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38 Th Parallel Republic Of Korea
1,712 wordsBegun as a war between South Korea (Republic of Korea) and North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), after the North's invasion of the South, the conflict swiftly developed into a limited international war involving the U. S. and 19 other nations. From a general viewpoint, the Korean War was one of the by-products of the cold war, the global political and diplomatic struggle between the Communist and non-Communist systems following World War II. The motives behind North Korea's decisi...
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Social And Economic Ancient Olympics
1,232 wordsToday, the Olympic Games are the world's largest pageant of athletic skill and competitive spirit. They are also displays of nationalism, commerce, and politics. These two opposing elements of the Olympics are not a modern invention. The conflict between the Olympic movement's high ideals and the commercialism or political acts which accompany the Game. The ancient Olympics were rather different from the modern Games. There were fewer events and only free men who spoke Greek could compete, inste...
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King Priam City Walls
1,280 wordsThe scene opens on the last year of the Trojan war. The war had raged for ten years, with the invading Greeks fighting against Troy. Apollo has sent a plague to the Greeks because Agamemnon, king and leader of the Greeks, dishonored a daughter of Apollo's priest. When the reason for the plague is discovered, Agamemnon becomes angry and defiant, unhappy to give the daughter back to her father to appease Apollo. Achilles, a superior Greek warrior, challenges Agamemnon's arrogance, but Agamemnon tu...
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Ancient Olympics In Greek
1,071 wordsOne difference between the ancient and modern Olympic Games is that the ancient games were played within the context of a religious festival. One of the more intriguing true stories about ancient Greece and the Olympics of ancient Greece would have to be that during the Olympic Games, all fighting stopped. No matter how long or how fierce a battle had raged, every soldier in the battlefield put down his weapons and travelled to Olympia, there they would compete in athletic games designed to hono...
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King Of France French King
1,526 wordsThis movie talks about the crusades to gain Jerusalem back from the Moslem army that was lead by the great sultan Saladin. At the beginning of the movie the Moslems hear about the misfortune Moslems that are treated badly in Jerusalem, consequently, Saladin takes over Jerusalem in a battle with the Christian leader Rhene who was in charge of these actions of killing the Moslems. Rhene's widow goes to Europe seeking help from all the Christian kings, claiming that Moslems kicked the Christians ou...
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Victor Emmanuel H O
1,436 words... ow that the French intervened, the task for unification was even tougher. There was also needed a single ideal under which to unify Italy, Whether to establish a Democratic Republic (as Mazzini wished), a monarchy (as Charles Albert wished), or a Federation (as popes supporters wished). But all were in favor of one idea: Unification. 1858 - 1870 Unification Two great people came forward in the 1858 1870 revolution. Garibaldi and Cavour. Both associated with the new king of Piedmont Sardinia,...
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Greek And Roman Cambridge Harvard
1,855 words... meaning. After all, Thomas Carlyle once said that a man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. Just as a rudder guides a ship, these ideals guided the Greeks. These rituals, prayers, offerings and sacrifices, as well as the prospect of a better afterlife provided the Greeks with hope and stability. The belief in a greater afterlife allowed them to live a fuller life without the fear of death. The Greeks also esteemed numerous festivals, athletic games and the arts that were a par...
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Religious Comparison Of Christianity And Islam
883 wordsYou had to know history to understand what Bosnia and Kosovo were all about. That conflict proved that the war between Christianity and Islam has never ended. Over the ages, it simply took on different forms. Because we live in such a highly secularized society, we cannot believe that America could ever become involved in a religious war in this day and age. Yet ferocious religious wars have been going on all over the place: in Northern Ireland, Israel, the Balkans, the Sudan and Russia. But his...
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Australias Involvement In The Vietnam War
1,191 wordsFollowing the withdrawal of the last Australian troops in 1972 more than 46000 Australian personnel had served in Vietnam. This is out of a population of approximately 11 million. Of these, 3000 were wounded and almost 500 were killed. Australia became involved in Vietnam because of a longstanding alliance with the USA since World War 2. It can be argued that Australias involvement in the Vietnam War had its origins in the Cold War. By 1945 the world had been divided between two superpowers: the...
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Henry The Ii King Of England Western Civilization
1,325 words... was only resolved by disastrous news from the East. In 1187 the Christian princes of the Holy land had been catastrophically defeated at the Horns of Haiti by the brilliant infidel soldier Saladin; the True Cross, the most holy relic of Christendom, had been taken, and the Holy City itself was threatened. It was the ethos of those days that to all true Christians the fate of the Holy City was more important than life. Henry, Philip Augustus, and Richard agreed to a truce that would allow the...
