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World War I Essays and Term Papers
Sparta: Uncultured DisciplineThe Spartans were the most formidable warriors in all of history. They
dedicated their entire lives to warfare. They were taught to endure cold, hunger,
pain, their courage on the battlefield was second to none. The Spartan code was
to fight hard, follow orders without question and to die rather ...
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American Impressionismby Chris Nicholson In the years following the Civil War, American art underwent a fundamental shift. The traditional Romantic style of painting, which focused on portraying majestic scenes in stark, vivid lines and shapes, gave way to a new concern for light and atmosphere. It was the age of ...
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Summary Of 1984The story begins with Winston, the main character, coming back to
his apartment from his job at the Ministry of Truth. Winston¹s job was to
change recorded events, predictions made by the Party, and documents to
make then ³correct². In actuality his job was to falsify history to
whatever was in ...
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Ireland, History And NatureYou stand on the top of the valley. Down, far below you, you see a brook, windind it's way through the valley. As you are thirsty you go down there. And while the wind are blowing upon the green fields you suddenly notice a deer.
Standing on the other side of the valley, it's carefully watching ...
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African CultureWhen W.E.B. Du Bois announced in his marvelous work Souls of Black Folk, that the "problem of the 20th Century is the color line . . ." immediately he set out a social and analytical paradigm that instantly recognized that the major racial problem in America was that existing between Blacks and ...
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Lysistrata -“There is no beast as shameless as a woman”
Aristophanes was a craft comedy poet in the fourth century B.C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes’ usual style was to be satirical, and suggesting the eccentric. The most absurd and humorous of Aristophanes’ ...
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Mexico, in full United Mexican States (Spanish Estados Unidos Mexicanos), federal republic in North America, bounded on the north by the United States; on the east by the United States, the Gulf of , and the Caribbean Sea; on the south by Belize and Guatemala; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. ...
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All Quiet On The Western FrontIn his novel, , Remarque depicts a transition in the nature of reality from idealism to realism and naturalism. This transition takes place at different parts of his novel, and to different degrees. At the beginning of the novel, on page 12, we see through Paul Bäumer’s comments regarding ...
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Freedom And RevolutionIn 1922 Emma Goldman complained Soviet Russia, had become the modern
socialist Lourdes, to which the blind and the lame, the deaf and the dumb
were flocking for miraculous cures(1). The Russian Revolution was the first
occasion where decades of revolutionary ideas could be applied to real ...
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Courage Under FireIn 1991, millions of people tuned in to CNN to observe a real life and death drama played out in the cities and deserts of Iraq. For the United States, the war was more or less a display of power and a preservation of economic interest. Nobody was to ever hear of the mishaps and foul-ups of the ...
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Communism: OverviewCommunism is the belief that everyone in a society should be equal and
share their wealth. It is an outgrowth of socialism and Anabaptism (Laski 45).
It became a firmly rooted term after the Russian Revolution of 1917. According
to the words of Karl Marx, "From each according to his ability, to ...
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John Wilkes Boothwas a very notorious person. Mostly people think about him assassinating Abe Lincoln, but he was a very famous actor and had a very interesting life.
He was born on May 10, 1838, in Bel Air, Maryland, in a log cabin. His parents, Junius Brutus Booth and Mary Ann Holmes, had been married in England ...
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Joan Of Arc As A LeaderThere have been many leaders over the course of time, some have been successful and some have not, some have been good leaders and some have been bad. To decipher between the two is difficult if the definition for "leader" is unknown. A leader is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as: ...
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When Obedience Goes AwryStephen Gerrick
Professor Diamond
ENC 1101
30 March 2010
When Obedience Goes Awry
Instances of obedience to authority, regardless of consequences, are plentiful in the history of humanity. When widely held morals are ignored in the face of orders from superiors, the effects are ...
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Constantine’s Struggle with Himself and His EmpireSincere people are always a joy to be around, because you do not feel like you have to protect yourself in their presence, unless you were in the presence of the Roman Emperor Constantine, who was unpredictable in his display of sincerity and humanitarian actions. As Roman Emperor, Constantine ...
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Candide's Satire Of Enlightenment ThinkersThe political and social environments of the Enlightenment were revolutionary, both in thought and in action. Philosophes embodied the term “Age of Reason” and critically questioned traditional theories, customs, and morals. Among these, was the theory of optimism, which was often linked to a ...
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Europe as Simulacrum - Vojislav Despotov, Europe Number TwoVojislav Despotov’s short novel Europe Number Two captures readers’ attention from the first to the last page. Despotov, Serbian novelist, introduces us to a game of imagination and reality, creation and destruction, secrets, conspiracies and revelations by combining fictional narration, ...
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Pablo Escobar“The Legend of Pablo Escobar”
One of the greatest outlaws known to mankind, a manipulative individual of power, prestige, and violence, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord who took his leadership of one of the most influential criminal organizations in history to more ...
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The Cuban Missile CrisisThe Cuban Missile Crisis: Looking Down the Gun Barrel
Merin Cook Junior Division Research Paper
The Cuban Missile Crisis is one of the most documented events in history, so why has history gotten it so wrong? Titles like Maximum Danger and On the Brink of Doom represent common attitudes ...
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