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Analysing War Poetry
<view this essay>.... me he almost expects not to die, and that the war will be over quickly. The way he says, ‘If I should die,’ tells me that dying, in an all out war, only remains a possibility to him, but a possibility he has prepared for, quite evidently, by writing such a poem.
Rupert Brooke believes, that if ever he dies on foreign soil, that soil will become English soil, and that it will be a victory because a man, born and bred in England, has, in one form or another, claimed land for his country.
‘That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England .....
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The Holocaust: The Devaluing Of Human Life
<view this essay>.... forget that the Holocaust has ever happened.
In the beginning of the movie the Nazi party is rounding up all the Jewish
people to take them to camps. Even if the Soldiers knew that it what they
were doing was wrong, they still went and rounded these people up. The
Nazi Soldiers did this because they were afraid of loosing their lives if
they did not obey. The act of taking people, whole families, out of their
homes takes away their freedom. When the Nazi Soldiers took away the Jews
freedom they devalued their lives. Devalued in the sense, that the Jewish
people had no choice in the matter they had to go with the Soldiers or be
killed. And because they Naz .....
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Imperial Telecommunications
<view this essay>.... to six weeks each way, but furthermore electrical telecommunications made that time, for all practical purposes, instantaneous. This new form of communication gave imperialists the ability to maintain their empire, being able to govern a colony thousands of miles away. The web of cables that was so eagerly constructed around the world gave the European empires an advantage that earlier nations never could have imagined.
The following pages will cover the history and effects of electrical telecommunications from its beginning through the first world war. They will describe the basic technology and inventors behind the telegraph; following this the implica .....
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On The Chinese Dynasty
<view this essay>.... taught by Confucius. He believed that you need to focus on your behavior, respect for your parents and peace. These were some just some examples of the beliefs.
There are a lot of Chinese achievements. One of the achievements was the Great Wall. of China. It provided protection for the people. It allowed farmers to live along the border and away from the nomads. But it took over 30,000 people to build it. Another achievement was the currency. Currency is cash and is the most common items used to exchanged for goods. The currency got of things exchanged for itself. Two nicknames for it are paper money and flying money. One last achievement is trad .....
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Imperialism
<view this essay>.... from Malaga had become the very prototype of the
modern artist as public figure. No painter before him had had a mass audience in his own
lifetime. Picasso's audience--meaning people who had heard of him and seen his work, at
least in reproduction--was in the tens, possibly hundreds, of millions. He and his work
were the subjects of analysis, gossip, dislike, adoration and rumor. He was a superstitious,
sarcastic man, sometimes rotten to his children, often mean to his women. He had
contempt for women artists. His famous remark about women being "goddesses or
doormats" has rendered him odious to feminists, but women tended to walk into both
roles open-eye .....
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Gothic Cathedrals
<view this essay>.... Amiens, and more. The experience of looking at one of the great is to look up towards God. Indeed, most Gothic structures emphasize the vertical, drawing one’s eyes upwards toward the heavens with the awesomeness of God.
These cathedrals were built with towering spires, pointed arches and flying buttresses giving impressions of harmony and luminosity. One of the major accomplishments of the 12th and 13th centuries was to develop the engineering mastery of the ribbed vault, pointed arch and flying buttress to create a great cathedral that is at once taller, lighter, wider, and more elegant than the ones before. Even though the pointed arch could support more .....
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Political Morality
<view this essay>.... form of laws which determine our
behavior. One of the most important documents written by our
government is the Declaration of Independence. The monarchy was
taking away power from the colonists and putting more demands on.
In return, the colonists declared their freedom from their
tyrant. In this document, it states, "All men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable
rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness." The great men who wrote this down had a strong sense
of morals. They believed that men were given rights by God that
no one could take away. This is essential .....
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Ancient Egyptian
<view this essay>.... king of the earth, helped by Isis.
However, Set hated his brother out of jealousy and killed him. Isis embalmed
Osiris' body with the aid of the god Anubis, who then became the god of
embalming. Isis then resurrected Osiris, and he became the god of the
afterlife and the land of the dead. Horus, the son of Osiris and Isis, later
defeated Set in an immense battle and became king of the earth.
Another version tells that Ra emerged from primeval waters. From him came
Shu, the god of air and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture. From their union
came Geb and Nut, who held the same positions as the above version.
Yet another version tells that Ra became .....
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