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Chivalry
<view this essay>.... each of them had flaws. Sir Lancelot, for example, wasn’t entirely loyal to King Arthur because of his desire for Guenevere. He remedied the situation by fighting for his king in the battle against Sir Modred. While the of the Middle Ages is thought by most to have been reserved for royalty, this was not the case. Common folk also exhibited chivalrous conduct, though in less glamorous ways.
has greatly diminished since the Middle Ages. Respect, courtesy, and honesty have little meaning to today’s youth. There are exceptions to this. Helping the elderly, family, and friends are just a few things young people can do to resurrect . I don̵ .....
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Teddy Roosevelt
<view this essay>.... Platt in return for his help expected Roosevelt to let him make the appointments and carry the party line. Roosevelt had no intentions of being Platt's puppet, and as soon as he got in office the two would begin to battle. Roosevelt had to be careful, because to totally alienate Platt would cripple his chances to go any further politically or even threaten his chances to be reelected governor. Roosevelt made his point by declining to appoint Platt's first suggested appointee. After making his point, however, Roosevelt tried to work with the Republican boss to the extent of not abandoning his own principals. Platt for his part could not toss the war hero o .....
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Early Western Civilization, Egyptian Tomb
<view this essay>.... thousands of years, and announced the discovery of a
life time. "We found ourselves in a corridor," he remembers. "On each side
were 10 doors and at end there was a statue of Osiris, the god of the
afterlife."
The tomb is mostly unexcavated and the chambers are choked with
debris, Weeks is convinced that there are more rooms on a lower level,
bringing the total number to more than 100. That would make tomb 5 the
biggest and most complex tomb ever found in Egypt, and quite conceivable
the resting place of up to 50 sons of Ramesses II, perhaps the best known
of all the pharaohs, the ruler believed to have been Moses' nemesis in
the book of Exodus.
The Valle .....
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Russia Crisis: Economical, Political, And Moral
<view this essay>.... to many Russians that the West still supports Boris Yeltsin, seeing him as a brave and progressive liberal reformer, taking on the twin evils of reactionary communism and criminal mafia business tycoons. That is not how it is seen here.
Mr Yeltsin's popularity is now so low that Russia's main public opinion polling organisation has stopped trying to measure it. It has fallen off the scale. He is associated not with democracy and the free market, but with the creation of bandit capitalism in which dishonesty and graft pay dividends and the ordinary good people of Russia stand in line at bank queues and watch all they have spent their lives building up .....
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"The World Today Seems To Be Going Crazy": The Unabomber's Manifesto
<view this essay>.... manhunt in United States history, ultimately costing
upward to $50 million" (Douglas, 31). The reasoning behind this initial attack
(and subsequent assaults) was not known for sure until 15 years later in 1993,
when the Unabomber's anti-technology philosophy became public.
The Unabomber's 18 year tirade against technology killed three people
and maimed 23 others in a series of 16 attacks dating back to 1978. The
Unabomber's targets were universities and airlines (thus the "un" and the "a" in
the FBI's code name); proponents of technology. The Unabomber believes that the
present industrial-technological society is "narrowing the sphere of human
freedom" (Un .....
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Atomic Bomb
<view this essay>.... the first weapon of mass destruction, and thus hurling the world into an atomic age. It is, however, the poise of this strong leader, that makes it unclear to many just how agonizing and belabored his decision was. While at the time, to the public, the dropping of the was perfectly justified by the horrors of World War II. However, looking at this subject in retrospect, the has been lowered from its savior status, and in some people’s eye’s ranks among the world’s most horrible crimes of war. This debate has raged between historians for years, yet research and articles written in recent years how show the not only ended the war is a timely fashion but a .....
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Women In Western Society
<view this essay>.... and managed of all legal and finical problems. The woman managed only the household. Due to the arranged marriages, women had no emotional feelings for their husbands, which led to temptations. Women were sometimes killed for having an affair, where as men were aloud to have a mistress. Most women family life was their only destiny.
Witchcraft affected the lives of many women during the 16th and 17th century. Lots of women were burned at the stake for being accused of being a witch. Most witchcraft trials women of the lower classes were most likely to be accused of witchcraft. But by the mid 17th century this witchcraft craze was starting to vanish.
The Enlig .....
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Australian History - Populate
<view this essay>.... be given in any European language. If the immigration officials did not want to allow a person to enter the country, they could choose a language that would make it impossible to pass the test.
Although this policy was extremely biased and racist, racial purity was an exceptionally strong feeling in Australia up to the early 1960's. Immigration continued up to the Great War, with substantial English and Irish immigrants settling into Australia. Immigration stopped during the Great War, but resumed afterwards. Totally new schemes were implemented to attract immigrants. The war had taught Australia that it needed to be less dependent on Britain, and that it need .....
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