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- 9711: History of Turkish Occupation of Northern Kurdistan.
- ... them came back..(Morris)." When the Arabs spread Islam to the Middle East in the seventh century, most of the Kurds gradually adopted the religion but fiercely resisted Arab rule, much like today in modern day Iraq and Syria. This is evident in a legend about the prophet Mohammed; when the prophet called all the princes of the world to embrace the new religion, they all hurried to submit to the ...
- 9712: The Factors that Gave Rise To Japanese Militarism
- ... quasi-democratic government in the 1920's to its radical nationalism of the mid 1930's, the collapse of democratic institutions, and the eventual military state was not an overnight transformation. There was no coup d'etat, no march on Rome, no storming of the Bastille. Instead, it was a political journey that allowed a semi-democratic nation to transform itself into a military dictatorship. The forces that aided in this ...
- 9713: Metaphors that Justify War
- ... policy circles during the Vietnam War (Lakoff, 1991). He has continued to influence us even recently: The New York Times, on November 12, 1990, ran a front-page story announcing that a national debate ha[d] begun as to whether the United States should go to war in the Persian Gulf. The Times described the debate as defined by Clausewitz's metaphor on a literal level of understanding and then the ...
- 9714: Diplomacy at Work
- ... events. As one can see, the application of political terms to major political events is not difficult. One can take almost any term in the political world and find it being appreciated in the present day. Diplomacy is an excellent example of this because it is used so often in the world political system. There are many other examples of diplomacy being used in the everyday world. Businessmen use it to ...
- 9715: Understanding Masculine Psychology
- ... Fisher King wound (Johnson 13). In the book HE Understanding Masculine Psychology, Johnson explains male action psychologically through the symbolism of the Holy Grail myth. Specifically he uses the French version, rather than Le Morte DArthur, believing that it is enormously complex and has been so editorialized that some of its spontaneous psychological truth has been lost. Johnsons book has made me recognize the value of myths, their explanation ...
- 9716: Imperialism: And the Way It Took Away Tranquillity
- ... they now needed money to buy things., instead of the usual bartering system they were used to. To get money they needed jobs, and they usually found these jobs in factories similar to our modern day Sweat Shops that Kathy Lee Gifford made famous. They worked unreasonable hours, were paid ridiculously low wages, and overall, treated like scum. Now you tell me, it that the perfect model for employment opportunity that ...
- 9717: Pablo Friere
- ... whole:"(68). They are as follows: "(a) the teacher teaches and the students are taught (b) the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing (c) the teacher thinks and the students are thought about (d) the teacher talks and the students listen--meekly (e) the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined (f) the teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students comply (g) the teacher acts and the ...
- 9718: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
- ... his house was Hyde. Dr. Jekyll tried to cast off his evil side, Hyde, and he discreetly sought out the help of his friends. However, the Hyde side kept fighting to be recognized and one day he transformed into Hyde in the middle of a park. That was when he wrote a letter to Lanyon asking for the items to change him back. After a while, Hyde almost totally controlled Jekyll ...
- 9719: Peter Tchaikovsky
- ... we can scarcely dare to hope for anything serious. But all the same, these forces exist. Thus Moussorgsky [Mussorgsky], with all his ugliness, speaks a new idiom. . . .We may reasonably hope that Russia will one day produce a whole school of strong men who will open new paths in art." The first decade of Tchaikovsky's life in Moscow was one of much struggle, intensified by several attacks of the nervous ...
- 9720: The Need for Americans to Vote
- ... those who make an effort and visit the polling places as often as humanly possible should be rewarded, maybe with something more than an I voted sticker which ends up in the trash can a day later anyway. If the government were to give a $50 tax break to everyone who voted, I think that many more people would show up to the polls, those who had too much to do ...
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