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- 761: Armenian Genocide
- ... population" in a conversation you would probably think that they were talking about "the" holocaust in Nazi Germany. You probably would not suspect that they were talking about Turkey and the Armenians. During the First World War, the Turks set out to annihilate the entire population of Armenians living within their borders (they almost did). An area known as Historic Armenia lies right in the middle of what is now modern day ... conquest of that region and the oppression that the Armenians have faced over time they have developed into a " strong-willed people, self reliant and fiercely independent" The Armenians were the first country in the world to make Christianity their country's official religion (20 years before St. Constantine the Great in Rome). They also played an important role in the crusades. Ever since then, the Muslim Turks (the vast ...
- 762: The Rise of Capitalism and its Opposition
- ... extension of markets almost limitless possibilities for society to expand its wealth through manufacture and trade. The ideas of Smith provided an ideological and intellectual background for the Industrial Revolution that transformed society and the world during the 19th century. However, the development of Industrial Capitalism gained serious opposition. Abusive child labor, long working hours, and dangerous and unhealthy workplaces were common. These conditions led German political philosopher, Karl Marx, to ... of labor, Smith opened the way for industrialization and the emergence of modern capitalism in the 19th century. His ideas provided the ideological and intellectual background for the Industrial Revolution that transformed society and the world. The character of the industrialization process included the introduction of mechanical power to replace human and animal power in the production of goods and services. Nevertheless, as the mechanization of production gained momentum in England and gradually spread to other parts of the world, several fundamental changes occurred. Production eventually became more specialized and concentrated in larger units, called factories. The modern working class began to emerge and generally had to exchange their labor for a money wage. ...
- 763: Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order
- Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order I enjoyed reading Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order by Jacques Attali. I learned a great deal of information about the Coming World Order. Attali gave a description of the future picture as increasingly dominated by Europe and Japan. The age of the old superpower is declining and Japan and Europe are the ascendant economic power. Attali ...
- 764: Scandinavian Mythology
- ... BC. Some of the mythology remains today. The stories recorded from this mythology are taken from the work of Christian writers and poets. I will begin by telling the story of the creation of the world, according to Norse mythology. The Creation- In the beginning there was no earth or heaven, no sand nor see nor cooling waves. There was only Ginnungagap, a great void. In the north there was an icy world, while in the south, a fiery realm. The northern part of Ginnungagap became filled with the ice and. When that ice formed and was firm, a drizzling rain arose from the venomous rivers and poured ... and burning embers that were flying about and cast them into the midst of Ginnungagap to light the heavens and the earth. They gave stations to all the stars and planets. They then fashioned a world for the families of giants and this world is known as Jotunheim. Away from this land they fashioned a stronghold to surround the world, to defend it from the giants. This land was fashioned ...
- 765: Albert Einstein 3
- ... old. He then used the opportunity to withdraw from school. He spent a year with his parents in Milan, and when it became clear that he would have to make his own way in the world, he finished secondary school in Arrau, Switzerland, and entered the Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich. Einstein often cut classes and used the time to study physics on his own or to play his violin. He ... the special theory of relativity. Since the time of the English mathematician and physicist Sire Isaac Newton, had been trying to understand the nature of matter and radiation, and how they interacted in some unified world picture. The position that mechanical laws are fundamental has become known as the mechanical world view, and the position that electrical laws are fundamental has become known as the electromagnetic world view. Neither approach, is capable of providing a consistent explanation for the way radiation (light for example) and ...
- 766: Japan: A Changing Society
- ... opened their ports during this period4 and sold fuel to other countries such as the Us.5 The Japanese language took a major turn, too, with the addition of borrowed words from all over the world.6 Japan borrowed the American education system of elementary, middle school and universities during this time.7 A new western style army and universal military conscription program were soon set up by General Yamagata Autamo as well.8 The Meiji period was an important part of Japan's changing western ways. After World War II, Japan changed forever. With the Atomic bomb physically destroying their cities, and their defeat destroying their imperialistic mentalities, Japan was deeply wounded. Japan lost the respect of the world during the war and ...
- 767: Facts That Lead To Poverty: Th
- Poverty occurs in most parts of the world. Nevertheless, the more serious and problematical poverty takes part in the third world and the southern parts of the globe. First of all, we have to clearly define the word poverty . In a broad sense, it means that people within this poverty region are poor or have a ... capita than other regions. To a deeper approach, we refer poverty as people have low educational backgrounds, lack of food supplies, or people with lower standard of livings, etc. According to the Webster s New World Dictionary, the word poverty can be defined as: 1) the condition or quality of being poor 2) deficiency; inadequacy 3) scarcity (Webster s p.461). Generally in this essay, we will examine the facts ...
- 768: 1984
- ... served the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. In sick health, he returned to Europe to live in poverty as a struggling writer. Orwell joined the Republican forces in the Spanish civil war, and wrote a chilling account of this experience. He went on to write many books, mostly autobiographical, and achieved successes as a brilliant writer. 2. Synopsis The novel takes place in a theoretical and fictional dystopian totalitarian society. The story begins in London on April 4, 1984 after an atomic world war divides the world into three states. London is the capital of Oceania which is run by INGSOC(English Socialism). The controllers are called "The Party." The Party is divided into two sections, The Inner ...
- 769: 1984
- ... served the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. In sick health, he returned to Europe to live in poverty as a struggling writer. Orwell joined the Republican forces in the Spanish civil war, and wrote a chilling account of this experience. He went on to write many books, mostly autobiographical, and achieved successes as a brilliant writer. 2. Synopsis The novel takes place in a theoretical and fictional dystopian totalitarian society. The story begins in London on April 4, 1984 after an atomic world war divides the world into three states. London is the capital of Oceania which is run by INGSOC(English Socialism). The controllers are called "The Party." The Party is divided into two sections, The Inner ...
- 770: Iran Iraq War
- ... to its narrow access to the Persian Gulf by way of the Shatt al Arab waterway. In 1969, when Britain announced its intent to withdraw from the Gulf, Iran and Iraq already seemed ready for war. That year there was a small confrontation over the boundary along the Gulf, and disputes flared in the 1970s as well, once when Iran occupied three Gulf islands in 1971 and several times later over ... skirmishes, Iraq attacked its neighbor in the summer of 1980. Iran appeared weak and disorganized and the Iraqi president thought he could easily win. The Ronald W Reagan administration took office in 1981 when the war between Iran and Iraq was only a few months old and it built on the Carter Doctrine. Regan indicated his readiness to keep open the Strait of Hormuz in the event that Iran tried to ... It was renamed The United States Central Command, its specified theater of operations included Southwest Asia and northeast Africa. Its commander was given charge of nearly All-American military activity in that part of the world. Its total deployment potential stood at 300,000.Despite the increase in the size and capability of the deployable force, there were limits to the American ability to move its forces overseas. The United ...
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