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- 5091: The Cajun-Creole Conflict
- ... complained bitterly about four Cajun men smoking their pipes in the presbytery. He also said that they were harassing and cursing his Negro cook in his presence. Though the troublemakers eventually apologized, Valentin conducted a personal vendetta against the Cajuns, unsuccessfully seeking legal redress. The Cajun-Creole conflict can partially be blamed on affairs between Cajun men and Creole women. Neglected by their husbands, some Creole women formed liaisons with young ...
- 5092: Maya Civilization
- ... to prominence around A.D. 250. Mesoamerica spans five countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. They inherited a lot of their ideas from the Olmec. The Maya developed astronomy, calendrical systems, and hieroglyphic writing. The Maya were also know for their decorated architecture which included temples and palaces. They were also skilled farmers,weavers, and potters. Around 300 B.C., the Maya adopted a system of government ruled by ...
- 5093: Auschwitz
- ... com/text/x02/xr0207/html) & (www.members.dencity.com/lukeworld/auschwitz/AUSmain.htm) When the people arrived, they were brutally forced to leave the cars in a big hurry. The people had to leave there personal belongings behind them. Those belongings that were left were later taken by a forced-labor detachment ironally called "Kanada". They then had to make two lines men and women separatly.These lines moved quickly and ...
- 5094: Castles: Seen by the Light of a Thousand Candles
- ... the general retainers (quarters, stables, stores, forge, well, etc.). The inner ward/bailey was the area between the inner curtain wall and the keep tower itself which contained the lord and his family and more personal servants of theirs. Another style of castle would have a wall with various corner and perimeter towers, the most important and largest of which was the keep, also known as the dongeon. It was very ...
- 5095: The Aztec Indians
- ... Aztec religion numerous gods controlled an Aztecs daily life. Some of these gods include: Uitzilpochtli (the sun god), Coyolxauhqui (the moon goddess), Tlaloc (the rain god), and Quetzalcoatl (the inventor of the calendar and writing). Another part of the Aztec religion was human sacrifices. For their sacrifices the priest would lay the man or woman over a convex (rounded) stone, then he would take a sharp knife and cut the ...
- 5096: Louis XIV Had A Greater Impact On European History Than Peter The Great
- ... transformed France from a struggling, politically divided entity into the premier power on the European continent. (Louis XIV; French Mastermind). From early on Louis XIV proved himself as a force to be respected: The early personal reign of Louis was highly successful in both internal and foreign affairs. At home the parliaments lost their traditional power to obstruct legislation, the judicial structure was reformed by the codes of civil procedure (1667 ...
- 5097: The Crossing
- ... form the sentences correctly gives the impression of a child telling a story; not so much worried about the grammatical structure, but more focused on the matter at hand. This immature and juvenile form of writing conveys the narrators loose presence of mind at this time. Diction is also an important literary technique that McCormac uses to communicate the impact of the experience on the narrator. In the opening sentence of ...
- 5098: The Invention of the Atomic Bomb And Its Use
- ... forces was not real aim for America. He thinks that the real aim was killing the huge number of Japanese in order to finish the war earlier.(16) He supports this insistence with a commanding writing for dropping the atomic bomb, which appointed not a military base but the center of the city and the industrial area as the targets of the atomic bomb.(17) Then, some may say that America ...
- 5099: Greek and Roman Influences on Modern Society
- ... one actor playing a god, and a chorus representing the people, which was probably a bit boring. Aeschylus added a second actor, and did away with the chrous, and Sophocles and Euripedes refined the style, writing about not only gods but everyday human beings. Today, there are many different forms of entertainment. Apart from the plays on stage, we have television and movies. The Greeks wrote tragedies with gods, and today ...
- 5100: The Battle Between the Spanish Armada and the British Fleet in 1588
- ... the known world. Spanish power was at it's height and Spain's leader, King Philip II, pledged to conquer the Protestant heretics in England that began as a result of the Reformation. Philip held personal hostility towards England's Queen Elizabeth I and was desirous of eliminating a major sea-going rival for economic reasons. Elizabeth encouraged Sir Francis Drake and other English seamen to raid Spanish ships and towns ...
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