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Hysteria 2
Number of Words: 1629 / Number of Pages: 6
... to affect the persons behavior in a variety of ways, from phobias to paralysis. Almost any organ or part of the body can be the scapegoat for the hysteric. Hysteria usually comes from feelings or memories which are particularly unpleasant for one reason or another. Freud would argue that more often then not (if not always) hysteria is related to sex or sexuality.
If there was one person to name as the ‘father’ of the modern view of hysteria it would hands down be Sigmund Freud. His analyses of hysterical persons has defined everything from the process of diving into the un/sub-conscious mind to ...
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Spanish Settlement Of The West
Number of Words: 1592 / Number of Pages: 6
... of U.S. expansion goals is with the
Mexican-American War. From the beginning, the war was conceived as an
opportunity for land expansion. Mexico feared the United States expansion
goals.
During the 16th century, the Spanish began to settle the region. The
Spanish had all ready conquered and settled Central Mexico. Now they wanted
to expand their land holdings north. The first expedition into the region,
that is today the United States Southwest, was with Corando. Corando
reported a region rich in resources, soon after people started to settle the
region. The driving force behind the sett ...
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Influences Of Socratic Philoso
Number of Words: 925 / Number of Pages: 4
... Athens for money. Socrates himself had long been accused of
being a sophist (a designation he bitterly resented), as his thoughts
were very similar to those of a sophist.
During the age of the sophists, Socrates (470-399 B.C.) became
known as one to talk with the people he met in the marketplaces and
city squares of Athens, and could also have been seen standing lost
in thought for hours on end. Although he never once wrote a line,
Socrates would become one of the philosophers who has had the
greatest influence on European thought, not least because of the
dramatic manner or circumstance ...
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Cuban Missile Crisis 3
Number of Words: 1369 / Number of Pages: 5
... remove the weapons from Cuba and offered the United States on-site inspection in return for a guarantee not to invade Cuba. Kennedy accepted and halted the blockade. However, the question that is debated over the issue is whether or not JFK got lucky or if he was tactically smart and made the correct decision. Many historians believe that
President Kennedy played a dangerous game of brinksmanship in the Cuban Missile Crisis and we were just lucky that the Soviets shied down while others believe that the actions of the Soviets influenced and framed the President's decision. However, many others tradi ...
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The Influence Of The French Revolution On Romanticism
Number of Words: 1216 / Number of Pages: 5
... on the lives of the upper class. (Thompson 857) These writers
followed "formal rules"(Thorlby 282), and based their works on scientific
observations and logic (Thompson 895).
The Revolution gave the common people and writers more freedom to
express feelings and stimulated them to use reason. According to Thompson,
The Revolution "had a major impact on Nineteenth- Century European Life."
(895) It sent a strong wave of emotion and revival throughout France
(Peyre 59). This lead to new laws and standards for the citizens,
including newer, less imposing literary standards.
Rom ...
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History Of The Computer Indust
Number of Words: 2438 / Number of Pages: 9
... "digital calculating machine". It could only add numbers and they had to be entered by turning dials. It was designed to help Pascal's father who was a tax collector (Soma, 32).In the early 1800s, a mathematics professor named Charles Babbage designed an automatic calculation machine. It was steam powered and could store up to 1000 50-digit numbers. Built in to his machine were operations that included everything a modern general-purpose computer would need. It was programmed by-and stored data on-cards with holes punched in them, appropriately called "punch cards". His inventions were failures for ...
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Kosovo
Number of Words: 689 / Number of Pages: 3
... and the Kosovar parliament has declared the independence of , first from Serbia, then from the Yugoslav federation, after its disintegration.
The present crisis began in early 1998 when fighting broke out, resulting in the displacement of some 300,000 people. A cease-fire was agreed in October 1998, which enabled refugees to find shelter. A Verification Mission was deployed under the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). However, violence continued and the situation worsened with the killings in Racak on 16th January 1999
Many analysts, including the U.S. government, ha ...
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Chinese Dynasties
Number of Words: 3084 / Number of Pages: 12
... and contributions: The Shang society was many agricultural. They had a large army. Bronze casting was highly developed and a writing system had evolved. There commerce was highly developed and they used cowrie shells was used as currency. Shang art consisted of Bronze, pottery, and jade ornaments. Writing: The singular aspect of Shang civilization is their invention of writing. Almost all the written records of the Shang have disappeared, for the court records were kept on strips of bamboo. However, inscriptions on bronze and on the oracle bones still survive so we have specimens of the very fir ...
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Chernobyl Revisted
Number of Words: 412 / Number of Pages: 2
... thought that the
explosion was just an everyday steam discharge, while it was an awfully
large discharge. 31 firefighter tried helplessely to put out the blast, of
the 31 1 survived. When asked why they fought the fire instead of not, he
replied who else would of put the fire out it was his job. When the
surface fire was put out there was yet another problem. The reactor core
was still a blaze, the soviets tried a sand-boron-lead mixture to put out
the fire it eventually worked. The soviets still did not release the
information to the public on the Chernobyl incident untill 1 1/2 days after
the ...
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The War Of 1812 And Its Effect
Number of Words: 2036 / Number of Pages: 8
... fond of us breaking away from their empire, and they soon figured out that many revolts were because we had fought and won. They taxed our merchants, and hassled our ships, but they crossed the line when they began to impress our sailors into their navy. They claimed that these people had “deserted” the royal navy and should be given back. Though they may have been right on a few occasions, it has been proven that many innocent people were forced to be in the royal navy.
On June 22, 1807, the English frigate Leopard attacked the United States frigate Chesapeake, and took from her certain of her s ...
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