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African American Street Gangs In Los Angeles
1,653 words... le 1 reveals that in each year where gang territory data was available, the growth in the number of gang territories was significant. In the six years between 1972 and 1978, 44 new black gangs formed, and only two gangs became inactive. In the 14 years between 1982 and 1996, 150 new gangs formed. However, the most dramatic growth was in the four years between 1978 and 1982 when 101 new gangs formed. In addition to the number of gang territories increasing, the spatial distribution of gang te...
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Rene Descartes Dualism Meditations
1,728 wordsRene Descartes dualism (meditations) Nowadays it is rather hard to believe that few centuries ago each branch of science contained philosophy in its basis. Mathematic, Physic, Chemistry (or rather Achemisrty), Astronomy were based on certain philosophical theories. It is hard to believe that long time ago scientists made their researches in every possible and available branch of science. They were in interested in the world that surrounded them. With the help of their knowledge they tried to rat...
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Six Day War Egypt And Israel
1,904 wordsConflict In the Middle East Since the United Nations partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948, there have been four major Arab-Israeli wars (1947 - 49, 1956, 1967, and 1973) and numerous intermittent battles. Although Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1979, hostility between Israel and the rest of its Arab neighbors, especially with Palestinian Arabs, has continued because of the lack of co-operation by the Arabs. The first war began as a...
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North Koreans South Korea
1,341 wordsOn July 1, part of the U. S. Army 24 th Infantry Division flew from Japan to Pusan, a city located at the southern tip of Korea. They were the first American troops to reach Korea and other troops from other UN nations began arriving in Korea shortly after the Americans. On July 8, with the approval of the UN Security Council, Truman named General MacArthur commander in chief of the United Nations Command. The command had authority over all the Allies- South Koreans, Americans and the troops fro...
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Join A Gang Joining A Gang
3,527 wordsMark Sirignano 027 - 66 - 7577 Tues. Thur. 9: 25 - 10: 40 12 - 14 - 99 Deviance in Gang Involvement: Why Join a Gang? The problem of gang activity is not a new one facing our country. Ever since the beginnings of human existence gangs have served as a means of protection for humans. The issue of gang activity has recently, however, come to the forefront of dilemmas facing our nation. While cities like Chicago and Los Angeles are chronic gang sites, other cities such as? Miami, Portland, Columbus...
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Confederate Troops Confederate Forces
1,340 wordsTHE GRAND FABRICATION It is almost as difficult to find consistent information about the incident at Fort Pillow as it is to determine the moral significance of its outcome. Scholars disagree about exactly what transpired on April 12, 1864 at Fort Pillow, when General Nathan Bedford Forrest captured the fort with his 1, 500 troops and claimed numerous Union lives in the process (Wyeth 250). It became an issue of propaganda for the Union, and as a result the facts were grossly distorted. After cl...
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Joan Of Arc University Of Paris
2,740 wordsIn my town they called me Jeannette, and since I came to France I have been called Joan, as she said herself. To most people though she is better known as Joan of Arc or the Maid of France. Joan led a life that started with her hearing voices from her counsel, to her battles in France to expel the English, to crowning the dauphin, King Charles VII, to her trial, and then finally to her execution. Many revered Joan as being insane despite her heroism, and not until 1920 was she declared a holy ma...
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Cease Fire West Bank
270 wordsJERUSALEM (Reuters) The United States blamed both Israel and the Palestinians for an upsurge of violence that threatens to wreck a fragile U. S. -brokered cease-fire aimed at ending nine months of bloodletting. The 15 -day-old cease-fire faced its most difficult test on Monday after a Palestinian and an Israeli were killed in separate incidents, two car bombs exploded near Tel Aviv and Israel killed three Islamic militants. Following the rise in violence, which had subsided for more than a week ...
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Protestant Reformation Counter Reformation
783 wordsProtestant Reformation And The Catholic Counter Reformation Protestant Reformation And The Catholic Counter Reformation The period immediately following the Protestant reformation and the Catholic counter reformation, was full of conflict and war. The entire continent of Europe and all of its classes of society were affected by the destruction and flaring tempers of the period. In the Netherlands, the Protestants and the Catholics were at eachother? s throats. In France it was the Guise family v...
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