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Life And Times In The Middle Ages
Words: 1539 - Pages: 6.... to be the son of Uthur Pendragon and Ygraine of Cornwall. He was the king of the Britons who fought against the Anglo- Saxons. In many legends he was kept away from the kingdom during his childhood. He gathered some really great knights in his court. Problems of precedence were avoided by using the round table at meetings. King Arthur has a big influence on literature, art, music, and society from the Middle Ages to the present. There is a huge debate on his existence because there is no conclusive evidence to prove he ever existed. In all the legends about King Arthur, he was a hero to many. His character is a strong, brave, and .....
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Fiddler On The Roof
Words: 1139 - Pages: 5.... the Jews, welcomed or not and America, the land of democracy that welcomed all. What is amazing about the play is that it does not only reach out to all Jews in history that have been exposed to persecution and being forced to leave their homes and lives but to any ethnic group who has ever faced the cruelty of others.
The melodrama is based on the book by Joseph Stein and stories by Shalom Aleichem. The music was written by Bock and the lyrics by Harnick. The play was directed by Jerome Robbins and B. Arthur. Masdel played the main character, Tevya the protagonist. Tevya is a Jew who lives strictly by the Jewish traditions. His t .....
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Decision Of The Bomb: Drop It Or Not?
Words: 563 - Pages: 3.... the Japanese wouldn't surrender easily. They would fight to the very
end. The loss of American lives would be too great to afford, thus being
compelled to use the bomb. Also, the development of the atomic bomb cost
2,000,000 dollars. This was too large of a financial investment to waste
in not using the bomb for reasonable causes. Lastly, many Americans also
held bitter resentment against the Japanese for Pearl Harbor and the
treatment of American prisoners. So the decision to drop the atomic bomb
was essential.
The atomic bomb's initial explosion has been devastating, but it
also had many after effects. Those who didn't .....
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The Fall Of South Vietnam Controversy
Words: 2397 - Pages: 9.... Vietnam to help the South Vietnamese government win the war.
The government, in its pronouncements, spoke of success and light at the end of the tunnel, but continued to dispatch additional troops while casualties mounted steadily (Dougan and Fulghum 127). The Johnson administration had never expected to become engaged in a protracted ground war on such a scale, and even when the involvement deepened it attempted to keep the war limited, a war without full mobilization of the home front and without a hated enemy (Veninga and Wilmer 18). President Johnson is said to have rejected the view of some of his advisers that in order to hold the sup .....
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Jimi Hendrix Report
Words: 1495 - Pages: 6.... out before his senior year. Jimi really never really imagined that he had enough talent to go into the music industry, actually he thought he had no talent whatsoever and had a terrible voice.
Jimi had then decided to apply for a real job. The first couple of jobs he had never really worked out. He started off working in retail then later fixing items such as radios and telephones. So in the year of 1959 Jimi through his Fender Strat over his shoulder, and enlisted in the 101st Airborne as a paratrooper. Jimi enjoyed his time spent in the 101st Airborne. However, after 25 successful jumps, he broke his ankle. After 14 months of mi .....
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Robber Barons Or Captains Of Industry
Words: 1349 - Pages: 5.... He stared his capitalistic ventures as a child by lending
a farmer who lived by him a sum of money and then having it returned to him
at the end of a year with interest. It was this incodent that taught
Rockefeller just how powerful capital was. Rockefeller earned his fortune
in the oil industry. It was also in the oil industry that he earned his
title of robber baron. Rockefeller is known for his oil monopoly which at
once controlled 95% of the world oil market. His oil business started with
refining. Rockefeller knew that oil drilling was very expensive and he
figured that he would let some one else spend millions to blindly drill
i .....
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The Battle Of Saratoga
Words: 713 - Pages: 3.... link up with Burgoyne in Albany. The goal of this plan was to isolate and destroy the Continental forces of New England.
Initially, the British plan appeared to be working. Burgoyne's army continually pushed back the Americans southward along the Hudson River with only minor casualties. In an attempt to slow the British advances, the American General Philip Schuyler detached 1000 men under the command of Major General Benedict Arnold. This force moved west to thwart St. Leger's eastward advance along the Mohawk River. Arnold returned with his detachment after repelling St. Leger in time to serve in .
First Battle of Saratoga: The Battle of .....
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Vincent Van Gogh The Successful Failure
Words: 1069 - Pages: 4.... fellow men as a preacher. At age sixteen, Vincent was given a job by his Uncle Vincent at a prosperous art gallery named Goupil's. Young Vincent's main regret in leaving the parsonage was that he would miss the company of his beloved brother, Theo.
At age twenty, Vincent fell in love with the big city of London. He moved to London where he continued his career as an art dealer at Goupil's London branch. Coincidentally, Vincent van Gogh also fell in love with a French girl named Ursula. At the age of twenty-one, after much deliberation, he confessed his love to her. He was coldly rejected. This was heartbreaking to Vincent, and his fam .....
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Communism
Words: 809 - Pages: 3.... by the government. Lenin's government made many achievements. It ended a long civil war against the remnants of the old Tsarist military system and established institutions in government. During this period, censorship and the subordination of interest groups such as trade unions was imposed to stop dissension and increase conformity to the new government policies.
After Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin quickly gained control of the Communist party and the oppressive reforms started by Lenin were continued and at length became completely totalitarian. Stalin was able to attain control as a result of a multitude of reasons. He was not .....
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Justifying Natural Born Killers
Words: 893 - Pages: 4.... she tells Mickey to kill her mom as well because her mom never helped her when she was getting abused by her father. In the background the viewer can hear laughter which makes the audience watching the movie want to laugh also. But when the viewer stops to think at what he or she could have been or were laughing at, it can make someone feel uncomfortable because he or she was actually laughing at murder, and sexual abuse. The whole movie seems to follow this pattern; the viewer gets so involved with the movie that he or she forgets what they are actually siding for, and begin to justify everything that Mickey and Mallory do. The movie use .....
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