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Khmer Rouge Pol Pot
786 wordsVery little is known about prehistoric Cambodia, although archeological evidence has established that prior to 1000 BC Cambodians subsisted on a diet of fish and rice and lived in houses on stilts, as they still do today. From the 1 st to the 6 th centuries, much of Cambodia belonged to the South-East Asian kingdom of Fun, which played a vital role in developing the political institutions, culture and art of later Khmer states. However, it was the Angkorian era, beginning in the 8 th century, th...
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On Lies My Teacher Told Me
1,053 wordsJames W. Loewen, in my opinion, makes a very valid argument in Lies My Teacher Told Me. He argues that teaching (of history) today relies too much on the textbooks which glorify the United States and its imperfect leaders and heroes. His examples, in fact, are very surprising to those most unfamiliar, or deceived, in their understanding of American History and are painfully obvious to those fairly educated in the events of our nations past. Personally, I agree with Loewen's statements and find h...
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Hernando Cortez Aztec Civilization Mexico
565 wordsThe Aztec saw the god, Quetzacoatl, as the destroyer and ender of their rich and beautiful empire. Quetzacoatl was described to many as a man with a fair complexion and long dark brown hair. It is said that in the 11 th century Quetzacoatl promised the Aztecs that hed return in 500 years to destroy their empire and everything they stood for. When Hernando Cortez invaded the Aztecs, they had thought him to be the god Quetzacoatl because he portrayed much of what they thought Quetzacoatl was to lo...
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First World War Atomic Bomb
1,671 wordsWar and Politics: Are both one in the same? I was not fated to be a warrior. Fate, nevertheless, cast my life among warriors. John Keegan His home in England was near the main gathering point for the D-Day invasion. Along with his fathers service in World War I, Keegan felt himself drawn towards the military and its workings. Unfortunately Keegan was unable to serve in the British Military due to a childhood illness. Although Keegan was unable to serve his country, he was determined to find his ...
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School Students School Days
508 wordswhen 57 % of violent crimes committed by juveniles occur on school days, even though only about half of the days in a year are school days you know there is a problem. Or maybe it is more visible with the knowledge that 25 % of inner-city school students report carrying a weapon in school, and 44 % report carrying weapons out of school. No one really needs statistics to see we have a problem. You can watch any news program and hear others horror stories. Our nations schools once a protected have...
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The Assessed Causes Of First World War
884 wordsLong Term Causes And Arguments: In 1838, a agreement was formed to protect Belgium if attacked or invaded. Briton along with other major European powers signed this therefore dragging themselves into the First World War when Germany invaded Belgium to fight France. In 1848, Austria-Hungary under Franz Josef lost a war against France, beginning a long rivalry between the two countries. In 1860, Italy was founded which aggravated Austria-Hungary as parts of it land had originally been owned by the...
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Causes And Effects Of The Persian Gulf War
726 wordsThe Persian Gulf War, often referred to as Operation Desert Storm, was perhaps one of the most successful war campaigns in the history of warfare. Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq, invaded Kuwait in 1990. In 1991, after weeks of air strikes, US ground forces entered Iraq and Kuwait and eliminated Iraqi presence in 60 hours. Why Would Iraq invade Kuwait? Kuwait supplies much of the worlds oil supplies, and when Hussein invaded Kuwait, he controlled 24 % of the worlds oil supplies (OHara). Though th...
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Sentence Structure Rhetorical Devices
1,032 wordsThe human desires of greed, wealth, and power have been embedded into the world's history as political figures have led invasions of other countries countless numbers of times. Whether invaded or being invaded, a country requires strong and capable leaders to see them through this difficult time. In 1588, Queen Elizabeth I of England gave a motivational speech to her troops using the rhetorical devices of diction, imagery, and sentence structure to motivate her subjects positively and to instill...
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Soviet Socialist Republics Soviet Union
724 wordsThe Soviet Union was a communist country with a totalitarian regime that existed from 1917 until 1991. The official name was The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U. S. S. R. ). The country stretched from the Baltic and Black Seas to the Pacific Ocean. In its final years it consisted of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. Russia was by far the largest Republic in the Soviet Union in terms of both land area and population, and also dominated it politically and economically. The first leader of the ...
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War Against Japan Atomic Bomb
547 wordsThere has been a long standing debate on why the atomic bomb was used to defeat Japan. The threat of Russian advancement in Europe and in Asia was enough to worry the top officials in the United States and British governments. Wherever the Russians moved through they took for themselves. The imminent invasion of mainland Japan and the allied casualties that came with it were also a factor in the decision to drop the bomb, as said in document A. The dropping of the bomb was not entirely used to s...
