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- 1731: The Theories of Hobbes and Locke
- ... do what is in our best interest, whether it be killing an intruder, lying in order to gain an advantage over another person, or worse, all of which add up to a state of continual war, fear, and chaos. Similarly, in the sense that we do what is in our best interest, Hobbes says that at one point in time we decided to voluntarily and mutually transfer our rights to another person or group in an attempt to get out of that miserable state of war. Hobbes also contends that if there is not a power to keep people in awe, they will continually be in war against each other. In other words, there is no security without a system such as our own, with consequences for actions that infringe on the rights of others. The crucial part of this system ...
- 1732: President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative: In Relation With the Soviet Union
- ... changed the world, for the good and the bad. Though the bad, is far greater than the good. We sometimes ponder to our selves, "what would happen if we were forced in to a nuclear war ware their are now winners." The way life would be after such an incident would change life as we know it drastically. In the event of a nuclear war with the Soviets we would have lost approximately one hundred and fifty million American lives. 2 The planet would be destroyed to the extent that even thoughts who survived would have no place to live. No Government, or persons, can win a nuclear war and as long as their are nuclear missiles of mass destruction there will always be the risk of someone using them. Once the first missile is unleashed their is no telling were it would ...
- 1733: Sparta
- ... To keep the large number of slaves from rising up against them, the Spartans had to make and maintain a strong military force. One of the more major wars Sparta was in was the Peloponnesian War. This war lasted for twenty-seven years, with a six year truce also. The war started in about 451 B.C. The war began as a dispute between Athens and Corinth. Sparta and some other Greek city-states soon formed an alliance with Corinth out of resentment of Athens. ...
- 1734: Standardized Testing As A War
- Standardized Testing As A War A number two pencil and a calculator are all you need for your fight against the world. Each student is a soldier among hundred of thousands, marching in a powerful wall towards the enemy. All ...
- 1735: Creative Writing: Conquest
- ... communist rule again; they were willing to die for their freedom. The U.S.S.R was unable to persuade the remaining components to rejoin them in their conquest and they were hasty to declare war on their counterparts. With war waging in Eastern Europe the United Nations took action. The leader of Russia's communist party and president rejected the UN's cease-fire treaty. Russia was expelled from the United Nations early the next ... defense minister's secretary, his name was Josef Koslov. Koslov was rumored to be a man obsessed with genocide, he was brutal and restless. * * * "A very sloppy job, know who did it?" The Secretary of War asked one of his friends employed by the Central Intelligence Agency. "Not a clue," he replied, "we suspect corrupted KGB. We know the IRA wouldn't get their nose in this." "Are you positive ...
- 1736: The Glass Menagerie: Internal War
- The Glass Menagerie: Internal War Tom faces many conflicts on his way to fulfilling his desires for life. He lives with his mother and sister in a dimly lit apartment, which is surrounded by alleys in the flats of St ...
- 1737: All Ouiet On The Western Front: What Opinion Of War Does This Book Present
- All Ouiet On The Western Front: What Opinion Of War Does This Book Present All Quiet on the Western Front presents a feeling of love as well a feeling of suffering for the soldiers. Their old lives had to come to a complete stop so ...
- 1738: A Summary of the Plot of the Iliad
- ... with his troops from the rest of the Achaeans. He calls upon his mother, the sea-nymph Thetis, to assist him. She, in turn, begs Zeus to avenge Achilles by turning the tide of the war against the Achaeans. After some hesitation Zeus grants her prayer. His wife Hera is furious and argues vehemently with him. Hephaestus, their son, restores harmony between them. Book II: Zeus sends a dream to Agamemnon ... of the Achaean states to the expedition. Next we are given a list of Trojan forces by nations. Book III: The armies line up for battle. Hector, the Trojan champion, intervenes to suggest that the war be determined by single combat between Menelaus and Paris, the former and current husbands of Helen. The goddess Iris is sent to summon Helen to witness the fight. Helen walks along the battlements of Troy ... in Paris' arms. Meanwhile, Agamemnon, on the grounds of Paris' defeat, demands that the agreement be carried out and that Helen be restored to the Achaeans. Book IV: The gods in council decide that the war must continue, and Athene is sent down by Zeus to break the truce. She does so by making Pandarus shoot an arrow at Menelaus. His wound is healed by Machaon. A contingent of Trojans ...
- 1739: The First Atomic Test
- ... Test On Monday morning July 16, 1945, the world was changed forever when the first atomic bomb was tested in an isolated area of the New Mexico desert. Conducted in the final month of World War II by the top-secret Manhattan Engineering District, this test was code named Trinity. The Trinity test took place on the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, about 230 miles south of the Manhattan Project's ... Mexico. Today this 3,200 square mile range, partly located in the desolate Jornada del Muerto Valley, is named the White Sands Missile Range and is actively used for non-nuclear weapons testing. Before the war the range had been public and private grazing land that had always been thinly populated. During the war it was even more lonely and deserted because the ranchers had vacated their homes in January 1942. They left because the land had been withdrawn by the War Department for use as an artillery ...
- 1740: Native Americans
- ... squaw dance of the Navajos was a social dance in which both men and women took part. Originally it came at the end of elaborate ceremonials to welcome the braves at the end of a war. Songs and Musical Instruments Singing accompanied every public ceremony as well as the important events in an individual's life. Both the tune and the rhythm seem strange to the white man's ears. Religious ... They learned to grow corn and to bury a fish in each hill for fertilizer. They adopted the Indian's swift, graceful bark canoe for water travel. They found out how to hunt and make war--Indian style. Indian ways were valued because they were suited to the wilderness of forests, rivers, and lakes. The Indians had to convert the things around them into food, clothing, shelter, weapons, tools, and utensils ... dignified manner, and a colorful costume of beaded and fringed buckskin. He was a splendid horseman, hunter, and mounted warrior who took pride in defending his hunting grounds against the invasion of white settlers. In war, the eagle feathers of his long-tailed warbonnet streamed in the breeze as he galloped over the plains. Celebrations and Honors for Bravery Almost as exciting as the hunt itself was the feast that ...
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