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Documentary...the Cuban Missil
Number of Words: 945 / Number of Pages: 4
... and intense debate in the United States administration, during which Soviet diplomats denied that installations for offensive missiles were being built in Cuba, President Kennedy, in a televised address on October 22, announced the discovery of the installations and proclaimed that any nuclear missile attack from Cuba would be regarded as an attack by the Soviet Union and would be responded to accordingly. He also imposed a naval quarantine on Cuba to prevent further Soviet shipments of offensive military weapons from arriving there. Kennedy said that, “Any ship found to have any weapons would be ...
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Korean War 2
Number of Words: 1426 / Number of Pages: 6
... of Korea. On September 9, North Korea set up the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. North and South Korea claimed the whole country and their troops fought several times between 1948-1950. The US removed it's troops from South Korea in 1949. It also said that Korea was outside of US defense line. North Korea saw it's chance for military action to take over South Korea.
In June 1950, North Korea surprised South Korea with an attack. At the time, the North Korean Army had 135,000 soldiers, most of them veterans of WW II. It also had airplanes, tanks, and artillery that outnumbered South Kore ...
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History Of Islam
Number of Words: 1073 / Number of Pages: 4
... the power of the Medina, expanded his Moslem army. Khalid also launched a surprise invasion eastward across the Euphrates and surrounded the provincial capital of Hira. Being a Ummayad, Abu Bakr had political and military powers to complement his religious authority and at the start of Abu Bakr's reign, the Arabs were able to conquer the whole of the Middle East. In less than a century, the mobile Moslems were able to successfully defeat the Byzantine and in the entire fertile cresent.
At about 634, when Khalid was marching into Damascus, Omar another Ummayad, succeeded Abu Bakr as the next Caliph. ...
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The Socratic Logos
Number of Words: 488 / Number of Pages: 2
... because Meno first attempts to give some characteristics of virtue, but is unable to do so because he cannot list all the aspects that are a part of virtue. Also, in the Meno Socrates attempts to define shape as that which "Always follows color."(Meno, 75c) Intuitively this account of shape does not sound right, and it is shown to be false when the definition of logos is applied to it. Because a gas or liquid can have color, but not shape, this characterization of shape is incorrect. Socrates then defines shape as "That which limits a solid."(Meno, 76a) This concise explanation of shape is incorrec ...
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The Horror Of The Black Plague In Europe In 1347
Number of Words: 1053 / Number of Pages: 4
... added more fatalities
to the war. The war was suspended and the fighting stopped in 1348 because
of the number of soldiers that died. But it soon enough started back up.
There was no permanent effect on the course of politics. Parliaments were
adjourned, but were quickly reconvened. King Alfonso XI of Castile was the
only reigning monarch to die of the plague, but many lesser notables died,
including the queens of Argon and France, and the son of the Byzantine
emperor (Knox). Local levels felt the damage of the plague more. Whole
families of local nobles were dead. Because of the plague and ...
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Code Of Behavior
Number of Words: 1577 / Number of Pages: 6
... knight, in love with a married woman of equally high birth—or, often, higher rank—had to prove his devotion by heroic deeds and by amorous writings presented anonymously to his beloved. Once the lovers had pledged themselves to each other and consummated their passion, complete secrecy had to be maintained. Because most noble marriages in the Middle Ages were little more than business contracts, courtly love was a form of sanctioned adultery, sanctioned because it threatened neither the contract nor the religious sacrament of marriage. In fact, faithlessness of the lovers toward each other was conside ...
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Compare And Contrast The Way T
Number of Words: 3070 / Number of Pages: 12
... the United Kingdom and more than 400 miles away from the nearest landmass and also being subject to a total exclusion zone the Ministry of Defence had the sole say in how many if any correspondents it would let sail with the task force. The MoD only accepted British correspondents and it has been argued that those that were accepted were vetted. In the end the MoD accredited less than thirty correspondents, which is a minuscule number when compared to the number that were present in the Gulf War. All the correspondents had to agree to censorship by the MoD at source (2). This censorship was made ev ...
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Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 2419 / Number of Pages: 9
... Caesar was 25 he set sail for the island of Rhodes. But, on the way a band of pirates captured the ship and kidnapped him. While his family was raising ransom money he was a very difficult guest for the pirates. He strolled boldly around their ship and pointed out weaknesses in their sword fighting technique and told them he would kill them all after he was released. They were entertained by this young man but did not believe the threat (Green 19).
His family finally paid his ransom. Soon after it was paid, Caesar learned that the government was not going to take action and pursue the ...
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How Did The Franco-german Alli
Number of Words: 1985 / Number of Pages: 8
... EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY.
The man responsible for concocting this idea is a man by the name of Robert Schuman, the French Foreign Minister from 1948 to 1953. He announced his plan in 1950, a plan which he said was
" the first step in the realisation of a vision, a vision of a united Europe which would have Franco-German reconciliation at its heart." To put it simply, the Scuman Plan as it was called, would unite countries into an alliance in which all customs barriers against the trade of coal and steel would be abolished to create a commun market for these products, and at ...
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Chivalry
Number of Words: 329 / Number of Pages: 2
... to today’s youth. There are exceptions to this. Helping the elderly, family, and friends are just a few things young people can do to resurrect . I don’t think it’s possible to be as chivalrous as the knights in the Middle Ages were because our lifestyles have changed so drastically.
As of now, the future of looks bleak. If society doesn’t change its ways soon, the quality of life and chivalrous behavior will continue to decline. Chivalrous conduct could return slowly if society realizes the importance of it.
I think the phrase “treat your neighbor as you would l ...
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