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Saddam Hussien War
<view this essay>.... Saddam Hussein had the nearly hopeless task of justifying the invasion. He plead the fact that Kuwait had been part of the Ottoman province of Basra, a city in the south of Iraq. However, the Ottoman province collapsed after World War I and today's Iraqi borders were not created until then. There was also a further and more obvious blunder in a bid to justify this illegal invasion. Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, had namely recognized Kuwaiti independence in 1963. Furthermore, Hussein claimed that Kuwait had illegally pumped oil from the Iraqi oil field of Rumaila and otherwise conspired to reduce Iraq's essential oil income.
By invading Kuwait, Iraq su .....
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Hiroshima 5
<view this essay>.... death, but that the problem of
the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes
of man had been explicitly defined." The entire globe was now to live
with the fear of total annihilation, the fear that drove the cold war,
the fear that has forever changed world politics. The fear is real,
more real today than ever, for the ease at which a nuclear bomb is
achieved in this day and age sparks fear in the hearts of most people
on this planet. According to General Douglas MacArthur, "We have had
our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable
system, Armageddon will be at our door." The decision to drop the .....
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Airplane Warfare In WWI
<view this essay>.... put on record that the dropping or
shooting of any projectiles or explosives from the air
during a time of war was forbidden and was considered a
crime of war. It was also decided that airplanes could only
be used for reconnaissance or spying missions. (Villard-227)
"The airplane may be all very well for sport, but for the
army it is useless" (Quoted in Villard-227) Even by the
beginning of the war in 1912, the use of planes in war was
still prohibited by the War Office. Shortly thereafter this
changed, people awakened to the possibilities of air
warfare. The world soon started to realize the
effectiveness of planes in war an .....
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Aphrodite
<view this essay>.... and, like the Assyrians, considered her to be not only the goddess of love and life, but also of warfare (Ghirshman 393). The Persians, who took control of the region in 539 B.C., had a goddess named Anahita. This goddess, like Ishtar, held dominion over love and fertility. Furthermore, Anahita, like Ishtar, not only "ensured the continuity of life" but "was at the same time a goddess of war" (Ghirshman 250). This paradox of a goddess ruling warfare as well as love and life was found among the Greeks as well. Thus, statues of were often worshipped by Greek warriors before going into battle. According to Getty, the beautiful young woman was seen as bei .....
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Ku Klux Klan 2
<view this essay>.... in his house was taken for a
ride by the Klan and badly tortured.
Kennedy developed a hatred for the Ku
Klux Klan and wanted to do all he could to
limit the influence of and put a
stop to its hate mongering. He wrote a book
“Palmetto Country” in which he
blasted the myth that the Klan was formed
to “save the South” from
Scalawags, Carpetbaggers an Also, Kennedy
noted that the few things written
about the KKK were editorials rather than
exposes. He felt the need for not
just words but for legal evidence against
the Klan’s inside machinations.
For that purpose someone would have to go
under a Klan robe and turn the
hooded order’s .....
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The New Deal
<view this essay>.... of everyday life. It was not the laissez-faire government that Hoover had used before. Roosevelt took charge, circulating money into the economy by raising the value of gold, instead of just putting more money into circulation which would cause detrimental inflation. He also had to show the people that banks were safe to put money into. To do this he passed the Emergency Banking Act or the “Banking Holiday”, which temporarily closed banks so that they could be examined and reopened, if fit to do so, with a Treasury Department license. Another way that he took charge was by cutting federal workers’ salaries, and veterans’ pensions and benefits, and anythin .....
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The Inuit People
<view this essay>.... untainted for a long time.
relied solely on hunting for their existence. With summers barely lasting two months, agriculture was non-existent. Animals such as caribou and seal were vital. Groups of hunters would stalk and kill many caribou with fragile bows made of driftwood, and their bounty was split evenly amongst the tribe. Bone spears were fashioned to hunt seals which provided food, oil, clothes, and tents. The seal skins were also used to construct kayaks and other boats that the Inuit would use to travel and to hunt whales. One advantage of the sterile cold of the arctic was that it kept these people free of disease (until they met the white m .....
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The Salem Witch Trials: First Person Point Of View
<view this essay>.... The hole witch hunt was unmoral. There was one incident that I can remember so clearly. It was when Tituba was killed. she was just a harmless servant. We put all of our blame on her for no reason. She was a scapegoat. We were all very confused at the time. The real point is that because of our stupidity, she was killed. She was completely innocent. All Tituba did was dance with the rest of us in the forest. We were all as guilty as she was, yet it was so easy to hold her responsible. I can’t believe that we would do something like that.
I regret so much of what happened. I wish that I could go back to that day and have put and end to the horri .....
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