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Robert E Lee Confederate Army
2,005 wordsIt is likely that when comparing Civil War Generals that the historian cannot make general or specific comparisons between personalities like Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. They eventually fought each other, and Grant was the victor. Who was more bold? Who was more the genius? Who had the best instincts? When comparing Robert E. Lee with Joseph Johnston comparisons come quickly. One was a bold offensive minded general and the other? And the other was also an offensive minded general who lac...
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Pickett Charge Cemetery Ridge
1,021 words... d and because of smoke, and if there was any alternative to this attack it should be carefully considered (Stewart 112). Alexander was thus putting the burden of the fatal decision back on Longstreet. When Pickett confronted Longstreet to get final authorization for the assault Longstreet could not bring himself to talk, but instead just bowed his head (Stewart 164). After the attack had begun Longstreet announced, I do not want to make this charge (Stewart 162). After the war Longstreet too...
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Gods And Goddesses One Of The Greatest
1,977 wordsZeus constantly battles with the godly virtues, while continuing to have all the Zeus in Greek mythology was chief and father of all Gods and mortals. He corresponds to the Roman god Jupiter. He lived atop Mt. Olympus, at the center of the earth where all the gods lived and held court. Sometimes Olympus was thought of as an actual mountain in Greece, but more often as a lofty reign in the heavens. Zeus was pictured as a kingly, bearded figure who supposedly hurled thunderbolts from the mountain ...
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Calypso Got Her Sword Put All There Powers Fire
708 wordsThe escape from kraznir. Touch fire went round the guard and made himself invisible. Powerfully he strangled the guard. Then calypso the warrior, little john and amba's came along. Calypso then fiercely stabbed the guard in his back. After that amba's got some food and gave it to the guard dogs to distract them. Then they passed by the dogs safely amba's then got his stones and threw it at the guards head, Witch made the guard drowsy an dizzy, little Jon got his axe out and with a deep breath he...
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Years Ago Five Years
627 wordsI am Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia ruler of Greece. I have been king of Macedonia since my fathers assassination five years ago. Since his death I have conquered much of the world. I am ruthless, and should anyone attempt to defeat me in battle, they are sure to die. The year I became ruler of Macedonia I set out to the city of Thessaly to restore Macedonia rule. After Thessaly submitted to me I conquered many states, and many other states freely submitted without battles. Two years aft...
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Electro Shock Therapy P Mc Murphy
1,100 wordsThe role of the hero in Ken Kesey's novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, is played by Randle P. Mc Murphy, a wrongly committed mental patient with a lust for life. Mc Murphys personal qualities that gain the respect and admiration from his fellow patients are also responsible for his tragic downfall. These qualities include his temper, which is the reason for the tension between him and nurse Ratched; his stubbornness, which results in his numerous painful disciplinary treatments; also his fre...
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Man And The Sea Santiago
492 wordsFinal Impression of Triumph and Despair in The Old man and the Sea The Old man and the Sea develops a familiar Hemingway theme of the undefeated. Like other Hemingway treatments of the same theme, this one presents the story of the moral triumph which has as its absolutely necessary condition an apparently smashing defeat. The message of the novel can be summed up in the following remarks of Santiago: A man can be destroyed but not defeated. The novel tells us the story of amoral triumph. Santia...
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God Is Dead Slave Morality
1,800 words... back room is crammed with round tables and chairs placed so close together that it is a difficult squeeze to pass between them The walls and ceiling once were white, but it was a long time ago, and they are now so splotched, peeled, stained and dusty that their color can best be described at dirty. (ONeill: Plays of Our Time 7). The hotel exists as a microcosm removed from society; the cramped back room full of dirty furniture and even dirtier people, representing the grim reality of death t...
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Causes Of World War I
2,165 words... to give military support to Austria. The Bosnian crisis had harmful consequences for the peace of Europe. Russia felt humiliated and was determined that this must not come again. Immediately after the crisis, the Russian government intensified her armaments program and sent Isvolsky as ambassador in Paris in order to get more support from France. The annexation of Bosnia Herzegovina also made Serbia the irreconcilable enemy of Austria. Without Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia could never become a ...
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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
1,254 wordsWord Count: 4067 Abstract The Chinese Civil War, which took place from the end of World War II up to October 1, 1949, directly led to the creation of the Peoples Republic of China, the worlds most populous communist nation. The purpose of this essay is to explain why the Chinese Communist Party was able to achieve victory over the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War. In this paper, the role of international powers, namely the Soviet Union and the United States, Kuomintang policy, and Chinese Com...
