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- 1011: The World Of Odysseus
- The World of Odysseus by Moses I. Finley analyzes the world of Ancient Greece and the important figures associated with that time period. The major events take place in the Mediterranean Basin centered upon Greece, her surrounding islands, and Asia Minor. This time period of mythological ... Throughout the rest of the book, the author carefully continues to assess the roles of Greek man and his relations and beliefs as told through The Odyssey and Iliad. The most interesting aspect of The World of Odysseus, is the smoothly flowing relationship between the mythological stories and the historical facts. The author rarely explains the great stories of the gods and heroes of Ancient Greece without identifying it's ...
- 1012: How To Create A Culture Of Pea
- ... will have created a much more peaceful society. The first aspect of peace is the spirit peace, which reflects how we feel about ourselves and how we treat others. Peace is to smile at the world, taking good care of the animals, the trees, the lakes, and being aware of the environment. When we understand nature - and accept the fact that we are part of it - then there will be peace. We want a clean, balanced, and uncorrupted environment for our children to grow up in. We, as individuals of a whole, like peace because we like the world. We need peace in order to feel safe, and inner peace is necessary to accomplishing this. We should contribute to global peace and not just keep it inside us, because having a truly peaceful society means not being selfish and self centered. The next aspect of peace is the health and education of the entire world and the nourishment they need in food and water. In a culture of peace, no one should go hungry, because if there is even one person who goes hungry in this world, then we ...
- 1013: ANwar Sadats DEcision To Make
- ... or a group, such as President Anwar Sadat and his decision to make peace with Israel has dramatically changed the course of history. Every leader in history has made a decision that has affected the world, or just his nation in some way. After many years of struggling to keep peace among the Jews and Arabs, President Anwar Sadat, finally decided to make peace with Israel. Peace between Israel and Egypt ... peace. Before the Egyptian Israeli Peace Pact was signed in 1978, Palestine and Israel were enemies with each other in every way possible. They were nowhere near being on good terms with one another. One war constantly followed another, and it was impossible for them to live in peace. Neither side saw even a slight possibility of this happening. Since Arab nations refused to accept the fact that Israel could be ... the Arabs had on their minds was the destruction of the country. Anwar Sadat was prepared to sacrifice one million soldiers in the destruction of Israel (Bard, http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/73_War.html). The Suez War(1956), which followed the Israeli War of Independence, the British, French, and the US agreed not to supply the Israeli or Arabs with any needed weapons. Since they could not ...
- 1014: Review of "Saving Private Ryan"
- Review of "Saving Private Ryan" Saving Private Ryan must be one of the greatest war movies of all time. Before going to watch the movie, I had heard that the first twenty minutes of the film were so breathtakingly realistic that one may not be able to finish the movie. My favorite movie genre is war movies, so I figured this would be a great film since it was directed by Spielberg. The systems of this film are amazing. Saving Private Ryan has so much that one could probably write a ... the validity of their missions. They run the numbers in a certain kind of math that counts lost human lives against the number of lives thus saved, justifying the good the death can serve. If war strategies are mathematical, then Saving Private Ryan's opening is the epitome of chaos. Spielberg almost goes too far here. At the end of the movie, I was wondering if the first twenty minutes ...
- 1015: Sneakers - The Movie
- “The world isn’t run by weapons any more or energy or money. It’s run by little ones and zeroes – little bits of data. It’s all just electrons… There’s a war out there old friend, a World War. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who controls the information; what we see and hear, how we work, what we think. It’s all about ...
- 1016: Is the US Policy on Drug Prohibition Effective?
- ... to heavy costs, both financially and otherwise, while being ineffective, if not, at times, counterproductive. Today, we can see the unforeseen costs of the "Drug Prohibition," and we should consider these costs before expanding the "War on Drugs." First, among the costs of the "War on Drugs," the most obvious is monetary cost. The direct cost of purchasing drugs for private use is $100 billion a year. The federal government spends at least $10 billion a year on drug enforcement programs and spends many billions more on drug-related crimes and punishment. The estimated cost to the United States for the "War on Drugs" is $200 billion a year or an outstanding $770 per person per year, and that figure does not include the money spent by state and local government in this "war" (Evans and ...
- 1017: An Analysis Of Heart Of Darkne
- ... During the time when Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness, and even before that, during the imaginary time when Marlow went to the Congo, the British colonial empire was at its height. Britain was the preeminent world power during the second half of the nineteenth century. She had colonies around the world, including India, Malaya, Hong Kong, and much of Africa. Britain controlled the Suez Canal, the east coast of Africa, and the route to the source of the Nile. The images from the Thames in Heart ... said: The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.sigmund Freud, 1915 The conflicts that Freud stressed were within the psyche: people at war with themselves and sometimes with the cultural authorities they had internalized. But he thought that the way we managed (or failed to manage) those conflicts had everything to do with the explosions of violence ...
- 1018: The Ss
- ... show the factual evidence and knowledge of the SS with the least amount of biases and strict factual evidence. The first general consultant of the information, was Col. John R. Elting, a retired veteran of World War II. He was a former associate professor at West Point and wrote twenty other books about World War II. The other general consultant was George H. Stein who was a distinguished teaching professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton, and received his Ph.D. in history ...
- 1019: Drug Prohibition
- ... to heavy costs, both financially and otherwise, while being ineffective, if not, at times, counterproductive. Today, we can see the unforeseen costs of the "Drug Prohibition," and we should consider these costs before expanding the "War on Drugs." First, among the costs of the "War on Drugs," the most obvious is monetary cost. The direct cost of purchasing drugs for private use is $100 billion a year. The federal government spends at least $10 billion a year on drug enforcement programs and spends many billions more on drug-related crimes and punishment. The estimated cost to the United States for the "War on Drugs" is $200 billion a year or an outstanding $770 per person per year, and that figure does not include the money spent by state and local government in this "war" (Evans and ...
- 1020: Creating A Culture of Peace
- ... will have created a much more peaceful society. The first aspect of peace is the spirit peace, which reflects how we feel about ourselves and how we treat others. Peace is to smile at the world, taking good care of the animals, the trees, the lakes, and being aware of the environment. When we understand nature - and accept the fact that we are part of it - then there will be peace. We want a clean, balanced, and uncorrupted environment for our children to grow up in. We, as individuals of a whole, like peace because we like the world. We need peace in order to feel safe, and inner peace is necessary to accomplishing this. We should contribute to global peace and not just keep it inside us, because having a truly peaceful society means not being selfish and self centered. The next aspect of peace is the health and education of the entire world and the nourishment they need in food and water. In a culture of peace, no one should go hungry, because if there is even one person who goes hungry in this world, then we ...
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