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The Battle Of Monocacy
<view this essay>.... 1864 the regimental bands played “Maryland, My Maryland” Just as they had in 1862 before the Battle of Antietam. A lot of the soldiers and officers who were in Antietam in 1862 were also there in 1864. In Antietam Gen. Early led men under Stonewall 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 .....
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The Hellenistic Age
<view this essay>.... somewhat by the teaching of his tutor Socrotes. Under Alexander a great cosmopolitan culture developed. The new culture has thus been termed "Hellenistic" - not purely Greek, because of all the towns under his control, it was a melting pot. After Alexander's death the empire was divided into three large portions each general taking a portion.
Egypt under the general Ptolemy, who established the Ptolemies dynasty this was ruled with all the pomp and authority of the pharaohs. Second was the general Seleucus, who founded Seleucid dynasty consisting of Northern Syria and most of the remaining provinces of the old Persian Empire. This empire was ruled very .....
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Henrik Ibsen A Biography
<view this essay>.... and a submissive wife made appearances in his plays Brand, A Doll's House, and Ghosts. The bitter character of Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck was based on Ibsen's father. When he was sixteen, he moved to Grimstad to work for a druggist. He had wanted to become a doctor, but game up on the idea after he failed Greek and Math on his University entrance exams. Medicine was not his only ambition. He also wanted to be a painter.
In 1850, Ibsen entered the first of his three writing periods. His romantic period went from 1850 to 1873. The greatest works from this period are the Brandand Peer Gynt Most of the plays that he wrote during these years are romantic hist .....
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Holocaust Museum
<view this essay>.... that did not deserve to exist. They tried to do this very scientifically by measurements, facial features, eye color comparisons, and other features.
4. In a different part of the exhibit, was the listing of all of the Jewish towns that were totally or partially whipped out because of the Holocaust. The names of the towns were engraved on the glass windows of a corridor there were so many of them that they filled up the entire wall.
Personal Response
1. This movie was very informative, for example before this movie I thought that Hitler was voted into power, but really he was appointed by Hindenburg. I thought that it was kind of scary that a government s .....
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The French Revolution
<view this essay>.... the early events, a crowd in Paris captured the Bastille, a royal fortress and hated symbol of oppression. A series of elected legislatures then took control of the government. King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were executed. Thousands of others met the same fate in a period known as the Reign of Terror. The revolution ended when Napoleon Bonaparte, a French general, took over the government.
At the beginning of the revolution, events seemed minor and proceeded in a logical fashion. One of the reasons the revolution originated was the discontent among the lower and middle classes in France. By law, society was divided in to three groups called est .....
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Atomic Bomb
<view this essay>.... after being victorious in Europe, declared war on the United States. This was nine months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In September of that year, Groves, met with Leo Szilard and asked him if making the was possible. Leo told him how an would work, but also that it is impossible to build. General Groves only wanted to hear that an was conceivable in theory and then he knew to start the project.
In October of 1942 Groves went to California to meet with Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most brilliant scientists in the country. Groves informed Oppenheimer that he had been selected to lead the expedition on trying to invent the . Oppenheimer immed .....
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Buddhism 4
<view this essay>.... to discipline and tie it down. We must have mental training to stop its wandering.
So meditation is the tool to tie up ones mind. It will cultivate mindfulness which is the foundation of the practice. Concentration stills the mind and reduces impulses and emotions. Its the same as tying the rope around a post and then tying the money to it. It does not matter how much the monkey struggles, he will have to stay within the limits of his bounds. As he is tied with the rope, he can only go back to the same spot again. The only chance for him to stop is when he is exhausted.
When we fallow the movement of our mind, it is like watching the monkey. We do n .....
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Canada In WWI
<view this essay>.... changes. To feed Allied troops, Canadian farmers expanded their
farms in order to produce upwards of four times more food than they had to
before. Allied forces desperately needed the food they produced for the
soldiers. Women began to play important roles in Canada's economy. While
Canada's men were fighting, women picked where they left off in the wor
kforce. They were key in the war effort, as well as keeping Canada's
economy running. Resource industries in Canada also expanded and Canada's
marketplace began to grow.
During the war, demands for Canadian goods went up in Europe and in
Canada. Increased demand caused inflation on products in Canada .....
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