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12 Th Century Genghis Khan
1,262 wordsThe most savage conquerors of history were the Mongols. The Mongolian empire was the largest land empire of its era and occupied land from the yellow sea in Eastern Asia to the border of Eastern Europe. The empire included land in China, Korea, Mongolia, Persia as well as parts of Thailand and Russia. The Mongols derived from loosely organized nomadic tribes around Mongolia, Siberia and Manchuria. They lived off their land and the resources provided, and became great warriors. It is believed tha...
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Josef Stalin Soviet Union
490 wordsOn June 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa took the Soviets by surprise. By blitzkrieg tactics, the three million Germans strong force struck deep into Russia, capturing whole Russian armies. Though expecting the raid, Russian president, Josef Stalin, was forced to sacrifice huge numbers of troops to stop the Germans' approach. The Germans were quick in forcing Russia to surrender due to the harsh conditions of the approaching Russian winter. Operation Barbarossa was the codename used for the invasio...
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Second Punic War Southern Italy
1,067 wordsHannibal, a Carthaginian general and one of the greatest generals that ever lived was renown for his strategies and courageousness, such as crossing the Alps and using the bottleneck strategy at Lake Trasemene. He used strategies that a lot of generals at this time, especially Roman generals, would never think of and in doing this he almost destroyed the Roman republic. Hannibal's first battle took place when he was only nine. He went on an expedition with his father, Hamilcar Barca, to conquer ...
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Attacking Feign Incapacity Foe Secretly Arranging Game
1,383 wordsDiplomacy is a strategic board game in which seven players compete for military control of Europe. The rules are very simplistic, as everything has been diluted down to the bare minimum. But the game itself is very complex, as it focusses on secret discussions between players to make plans, deals, threats, and lies. This makes for a very exciting, turbulent game. The Diplomacy Programming Project (DPP) aims to develop a complete Diplomacy-playing software package. There are many difficulties to ...
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World Health Organization Philip Morris
652 wordsTobacco Loss at Home Is a Gain Overseas Under the stress of battling US regulators, the internal tobacco industry mindset is getting easier to see. It realizes it has lost the battle for America's hearts and minds. It knows the public holds Big Tobacco in low esteem and expects it to make as few concessions to our health as possible. So why do tobacco corporations bother to continue the charade and keep putting their case before an unreceptive public? Big Tobacco has turned up the volume on dome...
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Buy The Product Eye Catching
553 wordsRed, the color of desire, the devil, and heat, an attention grabber, the main purpose to is to be spellbinding. When skimming through a magazine the text is black, bold red writing will stimulate ones eye causing them to stop and analyze it. At least that it what advertising executives hope for, they often use emotions, cultural attitudes and, unfair tactics to grab the audiences attention and hopefully their money as well. There is an innate desire to rebel in all of us, to eat cookies before d...
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Robert E Lee Killer Angels
1,421 wordsDrive half an hour north of Washington, D. C. and you will find verdant rolling hills and flat, rich farmland, broken here and there by granite outcroppings and dark poplar forests. A place of great beauty and serenity. Close your eyes a moment, efface the houses and stores and gas stations from your mind's eye, and it looks pretty much as it did in July, 1863. That summer its green fields were stained red with the blood of 50, 000 Americans dead and wounded. 50, 000. In just three days of slaug...
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George W Bush Al Gore
584 wordsOn October 3 rd and on October 11 th I witnessed the presidential debates on television. For the most part the debates appeared to be a close match between the candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush but certain tactics, styles and organizational patterns gave one opponent a slight edge on the other. On October 3 rd Vice President Al Gore came out with an aggressive style that is unusual to him but in my opinion proved to be affective. Gore used many hand gestures to emphasize is points. Gore also...
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City Life First Person
669 wordsBy employing the rhetorical devices of parallelism, paradox, repetition, metaphor, and oxymoron as seen in, fish and crabs and shrimps lay beautifully on white beds of shaved ice, one day perhaps the city returns and rips out the sore and builds a monument to its past, to the new developments, to the semi-rural supermarkets, the outdoor movies, new houses with wide lawns and stucco schools where children are confirmed in their illiteracy. and The district is still too good to tear down and too o...
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The Cavalry During Civil War
878 wordsThe Civil War played a crucial role in American history. Many different types of soldiers fought in this war, such as Cavalry soldiers, who fought on horseback. The Cavalry played a strong role in the fighting and used many different weapons and tactics. One type of Cavalry weapon was the revolver. Only one hand was needed in the firing of this type of weapon. This was very important since the soldier's other hand was used to manage the horse. The Colt was the most popular brand of revolvers dur...
