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- 351: Religions
- ... thousand years ago, when Islamic peoples first threatened the western world. As they slowly undermined Byzantine authority, Christians became terrified of their presence, resulting in widespread animosity and aversion. Hindus and Buddhists of the South Asian subcontinent lived under Islamic law for hundreds of years (Ahmad, et. al., 186), and eventually, in the twentieth century, split the region into angry factions (Ahmad, et. al., 207). Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, was ... Allah, as Christians often did. The Muslims were tolerant of both foreign religions, peoples, and traders. They welcomed Far Eastern merchants into their territory. In India, while they did militarily gain control of the South Asian subcontinent, they never forced conversion, nor did they enter the territory with a religious intent. Indeed, the reason that the Hindu and Muslim clashes arose was based on religious differences, which were largely initiated by ...
- 352: "Woe be to thee, O Constantinople, seated on seven hills, thou shall not continue a thousand years"
- ... of the Roman Empire in the East. Being the strongest defense against Asia, the Byzantine Empire received a tremendous blow from the Latin conquest. The main forces of the East Empire were spent withstanding the Asian hordes which were pushed by the Tartar immigration westward. It was continuously weakened by the fight on two fronts. From the North it had for years to resist the constant blows of Bulgarians, Comans, Patchinaks ... This is why even after the Byzantine empire has literally slaughtered and totally destroyed numerous and powerful armies of Turks, the struggle was never ending. The final effect was the loss not only of its Asian territories but by the time of the siege of Constantinople in 1453, the city was standing alone as the only remained territory of the Empire. Another significant factor that contributed to the downfall of Constantinople ...
- 353: Fidal Castro
- ... has shown itself to have far reaching consequences. Washington's failure to achieve its goal in Cuba provided the catalyst for Russia to seek an advantage and install nuclear missiles in Cuba. The resulting "missile crisis" in 1962 was the closest we have been to thermonuclear war. America's gain may have been America's loss. A successful Bay of Pigs may have brought the United States one advantage. The strain ... South and Central America had such control of American foreign policy as to almost topple the Presidency in the recent Iran - Contra affair. As a result the U.S. government has once again faced a crisis which threatens to destroy its credibility in foreign affairs. All because of one man with a cigar. In concluding I would like to state my own feelings on the whole affair as they formed in ...
- 354: Anna Karenina
- ... becomes the basic truth which makes him___ a living human being capable of love. While on the other hand, Vronsky takes on the role of Karenin, he is unable to deal with Anna's deathbed crisis and even goes as far as attempting to suicide. This awareness of life-in-death provides the climax of the novel, with the main characters perceiving the truth from the heights of their emotional intensity. Hate and deceit no longer exist in the presence of death, and the three characters live in a moment of pure innocence. Yet as the crisis ends, and everything returns to normality, Anna, Vronsky and Karenin return to their old ways to live in that world of delusion. Anna and Vronsky continues with their ill-fated love, while Karenin despite his ...
- 355: Analysis Of Jack Turners The A
- ... He thinks that the behavior of the white pelican is another insight into the idea of the wild. The main idea of chapter six is that one of the main roots of the modern environmental crisis is the mistake of wilderness for wildness. It was Henry David Thoreau who was first mistaken. Thoreau was an American pioneer of the wild. His most famous quote is In Wildness is the preservation of ... society. Although some were concerned with environmental issues, most of their battles were fought within the anthropocentric realm. Maybe our best fight to preserve wild nature lies in the hands of our youth. The environmental crisis is in need of a modern counter-culture. It needs a generation that could regain power through autonomy, non-conformity, and a new language. Starting from where their predecessors ended, this new counter-culture would ...
- 356: Modern Day Sweatshops
- "A land rich in beauty. " This is how a considerable number of people view today's Asian culture. A region with a booming economy, and a scenic view at every tur4n. It truly is a beautiful place, a beautiful place blocked from the view of factory workers by the soot covered windows ... stop work due to acetone poisoning and overwork. (AMRC) Twenty five of the workers collapse, and three were admitted to the hospital for emergency medical treatment. Another Issue in today's society has been the Asian factories that produce Nike sneakers. The owners have just recently agreed to clean the working conditions and put in proper ventilation. As wretched as we now know these sweatshops to be, most of the women ...
- 357: Refuge Camps
- Refuge Camps There is a foreboding and ongoing crisis facing several third world countries today. This crisis is the rising amount of famine and health ailments that affect hundreds of thousands of individuals that face malnutrition, poverty, and several other serious problems that you will find in developing countries. Countless diseases plague ...
- 358: Landfills - Fact Is More Ominous Than Fiction
- ... York metro area, paved roads in and out of city parks, and development of Jones Beach, now the most polluted, dirty, overcrowded piece of shoreline in the Northeast. In Stewart Udall's book The Quiet Crisis, the former Secretary of the Interior lavishes praise on Moses. The JFK cabinet member calls Jones Beach "an imaginative solution ... (the) supreme answer to the ever-present problems of overcrowding" [Udall 163-4]. JFK's ... this foreboding passage: "Each generation must deal anew with the raiders, with the scramble to use public resources for private profit, and with the tendency to prefer short-run profits to long-run necessities. The crisis may be quiet, but it is urgent" [Udall xii]. Oddly, the subject of landfills is never broached in Udall's book; in 1963, the issue was, in fact, a non-issue. A modern state-of ...
- 359: Analysis Of The French Revolut
- ... Louis XVI came into power, he realized that these problems existed. At first he did not know what to do, until he found a man by the name of Robert Turgot. He eased the financial crisis of France, but he had difficulties when he tried to introduce a major reform, that of taxing the nobles. He had such difficulties because the king could not tax the nobles unless the Parliament approved ... The Estates General was the place where representatives from each social class could be represented. Here, many issues would be discussed, and at this time in French history, it would be centered around the economic crisis. When the Estates General met in 1789, the deputies, or representatives, from the Third Estate demanded that the three estates meet together, with each deputy having an equal vote. That way, the First and Second ...
- 360: Crazy Horse
- ... country. The Indians didallow whites to use the Bozeman Trail just as they allowedimmigrants to use the Holy Road. The U.S. Government had an obligation to protect its citizens but not to provoke a crisis.They did create a crisis when they established forts in the heartof Oglala territory. After conquering the confederates the U.S.Army was full of optimism and wanted desperately to have an allout war to exterminate the Sioux. Although the ...
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