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Hand To Hand Combat Martial Arts
1,654 wordsJudo had its origin in the ancient Japanese art of bujutsu, a system of hand-to-hand combat. The bushi of feudal Japan (samurai) are usually credited for developing bujutsu (at their time the art was known as York kumi-uchi, a grappling method for fighters fully clad in Japanese armor). However, the Nihon Show (the Chronicle of the Japanese nation) documents public unarmed competitions (hilary-karate) dating back to 230 B. C. Bujutsu has been known by several names throughout Japanese history: t...
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The Code Of Bushido In Japan
418 wordsWhen the average American hears the term Bushido, visions of sword swinging samurai warriors often come to mind. Literary works, as well as the media has shown us many elements of the Bushido code such as honor, justice, loyalty, and bravery which have greatly impacted Japan. Bushido is the moral code that has provided Japan with a national identity and work ethic that has guided them through bloody civil wars, Mongol invasions, a world war, and nuclear devastation (Rockette, page 1). In short, ...
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Labor Force Black Women
1,030 words... dly. Old women also have a unique position in the world of inter village warfare and politics. They are immune from the incursions of raiders and can go from one village to another with complete disregard for personal danger. In this connection they are sometimes employed as messengers and, sometimes, as the recovers of bodies. If a man killed near to village of enemy, old women from the slain village are permitted to recover his body. Also, because all Yanomamo women are afraid of being abd...
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Low Avg Nw High Avg Nw Attacks
348 wordsAlliance warfare comes in may forms. There is no "set" war strategy. It depends on a mad of variables, such as Total NW, Avg NW, participation (moral), allies, etc. I'll try and show # 1) - An alliance with a lot of members, and a low avg NW. This is the easiest form of war, the GS kill. You stock up on troops, and merely kill off their countries with lost's of Geurrilla attacks. Make sure you have it so that it's not big guys doing attacks at the end to finish him off. What's best is when you h...
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Branch Davidians Chemical Warfare
1,137 wordsNeither the Branch Davidians, nor the ATF, nor the FBI, were composed of or led by stupid persons. Yet at Waco, all of these groups made extremely bad decisions. One reason for the high-risk, low-quality decisions of the Branch Davidians, ATF, and FBI is that these groups of intelligent individuals could collectively make decisions much worse than the individuals might have made if they had decided alone. Many of the factors leading to groupthink were present, on all sides, at Waco. First, in gr...
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Albert Einstein Primary Source
1,138 words... hat was what he was happy doing. He contributed to several charities, and raised money for the was effort. Einstein was as normal as they come, he just had a spark of imagination that did not let him quit thinking. A world without Albert Einstein would have been awful. The world would be very behind in technological advances, mathematics, physics, and even astronomy. There would not be any new true theorems in science until someone made the discovery Einstein did and threw out some of Newton...
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Crimes Against Humanity World War Ii
1,620 wordsIn ancient times prisoners of war were usually treated without mercy. With Greeks, for example, it was common practice to kill the whole adult male population of a conquered state. The ancient Britons also killed their prisoners in a screwed up way. The Ottoman Turks executed 30, 000 Christian prisoners during the War of Candia. In Western Europe, however, as chivalry spread in late medieval times and the practice of sparing and ransoming prisoners was started. Over one hundred thousand people d...
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Biological Weapons Terrorist Attack
1,088 wordsOver the course of the last half-century the U. S. has enjoyed unprecedented power in every aspect whether it be politically, economically, militarily, or by any other means. In its dominance of world politics since WWII, the U. S. has been able to cast its influence around the globe. However, the U. S. experienced a gradual decline in its sovereignty over the course of this era as well. A prime example was in 1973 when OPEC raised oil prices drastically over the course of the next two years. "O...
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World War Ii Men And Women
732 wordsThe notion that women should be able to participate in ground warfare has been a long disputed argument for decades. Many argue that it is in every individuals right to be able to defend their own country with honor and integrity. But certain issues arise when this defense is analyzed. Should women be able to engage in hand-to-hand combat? The answer is no. Throughout history, women have played an important role in defending our country successfully. During World War II, Women performed a variet...
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Gang Warfare And Themes In The Outsiders
494 words"The Outsiders" by S. E Hinton is an early novel based on two waring juvenile gangs, divided by economical and social background, the lower East side Greasers and the upper West side Socs. The novel is set in 1966 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is a novel written in first person by a 14 year old Greaser, Ponyboy Curtis who allows us an insight into the lifestyles of these distinct worlds. I chose the novel "The Outsiders" as a text for year 10 for the following reasons: It is a novel which draws the rea...
