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Achilles
Number of Words: 267 / Number of Pages: 1
... gratitude given for fighting incessantly forever against your enemies. Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard" (9:316). This statement shows that is an individual, and does not conform to the ideas of the others. is portrayed as a fatalist, believing that there is no point in fighting, because the end is the same for everyone. In book nine, when Agamemnon admits he is wrong and offers gifts, still refuses to join his army in battle. He does not see Agamemnon's gifts as a reconciliation attempt, but rather as an insult. believes that Agamemnon's offerings are selfis ...
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I, Tituba Black Witch Of Salem
Number of Words: 738 / Number of Pages: 3
... one of them and that she was not truly "black". We take from these examples that racism isn't always felt from someone outside of your race but it can be felt the same if not even more heartfelt from with in your race.
Religion isn't really something you practice in Tituba's vocabulary; she has formed her own beliefs that have been instilled in her by her mother and Mama Yaya. When Tituba first walks into her new mistress's house, the mistress asks her husband John Indian if she is a Christian. He lies of course, but in his heart she knows that she knows none such preaching. The mistress knows that ...
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Greek Daily Living
Number of Words: 1624 / Number of Pages: 6
... house may have a chair and a footstool while the women and children only used stools. The dining room included large, comfortable couches and small, nearby tables for eating. Other common household furniture included beds, chests, storage boxes, and large baskets for storage and shopping (Poulton 54). Olive oil lamps of either pottery for poorer families or bronze and silver for richer families provided lighting in the home (Poulton 54).
Water was scarce in ancient Greece and had to be piped in from springs in the surrounding hills. Few homes had wells, but most families sent their slaves to ...
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Maifest Destiny
Number of Words: 402 / Number of Pages: 2
... shear exhaustion. The Trail of Tears is not the only time that we force the Native Americans to pick up and leave their land and homes either. In the end the Native Americans ended up on small reservations as apposed to the entire country that they had before.
The Louisiana Purchase was a hypocritical decision. Jefferson was portrayed the government as small and not in want of much land then he bought enough land to double the size of the early United States. Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; he bought the land from Napoleon for $15 million dollars.
The next major point in the mani ...
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Stalin: Did His Rule Benefit Russian Society And The Russian People?
Number of Words: 2528 / Number of Pages: 10
... What were
Stalin's purges, and who did they effect?
Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born on December 21, 1879, on the
southern slopes of the Caucasus mountains, in the town of Gori. His mother,
Ekaterina was the daughter of a peasant who married at fifteen and who lost her
first three children at birth. Vissarion, his father, was a self-employed
shoemaker who had a violent temper (Marrin 6-7).
Young Djugashvili was small and wiry and had a deeply pitted face from a
small pox attack that nearly killed him. He also had blood poisoning in his left
arm that was probably caused by Vissarion's beatin ...
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Ancient Egypt 2
Number of Words: 2138 / Number of Pages: 8
... culture, but falls seriously short of doing just this. The Museum focuses too much on the Ancient Egyptian approach to death and the afterlife in a serious, informative aspect. This is done by the sheer location of the exhibit, providing numerous historical plaques, and by the mysterious, alluring atmosphere of the pyramid exhibit that the Museum gives to the visitor. Yet the Museum downplays the daily life of the Ancient Egyptians by pushing this less intriguing exhibit behind the afterlife exhibit, by providing few informative historical plaques, and by filling the exhibit with cartoons of the eve ...
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Franklin Roosevelt 2
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... Happy Warrior." In 1928
Roosevelt became Governor of New
York.
He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March
there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and
almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and
Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring
recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in
danger of losing farms and homes, and reform,
especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
By 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery, but businessmen and
bankers ...
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Dead Sea Scrolls
Number of Words: 830 / Number of Pages: 4
... are some facts about the the Dea Sea Scrolls:The were discovered in eleven caves along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea between the years 1947 and 1956. The area is 13 miles east of Jerusalem and is 1300 feet below sea level. The mostly fragmented texts are numbered according to the cave that they came out of. They have been called the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times. Only Caves 1 and 11 have produced relatively intact manuscripts. Discovered in 1952, Cave 4 produced the largest find. About 15,000 fragments from more than 500 manuscripts were found. In all, scholars have identified t ...
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The Persian Wars
Number of Words: 346 / Number of Pages: 2
... story on land. The Spartan king Leonidas protected pass
at Thermoplye with three hundred Spartans and 6700 non-Spartans. A Greek
traitor knew Leonidas plans so the traitor led the Persians behind the pass.
Once Leonidas was aware of this he sent large amounts of troops to block
the Persians. They fled and had Leonidas was pinned. The 300 Spartans and
700 Thespians fought to their death.
At Salamis the Persians occupied Athens and then burned down their
city. At the Harbor of Salamis the Greek navy lied. The Persians tried to
blockade them, but narrow striates were at their advantages. The P ...
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How The Great Wall Of China Ef
Number of Words: 2245 / Number of Pages: 9
... This vow was to never rest until they ‘provided France with a constitution,’ a basses that the Assembly could remodel France around. However, constitutions were new to this time in history and the constitutional writers needed time to discover the art of preparing such a document considering the lack of knowledge they had in the field. They may have been aided by information from the recent events in America and the benefits from studying their new American Constitution, but the Assembly still needed time to insure success, and this meant they needed a temporary base of principles to work from.
The ...
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