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Ancient Greece Athenian Women
1,187 wordsAristophanes was a satirist who produced Lysistrata around 413 BC when the news of Athens warships had been destroyed near Sicily. For twenty-one years, while Athens was engaged in war, he relentlessly and witty attacked the war, the ideals of the war, the war party and the war spirit. This risked his acceptance and his Athenian citizenship. Lysistrata is probably the oldest comedy which has retained a place in modern theatre. It primarily deals with two themes, war and the power of sexuality......
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World War Ii France And England
1,282 wordsIn every nation of the world, an event takes place that could change the course of history in that country. This event could change the history for better or for worse. For the United States, D-Day is one such transpiration. After this one specific invasion on June 6, 1944, everyone involved knew that it would change the course of history for the United States and the rest of the world. The invasion, known also by the code name Operation Overlord, did not, however, only consist of one day's even...
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Sicilian Mafia Organised Crime
1,598 wordsYOU would not know it from the English-language signs promising to serve passengers ''quickly'', but Naples' Capodichino airport is British-owned. In August, 70 % of it was bought by BAA, a company that also runs, among other things, London's main airport, Heathrow. For the Italian south this is a symbol of hope. Finding an international firm of this calibre willing to invest there has greatly boosted its confidence. BAA, for its part, was attracted by the south's tourist potential, but spent th...
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Gaius Julius Caesar Queen Of Egypt
1,616 wordsAncient Roman Empire Rome had a war god in its lineage and wolf milk in its belly, implying that its citizens had a knack for warfare, which they would prove again and again. Early in Rome's history, the city was conquered by the Etruscans, the most notable civilization in Italy before Rome's rise to power. The Etruscans, who would influence Roman civilization, had migrated to Italy from Asia Minor, probably in the 12 th century BC. Their distant past is a mystery, because their language has no ...
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President Franklin D Roosevelt World War Ii
1,104 wordsThe Tuskegee Airmen, the only African - American pilots to fight in World War II. In 1941, The pressure was put on President Franklin D. Roosevelt to take positive actions in the utilization of Negroes in the armed services. On March 7, 1942 the first five Negro cadets were commissioned as pilots of the United State Air Force. While assigned with the 324 th squadron, the 99 th received its first aerial victory and many more victories were to follow. The squadron earned the name "The Red Tail Ang...
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Otto Von Bismarck Franco Prussian War
2,050 wordsNationalism is a popular sentiment that places the existence and well-being of the nation highest in the scale of political loyalties. In political terms, it signifies a person's willingness to work for the nation against foreign domination, whether political, economic, or cultural. Nationalism also implies a group's consciousness of shared history, language, race, and values. Its significance lies in its role in supplying the ties that make the nation-state a cohesive viable entity. Nationalism...
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Fifth Century Asia Minor
614 wordsGreek vases were make not only in Greece but also in the Aegean islands, on the west coast of Asia minor, south Italy and Sicily. The place where they were made the most was in Athens, where many awesome vases were produced. These were exported to places all around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Greek vases were also produced at many other places; Corinth, placed an important postion for transportation; Laconia, an area whose capital was Sparta; Boeotia, north-west from Attic; Aegean islan...
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La Cosa Nostra Obstruction Of Justice
1,831 wordsWhat is the Mafia? Many people ponder the true definition of Mafia. The literal translation of the word Mafia means my daughter. According to Rick Porello of American Mafia. com, the Mafia, more specifically the Italian-American Mafia, is a group of criminals organized into "families, " and operating primarily in North America. Also known as La Cosa Nostra, at one time there were 26 families in the United States - roughly one for each major city. The Mafia "commission, " composed of bosses of nu...
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The Civil War Of Rome
1,289 wordsThe Civil War in the eyes of most people is not glorious, but rather one of the worst crimes you could possibly commit when the state is all-important. Only under the most extreme circumstances should one be allowed to (in the eyes of the people that is) begin a Civil War with just cause. Caesar took this into consideration, but too many things were going wrong in Rome for him not to begin the war. The first of many problems was the collapse of the Triumvirate. The Triumvirate was one of the mai...
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Organized Crime In America
1,002 wordsThe events of September 11 resulted in drastic changes in a lot of law enforcement agencies, primarily due to the fact that the main emphasis switched from the war on organized crime to war on terrorism. With FBI now reassigning its resources to fight terrorism in a fast and efficient way, there is a possibility that the organized crime members would engage in more criminal activities than ever, simply due to the fact that the FBI would not be able in the current situation to devote their energy...
