Greece Reports Samples For Students

Origin or beginning of the Civilization (part 1)

Greek civilization began during the period between 3000 to 1200 BC (Sansone, 1). This period is known as the Bronze Age. According to Sansone (10), the Greek civilization emerged after the Minoan civilization during the Mycenaean Age and extended up to the period after the Dark Age. As a matter of fact, many historians consider the Mycenaean Age the earliest period of Greek civilization. The Mycenaean civilization is so called since their capital was built at Mycenae. The founder of Mycenaean civilization was King Perseus. The origin of the people who established the Mycenaean civilization is not well known though ...

Ancient Greeks developed vases during the Bronze Age and used different techniques and materials to achieve a unique style. Some of the styles include the proto-geometric styles that applied during Greek Dark Ages. The style had arcs, triangles, wavy lines, and circles together with artistic expressions of jewelry, mural painting, and monumental architecture. Some of the Greeks that used this technique were from Corinth, Naxos, and Boeotia from Aegean. Greeks in the 8th centuries used geometric art that had the following attributes motifs and iconography in the Mycenaean period while in the Minoan periods the Greeks used abstract motifs characterized ...

Detroit Institute of Art

The Attic Panathenaic Amphora
This ceramic vase, Attic Panathenaic Amphora is more particular to me in style distinction, in-depth detail, structure design, and the color and suits my passion for the ancient Greek mythology and sophistication. This vase in particular has the orange-red color with a mix of brown that portray it as warm and excites one inner-self and drive.
The vase captures one imagination of how vibrant and exquisite an object looks even in its thousands of years given its less flashy look but so attractive to the eye. The goddess of war is symbolized by the ...

Introduction

The Hindu-Arabic numerals are said to have come from the Hindus, Egyptians, Persians and Arabs. There is a presumption that the interrelation between traders served in carrying the symbols from one region to another and hence the accumulation from the different origins. Nonetheless, India is said to be the country that first used the largest number of numerals. The numeral system was established in ancient India. Prior to the emergence of Arab Empire the numeral system of the Hindu and Arabs was already going towards the West. The Arabs adopted the nine numerals in the 9th century. Initially, it was ...

The prospects of Greece as a country with a strong economy continued as a reality since independence in 1974 and thanks to the industrial revolution of the 19th century among other factors, its local currency, the Drachma was exchanged to Euro at the rate of 340.75 at its point of Euro currency adoption in 2001. Its relevance as an advanced economy with a very healthy GDP earned it a place as a foundation member of international organisations like OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and BSEC (Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation). The tide was continually good; GDP was on the rise and Greece ...

Introduction

Gates of Fire is a book which tells the tale of the war between the Persians and the Greeks. The war occurred about 500 B.C. and the king of Persia at that time was Xerxes. Xerxes conquered most of the Asian territories and in the long run attacked Greece. At that time, Greece comprised of large number of city states but the most prominent were Sparta and Athens. At the time of the invasion by the Persians, the city of Athens was progressive and had philosophers, artists and hedonists. Sparta on the other hand boasted of fearsome warriors led by ...

European Debt Crisis

The so called “European debt crisis” started in the European Union right after the global subprime crisis that hit the world during the 2008. The crisis started in Greece with a widening of the spread between the Greece sovereign bonds and the German one. Greece entered in a new deep recession (after the one due to the subprime crisis) which is still persistent even today; during the 2010 Greece faced a problem in rerolling its national debt due to a lack of credibility of international investors which were fading away from the auctions of long-term government bonds. Therefore, Greece had to ask a bail-out ...

Season one episode four of battle of the Thermopylae revolves around two kings namely; king Leonidas and king Xerxes. King Leonidas led the fearless and famous three hundred Spartans soldiers while, Xerxes led his army which of comprised of over one million soldiers. This war lasted for three days. The Persians under the leadership of king Xerxes became the victors of this battle. The Spartans had shown a lot of courage going into this battle and although they were all killed; their courage inspired all the Greeks across all the Greece land.
Xerxes and his army sailed along the ...

Article Summary

According to a Greece based aid organization, the cut on Greece’s health service budget, characterized by health service cuts and 40% diminution in hospital funding according to Reveka Papadopoulos, has hurled HIV/AIDS and Malaria incidences. Notably, the cut was further marked by a plethora of job losses. As Jon Henley reports from Athens, increase in HIV/AID incidences among intravenous drug users in Central Athens has hit a record 1,250% with malaria increasingly becoming endemical in Southern Greece only ten months after the budgetary allocation for health provision in Greece was cut; an increase that according to MSF Greece comes as a ...

