.... At that time in history people were flocking to America because they were either being persecuted in their home countries or they were just disappointed at the status of their lives and wanted to come to “the land of opportunity� to start a new life. This is a great symbol of art because The is magnificent in every way, and serves its purpose to a superb level. Like I mentioned previously, “location, location, location .. “ the statue’s location was perfect back in the days of Ellis Island and is perfect now as a tourist site. Shortly after the immigrants on the boats first spotted the land of their new homes, they c .....

.... XIV's actions. At the end of the seventeenth century, King Louis XIV's wars began decreasing the royal finances dramatically. This worsened during the eighteenth century. The use of the money by Louis XIV angered the people and they wanted a new system of government. The writings of the philosophes such as Voltaire and Diderot, were critical of the government. They said that not one official in power was corrupt, but that the whole system of government needed some change. Eventually, when the royal finances were expended in the 1780's, there began a time of greater criticism. This sparked the peasants notion of wanting change. Under the Ol .....

.... lip, raspy voice and short back and sides haircut have similarities with the protagonist in the movie Forest Gump, but that is where the similarities end. Despite Karl’s horrific background, a sense of right and wrong and of justice still seem to pervade. Billy Bob Thornton doesn’t so much act but more so becomes Karl Childers. Karl, at the age of twelve murdered his mother and her lover, the local bully, with a sling blade in a fit of evangelical rage. In the first scene we come into contact with Karl. A soothing sythesiser plays slow haunting music to set the tone. We are introduced to Charles Bushman, played by J.T Walsh, a fellow .....

.... these early civilizations and major cities were far from isolated and independent of one another. Their characteristics emerged through the major trade routes they developed between one another in what became known as the Afrasian Intercommunicating Zone. They traded not only goods, but also ideas and technologies. The Bronze Age coincided with the rise of civilizations. In 2000BCE, China acquired bronze. The acquisition of bronze brought dramatic technological changes, which resulted in more agriculture, the use of dams, and development of more sophisticated tools. The need for bronze, facilitated trade because bronze is .....

.... Minoan was centered on the island of Crete. The other culture, Helladic (who became Mycenaean) populated mainland Greece. The Minoan culture dominated trade until 1500 BC when the Mycenaeans took control. During the third millennium BC a series of invasions from the north began. The most prominent of the early invaders, who were called the Achaeans, had, in all probability, been forced to migrate by other invaders. They overran southern Greece and established themselves on the Peloponnesus. Many other, vaguely defined tribes, were assimilated in the Helladic culture. Ancient Greece Gradually, in the last period of Bronze Age Greece, .....

.... such as Cambodia and Vietnam. The United Stated saw this as a very real threat, and kept a close eye on the communist advancement. The communist beliefs began in 1848, when Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote a book called The Communist Manifesto. This book defined the beliefs of communism, along with portraying the natural evolution of a communist “utopia� from a capitalist society. Marx and Engels defined communism to be a concept, or system, of society in which the major resources and means of production are owned by the community, rather than by the individuals. In theory, such societies provide for equal sharing of al .....

.... and are put through similar tests that make them, in theory, one in the same. Heroic characteristics start to become evident right from the start of each of the movies. At the beginning of the movie Shane we see (the hero) Shane on his horse, coming from the mountains and we are not really given much backround as to where he came from. Similarly, at the beginning of the movie Aliens we see Ripley (the hero) in some sort of bed, and when she is introduced we are not given much backround as to where she is from. In both movies the hero’s were introduced without giving much information on there past. This is a characteristic .....

.... to the people's hopes and dreams. And as this lasted over the years, the age of anxiety was created. People didn't know or what to expect anymore. They did not know what was going to happen after the war. They're so devastated by the war that many who were still alive lost faith and all hopes. Many intellectuals began to doubt the Enlightenment and even the future of Western civilization. This state of uncertainty and unpredictability brought out many modern philosophers of that time. One of them was a French poet and critic Paul Valery. He stated that "Europe was looking at its future with dark foreboding." In his writings, he said that "T .....

.... Saint Peter was buried in the great public necropolis (city of the dead) on Vatican Hill, it was available to everybody. Saint Paul was also buried along the Via Ostiense, a section of the . In the first half of the second century the Christians started burying their dead underground, this is a result of donations. That is how the were founded. Many of them began and developed around family tombs whose owners, newly converted Christians, did not reserve them to the members of the family. They did open them up to their fellow people, showing the faith. As time went on and room started to run out in the , the grew larger by gifts and by .....

.... Jackson near the Dunker church. His men were involved in a brawl that brought the morning phase of the battle to an end. General Early revisited the Antietam battlefield in 1864. He is quoted in saying how little evidence there was of the battle. Many people compared General Early to Stonewall Jackson, because he led soldiers that were once commanded by Jackson, through some of the same places. General Lewis Wallace was not on Grant’s good side. In 1863, at the Battle of Shiloh, Wallace got lost on his way there. Wallace was a very political man. In 1849, he was admitted to the bar association. In 1856, he was elected to the .....