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Austro Hungarian Empire War On Serbia
1,922 wordsA cool, sunny summer morning some 87 years ago, two bullets were fired in a Sarajevo street that would soon set in motion a series of events that would throw the world into a struggle against itself. Gavril o Princip was the young man who fired those two fateful shots that hit Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie. The royal couple was returning from City Hall and was in route back to the Capitol. Princip, fueled with hatred at the Austr...
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National Geographic Society York New York
1,369 words... vil service. Another contribution to the Spartan government that Lycurgus provided was the money system. The Spartans used pieces of iron instead of silver and gold. This type of monetary system was of very little value outside of the Spartan city-state and made the citizens dependent upon the local economy. The warrior culture of Sparta was battle tested time and time again and proved to be the strongest battle ready nation within the Grecian region. The Spartans were called upon during man...
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Cyber Terrorism Mcgraw Hill
1,352 wordsIrrational and Destructive Logic of Cyber Terrorism The study of Political science encompasses the areas of governments, public policies, political processes, and systems including political behaviors and theories concerning the ideal government and how power and resources are allocated in society. Critical issues that concern the community like the environment, health, civil rights, international relations and affairs are but some of the sub-fields included in the scope of Political Science. Sc...
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Status Of Women Men And Women
1,333 wordsSociology Gender inequality has been a main feature of human social life for millennia. Sociologists, political scientists and others have been thought why the unequal interest to status, power, and resources along gender lines has been existed for over 10, 000 years of human history. Many scientists have studied this phenomenon. They have found themselves with one or more theoretical perspectives that can give an explanation to gender inequality across time and space. Theories of gender inequal...
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Russo Japanese War Gatling Gun
1,242 wordsa minute to approximately three and hurt his ability to defend himself while he loaded the awkward device. The shortcomings associated with these muzzleloader's were, in a large part, responsible for the style of battlefield tactics of the day. Smokeless gunpowder was the next major advancement to affect gun development. Smokeless gunpowder led to the development of cartridge bullets. These bullets enabled the lead shot to be pre-packaged with the gunpowder and dramatically shortened the time in...
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End Of The War P O
716 wordsIt Chemical Warfare Chem Warfare It was not until the early 1930 s that German chemists observed that organ-phosphorus compounds could be poisonous. In 1934, Dr Gerhard Schrader, a chemist at IG Farben, was given the task of developing a pesticide. Two years later a phosphorus compound with extremely high toxicity was produced for the first time. According to contemporary regulations, discoveries with military implications had to be reported to the military authorities, which was also done with ...
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Adolf Hitler Mackenzie King
1,048 wordsHistorical Time Line 1910 Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier? s Naval Bill to create a small Canadian Navy is passed. The Montreal Canadians play their first hockey game. The first man-made fibre, rayon, is introduced in the North American market. Author Stephen Leacock publishes Literary Lapses. Toronto had 376, 588 citizens. 1911 Robert Borden becomes Canada? s new PM. Canada? s population is 7, 204, 838. 1912 Ontario government restricts the use of French in Ontario schools. The Manitoba, Ontario...
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Hope For The Future Soviet Union
2,516 wordsThe Chechens always despised being ruled by the Russians, likewise, Russia loathed them ranked them among the most ruthless and severe criminals of the former Soviet Union (Roskin 285). Stalin deported the Chechens to Kazakhstan in 1944, claiming they were German collaborators. When the remaining Muslim Chechens were permitted back into their homeland, they returned feeling bitter and helpless without any available resources on which to survive. Since their repatriation, the people of Chechnya h...
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Early Middle Ages Fall Of The Roman Empire
1,562 wordsDuring its golden age, the sprawling metropolis of Rome was decorated with dozens of beautiful arches veneered with the finest marble and ordained with ivory statues of the gods. Citizens of Rome were entertained by literally thousands of fountains and bathes supplied with scores of aqueducts (Hadas 37). The city became a cosmopolitan metropolis that reached a peak population of between six hundred- thousand and one million people. All of these people were supplied with grain and merchandise fro...
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38 Th Parallel Republic Of Korea
1,074 wordsThe Korean War was a result of the division of Korea after World War 2. Japan controlled Korea prior to 1945 when the United States and the Soviet Union divided Korea at the 38 th parallel. The US did this in the fear that the Soviet Union would take over Korea. This was the beginning of the split between the north and south. Both the US and the Soviet Union began to build their regimes within their halves to support their interests. By the end of 1946 these regimes of the north and of the south...
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