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- 6341: Herman Melville
- ... gathers materials for tyhe long poem clarel. 1857 Publishes the confidence man. 1857-60 lectures in the north and the midwest. 1863 the melvilles move to new york city. 1864 gathers material for the civil war poems. 1866 publishes battle pieces. Gets job in customs. 1867 Malcom melville dies from a suicidal gunshot to the head. 1876 publishes clarel. 1885 retires from customs. 1886 stanwix melville dies after a long illness ... really appreciated until the 1920's. Poem herman melville, a man unappreciated. yet years later after his death, his renassiance began. herman, a whaler, wrote some real classic novels. He had traveled all around the world just for hhis stories. His stories which is loved throughout the world.
- 6342: The Cause For The Great Migrations
- ... for centuries challenged the Roman frontiers because their primitive, unproductive economies forced them to search constantly for new lands to plunder or settle. The Germans were attracted by the wealth and splendor of the Roman world, and the Romans admitted them into the Empire, even while resisting their armies. The barbarians came initially as slaves or prisoners of war, then as free peasants to settle on deserted lands, and finally as mercenary soldiers and officers. In the fourth century the barbarian penetration of the Roman Empire was made more violent because the barbarians themselves were being invaded and forced southwestward by nomadic hordes from central Asia. The migration, with the nomadic hordes, was turning into a course of destruction. These nomads who sowed tumult in the barbarian world were the Huns. It is believed that it was because of reaction to climate changes that desiccated their pastures, the Huns swept out of their Asiatic homeland and terrorized Western Europe. The course the ...
- 6343: Auschwitz
- ... not because of all the rumors being spread that the Jews were being gassed there, but because Auschwitz was a factory complex which was producing some goods that was an imporatant part to the Nazi war effort. " The allies were particularly interested in the nearby camp called Auschwitz III where there was a factory for the production of synthetic rubber". (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/auschwitz/Auschwitz02.html) During the years of the war, rubber was scarce and the Germans were ahead of the rest of the world in their plans and ideas to produce artifical rubber. - (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/auschwitz/Auschwitz02.html) & (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/Auschwitz/HTML/Allgem-Infos.html) Auschwitz had 405,000 prisoners recorded ...
- 6344: Medical Experiments in the Holocaust
- ... purpose for experimenting on inmates was even more sinister. (2) Experiments whose very purposes violated medical ethics and which were irreconcilable with the accepted norms of medical research. It’s effects, had Germany won the war, could have been far more long range and destructive. The intention was no less than the complete subjugation of Europe. (Berenbaum 391) These experiments involved the sterilization of both men and women deemed “unworthy” by ... injuries; those relating to the treatment of victims of gas attacks; and those testing immunization compounds or medicines, for the prevention or treatment, respectively, of contagious or epidemic diseases. Another series of experiments relating to war wounds involved the treatment of fractures and the transplanting of bones, muscles, and nerves. These were conducted on Polish women prisoners, the purpose being to find solutions to problems in the treatment of severe wounds ... experiments on innocent captured prisoners. The most painful truth is for the must part, the doctors escaped their crimes against Humanity and lived a life, unlike their victims. The End. Works Cited Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Boston: Little Brown, 1993. Dodd, Thomas J. “Issues of the Holocaust.” http://www.lib.uconn.edu/DoddCenter/ASC/ ...
- 6345: The French Revolution's Affect on Romanticism
- ... a major literary and cultural movement" that was inspired by the imaginations, inner feelings, and emotions of the Romantics. (895) If one term can be used to describe the forces that have shaped the modern world, it is Romanticism. (Peyre, 2) Romanticism has had such a profound effect on the world since the late 18th century that one author has called it "the profoundest cultural transformation in human history since the invention of the city." (Compton's Encyclopedia, "Romanticism") Harvey and Heseltine state that "The outstanding ... Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia "French Literature") Alphonse de Lamartine "delicately analyzed his own emotions". (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia "French Literature") Joseph de Maistre, another major figure whose strong political views made him totally oppose the war, still took the Revolution in to consideration when writing. (60) Leinward supports this idea when he says "Poets were moved by the great events of their lives, including the French Revolution." (528) Hugo, the ...
