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Prison Camp Men Died
1,140 wordsTorture, screams, no food: These are the conditions of prisons during the Civil War. The lack of attention to prisoners led to many gruesome things such as eating live animals. The two most infamous prisons were Andersonville in the South and Elmira in the North. Both had terrible conditions that were largely caused by the psychology of the War: If the other side doesnt have men they cant fight and likewise with weak men. Both prisons were alike in that men died, but each is infamous in their ow...
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The Life And Times Of Henry Viii
1,018 wordsRobert Lacey's The Life and Times of Henry VIII was first published and copyrighted in 1972 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. This most recent edition was published by Welcome Rain in 1998, though Weidenfeld and Nicolson still hold copyright privileges. Lacey, a former scholar at Bristol Grammar School and Selwyn College at Cambridge, is most noted as a historical novelist. More of his works include Robert, Earl of Essex, an Elizabethan Icarus and the internationally renowned biography of Elizabeth II...
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Tower Of London William The Conqueror
1,175 wordsWe went to the torture room in a kind of solemn precession, the guards walking ahead with lighted candles. The chamber was underground and dark, particularly near the entrance. It was a vast shadowy place and every device and instrument of human torture was there. They pointed out some of them to me and said I should have to taste them. Then they asked me again if I would confess. I Those words were spoken by John Gerard, a Jesuit priest accused of spreading Catholicism in England. And in 1597 h...
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Madame Du Chatelet Prison Voltaire French
775 wordsFrancois Marie About was born on November 21, 1694 in Paris. The pen name that he used the most often, however, was Voltaire. Voltaire was a French author, philosopher, and apostle of free thought; he was the most influential figure during the French Enlightenment. Voltaire received an excellent education at a Jesuit school called Louis-le-Grand. At age 16 he left school and became friends with Parisian aristocrats. These aristocrats admired his cleverness, humor, and remarkable writing ability....
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Infamous Day Killed 13 School
403 wordsThe most tragic school shooting in American history took place on April 20, 1999. On this infamous day in history two Columbine high school students killed 13 and wounded 21 before they took there own lives. It is not clear why they chose this day, but it may be because this was the 110 th anniversary of Adolf Hitlers birthday. What happened on this day was a tragedy that affected not only Columbine, but the whole country as well. At 11: 10 a. m. both shooters pulled into parking spaces belongin...
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World War Ii Japanese Military
1,252 words... should display the spirit of cooperation by forgetting themselves for the sake of victory. Every unit should carry out its mission with responsibility, upholding its honour, placing confidence in others and assisting one another, volunteering to face hardships, exerting all its strength in cooperation, and fighting valiantly to achieve its objective. Aggressiveness Aggressiveness should constantly prevail in combat, which must be carried out with bravery and determination. When attacking, be...
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First World War Power In Germany
1,346 wordsHolocaust Holocaust: great or wholesale destruction of life, esp. by fire. (The Macquarie Dictionary). Where and when did the holocaust occur? There is quite a bit of controversy over exactly when the Holocaust began, some historians date the beginning of the Holocaust to September 1939 when the German army invaded Poland. While others date the beginning of this prolific time to invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Yet many others have many other dates that they claim are the beginning on ...
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Divided Into Four East And West Germany
1,266 wordsThe Berlin Wall, for twenty-eight years, separated friends, families, and a nation. A lot of suffering began for Germany when World War II commenced, but by the end of the war Germany was in the mists of a disaster waiting to happen. After WWII was over Germany was divided into four parts. The United States, Great Britain, and France controlled the three divisions that were formed in the Western half; and the Eastern half was controlled by the Soviet Republic. The Western divisions eventually un...
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Chinese Culture Chinese Tradition
1,445 wordsEvery nation, culture, and family on the face of this planet has somewhat a sense of pride that burns deep down within them. Some people are inclined to base each single move, decision, and measure in their lives revolving around this concept of pride. The novel Eat a bowl of Tea by Louis Chu, distinctively describes a young Chinese couple living in New York s Chinatown during the 1960 s, whose marriage involves numerous conflicts of unfaithfulness, deception, and extreme dishonor reflected upon...
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German Workers Party World War Ii
2,034 wordsThe rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in history. Only an army corporal in World War I, Hitler became Germany's chancellor 15 years later. He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, of German descent. His father Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. In middle age Alois took the name Hitler from his paternal grandfather. After two wives had died Alois marri...
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Jehovahs Witnesses Final Solution
1,516 wordsThe first research in the late 1940 s and early 1950 s focused on the Jewishness of the Holocaust. Called the Final Solution by the Germans, it was the object of two pivotal studies, both of which had the Jews at the center of their treatment. The first was The Final Solution by Gerald Reitlinger and the second The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg. Most major studies since have had the same focus: Lucy Dawidowicz (The War Against the Jews; Leni Yahoo (The Holocaust); Hilberg (Per...
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Jane Fonda Fame Jane American
623 wordsWho is Jane Fonda? This is a question often asked by many people with no one right answer. She is an actress, a fitness guru, a former communist sympathizer, and most importantly, an antiwar activist during the Vietnam War. Although Jane Fonda was honored as one of the 100 Women of the Century, her infamous name is one Vietnam veterans will never forget. As American soldiers were losing their lives, she traveled into enemy-territory, defaming American POWs, many of whom were tortured to death. J...
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Latin America El Salvador
1,703 wordsDue to the incredible amounts of human rights violations committed by graduates of the School of the Americas as a direct effect of their training funded by U. S. tax dollars, the School of the Americas must be closed down. The school is a cold war dinosaur that needs to be brought to the attention of the American taxpaying public. The people of our nation need to be aware that every time they get a paycheck, they are contributing to the oppression and killing of the indigenous peoples of Latin ...
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Mao Zedong Mock Trial
10,136 wordsEveryone is affected by certain events or individuals that greatly change their life. Many people have influenced me during my life. Three wonderful friends that have had a special effect on me are Robert, Tiffany and Ashley. In the four years that I have known them well, they have been my best friends, and have helped to transform me from a lonely middle school scholar into a happy senior with a decent social life. Popular wisdom has it that, You judge a man by his friends. Earlier in my life, ...
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Born Christian Were Tortured Christian Were Tortured One
509 wordsOver the years in history, there have been many formidable executions that were caused by the aspect of different faiths and races. Period after period there have been many leaders who lashed out onto others because of what they believed in. All of these incidents have never been forgotten; one very infamous one would be the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition was started to cleanse the Church of heretics and purify Spain. They executed Jews, Muslims, and other minorities not of Christi...
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Mentally Ill Mental Illness
1,327 wordsPhillippe Pinel And The Advent Of The Phillippe Pinel And The Advent Of The Moral Treatment Of The Mentally Ill Throughout history, mankind has been afflicted with disease and failing health. They have ranged from infections to broken bones to psychopathologies. How mankind treats his weaker brethren is a true reflection of the culture in which he or she resides. To treat the sick poorly denotes selfishness and egocentrism whereas to treat the ill humanely denotes gentleness and self-sacrifice. ...
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