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Egyptian Pharaoh Standing Army
1,640 wordsAfter the fall of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt a group of nomadic people from Asia invaded and captured Lower Egypt. These people were called the Hyksos. Egypt lacked a standing army and their weapons were far inferior to that of the invaders. The weak rulers of the Thirteenth Dynasty led to an internal struggle within the government, thus ripping the empire into many small factions and leaving it open to attack. During this time a group of peoples from Asia immigrated to Egypt and slowly began t...
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Part Of China Lot Of Money
984 wordsWhy would a communist country want to have a capitalist country? Well I think it is because Hong Kong has a lot of money, because they are one of the major trade centers of the world. Another reason is that Hong Kong was a part of China until 1842 when the British defeated China in the first Opium War and took possession of Hong Kong. In this report I will be talking about how the Communist Chinese government regained possession of Hong Kong, a capitalist Colony, after 156 years of British rule....
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Second World War Bomb Was Dropped
3,349 wordsAt 11: 02 a. m. , August 9, 1945 an atomic bomb exploded 500 meters above this spot. The black stone monolith marks the hypocenter. The fierce blast wind, heat rays reaching several thousand degrees, and deadly radiation generated by the explosion crushed, burned and killed everything in sight and reduced this entire area to a barren field of rubble. About one-third of Nagasaki City was destroyed and 150, 000 people killed or injured, and it was said at the time that this area would be devoid of...
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International Criminal Court Germany And Japan
1,359 wordsFifty years after the creation of the United Nations, there is continuous debate amongst its member states on the proposal for the reform of various United Nations systems. The main reform proposals call for the reformation of the Security Council and for the creation of an International Criminal Court. The issue regarding the Security Council address the need for change in the UN's most important and most powerful body. These reforms take two main views, one calling for the expansion of the Sec...
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Fifty Years Ago Emile Durkheim
1,889 wordsThe democracy we have in America today is very complex. This democracy starts out with political parties whose main purpose is to gain control of the government by winning elections Appelbaum and Chambliss (1997: 366). In the United States, unlike in most other democracies, there are only two political parties with any substantial influence over government policies Appelbaum and Chambliss (1997: 366). Third parties are also apparent in elections. These third parties are often successful in small...
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Nuclear War Why We Need Our Nukes
2,669 words... ears. Pat (Tue Aug 13 21: 40: 32 1996 IST): Why is India spending so much on its Defences. It's not as if we want to the reason is we are worried about those nonsensical people sitting across the borders who will be using arms supplied by Washington. michael, your observation about 20 kilo tons fission weapons is a very thought-provoking one. would the nuclear weapon powers be willing to accept this as the bottom-line in some agreed upon time-frame and then give up thermo-nuclear weapons in ...
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Hundreds Of People United Nations
1,761 wordsIntroduction: In February 1995, Li Dexian, an evangelist from Guangzhou, was about to address a house-church meeting in Beixing township, near Had city in Guangdong, when police officers arrived. According to reports, they kicked him in the groin in front of the congregation, then took him to the police station where he was beaten with a heavy pole, jumped on and kicked by police officers until he started to vomit blood. When he asked why he was beaten, the police officers reportedly said that t...
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Melting Pot Important Role
1,606 wordsRace through the Years There is an assumption that race has changed in the last fifty years in America. Indeed, the past dozens of years introduces plenty of changes in the modern United States's tincture. The so-called cold war has finished, computer and telecommunications revolutions begin to transform economy into more stable and more sustainable structures, there are some changes brought into the lifestyles of the U. S. citizens. Apart from that new waves of immigration made American society...
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Edgar Allan Poe Cask Of Amontillado
1,493 words" The Cask of Amontillado" By Jennifer Grimes English 102 Professor Robby Prenkert 11 April 2000 Grimes ii Outline Thesis: The descriptive details in " The Cask of Amontillado" not only appeal to the senses of the audience, but also show that the narrator has a memory that has been haunted with details that he can recall fifty years later. I. Introduction II. Auditory Appeal III. Humor Appeal IV. Visual Appeal V. Conclusion Grimes 1 " The vividness with which [Poe] trans...
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
1,734 wordsThree Hundred Fifty Years of Blind Love: A Contraposition of Shakespeare and Robbins? Romeo and Juliet Andy Warhol once said, They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself. Two hundred fifty years passed between the original Romeo and Juliet and the premiere of West Side Story on Broadway in 1957. However, time did not change the message of the story, simply the creators? unique visions evolved. Shakespeare? s delivery of the timeless tale of desperate love in ...