- 6346: The Good Friday Agreement
- ... having their own opinion they are in a sense brainwashed. ‘On leaving school I had notion of the past other than a few dreary details of our Protestant faith…we knew nothing of the catholic world’ (A Protestant education in the 1930’s: adapted from R. Harbinson, No Surrender, 1961.) ‘St Patrick’s Academy Dungannon…was a patriotic school…the Vice-Principal…disliked the English…was very keen about Irish culture ... perspectives. Source 6 is a map of plantations and farmland. This is only to inform. Source 10 is Ireland being partitioned. I believe that this was issued by Westminster as a solution to the Civil War which was breaking out in light of the General Election of 1918. The present problems in Northern Ireland are all caused by what happened in the past. I believe that Great Britains paranoia of attack ... with new political and armies being set up: the SDLP, the UDA and the UDF. With these new political parties and armies along with the problems at the time northern Ireland was close to civil war. Britain decided that an unbiased party needed to control the state – as Stormont Parliament was mostly Protestant – and so from 1972 they decided to close the Stormont Parliament and start ruling directly from Westminster. ...
- 6347: Bangkok's Thammasat University Uprising
- ... ago by right-wing groups and police. The massacre was followed by a military coup and ended a brief flowering of democracy ushered in by a students movement in October 1973 that had stunned the world by toppling a well-entrenched military dictatorship. Two decades on, with official versions of history still coy about these events, numerous Thai citizens are demanding an honest depiction of the past. This, in turn, has ... gave the researcher its support, and covered the event extensively. Thao Suranaree is regarded as national heroine in Thailand. Apparently -- or so the official version goes -- she played a courageous role in the Siam-Laos war of 1826. Saphin rubbishes that account, saying Thao Suranaree's otherwise insignificant role in the war was played up by royal chroniclers more than 40 years after the event only to make the people of the Northeast region feel part of the then Bangkok kingdom. The move was aimed at ...
- 6348: The Persian Wars
- ... was full. Meanwhile, the Athenian army was encamped in the foothills on the edge of the Marathon Plain. It became clear to the Athenians that their enemy did not intend to attack first, so a war council was held. Five generals, including Militiades, the leader, voted in favor of immediate attack; five other generals voted to attack after the arrival of Spartans. There was one general left, Callimachus. Then Militiades said ... upon the Greek city-states. The Persians, with 200,000 men, arrived at Thermopylae to find 10,000 soldiers of the Greek army already there. Themistocles, an Athenian general, believed the way to win the war was at sea. He had deduced this from the oracle at Delphi, who said the way beat the Persians was by a “wooden wall”. (By this, the oracle meant ships.) So the Greeks decided to ... Persians never returned again. The Persian Wars deeply affected Western civilization. The Greeks began to culturally identify themselves. Herodotus wrote about the Persian Wars in the mid-400s B.C. and established himself as the world’s first historian. The Athenians advanced much in theater, philosophy, sculpture, and architecture. In the long run, Greece was free from outside influences and was able to pursue its own destiny.
- 6349: A Comparison of the French and Russian Revolutions
- ... prerevolution, Czar Nicholas II, made a very big mistake by in not introducing some reforms to correct the problems. So because of his actions, the situation grew worse. In 1917, the Russians were fighting in World War I. A good majority of the Russian people were weary and uncontent with the way the war was going and with the Czar's rule. This uncontent along with economic hardships caused riots and demonstrations to break out. The Czar called for the army to put down the revolution as they ...
- 6350: The Reign of Terror
- ... back into Germany. The citizens in Paris left their thoughts of murder and celebrated the great victory. Goethe, a German novelist, concluded that, "Here and today begins a new era in the history of the world." as he watched the battle from a hill side. The statement found it's truth in France's use of the citizen as a soldier, and the mobilization of such a massive force. A new ... some districts. Yet, religion could not be easily undone, and still it's hold was seen on France as threatening "acts of God" would force peasants back into the churches to ask for forgiveness. The war of a political nature raged silently, as the different factions of the Convention dared not fight openly. Upon returning to Paris, Danton immediately took the side of Robespierre, condemning the Enrages' and the Hebertists. However ... depiction of man at his worst. The sad truth is that events of this nature have occurred with amazing regularity. Perhaps if the Reign of Terror was just one appalling moment of human cruelty, the world would be a different place. With such things as the Gulag, the Holocaust, the African Slave Trade, and even returning back to ancient times of the Assyrians and the Crusades, man has been known ...
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