems and agriculture worldwide depends on pollinating services performed by particular pollinators. This paper evaluates the importance of pollinators, provides statistical evidence for vertebrate and invertebrate pollinator decline and examines causes and consequences of pollinator decline. The paper also demonstrates the consequences of pollinator decline in terms of plant pollinator interactions and corresponding research, including figures. The paper concludes that that the functional diversity of the pollination network is critical to ecosystem sustainability and productivity.
I. Introduction
II. Importance of Pollinators
III. Pollinator Decline
A) General Pollinator Decline
B) Honey Bee Decline
C) Decline of other Pollinators
IV. Causes of Pollinator Decline
A) Pesticide Misuse
B) Loss of Habitat and Forage
C) Diseases and Pests
D) The "Killer Bee Hype"
E) Light Pollution) Monocultures
G) Climate Change
V. Consequences of Pollinator Decline
A) Plant Pollinator Interactions
B) Decline of Genetic Variability and Effect on Plant Populations
VI. Reduction and Prevention of Future Pollinator Decline-
A) Possible Actions
B) Future Research Needs
VII. Conclusion
VIII. Literature Cited
IX. Figures and Data
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"Green plants represent the primary food source for a large portion of the worlds living biota. Many plants reproduce sexually and require pollination agents to ensure genetic diversity and other adaptive advantages through cross-pollination. During the search for nectar, pollen, oil, or mates, pollinators transfer pollen from male anthers to female stigmas and hence perform pollination (Cane, 2001). Due to co-evolution among angiosperms and pollinators, many primary pollinator- plant relationships are highly specific. Therefore the health of ecosystems and agriculture worldwide depends on pollinating services performed by particular pollinators. In recent decades human activates have decimated biodiversity in many different species-rich groups, including invertebrates (Cane, 2001). Declines have been recorded in many groups of pollinators including: insects, bats, birds and mammals. This decline represents less frequent flower visitation, gradual decrease of seed and fruit production, and reproductive losses in additional taxa within the community and could eventually disrupt community function (Cane, 2001)."
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Tourism Decline for Canada, 2007.
An examination of the decline in tourism for Canada in the last year, a decline that occurred even as tourism for the world increased over the same period.
1,654 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 53.95
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This paper analyzes the challenge of changing a tourist's perception of Canada to make it a more desirable destination. The paper explains the need to reverse the trend and increase the tourism business for Canada. and looks at why Greece is a successful tourist destination. The writer suggests that more could be made of the skiing areas in Canada to attract tourists. The writer also notes that much of Toronto has been used for filming in lieu of New York City, for instance, and suggests that the names of those films be featured in tourist advertising.
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Introduction
Findings
Conclusions
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"The percentage of loss for Canada was exceeded only by the loss for Montserrat, a region suffering from volcanic explosions since 1995; Aruba, in decline since the Natalee Holloway disappearance; and Uruguay. While the drop for these other regions can be explained by various unusual circumstances, the decline for Canada appears to be more basic and to relate largely to the perception the world has of Canada as an unexciting destination. Certain specific issues can be cited with reference to tourism from the United Sates, however, such as changes in travel rules so that in the near future, a passport will be required."
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Decline of Britain, 2008.
This paper provides an analysis of the relative British decline after 1870.
2,839 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 84.95
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In this article, the writer notes that in order to effectively analyze the relative British decline after 1870, it is necessary to examine nineteenth and twentieth century economic and political history and policies. This examination produces the evidence necessary to determine why and how Great Britain declined. The writer identifies the economic model involved and reveals the economic, political and social factors that combined to end Great Britain's long era of imperial dominance.
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Introduction
Hypothesis
Specification of an Economic Model
Evidence
Conclusion
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"This decline was accelerated by the First World War, which strained the British economy to the breaking point, and intensified after the war when Great Britain and other Western capitalist nations experienced a severe global economic depression, which bankrupted treasuries and cost millions of people their jobs. In response, the people in these countries became isolationist and their governments proceeded to establish trade barriers to shut out the contagion of recession spreading around the world. But limiting trade only led to more impoverishment for the average person, more international turmoil, and another world war that cost fifty million lives."
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The Decline in Egyptian Civilization, 2004.
The Egyptian Society declined rapidly from the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty. The relationship between this decline and economic conditions, the position of weakened pharaohs and warfare is examined.
3,451 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 97.95
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This paper examines the causes of the decline of the ancient Egyptian civilization and argues that a number of factors played a role. Among these are a shift from economic prosperity to poverty, the weakening power of the pharaoh (related to the rise of the priesthood and royal instability) and continuous warfare with neighbouring societies.