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U S Military Nuclear Weapons
1,708 wordsThis Roswell Incident ROSWELL INCIDENT This Essay is a descriptive reconstruction of one spectacular incident in Roswell, New Mexico. Almost fifty years ago, an incident occurred in the southwestern desert of the United States that could have significant implications for all humankind. The incident was announced by the U. S. military, and denied by the U. S. military; it has remained covered-up in the government for the past fifty years. It is not a false claim, but rather a known event that is ...
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Don T Understand People Don T
665 wordsThe Effects of Technology There is no escape from technology. In most cases this is not a problem though. Many people respect and admire technology because it is there to benefit them. Without the technological advances we have had over the years, the world would not be what it is today. What people don t understand is that technology can actually be a bad thing. In society today, people are looking for more and more ways to be entertained, and all it is doing is causing problems. People are doi...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Half An Hour
5,211 wordsFebruary 2 nd, 1945 Dear Diary, I have only several minutes to spare writing, as I am much in need of sleep and will be awakened at 2: 00 AM to board The Sacred Cow, the airplane that will transport me from here to Yalta. A seven-hour flight they tell me, much of it over undesirable territory. If any man thinks that I am anticipating this flight, let alone this entire ordeal, with any air of amusement or excitement, then I would inform him that he is much more in need of sleep than I am. Where t...
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Fur Trading Native Tribes
937 wordsThe French Fur Trade Beginning in the mid sixteenth century, French explorers were able to establish a powerful and lasting presence in what is now the Northern United States and Canada. The explorers placed much emphasis on searching and colonizing the area surrounding the St. Lawrence River which gave access to the Great Lakes and the heart of the continent (Microsoft p? ). They began exploring the area around 1540 and had early interactions with many of the Natives, which made communication e...
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African American Women Department Of Labor
947 wordsMaureen Honey Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia Douglas Johnson made her way to Washington, D. C. , where she lived for over fifty years at 1461 S Street NW, site of one of the greatest literary salons of the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson was the most famous woman poet of that literary movement, publishing four volumes of poetry: The Heart of a Woman (1918), Bronze (1922), An Autumn Love Cycle (1928), and Share My World (1962). Johnsons life illustrates the difficulties faced by African American w...
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Industrial Hemp Million Acres
1,225 wordsHemp is our Savior It has been once said that as a human race, if our current rate of deforestation of trees continues at the same rate as today, in less than fifty years we will no longer be able to survive on this planet. Sometime in the near future, a great change must be made for the fate of human kind. This change is going to have to be to legalize industrial hemp. Hemp is a plant that has a wide variety of uses. It has been proven that the stalk of the hemp plant can produce three times as...
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Identical Twins Playing God
826 wordsCloning Humans Cloning already happens by accident, not particularly often, but often enough that we all know examples. Identical twins are true clones of each other, with the same genes. So, the new discovery just announced from Edinburgh cant be all that radical in its moral and ethical implications. Heavens foundations dont quiver every time a pair of identical twins is born. Nevertheless, two bees seem to be buzzing around in public bonnets. First, the new technique makes baby duplicates of ...
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World War Ii News 038 World
1,448 wordsIt is the last great mystery of World War II: the unfinished, unprecedented search for what may be billions of dollars in cash, gold, property, and art hidden and unclaimed by victims of the Holocaust? or plundered by the Nazis and their accomplices before shipping Jews to the death camps. In 1938 Nazi Gestapos raided the homes of over 10, 000, 000 innocent Jews. Their houses were thrashed, possessions were stolen, and lives were torn for the benefit of? one superior race. ? None of these people...
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Multi Polar Fifty Years
996 wordsNew World Orders In fifty years will all the countries on earth finally be at peace with one another? Will we have found a solution to conflicts we as a country face today? The answers to these questions are unclear to be sure. Although peace is what most countries would agree to be most beneficial, it is hard to imagine a world in which there no longer exists reasons for nations to fight amongst themselves. After having read The New Geopolitics- 2050 of the July 31 st The Economist, I understan...
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Fifty Years Ago Fifty Years Craftsman
283 wordsEnglish 111 Rob Brian Wright English 111 B 21 March 2000 Mrs. Innes A Response to? Is Craft Dead? Tom Zaffiri has written a truly biased article about craftsmanship. Although he is right about how we live in a much more technologically advanced society where most goods are mass produced, I can not see where he can say a craftsman of the society of fifty years ago is inferior to the craftsman of today. ? In fact, carpenters of today are actually much better craftsman of their counterparts of fift...
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