How Medicine Evolved

Introduction

Medicine is a subject that deals with ways of restoring the health of a living thing (Zimmer, 2004). The many procedures of restoring health all have the goal of identifying and curing of the disease in the living thing. Modern medicine uses latest medical technology and research in diagnosing and treating diseases. This is a major change from the past as nowadays illness identification processes are more accurate. Incurable and killer diseases, such as cancer and AIDS, are now manageable with the life expectancy extended unlike in the past.

Evolution of Medicine

The ancient form of medicine and medical practices in the early society ...

It is known that Greece has constant problems that arise within its economic system, leading to social and political disruptions. In order to understand the core problems lying behind its crises we can use different statistical statements and sources, but one of the best options is the Balance of Payments. It characterizes the general development of foreign trade, the level of production, rate of employment and consumption. Its figures let us realize the ways the country uses to bring the foreign investments and the instruments it employs to cover its foreign debt. Overall, the BOP is the prior source ...

Foundation Course – Researching Psychology

Abstract Page
The research being conducted has practical, theoretical and scientific value in the research field. Lacanian discourse analysis helps identify the treatment in psychoanalysis, can be applied to studying mental and social characteristics of a language spoken by various minorities.
An interviewer and an interviewee took part in a research; the conversation was written down and attached to the paper on the consent of the interviewee. The theory of Lacanian Discursive Analysis has been applied to the paper in order to identify the symbolic and the imaginary unconscious reflected in the language spoken.
In the first section ...

Introduction

Statements made prior to making a contract, as a rule, are not binding for the parties. At the same time, false or misleading statements made with the purpose of inducing another to enter into a contract can be found invalid, giving an innocent party the right to various remedies under the law. Under the common law, a victim of misrepresentation may be entitled to rescind the contract. Legislation, such as Australian Consumer Law, sets a pecuniary penalty in the event of breach of any of its provisions relating to consumer guarantees or false/misleading statements. Thus, the relevant case law ...

In the history of human kind, there is probably no such well-known and often used image as a lion symbol. Those beautiful and strong creatures were accompanying mankind during all its known or conscious history, when people became able to comprehend the surrounding environment, fear threats and warship strength of stronger and braver creatures than themselves. It is true that each epoch and culture had its own interpretation of the lion symbol, but attitude to this animal had always showed the human perception of the animal world in general and its place in the surrounding environment. In order to understand the ...

IMMIGRATION CRISIS

Impact of immigration crisis on travel industry
Introduction
The European border has been open for refugees and countries never applied strict restriction on immigrants before the crisis of 2015. Due to globalization, the process of migration has increased, and Europe has to face surge. People due to several reasons started moving from their homelands to Europe. The flow of these immigrants is a mix of extremely complex factors. Even majority of immigrants arriving Europe because of the security reasons, but as the crisis is increasing it has to turn out to be necessary for Europe to take serious measures ( ...

Airline Industry Consolidation

Air travel in Europe remains to the largest and fast growing industry among other travel industries. It enhances faster economic growth, international investment and world trade making it the centre of globalization in other industries (Closs, 2007). With consolidation, separate airline joins their forces on equal or relatively equal terms and form a new company. This is aimed at improving investment returns by cutting down costs and improving productivity gains. Small competing airlines incur high costs and in turn run unprofitable performance. This drives them to join and create smaller number of large companies (Lawton, and Tazeeb, 2011).
Consolidation ...

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Petra in Jordan – a city of dreams

Abstract
Petra is a historical and archaeologicalcity which is located in the Ma’an region of Jordan. It is famous for its original and unique rock cut architecture and its water conduit system. Petra is also known as the Rose City due to the beautiful and original colour of its stone which is carved and hewn out of the rock.
This paper examines the historical aspect of the city in ...

Plato was one of the ancient Greek philosopher. As a matter of fact, Plato was Socrates students, as well as a teacher of Aristotle. His accomplishments and writing explored various fields, which include equality, justice, and equality. Plato also discussed in philosophy, cosmology, epistemology, political philosophy, language, aesthetics, as well as theology. In addition, Plato became the founder and the father of philosophy; this implies that Plato was among the first thinkers and philosophers to systematize mans way of living and the view of life. Plato also accomplishment included the development father-son relationship. He based his arguments on the interest of ...

Abstract

This company deals with the provision of management, operation, and crewing services for a diversified marine fleet, which consists tanker, container and dry cargo vessels for approximately seventy ships with a capacity of close to 8.0 million deadweight tons (dwt). The company was formed in the year 2010 due to a merger between TST and SHL companies, with an aim of expanding services to third party and to continue technical management of existing TST managed fleet.