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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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Battle Of Britain Lend Lease
2,785 words... eral Maxime Weygand, had nothing with which to screen it or Paris on the north and west. On June 17, Marshal Henri Philippe P'email, a World War I hero who had become premier the day before, asked for an armistice. The armistice was signed on June 25 on terms that gave Germany control of northern France and the Atlantic coast. P'email then set up a capital at Vichy in the unoccupied southeast. The Battle of Britain In the summer of 1940, Hitler dominated Europe from the North Cape to the Pyr...
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World War 2 Matter Of Time
1,454 wordsTide of Allied Victory 2 The popular saying states history is written by the victors. This is especially the case with the history of World War 2. In history books, Nazi Germany is often described as warmongering state that was embarked on conquering the whole world. The truth is different. Hitler had never openly proclaimed that he strived towards Globe domination, while Stalin did so numerous times. In fact, in 1920 Red Army tried to occupy Poland, as the first step on the way of liberating Eu...
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Modern History Hundred Days
1,356 wordsThe Battle of Waterloo was the final and decisive action of the Napoleonic Wars, that effectively ended French domination of the European continent and brought about drastic changes in the political boundaries and the power balance of Europe. Fought on June 18, 1815, near Waterloo, in what is now Belgium, the battle ranks as a great turning point in modern history. After raising France to a position of dominance in Europe from 1804 to 1813, Napoleon met defeat in 1814 by a alliance of major powe...
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Beer Hall Putsch World War One
3,553 wordsThere is no single answer as to why the Nazis were able to gain so much support during the 1920 s; there are several, and people still argue about them. Some people especially during the Second World War suggested that the Nazi movement grew out of something basically wrong in the German character. However, modern historians recognise that a combination of factors such as Hitlers personality and mesmerizing oratory skills, the problems with the Weimar Republic, the Nazis effective use of propaga...
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Cuckoo Nest Electro Shock Therapy
1,047 wordsThe role of the hero in Ken Kesey? s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo? s Nest, is played by Randle P. Mc Murphy, a wrongly committed mental patient with a lust for life. The qualities that garner Mc Murphy respect and admiration from his fellow patients are also responsible for his tragic downfall. These qualities include his temper, which leads to his being deemed disturbed, his stubbornness, which results in his receiving numerous painful disciplinary treatments, and finally his free spirit, wh...
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James K Polk D C Heath
2,530 wordsPatrick Mc Shan HIS 3360 November 19, 1999 Presidents and Conflict Resolution The term negotiation has been defined as a formal process that occurs when parties are trying to find a mutually acceptable solution to a complex conflict. People and parties, throughout time, have come to negotiate for two basic reasons. First, they negotiate to create something new that neither party could do on his own. Second, parties negotiate to resolve a problem or dispute between the parties. Although history l...
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Battle Of Britain Soviet Union
1,101 wordsThough this student looked in Whos Who and Contemporary Authors, no information on Chester Wilmot could be found. One considered searching the Directory of American Scholars, but that would not be helpful since he is from Australia. In The Struggle for Europe, Wilmot seeks to explain several points. First, he explores and explains how the western allies succeeded militarily but failed politically during World War II. He then elaborates on how and why the western allies crushed the Nazi regime; y...
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Reign In Hell Tragic Flaw
2,324 wordsA tragedy can come in a variety of forms, but is usually the end result of an imperfection that the protagonist cannot overcome, a tragic flaw. In John Milton's poem, Paradise Lost, Satan succumbs to his own vaulting ambition to be equal in power and glory to God. As a result of this perverse ambition, his actions lead to the greatest tragedy ever, the downfall of numerous angels and the race of mankind. Satan, however, is not concerned with the fact that he is responsible for the loss of paradi...
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Jackson Stonewall Jackson
2,478 wordsMany traits are associated with Thomas Jonathan Jackson and his leadership in the confederacy. He is known for stark determination, military genius beyond all others, and the ability to turn any army into a fighting machine. Jackson became legendary when a South Carolina general, seeking to rally his own men at Bull Run, pointed to Jackson and shouted, ? Look, there is Jackson and his men standing like a stone wall against the enemy. ? Thus he forever became? Stonewall? Jackson. Jackson? s milit...
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