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- 7801: The Atomic Bomb
- ... and many other countries during the war. The Soviets were helping the Chinese with the war against Japan and later would get railroads in China and Manchuria when Japan completely surrendered, as stated in document D. As said in document E, the Americans did not want the Russians to get involved in the war against Japan. The most obvious reasons would be to prevent the Russians from expanding any more and ...
- 7802: Miles Davis
- ... before. The sound is still within the orbit of a chordal structure, but is less indebted to the traditional faith in harmony and melody. Live-evil captures miles live at The Cellar Door in Washington, D.C. and in the studio from 1969 to 1970 with an assortment of musicians. This record may be the most cohesive and comprehensible of the five new packages, if it does not quite attain some ...
- 7803: The Aztec Empire History
- ... not oppose Cortes because he thought that he was the God Quetzalcoatl. An Aztec legend said that Quetzalcoatl was driven away by another rival god and had sailed across the sea and would return some day. His return was predicted to come in the year Ce Acatl on the Aztec Calendar. This corresponded to the year 1519. Due to this prediction, Montezuma II thought Quetzalcoatl had returned when Cortes and his ...
- 7804: Persian Gulf Crisis
- ... thought of him as a reliable trading partner until this war. This proves to many that the Hitlers and Stalins of the world are not gone from the global scene. Saddam Hussein is a modern day figure modeling these two. All the negative outcomes of the Persian Gulf crisis were either directly or indirectly his fault. Unfortunately, Saddam Hussein is still the leader of the now-crumbled country of Iraq. No ...
- 7805: Mark Twain
- ... recuperating from her heart attack, she was stricken with another. Twain never left Olivia’s side and was with her until her death. That night Twain stayed by her side caressing her hand. The next day he wrote, “I am tired and old; I wish I were with Livy” (qtd. in Kaplan 236).Twain went into a state of depression and it seemed nothing was going right. One of his daughters ...
- 7806: Poe And Thoreau
- ... have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.” (C.D.) In addition, Thoreau believed that his greatest skill was to “want but little” (Walden). During his time at Walden, Thoreau determines what is needed for human survival as he learns to take pleasure in a ...
- 7807: Medea Is A Tragic Feminist Text
- ... revenge." My heart all dagger. Do it. Don’t flinch. You must. Come, hand: the sword. This course must run. No weakness. No…memories. Flesh of your flesh! Forget you loved them for one short day, forget. Then weep, wretch, weep, Who killed to prove your love.(p.42, Medea). This illustrates Medea’s internal struggle between conforming to the feminine stereotype of motherhood and seeking revenge thus challenging societies views ...
- 7808: World Wars of the 20th Century
- ... meant placing all of the armed services of a nation--army, navy, and air force--under a single command in a theater of operations. Combined command involved two or more nations. For example, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States was supreme commander of all Allied forces operating in Europe.
- 7809: World War I
- ... a warship, a vessel bringing supplies, or a passenger ship, like the Lusitania; the submarine could attack each of these vessels undetected. World War I officially ended at 11:00 A.M. on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles (Stewart 95). The most tragic of wars up until that time in history had come to an end. World War I ...
- 7810: The Persian Wars
- ... strong in their navy. During the Greek war at Artemesium and Chalcis the fifth Persian squadron was destroyed by a storm. The Greeks fought remaining Persians and had two days of victory and the third day they were defeated. During the battle the Greeks lost seventy ships out of three hundred and thirty. It was another story on land. The Spartan king Leonidas protected pass at Thermoplye with three hundred Spartans ...
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