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Federal Trade Commission Parental Consent
1,014 wordsProtecting A Child? s Privacy When children go online they have entered a massive store full of information, products and services. Children are anxious consumers, and represent a huge and concentrated portion of the marketplace. According to Children in Cyber Space: A Privacy Resource Guide, the Internet provides children with a chance to enjoy daring games, visit lands over seas, and communicate with individuals their own age, but portions of the Cyber World can be toxic to children. (Children...
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Indus Valley B C
359 wordsIt is not Hinduism Hinduism It is not sure where the earliest practices of Hinduism came from. The best evidence suggests that it originated from the Indus valley civilization around 4000 B. C. to 2000 B. C. During this time period Hinduism was influenced by many different invasions. Around 1500 B. C. the? Aryan? Indo European tribes invaded Northern India. With this invasion they brought their religion of Vedism. The Vedic Arians influenced the practices and beliefs of the Indus valley people a...
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World War 1936 Hitler Germans
696 wordsMussolini and Hitler Compared Because of military unpreparedness, Mussolini did not enter World War II until June 1940, when the Germans had overrun France. Italy fought the British in Africa, invaded Greece, and joined the Germans in beating up Yugoslavia, attacking the Soviet Union, and declaring war on the United States. After Italy's many military defeats, King Victor Emmanuel dismissed Mussolini in 1943, and in September obtained an armistice with the Allies, who had invaded southern Italy....
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Anglo Irish Feudal System
1,055 wordsIreland Ireland is an island country lying to the west of Great Britian. Itis separated from Great Britain by St. Georges Channel, the Irish Send the Northern Channel. At its greatest length, from northeast to southwest, it measures three hundred and two miles. The first human settlements on the island on the northeastern edge of Europe were made relatively late in European prehistory, about six thousand B. C. It remained relatively uninhabited and un invaded. The only knowledge otis Ireland is ...
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Encyclop Dia Britannica Arabian Peninsula
1,702 wordsTodays Islamic Religion Islamic Religion Todays Muslims are branded as terrorists or fundamentalist. But their religion is a gentle religion. On the Arabian Peninsula, home of the Arabs, was isolated and they were able to develop their civilization without outside influences. It is about 1 million miles square, that is located between the Red sea and the Persian Gulf. There are two distinctive regions. The first has well-watered valleys between mountains and the second is arid plains and desert....
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President Bush Case Study
666 wordsOn Kuwait LIBERATE KUWAIT CASE On August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, the United States had to decide how to handle the situation. Should they use offensive force or will sanctions be effective in driving Iraq out of Kuwait? This was the main question that President Bush and his advisors had to answer. Unfortunately, not everyone had the same opinion on how to solve the situation. Shortly after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait President Bush made a statement in which he stated that? Iraq must...
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World War 2 Polish Jews
780 wordsDeath seemed to guard all exits. This motto defined the fate of the millions of Europeans between 1941 and 1945. As the Nazi Germany gained control of one country after another in World War 2, the killing of Jews, Gypsies, Slaves, Poles, Homosexuals, and more began. The Nazi s built concentration camps to enforce unspeakable treatment and murder upon the Europeans. As World War 2 began, Hitler ordered to kill institutionalized, handicapped patients that were labeled incurable. They were taken to...
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World War Ii 38 Th Parallel
972 wordsThe Korean War took place between the years of 1950 and 1953. The cause of the war was that Korea was under Japanese rule ever since the end of the Chinese-Japanese war in 1895. After World War II, in 1945, Korea was freed from Japan. The United States troops occupied the southern part of the country and Russian forces took the north. The very first and main reason we entered the war in Korea was because John Foster Dulles, the future Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower, said that it woul...
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Ways Of Life Third World
779 wordsEdward Said describes Orientalism as the ethnocentric way Europe approaches the Asian territories. Europeans looked upon the people of the Orient and Arabic states as gullible and devoid of energy and initiative. The invasion of European nations proved a drastic decline in the natural prosperity of every nation they encountered. Europe forced the destruction of these once great lands by three methods; Anglo-based propaganda as a method of education, the deletion of history from the invaded land,...
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Treaty Of Versailles Policy Of Appeasement
918 wordsIn the 1930 s Germany, under a dictatorship lead by Adolf Hitler, started expanding their rule. Each of the major world powers (England, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States) gave a response to this expansion. England preferred being in splendid isolation, or being safe on their island. Conservative Stanley Baldwin promoted splendid isolation when he was prime minister of Britain. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did not do very much to try to prevent the German expansion. He did no...
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