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U S Embassy U S State
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A civil war that has raged for seven years in the
small West African country of Sierra Leone has
turned increasingly brutal. (1, p. 1) Rebels are
mutilating civilians without much response from
the international community. A strong Nigerian
contingency has tried to suppress the rebellion,
but the rebels continue to cause major trouble in
Sierra Leone. The rebels overthrew President Ahmad
Tejan Kabbah. However, President Kabbah returned
to office on March 10, 1998 to face the task of
restoring or...
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Legion Of Honor Gains Of The Revolution Napoleon
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... work for and age of talk... he would create a
methodical government based upon popular consent,
and conceived in the interests not of any
particular faction but of France as a whole.
Napoleon is generally credited with having
consolidated the gains of the Revolution With the
exception of fathering the Civil Code, Napoleon
perhaps gloried more in his reputation as
consolidator of the Revolution than in any other
one title. In this sense he can be credited with
having saved the Revolution by e...
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Marx And Engels Communist League
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How can a book written in one historical epoch
have a meaning for another? If the author has
tried to answer the questions posed by the way of
life of the people around him, what can these
answers mean for those living under changed
conditions and facing quite different questions? [
1 ] In the case of Karl Marx, we have yet another
barrier to penetrate. At the end of the twentieth
century, when we pick up a text like the
Manifesto, we already have in our minds what
everybody knows about it. Befo...
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Speed Of Light Theory Of Relativity
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... that transcended the current knowledge of his
time on the subject. Another consequence of
Einstein's quantum research in this area was
interest of the scientific community in quantum
mechanics, a science Einstein would dismiss as too
in deterministic. From these discoveries, Einstein
was to receive a Nobel Prize. Einstein regarded
his second paper of 1905 as relatively
unimportant. In it, he calculated a way of
determining the size of molecules and found a
value for Avogadro's number. By ana...
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Treaty Of Versailles Communist Revolution
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... 18, near the end of World War I, forces from
the United States, France, and Britain gathered in
Russia to "expand the eastern front" against the
Germans (p. 84). The purpose of these
interventions at first was to use Russian soil to
win World War I, not to support either side of an
ideological civil war that had just begun and was
occurring simultaneously (p. 84). Before Russia
made several questionable decisions in World War
I, the ideology behind the Bolshevik regime was
not challenged hea...
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Communist Manifesto Karl Marx
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Russia did not exist as a nation just seven years
ago. It was formed from the ruins of a greater
nation. Russia's current troubles are based on
problems it found, or created, during the years it
operated under socialism. This theory, which
proposes equality and the means of achieving it,
has been scorned by the Western world. One must
wonder why such a grand conception has failed.
Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto By far, the
most important document in the development of
socialism was The Co...
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The Boston Tea Party And America Independence
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Throughout the course of history there have been
many events leading up to the independence of
America. Some of them were small, whereas others
were much more significant. One of the more
important events was the Boston Tea Party. This
was when the colonists, in anger, boarded a ship
carrying many chests of fine teas, and hurled them
overboard. The Boston Tea Party marked the first
act of open resistance to British rule. The Boston
Tea Party alone was not the main event that
brought America her ...
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Declaration Of Independence Legislative Branch
1,170 words
The American Revolution was fought for a plethora
of reasons, notably because of a series of actions
by the British stemming from around 1763 to the
beginning of the war in 1776. In other words,
there were three imperial crises that eventually
led up toe the Declaration of Independence in July
1776. The first period began with the Proclamation
of 1763, which created a border between white
settlers and indians and ended with the 1765 Stamp
Act. Enraged, the colonists rioted, boycotted, and
formed...
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What Are The Economic Gains Caused By War
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What are the economic gains caused by the war? In
order to illustrate the economic gains caused by
war, we will elaborate on the Revolutionary war,
the war after which America gained its
independence. After the end of the French and
Indian War in 1763 the American people had taxes
placed on them by the British. The British
Parliament claimed that by placing the taxes they
were defending the colonies for the Americans.
During the twelve years following the war, the
British enacted a numerous amou...
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Karl Marx Class Struggle
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Karl Marx Marx (1818 - 1883) was born in the
family of lawyer in Trier. He studied in Bohn and
Berlin Universities, mainly learning philosophy
and history. His philosophical and
social-political ideas attract attention. Really,
his views regarding the man and history were so
bright and unusual that nobody could think about
returning to old categories of social science. All
modern researchers of problems in social
philosophy are obliged to Marx. He focused his
attention on fundamental problems of...
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How Original Was Napoleon As A Military Commander
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how original was Napoleon as a military commander?
