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- 3831: Battle Of Chattanooga
- ... executed attacks. Union forces pushed Confederate troops away from Chattanooga. The victory set the stage for General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. http://americancivilwar.com/tl/tl1863.html The Battles of Chattanooga, in the U.S. Civil War, were a series of engagements fought around Chattanooga, Tenn., in September and November 1863. The Confederates were commanded by Braxton Bragg, and the Union forces were first under William S. Rosecrans, then George H. Thomas ...
- 3832: Fallen Angles
- Fallen Angels By Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers wrote the book Fallen Angels. It is about America's experiences in the Vietnam War as told by the main character in the book, Richie Perry. Perry goes through a lot of changes and sees some of his good friends die in battle fighting for a cause that no one ... in a style that I found was very easy to follow the sequence of events as they occurred. The story was very interesting, since it is based on factual events that happened in the Vietnam War, yet the names have been changed for this story. I would recommend this book to anyone who is trying to learn more about the Vietnam War or someone who just wants some interesting to read.
- 3833: The Constitution
- ... achieve the ideals set by the new nation it turned out to be one of the greatest problems the nation faced, and it was responsible for one of the worst wars in American history, the civil war. This problem first started with the nullification crisis. Because the constitution was so vague that problems erupted over where the powers were to go, the three branches of the federal government began to gain as ...
- 3834: Progressivism and The Progressive Era
- Progressivism and The Progressive Era The period of time between the Spanish-American War and World War I is known as the Progressive Era. It was a period marked by idealism, reform, and significant economic growth. Progressivism was a movement designed to correct the abuses which reformers felt had crept into American ... by the economic unrest of the 1890's and the actions of giant business organizations, was more willing to accept progressive reforms than it had been earlier. After the quick victory in the Spanish-American War, there was a new feeling of confidence in the nation's future. Progressivism had many aims. The general aims of Progressivism were as follows: to extend political democracy by shifting control of government from ...
- 3835: Romeo and Juliet: Theme Paper
- ... important part of the action and causes the deaths of several of the characters. And a theme of the play is violence begets violence. The chorus states "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean." (Prologue lines 3 and 4). This tells us in the prologue that the feud has been going on for some time, the fighting has recently flared up and the civilians fighting each other ... hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward!" (I, i, l66-68). Several citizens of the town join the fray. Soon town officers arrive and attack. When the Prince enters he says: "Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, By thee, old Capulet and Montague, Have Thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments To ...
- 3836: Human Nature and the Declaration of Independence
- ... him and, like an animal, finds a suitable mate and joins himself to her to make furthur offspring of himself. Following this kind of thinking, governments join themselves together just for the purpose of making war later making treaties and finally making more governments to further this very productive cycle. Aristotle goes to make other assumptions which are clearly in contradiction with the aspects of The Declaration of Independence that I ... of despotic states." John Locke's view of human nature and politics greatly influenced the founding fathers in many of their other writings including The Constitution of the United States. In the his treatise "Of Civil Government" Locke writes, "For Men being all the Workmanship of one Omnipotent, and infinitely wise Maker_they are his Property_Those Grants God made of the World to Adam and to Noah, and his Sons ...
- 3837: Hera
- ... and forced him to disgorge his other brothers and sisters. Hera was entrusted to Ocaenus and Tethys, by Rhea, to be raised while Zeus struggled with the Titans. Hera later returned after Zeus won the war. Zeus and Hera got married on the summit of Mount. Ida in Phrygia. Together they were the parents of; Ares the god of war, Hephaetus the god of fire and metal work, Hebe the goddess of youth, and Elithyia the goddess of child birth. Ares was unpopular with both gods and humans. Although he was fierce and war like, Ares was not invincible even against mortals. Hephaetus was lame and awkward looking. Hera was so repelled by his looks, shortly after his birth he was cast out of Olympus. Later in life ...
- 3838: My Son's Story
- My Son's Story Sonny is an earnest, hard-working civil servant, an educator who once had a seemingly endless supply of concern and affection for those around him. He is attentive to his family's every need, despite the terrible shadow of apartheid. Gradually, though ... and political commitment were one(125). Sonny has no real need for his family because he is satisfied by what Hannah can give him. His goal to end apartheid and achieve peace has ultimately created war between him and his family. The outside political issues have consumed his life and the peace he is striving so intensely for needs to begin with his family. Sonny is a person who fights gallantly ...
- 3839: Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order
- ... to theirs. The United States could be the one surviving superpower in terms of military might for a period of time, but its not producing enough manufactured goods to finance its debts, and eventually its war products will become obsolete. Currently, the United States imports more goods than it exports; this pattern seems destined to continue in the coming decades. The United States is trying to stop its comparative economic decline ... and military battles between countries may be containedor possibly spin out of control. With the reduction in military power one can only imagine the outcome. Presently, countries that are democracies have never gone to war against another democracies. Yet some nations believe that other nations will stop being democracies in order to wage war. In the next millennium, Attali states, the planet will be the loser. Natural resources will be used up in service of corporate interests as the earth is suppressed by nomads brimming down with objects ...
- 3840: The Atomic Bomb
- The Atomic Bomb The year was 1945. The war in the Pacific had reached it's climax with the attack on Pearl Harbor, or so the world thought! In 1943 a new era was just being discovered when Albert Einstein had uncovered a new ... because it is a large industrial port. In this blast over 50,000 lives were taken with over 120,000 casualties in the aftermath. Two days later the Japanese troops retreated back to Japan. The war in the Pacific was now over! But not after 1,000,000 casualties during the war. For fifty years the atomic bomb was the most feared nuclear weapon in the world, but now many countries now are disarming their nuclear warheads.
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