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"From the Egyptian state?s origins in the Old Kingdom, circa 2575 B.C., it flourished in relative isolation from other civilizations. It was protected by the Mediterranean in the north, the desert in the east and west, and by an ?ethnic frontier? in the south (Adams, 1984, p. 38). During this time of remoteness, the Egyptian state built complex pyramid structures, developed a unique religion and established a political system based on the supremacy of the pharaoh and a hereditary bureaucracy (Fagan, 2004, p. 385). However, the prosperity and stability of the Old Kingdom (circa 2575 to 2180 B.C.) could not last forever, and since several succeeding pharaohs lacked leadership Egypt entered a period in which the central power of the government declined and local leaders became independent rulers within their own territories (Fagan, 2004, p. 389). In conjunction with this decline in power, came a prolonged drought cycle, but this led to improvements in agriculture and eventually to a rapid increase in population, though famines continued to strike for over three hundred years. Trade networks were vastly expanded during the Middle Kingdom (2134 to 1640 B.C.) and parts of the desert lands of Nubia were conquered, the first signs of imperial ambitions (Fagan, 2004, p. 390). The second intermediate period, occurring between 1640 and 1530 B.C., brought political instability and economic disorder to Egypt once again. However, in the same way that the first intermediate period brought improvements to the Egyptian civilization, this new period of instability brought several innovations that preserved Egypt?s role in the eastern Mediterranean world (Fagan, 2004, p. 391). The New Kingdom, 1530 to 1070 B.C., brought with it periods of extensive wealth, an expansive empire, and political stability, though these qualities were quickly dissolved with the last of the long-lived pharaohs Rameses III (Fagan, 2004, p. 391; Ibid, p. 395). The last years of the Egyptian dynasties were marked by a ?succession of short-lived, sometimes competing and generally unremarkable kings?(Rice, 1997, p. 1980). After this time political weakness opened the door to the rapidly evolving civilizations crowding Egypt?s borders. By about 1000 B.C. the country was bankrupt and the influence of other ancient civilizations, Assyrians and Persians followed by the Greeks, came to dominate the Nile Valley (Clayton, 1994, p. 173). The decline of the Egyptian civilization resulted from the complex interplay of several factors including economic conditions, a weakening of the pharaohs? power, and warfare with other complex societies."
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Cyrus's Key to Imperial Leadership, 2002.
An analysis of Cyrus' military and imperial success with reference to Shakespeare's "Henry V".
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This paper is on Cyrus's key to imperial leadership. It discusses how Cyrus' military and imperial success, according to Xenophon, is gratitude and by following his use of gratitude through at least two episodes in the Education of Cyrus. It also discusses why it is such a help to his imperial leadership with reference to Shakespeare's "Henry V" and explains his use or non-use of gratitude in leadership.
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Cognitive Decline, 2004.
A critical examination of cognitive decline in late adulthood.
1,698 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper discusses cognitive decline in older people. The paper contends that understanding the correlation between aging and cognitive decline requires in-depth research taking into account the numerous variables and theoretical perspectives. The paper agrees that while there is certainly a parallel between the onset of late adulthood and cognitive changes, these changes need not always be severely negative. The paper examines various factors that affect cognitive change.
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Introduction
Overview
Methodical Issues
Retardation of Cognitive Decline
Conclusion
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"Cognitive decline in older people is most likely to be measured and seen in terms of declarative or episodic memory. (Wilson et al., 1997. pp 7-14).This refers to the ability to learn and retain new information. Other factors that are measured in this age group, and which show evidence of decline, are mental processing skills and perceptual speed. This refers to simple perceptual comparisons which are unusually measured with accompanying time-related tasks. (ibid) People, who are diagnosed as having ARCD or Age Related Cognitive Decline normally are perceived as suffering from deterioration of memory and learning abilities as well as limited language attention span and concentration problems."
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Decline of Sparta, 2005.
This paper discusses Sparta's decline as a military power.
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In this article the writer looks at Sparta's decline as a military power. The writer discusses the multiple manifestations of shortsightedness that caused the decline. The writer describes that this decline was caused by factors ranging from attitudes, to tactics, to lack of diplomacy with its allies.
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"Although historians offer a panoply of possible reasons for the decline of Sparta essentially its downfall was the result of one glaring fault. This fault, although it manifested in a number of disparate ways, could be summed up in one word shortsightedness. This shortsightedness occurred in areas such as its attitudes, its failure to modify the rigid Lycurgan system, its tactical naivety, its failure to adapt when opponents began hiring mercenary armies, its wrongdoing, its lack of diplomacy ... "
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Military Tactics of Imperial Rome, 2008.
This paper discusses the military tactics of Rome during its reign in the Imperial Period.
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There is a clear sense that Roman Imperialism was made possible to a large degree by the attainment of a high level of military knowledge and structure. Rome in the Imperial Period, roughly between 27 BC to 395 AD, was marked by a substantially large and well organized standing army. The Roman City State had developed and established sets of colonies, some of which created through collaboration and others through conquest, but delineated a sense of strategic protection and superiority regionally. According to this paper, it is the organization of the army which marks both Rome's success and its ability to utilize novel military tactics to defeat its enemy and gain imperial territory, which at its peak stretched through most of Europe, the Persian Gulf and North Africa.