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Circle Of Hell Epic Of Gilgamesh
1,580 words- - World Lit Book Summaries Gilgamesh The Gilgamesh epic is very interesting and historically important because of its very early position in world literature. It tells us about an actual Sumerian king Gilgamesh of Uruk in Babylonia, on the River Euphrates in modern Iraq. He lived about 2700 B. C. In the epic the deeds of Gilgamesh and his companion, the wild man Enkidu are described. All these stories were composed into a long poem, which is considered as the earliest epic cycle yet known. The...
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Miles Per Hour Natural Disasters
1,094 wordsNatural Disasters The natural disasters have existed since the world creation. The description of the first disaster, the Noah's Flood is given in the Bible. That was the Creators will to send the first flood to the man. Nowadays the natural disasters occur now and then in the various parts of the globe. Natural disasters are caused by the natural cataclysms. Natural phenomena may turn to a disaster. The disaster may be defined as Calamity caused by nature resulting in loss of life or destructio...
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Sicilian Mafia Organised Crime
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Play Was Staged Prize In Grand Dionesia Aristophanes
856 wordsTheatre History Oral Report Aristophanes (448? - 385 BC), Athenian playwright, considered one of the greatest writers of comedy in literary history. His plays have been produced through the centuries and have remained popular because of their wit, comic invention, and poetic language. Aristophanes is believed to have been born in Athens, Greece, in the deme, or township, of Cydathenaeum. Presumably, he was well educated and may have had property on the island of Aegina. He had three sons-Philips...
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Archimedes Syracuse Quot
372 wordsArchimedes (287 - 212 BC), preeminent Greek mathematician and inventor, who wrote important works on plane and solid geometry, arithmetic, and mechanics. Archimedes was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and educated in Alexandria, Egypt. In pure mathematics he anticipated many of the discoveries of modern science, such as the integral calculus, through his studies of the areas and volumes of curved solid figures and the areas of plane figures. He also proved that the volume of a sphere is two-thirds the...
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18 Th Amendment Meyer Lansky
1,930 wordsImagine living in a world where crime ruled. A world where gangsters were more powerful than politicians, owned the police, and ran the city in whatever way they felt. They robbed whom they wanted and killed when they didnt get their way. Now stop imagining and realize that this happened here in the United States of America in the 1920 s. It was run by an organization made up mainly of Italians called the Mafia. The word Mafia itself has many meanings. In Arabic it means refuge, which refers to ...
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Motor Vehicles Birth Rate
1,147 wordsItaly is Italy Research Introduction Italy is located northwest of France and south of Austria and Switzerland. The estimated population of Italy is 58, 262, 000 as of 1995. In addition to the mainland Italy also has two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea called Sicily and Sardinia as well as some smaller islands called Capri, Ischia, Elba, and Lipari Islands. The capital of Italy is Rome and this city is also the largest of all of the cities in Italy People and Birth Rate The great majority...
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Francis Ford Coppola La Cosa Nostra
1,278 wordsLa Cosa Nostra Perhaps one of the most poignant moments in American cinema is the closing scene in the film? The Godfather? when Don Vito Corleone? s son Michael takes over his father? s position and one of the most unforgettable moments, a severed horses? s head lies bloody in a man? s bed. It is this tradition and brutality that characterizes the Mafia, a secret Sicilian society that lives and functions just as much today on American soil as it did and does still in Italy. To understand this o...
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World War Ii War Effort
2,414 wordsA burning desire to go forth and reach personal conquests exists inside every man. This passion often navigates the would-be hero into a state of tragedy involving pain and suffering for those around. One individual, in particular, inflicted strain and duress on others with a harsh, and often criticized unorthodox style of leading when he took his campaign across Europe and into Germany. General George Smith Patton, Jr. led an expedition across a continent to rid the world of its Nazi powers. Th...
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Romulus And Remus God Of War
2,263 wordsRoman empire The Romans were a people of genius whose empire dominated the western world for 500 years. (Pg. 7, Ancient Rome) What made the Romans so powerful was their way of government. It was very similar to the one that we have today, except emperors don t rule us. The pax romana, or the Roman Peace, gave millions of people in Italy and surrounding areas peace. Rome fell when it was invaded by overwhelming tribes and groups of barbarians. Rome was first founded on the legendary date of 735 B...
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