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Early Civilization
Number of Words: 519 / Number of Pages: 2
... him because he had offended his god. When he had reached the end of his life his god never came back to forgive him.
There are several common themes in both books that give the impression that both cultures pondered the same problems. In the book of Job God finally appears to Job and says that he Job didn't need to know why God let him suffer because he is God and his reasons are above mere mortals. While the man in the Mesopotamian book was pondering his problems, he couldn't figure out why he was being punished by his god. His reason for why he was being punished was, a god's reasons are hi ...
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First Amendment
Number of Words: 2418 / Number of Pages: 9
... He reflects the American desire for freedom now when he says, "I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread." He recognizes the need for freedom in its entirety without compromise or fear. I think Langston Hughes captures the essence of the American immigrants' quest for freedom in his poem, "Freedom's Plow." He accurately describes American's as arriving with nothing but dreams and building America with the hopes of finding greater freedom or freedom for the first time. He depicts how people of all backgrounds worked together for one cause: freedom. I selected ...
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The Byzantine Empire
Number of Words: 1177 / Number of Pages: 5
... the beginning to the end of the
Byzantine empire, the church and the emperor had been the largest landholders,
therefore being the largest profiteers of Byzantine. (Encarta)
After the Roman empire fell in 476 AD, Byzantine conquered all. It took
over the space of southeastern Europe, southwestern Asia, and the northeast
corner of Africa. The present day countries in these areas include the Balkan
Peninsula, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt. This large empire known as
Byzantine didn't get called Byzantine until scholars named it. The people of
that time were not thought of as Byzantines but as Rom ...
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Causes Of World War 2
Number of Words: 1411 / Number of Pages: 6
... I. Another country that was angry over the Versailles Treaty was Italy. They were angry because they thought that the land that they had received as a payment for their participation in the Allied effort against Germany did not offset the cost of the war, nor did it satisfy their ambitions to grow. The final country that was angry over the Versailles Treaty was Japan. They were also a victor over Germany and they wanted to gain control over China as reward for their participation in the war. This, however, did not happen and they were angry over the situation.
The second cause of world war II was the ...
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The French Revolution
Number of Words: 1077 / Number of Pages: 4
... burdens. Crops falied, and trade was stagnant. The people could no longer be taxed, but the government faced bank- ruptcy unless new revenues were found. The only soulution was to tax the privileged classes. But they were jealoous of their privileged posistion. Altought they were not completely unwilling to contribute some additional taxes, they never understood how grave the economis crisis was. They say the crises as only some form of financial corruption that could be explained away by firing the king's finace ministers. The libiral ideas of the French Enlightenment had been absorbed ...
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The Evolution Of The World
Number of Words: 513 / Number of Pages: 2
... opposite the center of the sky.
As one can clearly see, many maps, had different centers. Each map had a
different center, each based on a different religion.
Many years before the birth of Jesus Christ, the Greeks theorized that
the earth was a globe. But after that, there was a period in history
called "The Great Interruption." This period was categorized by a
complete silence where people in general, forgot about the issue of
whether the earth was flat or whether it was a globe. Another reason
that brought the theories of a globular world to rest was because the
priests told the general pu ...
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China 3
Number of Words: 602 / Number of Pages: 3
... was divided
equally among all the landowners surviving sons when he died. Living
conditions for the average peasant are generally better today then they
were in the past. There are more opportunities for education and
greater security for the family as social unit.
Marriage in China has also changed. Today there is a law that
provides for the freedom of choice in marriages. This law also states
that men and woman are equal, therefore a man can no longer
dominate a woman. There are also no more arranged marriages.
The elderly in China still hold their esteem, they are thought ...
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Philippine Annexation
Number of Words: 703 / Number of Pages: 3
... and that by the United States taking control, in my opinion, could civilize them. On the other hand Mason felt that these people were just like anyone else, and that they should be able to live the way they have always lived. Mason also felt that it was unfair to govern the people of the Philippines given that they lived ten thousand miles away. He felt that how could a senator set laws to people that he really did not know anything about. He also felt how can you govern them when in reality you don’t “speak their language, read their newspaper, know how their schools are run, or know their religi ...
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Anti-semitism In Nazi Germany
Number of Words: 1499 / Number of Pages: 6
... of the Nazi party. Baldur Von Shirach, a former Nazi youth leader, told a psychologist, "You have no idea what a great influence this book had on the thinking of the German youth…I read Henry Ford's book 'The International Jewry'…and became anti-Semitic." (Pinson, K 1966:487). It is not that anti-Semitism did not exist within Germany. 'Der nationale Sozialismus' (1st ed., Munich, 1920; 2nd ed., 1992), written by Rudolf Jung of Troppau, contained heavy anti-Semitic views and was considered to be one of, if not the most, authoritative presentations of national-socialist doctrine. Another e ...
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Napoleon: Does History Repeat Itself From People Seeking Power?
Number of Words: 2206 / Number of Pages: 9
... leader and conqueror can
clearly be seen in Julius Caesar. Caesar achieved great glory by bringing
his country out of turmoil, as did Napoleon. Looking to the past, Napoleon
knew what steps to take in order to achieve success. Napoleon devoured
books on the art of war. Volume after volume of military theory was read,
analyzed and criticized. He studied the campaigns of history's most famous
commanders, but his favorite, and the most influential on his strategies,
was none other than Julius Caesar . It was Caesar that Napoleon modeled
himself after the most. He wanted to be as great, if not greater tha ...
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