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- 4161: Machiavelli And Plato
- ... an individual was designated too. So at a glance you could assume that Plato s theory had it s foundation as in The Discourses of a free state or a state of freedom. One without war within the community. It cannot be seen as a science when the education is stunted in such a way that new origins and a complete disregard for past history means education is limited to the time and for what the time represents. Plato s version of political reform in The Republic although would achieve little need for war due to equal communities and no shortage of food or shelter, however it would nothing for progress or improvement of the community as a whole. The individual would become stagnant fixed within his/her preordained ...
- 4162: Cultural Synopsis: The Philipp
- ... Along with Pilipino, a language derived from Tagalog, English is one of the two official languages. The Philippines achieved full political independence in 1946, following four years of occupation by Japanese armed forces during World War II. The period since independence has been marked by repeated crises. The Philippines consists of 7,000 islands of only which 2,000 are inhabited. The two largest islands are Luzon and Mindanao and seventy ... unique mixed culture of foreign influences. Filipinos love to gamble. They exchange money frequently on basketball games and other sports. Improvisation is seen by the way the Filipinos converted the left over jeeps from World War 2 into taxis and other public transportation. Filipinos are strongly oriented to the outside world. Nevertheless, national pride is not to be underestimated.
- 4163: Greek Olympics
- ... states around it that if they were to be allowed to enter they had to stop their wars when it was time for the games. Sparta however did not follow this rule in the Peloponison War against Athens. So Sparta was penalized for it. The sacred way to Olympia started in Elis A city-state 34 miles away. The sacred road went along the low mountains of the western Peloponesus and ... to travel across the sea to compete with the Greek athletes. After a while the games slowly started to fade away. When Augustus Caesar became Emperor of Rome in 81 B.C., he said all war within the empire must stop. This was called the Pax Romana, or Roman Peace, it helped to bring back the popularity of the Olympic Festivals. Even though the Olympic Games changed a little bit through ...
- 4164: Malcolm X 2
- Malcolm X, a civil rights leader in the 1960's believed that blacks and whites should be segregated. He also believed that white man was evil and were trying to brainwash all blacks and that Martin Luther King's ... live peacefully. My opinions toward Malcolm X's beliefs are that I disagree with most of what he said. I believe that what he taught was teaching hatred. I also believe that he set the civil rights movements back because he "un-did" everything Mr. King stood for and did. I also disagree with his idea of usage of violence because I don't believe it solves or is the answer ...
- 4165: Terrorism As An International
- ... Moses sent spies into the land of Israel, this paper is only concerned with more contemporary organized espionage operations. The first of such operations were done in Germany, accomplished during the dawn of the Cold-War-Era. It was then and there that the American Central Intelligence Agency, known as the CIA, and the Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee of State Security), known as the KGB , had secret campaigns being waged ... thwart a terrorist attack. Many attacks actually are discovered and are stopped by G-d in the form of blundered operations. Nevertheless, the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has had a manifold of successful peacetime and war operations which hampered Arab nations in damaging and killing Israeli’s. Mossad has been widely regarded as one of the most active and secret Intelligence agencies in the world. They have succeeded time and time ...
- 4166: Reasons For The Downfall Of The Russian Empire In The Year Of 1917
- ... Although the government purposed many popular actions such as the Petrograd Soviet of Worker’s and Soldiers’ Deputies, it failed to control over the country and refused to accommodate popular demands for an end of war, give land to the poor peasants, and end the widespread of food shortages. It only lasted from March-November 1917. During this period, Vladimir Lenin arrived in Petrograd hoping he could radicalize the revolution. Lenin ... These.” Lenin urged his party, the Bolsheviks who represented the Russian Social Democratic Party who believed that violence was the key to the improvement of the workers, to not support the provisional government or the war effort. He also wanted to give the soviets the government’s power. Many moderate liberals and socialists exposed Lenin’s approach, but the Bolsheviks waited for the exact moment to take over the power the ...
- 4167: Malcolm X 4
- ... Islam. Malcolm knew that he was being set up from the highest authority of the Nation of Islam. Muslim Mosque, Inc. was Malcolm's own organization that was going to fight the black man's civil rights. In The Autobiography of Malcolm X writes " it would carry into practice what the Nation of Islam had only preached." (363). Before Malcolm could really start this organization he made his most influential trips ... heavily. If Malcolm's eight-grade teacher would not of told Malcolm that he could not be a lawyer. Would Malcolm eventually became a lawyer, would he of ever made such an impact on the civil rights movement like he did? Or would he have still turned away from the street life and still became a hustler. The influences that I mentioned all through Malcolm's life made heavy impacts, but ...
- 4168: Jay Gatsby And The American Dr
- ... some wealthy people in the Midwest but educated at Oxford; traveled to Paris, Venice, and Rome; collects rubies, hunts big game, and paints; and received many awards and medals for his outstanding effort in World War I. Gatsby created this “ideal image” in order to impress those people who were curious about his background such as Daisy and Nick, and to make sure no one thinks he was “just some nobody ... a false image of himself, Jay Gatsby was madly in love with Daisy. Gatsby’s “love” for Daisy began about five years before the story takes place. Daisy and Jay had a relationship before World War I but could not maintain the relationship because “rich girls don’t marry poor boys”. One night before Gatsby had to leave, he kissed Daisy for the first time. This first kiss was symbolic of ...
- 4169: Marco Polo
- ... property in Constantinople. Around 1260, Marcos uncle, Maffeo, and Marco s father, Niccolo, made a trading visit into Mongol territory, the land of the Golden Horde, ruled by Berke Khan. While they were there, a war broke out between Berke and the Cowan of Levant, blocking their return home. Thus Niccolo and Maffeo traveled deeper into Mongol territory, moving southeast to Bukhara, which was ruled by Cowan. In 1269, Niccolo and ... for the court of Kublai Khan. They were accompanied not by one hundred wise men but by two Dominican monks, and the two good monks turned back at the first sign of misfortune, another local war. Aside from the pope s messages, the only spiritual gift Europe was able to furnish the great Kublai Khan was oil from the lamp burning at Jesus Christ s supposed tomb in Jerusalem. Yet, in ...
- 4170: Medical Experiments in the Holocaust
- ... purpose for experimenting on inmates was even more sinister. (2) Experiments whose very purposes violated medical ethics and which were irreconcilable with the accepted norms of medical research. It’s effects, had Germany won the war, could have been far more long range and destructive. The intention was no less than the complete subjugation of Europe. (Berenbaum 391) These experiments involved the sterilization of both men and women deemed “unworthy” by ... injuries; those relating to the treatment of victims of gas attacks; and those testing immunization compounds or medicines, for the prevention or treatment, respectively, of contagious or epidemic diseases. Another series of experiments relating to war wounds involved the treatment of fractures and the transplanting of bones, muscles, and nerves. These were conducted on Polish women prisoners, the purpose being to find solutions to problems in the treatment of severe wounds ...
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