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"The ebb and flow of military tactics was to a large degree dependent upon the character, flexibility and acceptance of the emperor, who was more often than not the traveling and demonstrative leader of the empire or the future leader of the empire. Additionally, most successful imperial leaders of Rome beginning with Augustus, demonstrated a keen sense of the need to alter tactics to the size of the available troops, the known tactics of the enemy and the environment of the region, an issue that became paramount in very distant campaigns such as that of Britain, and especially North Britain. (Shotter 53) Roman military tactics are clearly marked as a standard for modern warfare of the time including issues such as defined logistics, military intelligence gathering and preliminary constructions of fortifications, both permanent and temporary as well as road building, which to a large degree was the lasting mark of Roman military success. (Goldsworthy 43-78) The building of Hadrian's wall in fact is argued to be the delineation of the length to which Rome was willing to go in its occupation of Britain, based on political but mostly environmental reasons. The organization of the northern occupied regions was markedly less and the infrastructure was much sparser, for the most part because few Roman citizens saw the wisdom in living in such an unfavorable and un-Roman region, with very limited regional gains to be had. (Shotter 9)"
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"Imperial Adam", 2005.
An examination of A.D. Hope's poem, "Imperial Adam," discussing the biblical Eve against John Milton's ethical implications.
1,985 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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A. D. Hope, for decades the grand old man of Australian poets, was
known as the best seventeenth century poet still writing, in part because his poetry is steeped in conventional English verse, and in part, because he appropriates the mythic and erotic themes of his predecessors. This paper shows that of Hope's erotic poetry, "Imperial Adam" ranks first, even though the last, disturbing line jolts the reader and the genre. The Old Testament says only that "Adam knew Eve," and poets as illustrious as John Milton have tried to dilate that laconic report into a comparative literary significance. Milton, a religionist and theological scholar, colored the first human sexual encounter so powerfully that he created a new orthodoxy about it. This paper shows how "Imperial Adam" counters the Miltonic version with unparalleled physicality; angels and theology disappear and Eve discloses shameless ringlets and pubic hair.
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"One needs to keep in mind, as Hart insists, that interpreting poetic language presents pitfalls and perceptions not found in other genres. In "Imperial Adam," for example, Eve seems tumid not from innocence but from anticipation. Her mind has fallen. Hart suggests that she may be "insidious and deceitful" at the outset, capable of communing with snakes and worshipping fruit. If the poem falters, he argues, it is because Hope's satire of medieval theology and complementary literary works is overdone (79). The question of misogyny brings up two points. The first point is whether it derails an offended reader from the poem as a whole. The second point is whether the critical practice of apologizing for precursor writers is material to reading an autotelic poem. A. D. Hope and John Milton need no rehabilitation. Hope's overtly erotic poems, like "The Countess of Pembroke's Dream" and "Teaser Rams" bear a closer resemblance to John Donne's "Elegies" than to a few passages in Paradise Lost. Like W. B. Yeats, Hope wrote a number of his sexual poems at an age when most men have retired."
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"Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin", 2002.
An investigation of the concept of democracy in the face of an elite ruling class through the review of "Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin" by Bray Brechnin.
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This paper identifies the argument presented in the book "Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin" by Bray Brechnin that there is a paradox that is created in the concept of having a pure democracy (or rule by the people) and those that create an environment in which this democracy can be sustained. In "Imperial San Francisco", author Brechnin clearly defines the problem that has occurred in all of human history, where the creation of a power structure inherently creates a genre of people who are more "powerful" than others.
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Imperial Expansion in Africa, 2002.
A look at the economic impact of the imperial expansion into Africa.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper is on "Imperial Expansion in Africa". It argues against the statement, which is "The great outburst of imperial expansion at the end of the 19th century was the product of great power rivalry and not of economic necessity", this statement has been disparate because the economics had everything to do with the expansion of empires into Africa, not power. It analyzes the topic with evidence and explores whether the historians used original material or have they rehashed things from other writers?
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"Civil War Land in Bad Decline", 2002.
A discussion on three stories from "Civil War Land in Bad Decline" by George Saunders and their reflection of modern society.
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This paper explores three of George Saunders' stories from "Civil War Land in Bad Decline" in order to demonstrate how the distortion of social norms helps the reader to understand that the norm itself is already absurd. The stories that are examined are the title story of "Civil War Land in Bad Decline", "Bounty", and "The 400- Pound CEO".
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British Imperial Masculinity, 2001.
A study of some of the cultural expressions of imperial masculinity in Victorian Britain.
1,523 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper deals with some of the forms of imperial and masculine expressions that defined imperial masculinity in late 18th and early 19th century Britain. Areas discussed include education and sports, boys novels and periodicals, newspapers, adult novels and travel writing, hunting, reverence of medieval knights, explorers and politicians.
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"Within education, it was the public schools that first embraced the ideology of imperial masculinity. Jeffrey Richards identified three manifestations of manliness in the public school system: the link between education and religion, 'muscular Christianity' and the 'cult of athleticism' The first manifestation was concerned with turning boys into 'gentlemen' - combining religious and moral principles with gentlemanly conduct and intelligence. The second linked physical strength and courage with Christianity. The third was concerned with team spirit and fair play. All three are linked with imperialism as they reflect the changing definition of imperialism through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century."
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