No soldier will die for his country. A soldier
will die for a bright ribbon Napoleon, commenting
on the role of non-monetary motivation for
soldiers in wars. Mr. Napoleon Bonaparte is
considered to be one of the greatest and most
original military leaders of France and Europe.
Under his rule only, the French empire stretched
across whole Europe from Spain to Russia. Military
commander Napoleon did not only revolutionized the
military operations ...
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Seven Years War Act Was Passed
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The haphazard and disorganized British rule of the
American colonies in the decade prior to the
outbreak led to the Revolutionary War. The
mismanagement of the colonies, the taxation
policies that violated the colonist rights, the
distractions of foreign wars and politics in
England and mercantilist policies that benefited
the English to a much greater degree then the
colonists all show the British incompetence in
their rule over the colonies. These policies and
distractions were some of the cau...
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Lenin Working Class
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, or Lenin, was born on
April 22, 1870, in the sleepy little town of
Simbrisk, Russia. Childhood in Simbrisk was serene
and pleasant for Lenin, and his father, Ilya
Nikolaievich, was highly respected by many of the
nobles in this province. Vladimir took just as
much interest in his schoolwork than he did with
his extra-curricular activities on the home front.
He quickly impressed his teachers with his keen
intelligence and his outstanding memory. He
mastered his classes so...
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Normal Man Forty Years
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Dostoevsky s Revolutionary Hero The fictional
author of Dostoevsky s Notes From Underground
claims that he has all the traits of the
anti-hero. He torments others out of spite; he is
weak, petty, and spineless. His intelligence and
self-proclaimed disease of hyper consciousness
have made him nihilistic; he is unable to believe
in himself and has reasoned himself into inaction.
Peterson states that nihilism is one logical evil
consequence of heightened self-consciousness. This
character had done ...
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Marx And Engels Karl Marx
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The government, whether we think about it or not,
plays a very significant role in all of our lives
regardless of our ethnic background. Though there
are many differing forms of government, they
affect our lives in the same way. Changes in how
the government works slowly begin to effect how we
carry out our daily actions and over time an
entire culture can be changed. For this reason, I
chose to take a critical look at how the change of
government in Poland from Communism to Democracy
affected t...
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Social Democratic Party Power In Germany
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As the photographic medium flourished in early 20
th Century Europe, artistic expression was the
main concern. But, with the advent of the Dadaist
movement, new forms of the photographic medium
emerged. It was these innovative forms of
photography that allowed not only the artistic
merits, but also an alternate agenda of the artist
to shine through. One of the most explicit
examples of this form of photography was done by
John Heartfield. Through his photomontages, which
were merely a combinatio...
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King George Iii Declaration Of Independence
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Fighting the War of Words The American Revolution,
1760 - 1800, was not only a war of weapons but
also one of words. Along with swords and guns, the
war was fought with pamphlets, speeches, and
documents in order to inspire and justify the long
awaited battle. Intellectuals such as Patrick
Henry, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson became
important figures of the Revolution due to their
literary accomplishments. Henrys Speech in the
Virginia Convention convinced the House of
Burgesses that war wa...
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Russian Social Democratic Czar Nicholas Ii
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Lenin? s political finesse, his understanding of
the strength of the peasantry and his rewriting of
the communist thought are the characteristics
which made Lenin one of the greatest leaders of
Russia. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, was born on April
22, 1870, in Simbirsk, on the bank of the Volga
river. Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov, a man with high
cheek bones, a dark complexion and dark brown
eyes, all of which Lenin inherited, was Lenin? s
father, and was the director of schools in
Simbirsk province. L...
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Demoiselles D Avignon Synthetic Cubism
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In one blinding sweep, art as we know it changed
instead of making things look like they look,
artists took it upon themselves to show things as
they are, not how they look (Koshevoy). Pablo
Picasso was probably the most famous artist of the
twentieth century. During his artistic career, he
created thousands of works, not only paintings but
also sculptures, prints, and ceramics, using all
kinds of materials. Picasso was a man of many
different abilities and attributes, which he
contributed to th...
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Dien Bien Phu Ho Chi Minh
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By the late 1960 s, the conflict in Vietnam had
escalated to a limited war involving approximately
half a million military personnel and billions of
dollars a year. The American presence in Indochina
had steadily increased from the Truman
administration to Kennedys decision to initiate
greater American involvement in 1961. The peak of
543, 000 American forces was achieved in 1969 and
was the culmination of US aid to the nation of
South Vietnam. The US policy since the beginning
of the Cold War h...
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