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Louis XIV
Number of Words: 640 / Number of Pages: 3
... was mentally unstable and did not like Anne of Austria. Whatever the reality, Louis was born on September 5, 1638. By all accounts Louis' childhood was not very happy. He was reared primarily by servants. At one point he almost drowned in a pond because no one was watching him.
His father died on May 14, 1643, when Louis was four and one-half years old. The regent who ruled France during the youth of Louis was Cardinal Mazarin from Italy. Mazarin's policies were clever, complex and successful.
Mazarin played a major role in bringing about the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Mazarin basically wanted to e ...
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The Lost Generation
Number of Words: 930 / Number of Pages: 4
... and thrown into unimaginable chaos. World War I should never have been fought. It was because of a royal family feud that caused millions of deaths. How would one feel if one saw their best friend blown up right before their very own eyes? These kids saw their comrades choke to death because of the fatal mustard gas. They saw friends get shot in the stomach and die slowly of excruciating pain. The dead bodies were innumerable and they had to face their enemy eye to eye and then kill them. These men starved and had to fight off giant rats. Most of these men died of a cause they did not know. If you loo ...
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Dea Sea Scrolls Imperfection
Number of Words: 1941 / Number of Pages: 8
... their true authors, but certainly one can attempt to enlighten others with the hardships that are faced, even now, by the scribes who wrote them. In viewing the living conditions during the time that the scrolls were written and then comparing the conditions to those of today, one will have a much deeper understanding of what “hardship” means in the scribal world. Based on this comparison and a near-complete list of typical errors that plague current and ancient authors, one will not only see the types of difficulties involved with replication, but will also realize through doubt and reason that usin ...
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Buddhism 2
Number of Words: 919 / Number of Pages: 4
... religion that was at that time the
only religion in India. When his father refused,
Siddartha stood in one place for days on end, until his
father agreed. So Siddartha left his enclosed palace
and set out on his own.
Not long after he started his venture out of
his home, Siddartha ran across four things he had never
seen before. These four things were to be called the
four signs. The four signs were; old age, sickness,
death, and true serenity. These four men were really
gods put there so Siddartha could learn what else lies
beyond the pure luxury that he knows so well.
Siddartha so ...
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Operation Barbarossa: A Good Plan?
Number of Words: 2666 / Number of Pages: 10
... enslave the 'degenerate' Slavs and he wanted to obliterate their 'Jewish Bolshevist' government before it could turn on him. His 1939 pact with Stalin was only meant to give Germany time to prepare for war.
As soon as Hitler controlled France, he looked east. Insisting that Britain was as good as defeated, he wanted to finish off the Soviet Union as soon as possible, before it could significantly fortify and arm itself. 'We only have to kick in the front door and the whole rotten edifice will come tumbling down'ii he told his officers. His generals warned him of the danger of fighting a war on two ...
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Female Slaves And Their Famili
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... One slave woman, Mary Colquitt, remarked that her grandmother and mother had often stayed up late sewing clothes for the children, saying, "Dey done it 'cause dey wanted to. Dey wuz workin' for deyselves den." (Jones, 29) Ironically, this work caring for themselves and their families also benifitted the slave owners, since healthy slaves meant that the masters could get more work out of them, and thus make more money when the crops were harvested.
The family was important to most slave women, and they had ways of making sure that they stayed together, though these weren't foolproof. A woman ...
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Into The Abyss Marquis De Sade
Number of Words: 2616 / Number of Pages: 10
... " Virtue and vice, moral good and evil, is then in any country what is useful or harmful to society…Virtue is the habit of doing those things which please men, and vice the habit of doing those things which displease men." Consequentially, virtue and vice were not set in stone decrees, but rather arbitrary notions assigned to the whims of society. This idea left no universal law of good and evil. The right of the individual to pursue pleasure and his notions of right and wrong were secondary to his obligation to society. Voltaire explains, "To be good only for oneself is to be good for nothing." ...
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Black And Yellow Perils In Col
Number of Words: 1837 / Number of Pages: 7
... This accentuated the fears that formed the basis for the paranoia concerning 'yellow' and especially 'black' perils in imperial Africa, and also enhanced worries concerning racial degeneration. The result of this and one or two other isolated incidents, was that women were forbidden to attend the majority of any subsequent exhibitions, if not nationally, then certainly in the London area.
The appearance of scientific racism in the second half of the nineteenth century, the basis for which was social Darwinism and anatomical measurement, enabled white colonists to justify their belief in their own racia ...
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Bierce
Number of Words: 830 / Number of Pages: 4
... "Chickamauga", where a bloody battlefield is seen through
the eyes of a deaf child(Short Story Criticism 48), or in
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", where a man about to be
hanged for treason, dreams of his escape. Bierce's often
ironic twists leave the reader stunned. As noted by Alfred
Kazin, "There is invariably a sudden reversal, usually in a
few lines near the end, that takes the story away from the
reader, as it were, that overthrows his confidence in the
nature of what he has been reading, that indeed overthrows
his confidence" (Short Story Criticism 49). For all of
this, ...
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Plato
Number of Words: 1816 / Number of Pages: 7
... education of the ruling prince. Plato was not certain about the success of this
adventure although he felt he could not refuse this opportunity of putting his ideas to a test. It
did not work out for Plato and he returned to Athens in 360 B.C. He then devoted himself to
teaching and lecturing at the Academy. He died at age 80 in Athens in 348 B.C. Before his
death Plato completed the Sophist, the Politicus, the Philebus, the Timaeus and finally the Laws.
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DIALOGUES
The Symposium is the most widely read of Plato's dialogues with the exception of the
Republic and it ...
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