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Politics
Military intervention as a tool of foreign policy
Several Western governments are at odds with the public feeling on the war in Iraq. Governments in the US and the UK are riding a wave of public antipathy over the continuing war in Iraq. The recent electoral defeats, in Italy and Spain, of governments supporting the war shows that the public opinion is slowly, but certainly, shifting towards a more realistic approach of the problems in the Middle East.
Using the Internet is a social act
The act of using the Internet to connect to a vast network of computers offering access to information, contacts and much more is a social act that entitles us to a number of rights but also subjects us to a number of responsibilities that are inherent to any social act.
History
The Roman Army
The Roman Army started as an hoplite army. It was composed of citizens that were affluent enough to pay for the equipment of a heavy infantryman. The recruiting base of the Roman Army were the Roman citizen farmers who formed the basis of the Roman political establishment.
Greek colonization in Italy and its impact on early Roman history
The first Greek colony on Italian soil was Pythecusae or Aenaria on the island of Ischia. It was created by Euboean settlers on this island off the northern tip of the Bay of Naples, around 770BC. The settlement prospered in trade with the peoples of the mainland and within one generation it had become an important, flourishing community.
Urbanization in the Early Roman History
This is one of the developments that came as a result of the influence of the Greek world in the early history of Italy. It is a long and phased process that took time to develop and it probably started at around the 9th to 8th centuries BC.
Odysseus as seen by Agamemnon
We emerged from the back of the palace to look down on farm lands spreading away in all directions; the centre of Ithaka was more fertile than its rim. As we were about to descend the steps an old woman appeared from nowhere, holding a babe.
Society
The Militarisation of Police forces in the US
A very clear shift towards more violent tactics is evident in police forces all around the US in recent years. Deadly force is being used more often, against a wider variety of people and in a wider variety of situations and within a wider context. The US is not the only power in history that begins to suffer such problems however. This article tries to present this situation in a wider historical and social context.
Technology
The need to separate data, business logic and presentation
Corporations with large amounts of data that are being shared through large-scale web-based applications in offices all around the world often face issues with performance as response times become longer and more complex to deal with.
How to
Activate your clear type in windows xp/2003
If you are a Windows XP user you can enhance the way in which fonts appear on your screen by turning the Clear Type font rendering engine on. Clear Type is a new font rendering engine included in Windows XP/2003/Vista that enhances the way fonts are displayed and offers increased readability for all the features of your operating system.
Install and configure the Microsoft IIS in Windows XP
Windows includes an excellent web server that is steadily gaining ground against its Open Source rivals such as Apache. This article describes in detail how to install and configure the Microsoft IIS under Windows XP Professional.
Install an SSL Enabled Apache Web Server
There are many reasons why you might want to run the Apache web server under Windows. Times have changed and, presently, Windows and Apache run efficiently together. This article will provide with detailed instructions on how to install and configure an SSL-enabled Apache installation under Windows.