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Egypt 3
Number of Words: 2279 / Number of Pages: 9
... 1922 of King Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings and its exquisite treasures will be offered.
The Old Kingdom, from about 4000 to 2280 B.C., was the age of the great pyramids such as Cheops (wonder of the ancient world), Chefren, and Mycerinus. Also on the Giza plateau is the largest freestanding statue in Egypt, the Sphinx. The Sphinx was a sculpture of a lion’s body with the face of Chefren. The statue is sixty-five feet high and about 240 feet in length, making it the largest freestanding statue in Egypt. The Nile River was key in the development of these Ancient Egyptian cities the Nile w ...
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Russia Crisis: Economical, Political, And Moral
Number of Words: 560 / Number of Pages: 3
... in which dishonesty and graft pay dividends and the ordinary good people of Russia stand in line at bank queues and watch all they have spent their lives building up disappearing before their eyes. That is the Yeltsin legacy.
Russia: A flea market economy
Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin seemed to be talking about a different world when they repeated their shared determination to pursue the free market.
Free market? What free market? There is no effective free market in Russia. It has been hijacked and hijacked by President Yeltsin's own allies and supporters. The billionaire tycoons known in Ru ...
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Andrew Carnegie Preaches The G
Number of Words: 294 / Number of Pages: 2
... group who opposed what they saw as a growing impulse toward imperialism in US foreign policy, especially in the case of the US's war against the Filipinos. Carnegie taunted the advocates of President William McKinley's war policy by asking, "Is it possible that the American Republic is to be placed in the position of the suppressor of the Philippine struggle for independence?" He then went so far as to offer to buy the island nation from the US for $20 million in order to grant its citizens complete independence. His offer was refused.
Carnegie's proclaimed regard for the betterment of man may ha ...
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Kingdom Of Benin
Number of Words: 349 / Number of Pages: 2
... arts that originated in Africa are some of the hand
cast bronzes that came out of the kingdom of Benin. These became known as
the Benin Bronzes. The casting of brass was strictly a royal art and
anyone found casting brass without royal permission was faced with
execution. Whenever a king or a major figure died, a beautiful
commemorative head was cast out of bronze in his honor. These heads were
displayed at shrines found all throughout the royal palace. Also found in
the royal palace were eight wall-sized bronze plaques. Each plaque
depicted kings, chiefs, and great warriors in battle. They ...
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American Revolution Vs. Americ
Number of Words: 835 / Number of Pages: 4
... were later informed that they were included by Virtual Representation. The colonists lived with these annoying custom duties by evading them through smuggling. Soon after a Declaratory Act was passed reasserting the right of Parliament to legislate “in all cases whatsoever.” (Graham 78) The people of America just wanted to separate from the English and soon become interested in the fact that England was producing all sorts of laws and acts onto them. Having such a government displeased the Americans and soon the reaction that they promoted was that of rebellion. A pamphlet authored b ...
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Pre-Civil War New Orleans
Number of Words: 2648 / Number of Pages: 10
... of 1812. During the Civil War the city was besieged by Union ships under Adm. David Farragut; it fell on Apr. 25, 1862.
And that's what it say's in the books, a bit more, but nothing else of interest. This is too bad, New Orleans , as a city, has a wide and diverse history that reads as if it were a utopian society built to survive the troubles of the future. New Orleans is a place where Africans, Indians and European settlers shared their cultures and intermingled. Encouraged by the French government, this strategy for producing a durable culture in a difficult place marked New Orleans as different ...
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American Values From Jamestown
Number of Words: 335 / Number of Pages: 2
... at old english price. and investing in Europe products. Nobles were tied to fix lands. The nobles decided to do something.
The nobles closed all their land and this was called. The inclosure movement. The nobles then fenced in all their land. There fore peasants were forced to seek new work an a new life. The middle class had a investment to the new world. One promblem was the spanish controlled the seas.
England competed with Spain for the seas. Power hungry Prince Phillip II of Spain wanted more. In a hope to increase power he proposed to Queen Elizabeth. Once again the Queen said "no." Outraged K ...
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Lenin And Problems After The October Revolution
Number of Words: 756 / Number of Pages: 3
... He succeeded
in focusing on the severe internal problems of the new government, and in “
saving the socialist republic” . One of the largest problems that Russia faced
prior to the October Revolution was finally ended, though its effects were still
to be felt.
Almost immediately afterwards, in 1918, Civil War begins. The battling
White Army divided amongst different leaders and interests left the Red Army,
led by Trotsky victorious. Lenin does succeed in eliminating opposition to the
Soviet Union in November of 1920. As in the case of the World War, a simple end
to the fighting did not signify ...
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Age Of Reform In America
Number of Words: 1157 / Number of Pages: 5
... with Brook Farm was that the residents ended up believing in a form of communism, despite its objective of being a community where the individual would be able to become ‘whole’. A fire late in 1847 caused the community to disband and separate. Brook Farm is important because not only was it one of the first utopian society experiments in the 1800’s, but it proved that people were confident about trying new things. Critics of Brook Farm said that the point of the community was nothing more than the desire to become better than other people. This demonstrates that (even though it faile ...
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Caesar And Naopoleon
Number of Words: 1818 / Number of Pages: 7
... Holland, and Germany west of the
Rhine. For the next eight years,
Caesar led military campaigns involving both the Roman
legions and tribes
in Gaul who were often competing among themselves. Julius Caesar
was a Roman
general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome’s transition
from
republic to empire (Duggan 84).
Caesar's principles were to keep his forces
united; to be vulnerable at no point, to
strike speedily at critical points;
to rely on moral factors, such as his reputation and the
fear he inspired,
as well as political means in order to insure the loyalty of his alli ...
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