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- 4301: The Start of World War Two
- ... region had been demilitarized after World War I, and the Treaty of Versailles forbade occupation of the area. In spite of the violations of treaty after treaty, little was done by the world powers to control the renewed German militarism. With the stage now set, Hitler set his plan for conquest into motion. Beginning in 1938, Hitler used threats and political maneuvering to overthrow the government of nearby Austria. His next ...
- 4302: The Titanic
- ... was off! The ship pulled around the corner and was greeted by only a couple of ships, the New York and the Philadelphia. All of a sudden, the moorings for the New York snapped like gun shots and the New York was ripped from the dock from the wake of the Titanic. Closer and closer the stern of the New York got to the proud and still gleaming hull of the ...
- 4303: Animal Farm: Satirical Techniques Such As Irony, Fable, And Allegory
- ... with one human trait, or two at most--traits usually associated with that particular kind of animal. Using animals as types is also Orwell's way of keeping his hatred and anger against exploiters under control. Instead of crying, "All political bosses are vicious pigs!" he keeps his sense of humour by reporting calmly: "In future, all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special ...
- 4304: Causes of The First World War
- ... force in Europe so people that had the same culture, language wanted their own country. And that was the problem for the government of Austria-Hungary that did not want to lose their power and control. The Slavs in the southern part of the empire were their main concern since they wanted to join up to Serbia. Militarism is the second cause according to the article above, which comes after the ...
- 4305: The Hellenistic Age
- ... was acquired somewhat by the teaching of his tutor Socrotes. Under Alexander a great cosmopolitan culture developed. The new culture has thus been termed "Hellenistic" - not purely Greek, because of all the towns under his control, it was a melting pot. After Alexander's death the empire was divided into three large portions each general taking a portion. Egypt under the general Ptolemy, who established the Ptolemies dynasty this was ruled ...
- 4306: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... forced on our part to take the measures we consider necessary and adequate to protect our rights. We have everything necessary to do so." "National security must come first...we can't negotiate with a gun at our head... if they won't remove the missiles and restore status quo ante, we will have to do it ourselves." Kennedy said after politely refusing a temporary pause to the crisis offered by ...
- 4307: The Protector Of The Scots And The Hammer Of The Scots
- ... due to his physical highth Edward was an authoritarian statesman, a lawyer, and a soldier. He very much wanted, like many of the monarch’s before him, to put all lands of England under his control. His first big success was ordering his Marcher Lords on the Welsh boarder push west. This campaign brought Wales to its knees and into Edwards Kingdom. With his flag flying in Wales, he looked north ...
- 4308: Of Mice and Men: George, Lennie, and Crooks
- ... keep Lennie occupied with something that he is happy with. Finally, in the end, George must kill Lennie in order to avoid him from being brutally murdered, by the vicious Curley, “ and George raised the gun an d straddled it, and he brought the muzzle of it to the back of Lennie's head… he pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again ...
- 4309: The Return of the Native: The Opening Chapter
- ... of the rain, on the rugged heath where Eustacia laments her fate. Eustacia’s own remark, “how destiny is against me!” (354) and “I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control!” (354) affirm the existence of such a force, the power of fate. On Egdon Heath, night and darkness comes before its “astronomical hour” (11). This presents the idea of Egdon Heath’s unchangeable place in ...
- 4310: The Aztecs
- ... changed, and the victorious allies divided the empire into new spheres of political and economic dominion. Like their predecessors, the allies sought to profit directly by tapping into local economic production without maintaining direct territorial control. Their "hegemonic" type of empire was unlike the empires of Europe, where the primary aim of acquiring territory called for large standing armies and strong border garrisons. The allies would first send ambassadors to persuade ...
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