Hiroshima, The World Is No Lon
.... Joliot-Curie became part of the Communist party. In 1951 he was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize for his work in the field of chemistry. He Later died in 1958, only a few years later.
There had been a secret rush in America to create a nuclear bomb. The base of this project was Los Alamos, New Mexico. The government had come in and taken over the small town, invading it with research centers and different government projects. From 1939 to 1962 it was used by the US Government as a base for at .....
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King Arthur And The Catholic C
.... Church is the Holy Grail. The Grail was said to be the cup that Jesus used at the Last Supper and at the Crucifixion to have received blood flowing from Christ's side. At the round table there was an extra seat reserved for the finder of the Holy Grail. The grail was an important object in King Arthur’s Court because whoever did find it was considered a great knight. The church also thought the Holy Grail to be an important object because of its spiritual value and its importance in the history of the ch .....
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Roe V. Wade
.... a person has an undeniable right to freedom. They stated that the fetus has a right to freedom guaranteed by this amendment.
After hearing both sides of this case the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jane Roe. They stated that women have a fundamental right to abortion. They also stated that the fetus wasn’t a life until the first trimester of pregnancy. Due to this case and the ruling of it all states have legalized abortion.
This case has greatly influenced the world today. The changed of t .....
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Civil Disobedience
.... fear of death, at that moment you
are free. You must say somehow, I don't have
much money; I don't have much education; I may
not be able to read and write, but I have the
capacity to die.4
When the demonstrators marched, they were jailed. When they were released from jail they marched again. The blacks of Birmingham, with the aid of King, united together against the common enemy of racism. When King was imprisoned, he wrote Letter From Birmingham Jail, explaining the philosophy of .....
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Julius Ceasar
.... Roman
armies, first in 87 BC by the leaders of the populares, his uncle Marius
and Cinna.. Cinna was killed the year that Caesar had married Cinna’s
daughter Cornelia. The second attack upon the city was carried our by
Marius’ enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter’s
return from the East. On each occasion the massacre of political
opponents was followed by the confiscation of their property. The
proscriptions of Sulla, which preceded the reactionary political
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Deng Xiaoping
.... to reflect upon the accomplishments and failures of a man who has influenced today’s China; and to present it all in an interesting, yet refreshingly honest way. I will look at three aspects of Deng Xiaoping’s life: First, the story of his youth and family, from when he was born until his return from France and Moscow, 1927. Second, a look at his beginnings in the Chinese Communist Party from 1927 to 1949, its struggle, and his rise. And finally, a look at his recent accomplishments and failures and wh .....
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Arthurian Legend
.... Wart is ordered to stand next to the cage of a crazy hawk who almost kills him. On the other hand, her seasoned age brings respect, since she had not been released once she outlived her usefulness as a hunter. This allows her to maintain a powerful grip over all the birds she rules through fear and respect.
In Wart’s next make over Wart is transformed into an ant and posted within an ant colony. There is a single leader of the ants, and she is the only thinking individual in the whole nest. .....
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George III, Our Last King
.... then found Lord North. North's association with George, however, would be disasterous to England and very fortunate for America. North tried to be released from the king's side, but George refused, knowing that doing so would lead to the downfall of himself and his people.
George III was eventually forced to set America free. He is considered one of the worst kings in the history of England for he let go a country that has become one of the most powerful in the world today. If he had not don .....
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The True American Cowboy
.... support a booming new frontier. Previously untaught skills such as riding, roping, and branding could not simply be acquired by the average American. Athletic, rugged men were needed to settle the West. However, these men also needed inborn courage and quick thinking to utilize these skills effectively. The general public, however, under the influence of decades of "Western" movies and television shows have created an imagery of these "men of the west" or "cowboys" that is extremely inaccurate. Amer .....
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Mummification
.... embalmers used a hook to either take the brain out
piece by piece, or used the hook to stir the brain until it was liquefied. If it was liquefied they would turn the body face down so that the brain would spill out of the nostrils. The reason the Egyptians were so rough with the brain because they didn’t think that the brain had a lot of importance in the persons body. They thought that it was just there to produce snot. Instead of the Egyptians thinking that the brain was where everyone got their inte .....
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Impact Of The Renaissance
.... After the fourteenth century was characterised by the growing
national consciousness and political centralisation based on organised
commerce and capitalism, along with the secular control of thought and culture.
It was in Italy from around the time 1375 to the sack of Rome (1527) that
the distinctive features and impacts of the renaissance era are revealed.
(Internet 1)
Italy having a geographic advantage, laying in the centre of the commerce
between the east and .....
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Historical Relations Between T
.... 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 shaped by their historical circumstances. As provisioners to the North West Company, the Metis of the prairies organized the commercial buffalo hunt. They left their permanent settlements periodically, electing a provisional government for each ex .....
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Cicero
.... wisdom, sin resides with resisting the natural order (or nature). The stoics also tell of a rational plan in nature; our role was to live in accord with this plan. The natural order was filled with divinity, and all things possess a divine nature. This natural order was god, and thus the universe was god; the Greek and roman pathos were simply beliefs forged by superstition. The stoics also had a great indifference towards life, in the regard that the natural plan cannot be changed. This attitude made stoi .....
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The Spread Of Christianity
.... the apostle traveled to Ephesus and holds a revival at the church. In Ephesus, Paul preached to the people about the Holy Spirit. He also went to Macedonia to visit the troubled church in Corinth. This church had a problem about turning away from God. He stayed there for three months preaching and teaching the gospel.
Paul's fourth voyage was to Rome and this voyage was about to fulfill God's plan. Since he was jailed in Jerusalem and Caesarea, the apostle appealed to Caesar and was sent to Rome. .....
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The Rise Of Communism In Russi
.... would end, according
to Marx, in the socialist revolution and the attainment of full
communism (Groiler's Encyclopedia).
Socialism, of which "Marxism-Leninism" is a takeoff, originated
in the West. Designed in France and Germany, it was brought into
Russia in the middle of the nineteenth century and promptly attracted
support among the country's educated, public-minded elite, who at that
time were called intelligentsia (Pipes, 21). After Revolution broke
out over Europe in 1848 .....
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