List of Abbreviations

CFS – Container Freight Station
EU – European Union
TST – Tsakos Shipping and Trading SA
SHL – Schoeller Holdings Ltd
ITM – Institute of Transport Management
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Introduction

The present report delves into the expansion of Carrefour, a leading multinational retailer in the world, into the United Kingdom retail market. The first part of the report describes both the micro and macro environmental factors, which this multinational retailer ought to take into consideration to reduce its risk of failure in the UK market. The second section explains how the UK government policies on mergers and acquisitions can have an impact on Carrefour’s growth strategies in the United Kingdom. The third part elucidates how Carrefour’s management can utilize Kurt Lewin change model of unfreezing, change, and ...

Introduction

The artist’s biography plus the historical context to which an artwork is attached have great significance when it comes to formal analysis. Therefore, formal analysis not only describes the artistic principles incorporated on the artwork but also provides adequate information in terms of the scope and historical interpretation. As such, the analysis helps the reader envision the object in particular so that they may get the entire literature about the piece of art and its significance in the discipline. Among the essential elements, details under formal analysis include; the form, color, and style as well as the compositional ...

The tourism industry is similar to any other economic system. An important feature of this industry is the information about the services and their quality. World experience shows that a service time is a factor determining the success. In a highly competitive environment of the service sector, the organization cannot succeed without using in its operations information technology, improving the quality of customer service. The winner is the one who is able to provide the customer with the full range of services in the shortest period of time, whose site is well optimized, functional and interesting for the user.
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Analysis on Turkey

Overview
Turkey is located at the northeast end of the Mediterranean Sea (southwest Asia and south East Europe). It straddles the continents of Europe and Asia and is just about the size of the state of Texas. Its neighbors include; to the north; Russia, Ukraine and Romania; Greece and Bulgaria to the west. To East are Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran, and lastly, Syria and Iraq to the south.
With close to 75% of the 81 million population being Turkish (2014 CIA estimates), the country survived military coups over the decades until in 2002 when the IMF ...

Dark Ages is the term referred to as the period of cultural and economic regression that occurred in Europe succeeding the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476. This period refers to the Middle Ages, A.D. 450 until A.D 1000 and is called the Dark Ages because it denotes a period of grief, torture and plague. During this era, the Roman territory was divided where Kings and mounted Knights emerged. Vikings and barbarians from northern and central Europe conquered Rome and brought havoc to the fallen empire. Imperialism was replaced with feudal system where citizens were protected inside walled ...

Definition

After the wave of industrialization, wherein factories dominated the landscape and manufacturing was the means by which companies grew, globalization became a byword. Globalization, in simple terms is the internationalization of business, of the products and services attached to it. Globalization is a result of the accessibility of travel, further enhanced by technological advances, which renders physical barriers as non-constraints but simply as geographic facts. Along with this kind of development, businesses were forced to adapt their reach to a global audience, else be devoured by more able competitors. Thus, global strategy was born.
Global strategy is defined as ...

Augustine’s evaluation of his own conduct starts from his childhood memories. He describes his childhood as a period where he was fascinated about learning and trying to understand the speech of his parents. He continues by giving an account of his boyhood then later his adolescent stage. Importantly, was an incident where he stole a fruit, and it remains in his head as an excellent example of malice. At Carthage he was a student, frequently visiting the theatre, was a victim of the lusts of the flesh and was a member of a gang of rowdy students. This is when he read his first ...

IRISH EQUITY LAW

IRISH EQUITY LAW
The Mareva injunction is a very powerful remedy which if improperly invoked will bring about an injustice, something that it was designed to prevent’

Introduction

- Definition of Mareva Injunction:
A Mareva Injunction is defined “as an injunction which freezes a defendant’s assets, preventing their dissipation, and ensuring that they shall be available to the plaintiff, in the event that the plaintiff succeeds in the trial of action.”
In the case of Bank Mellat v Nikpour, the judge described Mareva injunction as “one of the law’s two nuclear weapons”. In O’Mahoney v Horgan ...

Abstract

Obesity is a health condition that has increasingly gained world attention. It is a medical condition characterized by a high body fat, typically a BMI above 30. It is important to note that being overweight does not simply imply being obese. Notably, chronic diseases have been on the increase due to the changing lifestyle that many people have embraced in the world today. In fact, most people in the world today are suffering from lifestyle diseases, most of which are attributed to diet. This dissertation discusses obesity as a chronic disease that has increasingly become a major concern in most parts of the world. The ...

