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By the Birla Group reference is made to one of the foremost business houses in India headed by the Birla family for generations. Its business interests are vast and varied ranging from petrochemicals and textiles to automobiles and Infocom as well as financial services. The story of the Birla Group goes back to 1870 when…

SoccerSoccer is a great sport that has influencednations. Millions gather to watch skilled athletescompete in a game of soccer. It is an internationalsport, so popular that physical education programs havesoccer integrated into their plans. Many localcommunities also have soccer organizations for youths. Soccer has an interesting history going back as far asancient Rome and Greece….

The multiple causes of disunion in the sass’s stemmed from decades of differing views between Americans in the North and South. From the time of the American Revolution through the Secession of the seven states which made up the Confederate States of America, each part of the country held differing views on government, economics, territorial…

The English and Native Americans. An interesting point in the essay was how both cultures ultimately have different views on value and respect. The Native Americans were willing to help a stranger they have never met before, whereas the white people were more concerned about how much money the stranger had before they even considered…

Land, to many of us, is a topographic point of growing and development. When the Pakeha, or white adult male, saw the fertile land of New Zealand, he saw chance and investing to do more money. But did the Pakeha truly cognize what land is to those who live as though their land is everything…

The most interesting information that I read in this book was how all women no matter their race wanted their rights because they worked like a man if not harder and did men’s jobs sporadically throughout history. This was interesting because even though women proved themselves over and over and still men refused to recognize…

Villains aren’t always just found in the stories we pass down from generation to generation. They can be found in everyday life throughout history from all across the globe. But what makes someone a villain? The definition of villain is someone that is blamed for a particular evil or difficulty (Webster). Hernan Cortes fits this…

The Presidential election of 1972 had two strong candidates,President Richard Nixon and George McGovern. There were many issueswhich had a great deal of importance to the election. The Vietnam war andthe stability of the economy at the time were two main factors. The electionended in one the largest political scandals in U.S. history, being theWatergatebreak-in,…

It is rather a daunting task to sort out the way the kingdom of Nkhamanga was organised. The contrasting views by historians give testimony to this. There are those historians who contend that Chikulamayembe exercised both political and economic influence in vast kingdom that stretched from Dwangwa to the south to Songwe River in the…

“History Stephen said, ‘is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” (James Joyce, Ulyssess). Is history a ‘nightmare’ and, if so, is it possible to awake? History has been represented by some as a triumphal march. As a progressive, unlinear, emancipating process. Fukyama, for instance, has heralded liberal democracy as the ‘end of…