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- 10211: The Holocaust
- ... that, the Germans elected Hitler, as Chancellor of Germany in 1933. That year, Hitler began a boycott of Jewish business. The Jews lost their jobs in government and public services. Jewish children got segregated form school. All Jewish people received a curfew. Hitler blamed the Depression on the Jews, and they became scapegoats. In 1935 laws were pasted saying that Jews were no longer citizens, and that marriage between Jews and ...
- 10212: Explanation of the Holocaust in Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"
- ... wrote that in writing this work it was his intention to represent the sense of guilt as the most important problem in the development of civilization (Freud 85). This sense of guilt held a very high place in the development of the individual, eventually resulting in the development of a destructive instinct. The main argument in Civilization and Its Discontent, according to Christopher Badcock, the author of Essential Freud, is that ...
- 10213: Japanese Canadians during World War II
- ... local residents, were another trouble that they have to face. Whites did not allow Japanese families live in their district, and business refuse to hire evacuees. Japanese Canadian students even had hardtime to stay in school. Years after Japanese Canadians release from the relocation camps, although government had apologized for their mistake, but the wound is hard to recover. Over years, Japanese Canadian still influence by the relocation camp. Older generation ...
- 10214: A "Golden Age" for Athens?
- ... by emphasizing rationalism over a belief in superstition, however it was this rationalism that became so important to Greek philosophers such as Socrates and Plato, both who belonged to the 5th century BCE. The Sophists high regard for rhetoric was later of great use to citizen addressing the Assembly in the developing Athenian democracy. Athenian democracy is perhaps considered the crowning achievement of the 5th century BCE. Democracy grew out of ...
- 10215: The Evolution of the world
- ... created, not one having this holy city as the center. There was nothing new about putting "the most sacred place at the center" says Boorstin. The Hindus placed Mount Meru, a mythological 70,000 foot high mountain at the center of their map. In the Muslim faith, the Ka'bah in Mecca was the highest point on earth and the polestar showed the city of Mecca to be opposite the center ...
- 10216: Bombing of Dresdon
- ... failed to properly predict the consequences of their actions, and as a result destroyed a beautiful city, and a large percentage of its inhabitants. Even if the death numbers were not intended to be so high, negligence is no excuse. The results of any aggression are responsibility of the aggressor, and in this case the aggressors actions resulted in mass murder. Word Count: 1215
- 10217: The Aztec Empire History
- ... In 1519, the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes landed on the East Coast of Mexico and marched inland to Tenochtitlan. The Spaniards were joined by many of the Indians who were conquered and forced to pay high taxes to the emperor. Montezuma did 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 ...
- 10218: History of the World
- ... into clay. The symbols were later simplified to produce cuneiform, a system of writing that used wedge- shaped characters (see CUNEIFORM). Archaeologists have found thousands of clay tablets with Sumerian writings. These tablets show the high level of development of the Sumerian culture. They include historical and legal documents; letters; economic records; literary and religious texts; and studies in mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. The Sumerians used baked bricks to build great ...
- 10219: Hitler's Germany & Stalin's Russia: A Comparison
- ... concentration camps were given different colored symbols for easy identification. At this point, no one dared speak against their country even in the privacy of one's home lest their children let something slip at school. If you control people's thoughts, you control them. Propaganda was an important tool used by both Germany and Russia. Hitler appointed a man by the name of Joseph Goebbles to head the Ministry of ...
- 10220: Anger & Renewal In Indian Country
- ... have for certain, a land claim problem, but they also have a huge society disorder. The living conditions on reserves is a hideous almost nauseating disgrace, which the government must attend to immediately. there is high unemployment rates on reserves, which in turn results in poor living standards, and thus the natives become restless, turning to alcohol and drug abuse. There must be a political will, to put all those long ...
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