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Description Dominance Of Greco-Roman Culture
Number of Words: 966 / Number of Pages: 4
... think)
that those who still preserve their independence do
so because they are strong, and that if we fail to
attack them it is because we are afraid.
The Athenian people were not directly threatened by the Melians and therefore had no practical reason to attack them. Their primary motivation was, obviously, to assert their dominance, their excellence, upon the Melian people. In his "Funeral Oration", Pericles declares the excellence of the Athenian people, "Taking everything together then, I declare that our city is an education to Greece, and I declare that in my opinion each single one ...
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Puritanism
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... trials includes the arrest and confession of witchcraft on March 1, 1692.
In January of 1692, the daughter and niece of Reverend Samuel Parris became very ill. When she failed to improve, the village doctor, William Griggs, was called in. After much deliberation, Griggs concluded that the problem was witchcraft. This put into motion the forces that would ultimately result in the death of nineteen men and women. In addition to those nineteen people, one man named Giles Corey was crushed to death. Seventeen others died in prison and the lives of many were irrevocably changed.
To better un ...
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Mark Twain
Number of Words: 813 / Number of Pages: 3
... cities on the Mississippi: the most prominent of these was Keokuk, Iowa where his brother Orion founded the Keokuk Journal. In April 1861 came the start of civil war river traffic on the Mississippi was suspended, and Clemens steamboat career came to an end. He joined a volunteer militia group called the Marion Rangers, which drilled for two weeks before disbanding. Sam accompanied Orion to the Nevada Territory by stagecoach: President Lincoln had appointed Orion as secretary of the new Territory, and Sam was to be his secretary. (Cox Clinton). During the 1880s and early 90s, Clemens became heavil ...
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Britain In Africa
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... share. France was furious that they had been tricked, but there was nothing they could do about the fact that the canal they had built was now property of the British. This is the beginning of France and Britain's dual control of Egypt.
The British gained complete control in Egypt following the Egyptian Crisis in 1882. Arabi and the Egyptian Nationalists deposed the Khedive and then proceeded to attempted to remove Britain and France from Egypt. The British were furious not only because of the revolt, but because the Khedive owed large sums of money on outstanding loans to the British. The French ...
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Christa Wolf
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... is strongly autobiographical and combines references to actual events with a description of life in a conformist provincial town.
Wolf was a member of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of the GDR until the party disintegrated in 1989. She was, however, removed from the East Berlin committee of the GDR Writers' Union in 1976 after joining in protest against the withdrawal of citizenship from dissident singer Wolf Biermann. Wolf's controversial novel Was bleibt (What Remains and Other Stories, 1995), written in 1979 but not published until 1990, includes an account of being under surveillance by the Stas ...
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Hegel And The National Heritag
Number of Words: 3827 / Number of Pages: 14
... and communism must make concessions to the peculiar national sentiments they encounter throughout the world. On the other side of the coin, if a political movement makes a point of demonstrating its patriotic motives, it may gain freedom of action to bring about important institutional changes under the guise of enhancing the national interest.
Hegel emphasizes the power of national loyalty by talking of the nation as if it were an individual. It is, he suggests, an organism with an explicit life of its own:
Each particular National genius is to be treated as only one individual in the process of Un ...
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Slavery In America
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... France signed the Act of the National Convention abolishing slavery. It would take America about a hundred years to do the same. George Washington, America's first president, was also a slave owner. He deplored slavery but did not release his slaves. Washington wasn't the only president to have slaves. Thomas Jefferson wrote;"All men are created equal" but died leaving his blacks in slavery.
In 1775 black Americans were sent to fight in the revolutionary army. The British proposed that if a black man was to join their army, they would be set free afterwards. America originally planned not to let
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Battle Of Gettysburg 2
Number of Words: 1430 / Number of Pages: 6
... II under General R.S. Ewell, and Corp III under General A.P. Hill. Before he decided to move North, Lee sent one of his Generals, Jeb Stuart into Union territory to get information on the Union army. Knowing it was a risky task; Stuart proceeded as Lee’s eyes and ears. Jeb Stuart was sent to invade was sent to take the front and right flank of Ewell's army, but as he was completing his orders, he did not notice that General Mead’s army was marching straight at him with about 82,000.
Without any hesitation, Lee decided to push north in order to invade Pennsylvania from Maryland, th ...
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Anger & Renewal In Indian Country
Number of Words: 1183 / Number of Pages: 5
... and enlightenment.
The 16th century was the setting for the early days of the arriving
Europeans to the North American continent. Countries such as England,
Portugal, France and Spain entered the continent and set up colonies which
were widely spread out over the land. The natives of the area had formerly
agreed upon their occupation of the space, and so welcomed the newly
arrived settlers. An agreement was made in the two-row wampum treaty which
was signed between the natives and the settlers from Europe in 1664. The
agreement would allow Europeans to stay among the native people and use a ...
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WHAT MADE THE AMERICANS EXPAND
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... The ocean had always controlled New England's interests and connected it
with the real world. Puritanism was still very strong in the north so the
moral unity of New England was exceptional. Having a very unmixed population
of English origin, New England contrasted very much with the other sections.
All this and the fact that they needed to cross populated states in order to
expand west set this section part from the others (Leuetenburg and Wishy 37).
New England's population compared to other regions was poor, and the
population growth was even poorer. The trans-Alleghany States by 182 ...
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