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Holy Roman Empire One Of The Most Powerful
1,328 wordsTwo Lives of Charlemagne The book Two Lives of Charlemagne by Einhard and Notker the Stammerer presents a unique biographical and historical work about such an outstanding personality as of Charlemagne. His name shines out over the historical landscape, revealing the Dark Ages and Anticipating the Renaissance. The book consists of two parts, written by the aforementioned authors separately. In their works both authors highlight different psychological traits of Charlemagne, focusing on different...
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Alexander The Great Military Power
751 wordsChandragupta Maurya When Chandragupta Maurya (known to the Greeks as Sandrocottus) was born, his father was already dead, causing his family to be in a state of great poverty. Which may be one of the reasons why his uncles were forced to leave Chandragupta in the care of a cow-herder who would bring him up as his own son. He was later sold to a hunter to tend cattle, then purchased by a Brahman politician, Canakya (also called Kautilya), who is credited with being the main contributor to the Art...
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Branch Davidians David Koresh
552 wordsThe standoff between the combined forces of the FBI and ATF and David Koresh-Branch Davidians was viewed as the worse governmental operation in history. There were several reasons why Waco turned out the way it did. Koresh and 76 of his followers, including more than 20 children, died in flames because there were breakdowns in communication between FBI and the Branch Davidians as the event unfolds. First, there was a lack of competency in communication during the negotiation period between the F...
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U S Embassy Anti Terrorism
1,177 wordsTerrorism and Conceptual Problems International terrorism is the use of political violence to gain specific goals by force. These acts of terrorism may be practiced on individuals, governments, and religious groups. The purpose of terrorism is to promote terror, in that case, the population is force into fear and the delusions of death (Terrorism, International Microsoft (R) Encarta 1994. ). United States has been maintaining the ominous terrorism acts by increasing security, high-tech devices d...
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P 525 Paragraph P 525 Paragraph 5 Audience
1,025 wordsMike Taylor Ms. Kugel 12 - 02 - 98 In the essay Making Single Motherhood Normal, the writer Iris Marion Young uses many strategies to make her piece rhetorically effective. When writing the piece, Young considers many factors such as her audience, the style in which she writes it, the content of her message, and the credibility she wants to display about herself. One aspect of her essay that Young kept the greatest consideration for, was the audience she was trying to reach. She kept this factor...
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Heavens Gate Cult Leaders
1,592 wordsOn March 29 th, 1997, thirty nine men and women took their own lives in the belief that they would travel to a space ship hidden behind the Hale-Bop comet. The Heavens Gate cult planted these beliefs within their members, resulting in a mass death. It is cults such as these that weave a sense of panic through society. What defines a cult? A cult is a group that has an intense devotion to a person, object, or set of usually new ideas. Cultus is a Latin word translating into to cultivate or to pla...
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Spanish Armada King Philip
857 wordsThe Spanish Armada was a great Spanish fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England. It was ironically called Invincible. During the late 1500 s, Spain was the major international power over much of the known world (Goldman 1). Spain s leader, King Philip II, wanted to conquer the Protestants from England and convert them to the Church of Rome. King Philip II also had hatred against Queen Elizabeth I, and wanted revenge because she had executed Mary Queen of Scotland in 1587 (...
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Sun Tzu Peloponnesian War
1,835 wordsJust before the Peloponnesian War began, Pericles of Athens and King Archidamus of Sparta provided net assessments of the comparative strengths and weaknesses of the two sides. Evaluate their projections. A study of the strategies and projections of King Archidamus of Sparta as compared to those of Pericles of Athens reveal Archidamus understanding of the superiority of land power as a basis for success at sea in the ancient Mediterranean as well as Pericles naivet as to this tenet. Background T...
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Martin Luther King Jr Thrown In Jail
1,627 wordsPower Comes From the Barrel of a Gun Power. A word from which many meanings derive. To each individual, it means something distinct and it is how one uses their power that makes up who they are. Power does not come from the barrel ofa gun. A gun can do nothing without someone there to pull the trigger. The power to take a life rests within the person, the gun simply serving their tool. When groups protesting for a cause they believe in use violent tactics, do they ever accomplish anything? When ...
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One Of The Worst Important Issue
1,339 wordsIn one of 1998 s most costly, caustic senate races, New York candidates Charles Schumer and Alone Damato battled it out with negative campaign ads, personal slurs, and attention on previous political mistakes. Yet somewhere among the mud-slinging and personal attacks some issues emerged, of which education became a top priority. Schumer and Damato both realized the importance of education to New York voters and therefore the necessity of addressing the issue in each of their campaigns. Damato pr...
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