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The Persian Gulf War
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... war. It was either to oppose aggression or it was to protect global oil supplies. Other powers were more directly concerned as consumers of Persian Gulf oil, but they were not as eager to commit military force, to risk their lives in battle and to pay for the costs of the war. Critics of President Bush continued to maintain that he was taking advantage of the issue of energy supplies in order to manipulate the U. S. public opinion in favor of war.
After consulting with U. S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney in August 1990, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia invited American troops onto Saudi soil. It was the ...
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An Introspective Look On Fate Concerning The Tragedies Of An
Number of Words: 879 / Number of Pages: 4
... error made by Oedipus. He had followed the specific prediction of the oracle he had originally tried so hard to change. This error being he killed his father and married his mother. Due to his character flaws, he had made decisions that soon led to his inevitable destruction. Upon meeting the King of Thebes at the crossing of three roads, his arrogance and temper resulted in the death of Oedipus's father, the King of Thebes. Passing through the City of Thebes, he ended up marrying Jocasta, his mother. Both are puzzled with who murdered King Laius. They send for a prophet, yet because of Oedipus's ...
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Letter From Birmingham Jail
Number of Words: 693 / Number of Pages: 3
... to use violence to fight against the oppression. But this did not mean he would stop from voicing his opinion about the problems that were present. One example of the problems that Dr. King tried to bring to the peoples attention in an attempt to fix it was the “law” that all the African Americans could sit only at the back of the bus and not the front, something that was abolished after Rosa Louise Parks made a choice to sit in the front of the bus because of her sore feet.
As a noble man, with a good education and a firm belief in the constitution, King was quick to see that the rights which were ...
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The Great Depression
Number of Words: 786 / Number of Pages: 3
... 1918, proved that he could not fix this new crisis. In fact, from 1929 through 1932, the economy went from bad to worse.
Unemployment approached 20 percent. Black Unemployment hit 50 percent. Private construction investment went from $6.6 billion in 1929 to $1.3 billion in 1932. Overall manufacturing was 54 percent of what was in 1929. Automobiles were created at 20 percent of 1932's, and steal was at 12 percent of 1929. Farmer's income slid from $12 billion in 1929 to $5 billion in 1932., but the farmer's mortgages continued to escalate. 70,000 banks went under before the Great Crash in 1929, an ...
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What Is Art ?
Number of Words: 1465 / Number of Pages: 6
... since it's inception has always been a form of communication, and good literature be it the prose of Trollope, poems of Blake, the plays of Shakespeare or even political propaganda has always had the sincerity of its creator. Throughout history, literature has been able to bring a social, or moral message to the people. And good literature has always been infectious, at times even igniting reform and revolution. Without a doubt, literature brings to the reader or audience a circumstance we are unable to experience in real life and thus raise moral or social concerns. From Swift's satirical "G ...
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The Mission
Number of Words: 554 / Number of Pages: 3
... to capture Indians for slave, was later one of Father Gabriel’s closest followers. Captain Rodrigo’s penance or self-punishment was to carry a huge bag of armor up the hill and over the water fall. Once he got to the top they cut it off and threw it down freeing him from his former life and making him “eligible” to become a Jesuit priest under Father Gabriel. Father Gabriel who would die for what he believes, while Rodrigo would renounce his ways in order to fight the Spanish.
Father Gabriel died a peaceful man, while Rodrigo would renounce his ways in order to fight back against the Spanish. Gabriel w ...
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The Battle Of Gettysburg
Number of Words: 931 / Number of Pages: 4
... service there on
August 29, 1862. The 20th Maine consisted of whalers, merchants, loggers,
farmers and city dwellers who made up the raw material that transformed
fresh recruits into soldiers of valor. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was the
regiment's original Lt. Colonel and upon the promotion of Ames, he was made
Colonel of the 20th Maine. He was wounded six times during the War. He was
promoted to the rank of Brigadier General for his conduct of the 20th Maine
at Petersburg, Virginia, in June 1864. In April 1865, Chamberlain was
promoted to the rank of Major General. At the surrender of Lee's Army ...
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Sahure Ancient Egyptian Art
Number of Words: 761 / Number of Pages: 3
... and appear to be flat. In this statue, Sahure, his throne, and the nome rise from the stone block that makes up the background and the base of the statue in high relief. This statue is a relief statue because it cannot be viewed from behind, probably because it was originally carved in to a block of stone in the wall of a temple and later removed by archaeologists.
The inflexibility of the poses of the figures in the sculpture provides another reason for the overall rigidity of the statue. In general, poses of less important people in the culture depicted by ancient Egyptian statuary are more active ...
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Futurism
Number of Words: 981 / Number of Pages: 4
... in Boccioni’s Dynamism of a Soccer Player. Before going further however, it is necessary to discuss some of the principles of as created by Marinetti.
Marinetti’s The Founding and Manifesto of is a work which begins like a work of poetry, and deals with the celebration with the technology, the future, and the machine, while rejecting the natural world and the past. Marinetti despises the sounds created by canals “muttering feeble prayers”, and “the creaking bones of sickly palaces,” while he embraces the “famished roar of automobiles” (Apollonio 19-20). He orders us to “shake the gates of li ...
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The American Revolution
Number of Words: 404 / Number of Pages: 2
... is the right of the people to alter or abolish it." It
gives the people of America the freedom to impeach untrustworthy rulers and
dictators if they wish to. The freedom that Thomas Jefferson gave us is
still in practice today. The middle section justified why the colonists
were revolting against the Britis h Empire. Here Jefferson writes that the
King of Great Britain "is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations."
He reminds the reader that the King has refused to allow the Governors to
pass important laws "necessary for the public good," obstru cted the
administration and that the k ...
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