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Arthurian Legend
Number of Words: 1770 / Number of Pages: 7
... mind. Because of the way the alligator rules, his subjects obey him out of fear for their lives. Wart experiences this firsthand when the gator tells him to leave. He has grown bored of Wart, and if Wart does not leave he will eat him. The king uses his size as his claim to power, therefore his subjects follow him out of fear.
In Wart’s next transformation into a hawk, he soars into the castle’s mews. All the birds into the mews have a military rank. Their leader is an old falcon, who Sir Ector keeps just for show. The birds who rank below the falcon, hold her in the highest regard because o ...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Li
Number of Words: 1823 / Number of Pages: 7
... fifth cousin once removed (White House Webpage). Eleanor and Franklin move easily among the upper classes in New York and Campobello. Eleanor, however, was often unhappy, because during much of her married life, she had to live near Franklin’s widowed and domineering mother. During World War I, she was staggered to discover that Franklin was having an affair with her social secretary, a pretty young lady name Lucy Mercer. Despite these tensions, Eleanor remained a helpful mate throughout the 40 years of her marriage to Franklin (Britannica Vol. 26, Page 998).
The Democratic Organization in such a ...
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First Civilization Arose In Asia
Number of Words: 2019 / Number of Pages: 8
... Zone. They traded not only goods, but also ideas and technologies.
The Bronze Age coincided with the rise of civilizations. In 2000BCE, China acquired bronze. The acquisition of bronze brought dramatic technological changes, which resulted in more agriculture, the use of dams, and development of more sophisticated tools. The need for bronze, facilitated trade because bronze is comprised of copper and tin, which came from different areas, so they would trade with one another. However, the Bronze Age ended when resources grew limited, competition for resources increased, and people ...
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Montezuma
Number of Words: 195 / Number of Pages: 1
... lived where southern Mexico is today. Tenochtitlan was their
capital until Spain came around. Due to their religion and customs, Hernando
Cortez, leader of the Spanish Conquest, was believed to be a white god. He made
Montezuma prisoner and captured Tenoctitlan and renamed it Mexico City.
Sacrificing people to gods was a normal thing. They would sacrifice
slaves and prisoners. That is why they waged war with people. Usually they cut
the heart out of a living victim. They thought if you ate someone's flesh, you
obtained their courage. Every 52 years, they had a new beginning. They ...
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Bosnia 2
Number of Words: 266 / Number of Pages: 1
... Paris to formally end Bosnian War. It was signed by the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia as well as other international heads of state. Bosnian Serb nationalists were absent because they would have been arrested of war crimes and genocide if they came to Paris. France signed the agreement two days after two of its pilots shot down over Bosnia during the summer were released by their Serb captors. France threatened unspecified consequences if the men were not released.
The three major ethnic groups of Bosnia- Herzegovina are Muslim, Serb, and Croat. Serbs make up 32% of the population, M ...
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The Atomic Bomb And The Manhattan Project
Number of Words: 1747 / Number of Pages: 7
... Alexander Sachs helped him realize the possibilities. Two years later in November Roosevelt appointed a committee to advise him on nuclear fission and the capabilities of the concept in war. At the head of this committee was Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. About a month later, an event happened that would change the history books forever. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii at about 7:50 in the mourning. This brought America into the war and the Manhattan Project was on its way.
The Manhattan Project included the designing and construction of the atomic bomb, and the execution of dro ...
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Omar Khayyam The Enigma
Number of Words: 2342 / Number of Pages: 9
... in my bibliography the reader will see my sources for research and my opinion on those books.
I. OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ENIGMA
In the history of world literature Omar Khayyam is an enigma. No poet of any time period has received greater recognition and fame through such a enormous misreading of his work. Known today world wide, Khayyam’s works would undoubtable be unheard of in modern day literature in they were not translated by English writer Edward FitzGerald. The paradox is that FitzGerald misinterpreted both Khayyam and his works in his translation to start an unending conflict1.
FitzG ...
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The Red Book And The Power Structure Of Communist China
Number of Words: 5770 / Number of Pages: 21
... from 1966 to 1973 to show that propaganda was not just a tool of the
Communist party but also a reflection of internal power struggles within the
party during the Cultural Revolution.
The Red Book was written several years before it became the object of
national adoration and a tool for the Cultivation of Mao's personality Cult. The
history of the Red Book and its meteoric rise from a hand book for military
recruits to compulsory reading for all Chinese citizens, is closely tied to its
developer Lin Biao's rise to power. Lin Biao was born in 1907 and was fourteen
years younger then ...
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Constitution 2
Number of Words: 1094 / Number of Pages: 4
... lacked the money and power to provide an adequate national defense. Traders and commercial men found their plans for commerce on a national scale impeded by local interference with interstate commerce. The currency of the states and the nation were hopelessly muddled. Creditors everywhere were angry about the depreciated paper money which the agrarians had made and were attempting to force upon those from whom they had borrowed specie. Poor, small landowning farmers could not sell or trade goods that they produced on their land to other states. The "muddled currency" in 1786, led to the loss of la ...
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Developement Of Europe
Number of Words: 2474 / Number of Pages: 9
... during the French Revolution was used as a term of abuse. At this time, during the Reign of Terror in particular, France was moving toward a more republican form of government. During their attempt at the Republic of Virtue Catholicism was a focal point of attack. These attacks ended up fueling divisions that in the end proved to be fatal for the republican government. What some people saw as the future, others disliked and associated it with “modernity.” Hence, the concept of “modernity’s” use as an abusive phrase. However, at the close of the French Revolution, “modernity” took ...
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