... elf by the name of Santa Claus. But in this day and age, where anyone can record anything he or she wants to, will any of the present day lords and prophets shine as brightly through the shroud of mythology and time as the ones of old? In 500 years - providing anyone is still alive to care - a few men and women will stand out against the haze of time and represent the twentieth century. If there is a group, among them will be at least man involved in World War II. Roosevelt, Churchill, Tojo and Hitler -especially Hitler - are all candidates for the group because of their involvements in the bloodiest wars o ...

... tragedies of ancient Greece such as Oedipus the King, Antigone, and Medea. Life is seen as a fate determined by the person and their choices rather than by the gods. This path the character takes, is often directed by the character's flaws or the great error he makes, often leading to his downfall. Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, starts off describing the famine, disease and poverty stricken Thebes. The town is in ruins because of a great error made by Oedipus. He had followed the specific prediction of the oracle he had originally tried so hard to change. This error being he killed his father and married ...

... invasion of Sicily, the invasion of Normandy was in total history's greatest amphibious operation, involving on the first day 5,000 ships, the largest armada ever assembled; 11,000 aircraft (following months of preliminary bombardment); and approximately 154,000 British, Canadian and American soldiers, including 23,000 arriving by parachute and glider. The invasion also involved a long-range deception plan on a scale the world had never before seen and the clandestine operations of tens of thousands of Allied resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied countries of western Europe. American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was ...

... in this colony and it helped establish themselves in trade. They had an upper hand to England. Warm weather all year-round made it easier to farm on the fresh soil. Tobacco was easy to grow and it became very important to them. Virginia became a stable economy where large plantations were developed. The people who worked in this land were indentured servants, and when these people became unhappy with their work and were close to rebelling, slaves from Africa were brought to this colony. Economics was important in establishing the Virginia colony. In Maryland, an owner/leader took the ownership of the land. ...

... with the knowledge that he could possess. In this case, he is unarguably a medieval tragic hero. However, when considering the fact that he died for the sake of gaining knowledge, pushing the limits of what is possible in spite of obvious limitations and, eventually, paying the ultimate penalty, he could be considered a Renaissance martyr. These two points of view have their obvious differences, and depending on from what time period one chooses to place this piece of literature varies the way that the play is viewed. However, the idea of considering him a martyr has many flaws, several of which are eviden ...

... Warren Commission has been criticized over and over for being poorly executed; an allegation which, after one reads the countless articles and volumes on the investigation, can hardly be disputed. In this paper I will attempt to point out the inconsistencies in the Warren Commission Report, as well as summarizing several of the most widely accepted and controversial theories of conspiracy in the assassination. On September 27, 1964, The Warren Commission released a report consisting of 888 pages which stated that the committee had come to the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone as the sole assassin of ...

... started a few days before on April 15th with the bombing of Cuba by what appeared to be defecting Cuban air force pilots. At 6 a.m. in the morning of that Saturday, three Cuban military bases were bombed by B-26 bombers. The airfields at Camp Libertad, San Antonio de los Baos and Antonio Maceo airport at Santiago de Cuba were fired upon. Seven people were killed at Libertad and forty-seven people were killed at other sites on the island. Two of the B-26s left Cuba and flew to Miami, apparently to defect to the United States. The Cuban Revolutionary Council, the government in exile, in New York City released ...

... with the cold war and nuclear weapons. "A " deals with moral judgment and the thought of taking it away from someone. The pattern here to me is very clear. Kubrick liked to dive into subjects that are very controversial and gave his own opinion in the form of a movie. A is filled with a lot of hidden meaning and satire, which is what I’m going to discuss in this essay. The movie itself doesn’t mention when or where this took place. But since it was shot in London during 1960, much of the culture of that time is shown throughout the movie. As I stated earlier the movie starts out by showing four young ...

... act on stage, or the sale of their album has been condemned as illegal. The troubling fact about music censorship is that music is considered to be an art form, and there are certain laws set up to protect art from being censored. People should have the right to choose what type of music they want to listen to in this country. Censorship is the control of what people may say or hear, write or read, or see or do. Censorship can affect books, newspapers, magazines, motion pictures, radio and television programs, and speeches.� (World Book 345) Most of the early problems with the censorship of music came about ...

... on the already existing techniques and then after this recreation, a surpassing of them. The Italian revival of antiquity was connected to the newfound concept of humanism. The humanistic approach, was the cause of the studying of classic Pagan authors, therefore explaining the influence it had on many compositions. The origin of the Italian Renaissance can be identified to the very end of the medieval period. The latter part of the era "was one that seemed to have one foot planted in the Middle Ages and the other in the emerging Renaissance (Fleming, 248)." In approximately 1305, the visionary Giotto bega ...