.... truth was uncovered about the Mayas. The Mayas were actually rulers of the populous, aggressive city-states. The Mayas built large temples for the glory of the kings and sometimes the queens who ruled cities of tens of thousands. They also had a liking for self-mutilation, warfare, and a prolonged torture of captives. The Mayas had warfare with rival cities frequently. For the most part the Mayas did this to capture aristocrats for torture and sacrifice. If the Mayas sacrificed fewer humans than the Aztecs, against whom they often had been held up as superior, they tortured their victims more viciously. One way they would torture people is, in ancient b .....

.... early 1754, the Virginians were considering military measures in the country to the west, and requesting aid from the Pennsylvania province. Quaker reluctance toward involvement in "aggressive action," and a feeling by the proprietary party of "let's wait and see if anything beyond Virginian interests are threatened," resulted in no aid being extended. The following year, Washington went back to the Ohio Valley as a major who was leading a company of militia. A few miles south of the French Fort Duquesne, he built Fort Necessity. Fort Duquesne was located where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join to form the Ohio River. There was a .....

.... which we don't want to acknowledge - not necessarily a good thing as much gothic fiction has shown. I will study the interplay between the elements of realism and fantasy via the use of the following texts: Angela Carter's' The Bloody Chamber focusing mainly on "The Bloody Chamber" and "The Lady of the House of Love". Stephen King's The Shining, there will also be references to Stanley Kubrick's film version of The Shining and Wes Craven's modern gothic film The People Under the Stairs. The most obvious use of the fantasy/reality interface in gothic fiction is the fact that the fantasy almost always exists within the reality. On a basic level this m .....

.... to the University of Toronto, where he studied film and producing and direction. David’s first big screen success came to him in 1969 when his simple and tasteful film "Stereo" got shot down at the box office. David was somewhat discouraged by this and in 1970 would shock the world with his first film of the horror or shock film industry that broke all the limits. "Crimes of the Future" was a large success at the box office and at he 1970 Cannes Film Festival. Little did the public know, David Cronenberg was not finished there. The ideas he had stored in his uncanny mind of his were peculiar, odd and extraordinary. With his cont .....

.... Korean War was recorded as one of the most tragic such episodes in the nation¡¯s history. The suffering that it caused was cruel beyond expression. Above all, the Korean War left its scars on an entire generation of survivors, a legacy of fear and insecurity that continues even now to affect the two Koreas both in their internal development and in their relations with each other. Fighting began on June 25, 1950, when the North Korean army, substantially equipped by the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea. South Korean positions along the 38th parallel, which marked the frontier between the two republics, were swiftly overrun, and the Communist forces dro .....

.... Allies and since Great Britain knew Germany planned on attacking Britain as well, Great Britain went ahead and declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914 (“World” 1). On September 27, 1914, the Germans began entrenching themselves in strategic locations north of the Somme River in France under Thiepval Ridge (“Somme”). There they stayed for nearly two years awaiting the “Big Push,” as the Battle of the Somme was prematurely coined by the British (Macdonald 4). The French were kept busy also, digging 475 miles of trenches, running from the Belgian coast across the face of France to Switzerland (Macdonald 10). The French Army held 400 miles of this trench, and G .....

.... a relatively prosperous period of time up until the death of her King Alexander III (1249-1286). King Alexander’s family had been anything but blessed with good luck. His wife Margaret died in 1275 at the age of 35, his eldest son Alexander (the heir to his throne) died in 1284, his second eldest David had passed away in 1281, his youngest son had died just two years earlier than that. After seeing that King Alexander’s male heirs have been wiped out let us look to the female children, the King’s daughter had married Eric II King of Norway in 1281, this of course was an attempt to create a bond with Norway, Unfortunately he was informed that his daughter ha .....

.... Gold Rush, Manifest Destiny, and the Mistreatment of Native Americans. The Louisiana Purchase was done by President Jefferson because he wanted to doubled the size of the United States and to get control of  New Orleans. Wilmont Proviso was to ban slaves from territories that might gbe aquired from Mexico. Kansas- Nebraska Act was the result of Douglas wanting to build railroads from Chicago to San Franciso. Douglas was a big believer in popular sovereignity, where the people have the right to decide if they want to be free of slave state, and he completely ignore the Missoure Compromise. The Compromise of 1850 stated that should be equal number of free a .....