Book report: Gates of Fire

Reconstructing the details of the battles, which took place long-long time ago, not even in the new era is not an easy thing for historians, not to mention authors who struggle to describe the course of events both authentically and vividly. However, Steven Pressfield managed to create a novel, seen through the eyes of the only survivor Xeones in the battle of Thermopylae in the year 480 B.C. In other words, the book to be presented here is ‘Gates of Fire’ written in 1998 in the genre of the historical fiction.
The name ‘Gates of Fire’ or as some ...

Problem Definition

Paqua Group is a European – based organization, with subsidiaries activating in seven countries in Central and South – Eastern Europe, specialized in debt collection and debt purchase. Being a relative new player on the collection market, the company is seeking new opportunities for positioning as one of the strongest competitors on this market and in the same time it faces the challenges imposed by the economic and financial climate. As such, due to the economic crisis and the continuous financial and economic instabilities that define the 21st century Europe, the company’s activity is facing challenges, as well as opportunities to grow. ...

Executive summary

MathCAD is a crucial tool for applying in mathematics and especially mathematics for engineering. The software provides an environment of inherent interactivity with scratchpad, real math notation, automatic recalculation and fully integrated project components. MathCAD yields results when making crucial calculations. This is achieved through integration of text, math and graphics into a single worksheet. This in turn, is visualized, illustrated and annotated in all the calculations. MathCAD runs in computer operating systems like MS Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7and windows 8.

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Activity procedures.3
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Matrices9

Conclusion 13
Objectives
Activity procedures
- Load the MathCAD software
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Abstract For Six Small Research about Linguistics

This analysis discusses about nationalism and the conflict countries such as Yugoslavia, Serbia and Croatia have faced conflict because citizens in the countries want to gain national identity. This analysis illustrates the conflict Serbia and Croatia had, and how the battlefield has shifted into the dictionaries. The dictionary battle conflict illustrates the use of the Serbo-Croatian language. This language has three key languages based on the word for what in each form of language. The languages include the Stokavian, kajkavan and Cakavian. Stokavian on the other hand, had three different dialects known as Ekavian, Ijekavian, and Ikavian emanating from a ...

In this paper we try to look and examine the Roman numeral system. We shall be able to take a close look at the history, their use and importance that range from the time of their invention to the present day writing.
The history of Roman numerals follows the history of the state of Rome itself and it is documented that it started at the Latin Palatine Hill from around the 8th and 9th Century BC and it also traced to its fall in the 2nd Century AD following the civil war, plague, civil apathy and to the rise ...

Introduction

What is international trade and how is international trade significant to a mature, robust economy such as that of the United Kingdom’s. We know that experts say that international trade is an essential cog that keeps the wheels of the economy turning, and that wheel is an essential contributor to keeping the global economic machine in motion. It is therefore imperative that the concept of International Trade be fully understood and presented with respect to the UK economy and the world.

P10: The Significance of International Trade to UK Business Organisations

International trade is defined as the exchange of goods and services between two or more countries (Investopedia, 2013). ...

ART AND ARCHTECTURE

The Villa Almerico Capra, designed by the architect Andrea Palladio, is popularly known as the Villa La Rotonda. The structure is well known and is now recognized as a UNESCO historical site.1 Palladio has been described as “the world’s most imitated architect” by the architectural historian, James Ackerman.2
Thomas Jefferson was inspired by the Villa Americo when he designed the rotonda at his home in Monticello.3 Art and architecture meet in the most beautifully designed villa in the world Villa Americo Capra. A rotunda most simply defined is a circular room topped by a dome but the Villa La Rotonda ...

The movie revolves around a famous commander and ruler in the Greek history named Alexander the great. The movie shows how the leader was ruthless in battling his enemies and his quest to expand his empire. In his battles, he was actively involved unlike other emperors who sent soldiers to the battle and remained behind. From a tender age of 25 years, he was muscular enough to fight in battles.
In the introductory part of the movie, he is depicted as a young determined soldier from the Greeks. He fought in many battles and expanded his territory. His only obstacle to ...

Introduction:

The father of history’ of history as called him, Herodotus was an ancient writer who was among the pioneers towards the approach of the reporting of history in skeptical and more logical way. He endeavored to identify myths and events as well as separate them and after identifying his sources, made points out of them by realizing his trust or not realizing. His article the ‘Histories’ is among the widely read accounts of ancient realities, legends and in particular, among the ancient Greece’s Persian invasion.

Dubbed as the ‘father of scientific history’, Thucydides, a Greek historian author is also a ...