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Genocide
... and kill thousands of innocent people just because of their ethnicity, race or religion. The political leaders who committed do not seem very smart to me because strong and powerful countries do not differentiate between colour and religion. Equality is the most important aspect leading to a united, strong country despite the different races or religions in that country. Instead of killing, chasing and dividing up their countries, these leaders should have created a powerful and united country.
To fully understand , one must first try to define it. is “the effort to destroy the essential foundations of the lif ...
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A Comparison Between Roman Soc
... cities were slaves.
Education is another part of these cultures. In Pompeii, many of the citizens were literate and schooling began at an early age. In Achen, even Charlemange couldn’t read or write, although he made repeated attempts to revive learning. The people who were literate were mainly monks.
Religion is another difference between the cultures. In Pompeii, religion was based on polytheism, whereas in Achen it was monotheistic because most were Christian. From religion comes another aspect, that of tolerance. In Achen, there was no tolerance or acceptance of other religions. In Pompeii, they ...
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Info On Ww1
... it got out of splendid isolation. The armies first form of fighting was by using the cavalry but know with the invention of the machine guns these were quickly mowed down and in this way millions of people lost their lives. The only way for the armies to have some type of protection from the machine guns was to dig trenches. Someone even said that the most important weapon the soldiers had was their shovel. In the following years many waves of charges were made over the top of No Mans Land and nearly every single one was shot down and died. This type of warfare had never ever been seen by the army and some people cl ...
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ASSATA Shakur
... perspectives of the black white conflict. She learned false history of the slave period in the U.S., thinking Lincoln supported the slave liberation act, when actually it was a misconception created for brainwashing. The union including Lincoln fought the Civil War only in their own interests; it was a war between two economic systems for control of the u.s. by two separate factions of the ruling class. Further, Assata was educated as a child that the slaves hadn't fought back, yet truly was, hundred of black people had got together to fight for their freedom.
Much of Assata's revolutionary inspiration came abou ...
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Titanic
... from one to three days to sink, time for nearby ships to help,
because there was only 16 lifeboats. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that
way.
On April 14th, 1912 at about 7:30, at the first ominous hint of disaster
has came. Into the earphones of the wireless operator on duty came amessage from
the steamer California: Three large bergs five miles southward from us. But the
Titanic continued to rush through the deepening darkness. The temperature was
one degree above freezing. When lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee had
come on duty at 10 P.M., the sky was cloudless and the air clear. At around
1 ...
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The Atomic Bomb And The Manhattan Project
... “It may be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated…. It is conceivable, though much less certain, that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed.” His letter was the inspiration for the atomic bomb. Although it took a while for Roosevelt to realize what we had stumbled upon, his close friend Alexander Sachs helped him realize the possibilities. Two years later in November Roosevelt appointed a committee to advise him on nuclear fission and the capabili ...
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Immigrants And The United
... from history of immigration and evidences from recent studies.
In the introductory of his article Kennedy writes about a new source of immigrants that comes to the America in the nineteenth century. Those immigrants come from the nine none European countries called “the third world or less developed countries.” He then compares the America’s population growth with the Latin America’s population growth, and he says that our population growth still 4 times less than the Latin America’s population growth. He also says that the America now still has a very small number of immigrant, he says: “I ment ...
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Chuck Close
... time. He enlarged and transferred the photographic images to canvas by a process of grids. Close didn't want to make Pop posters of famous people. liked to use a grid method where he drew each portion of the paintings on a grid, block for block making near perfect replicas of the photo or he would make abstract pictures.
Linda is a very realistic piece made with acrylic and pencil on canvas. Close drew it exactly as a photo very clear around the face, eyes, nose, and mouth. However the outside of the hair, the cheek, the neck and below are all blurred. Just as in a photo. Linda is a middle age woman with brown curly ...
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The French Revolution
... a royal fortress and hated symbol of oppression. A series of elected legislatures then took control of the government. King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were executed. Thousands of others met the same fate in a period known as the Reign of Terror. The revolution ended when Napoleon Bonaparte, a French general, took over the government.
At the beginning of the revolution, events seemed minor and proceeded in a logical fashion. One of the reasons the revolution originated was the discontent among the lower and middle classes in France. By law, society was divided in to three groups called estates. ...
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Historical Relations Between T
... They adapted European technology to the wilderness, through innovations such as the Red River Cart and York Boat, making it possible to transport large volumes of goods and supplies to and from the far flung outposts of the fur trade. As people of mixed ancestry increased in number and married amongst themselves, they developed a new culture, neither European nor Indian, but a fusion of the two and a new identity as Metis.
By the mid 19th century, Metis villages had appeared in and around fur trade posts from the Great Lakes to the Mackenzie Delta. Then, as now, Metis communities shared a common outlook sh ...
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