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Explanation Of The Holocaust In Freud's "Civilization And Its Discontents"
<view this essay>.... act. The fact still remains that six million innocent men, women, and
children were murdered. These explanations for the acts of Hitler, Germany,
and the world at large come from many sources. Historians, theologians,
educators, and psychologists all have differing views on the subject.
Ironically enough, the most famous psychologist whose opinion would have
been most appreciated on the subject, Sigmund Freud, died just as Hitler
began his ascent to power. However, it is possible to theorize on Freud's
explanation of the Holocaust by using his work Civilization and Its
Discontents.
Freud's essay Civilization and Its Discontents was first published
in 19 .....
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The Watergate Scandal
<view this essay>.... story. There names were Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, they discovered that one of the suspects had an address book with the name and phone number of a White House official who could have been involved in the crime. The reporters suspected that the break-in had been ordered by other White House officials.
In a press conference on August in 1972, President Nixon said that nobody on the White House Staff was involved in the crime. Most of the public accepted Nixon's word and dropped the questioning. But when the burglars went to trial four months later, the story changed rapidly from a small story to a national scandal. It ended only when Richard Nixon was .....
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Leonardo Da Vinci 2
<view this essay>.... pictures. In 1478, I became an independent master.
My first commission was to paint an altarpiece for the chapel of the Palazzo Vecchio. It was the Florentine town hall. The Adoration of the Magi was my first large painting though but was unfinished and was ordered in 1481 for a monastery that I just can not remember. I painted another picture also called the Benois Madonna and a few others but my mind is old and I have lost most my memory.
In a year around 1482, I began to give service to the Duke of Milan. After writing him a letter explaining to him my ideas of building portable bridges and other techniques I knew he made me principal engineer of his nu .....
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The Middle Ages And The Renaissance
<view this essay>.... much of southern and eastern Italy remained in Byzantine influence. The Italian popes had resisted the Lombards as much as they could. In fact, Gregory I, who acted as the "de facto" political and military and as ecclesiastical leaders and had land that later became the papal states, was most known for his resistance against the Lombards. By 7th century, Lombards' sphere of influence was contained in only the northern part of Italy as a result of the resistance faced by the popes. There, the Lombards were able to strengthen and unify their political structure.
As the Lombards were becoming more politically unified, southern Italy was becoming a place for .....
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Slavery - The Anti-Slavery Effort
<view this essay>.... first started appearing in America at about the time of the American revolution. Opponents of slavery included some of our distinguished Founding Fathers such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Paine, and Benjamin Rush, who felt that slavery infringed on the concepts of the Declaration of Independence. Most northern abolitionists were religiiously inspired, such as the Quakers, and felt that slavery was a sin that must rectified immediately.
The abolitionist cause was one a moral argument. They felt that the majority of slaves were being treated inhumanely and tortured. This disgust of southern slave-owners compelled a few abolition .....
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Fredric Remington
<view this essay>.... vacations in the Montana territory it is his first trip to the west he falls in love with the west and their ways of life and he starts drawing cowboys and other western people and even Indians. His pictures and illustrations are noticed by Harper's Weekly Publishing. On February 25 1882 the publish his first illustration but it is redrawn by the staff. After a while he gets tired of this and quits. In 1883 he buys a sheep ranch near Peabody, Kansas. One year later he moves to Kansas City and invest in hardware store which later turns into a saloon. On October of 1884 he marries Eva Caten in Gloversville, New York then as a couple they return to Kansas Ci .....
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Cuba And The Cuban Missile Cri
<view this essay>.... true feelings for communism to his brother, Fidel. This causes quite a predicament for the Soviet Union to make them seen and heard by Cuba. Smartly, Russia sends Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, who held business contacts in the US, to the states as a guest of the Russian ambassador. Fidel hears of Mikoyan’s arrival in the US and invites him to visit Cuba. Although Mikoyan is traveling throughout the island, looking things over, Castro still has not identified himself as a Communist quite yet. In May of 1960, diplomatic relations between Russia and Cuba are established following Mikoyan’s visit to the island. One reason why Cuba has turned to Russia is because th .....
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Diverse Cultures In The Foundi
<view this essay>.... servants. In fact, this accounted for three-fourths of the emigrants in the 17th century. They offered their services to someone for usually five to seven years in exchange for transportation to the New World and food and clothing while working out their commitments. There were very few upper class people who ventured in to the great wilderness. But America did show to be a dumping ground for convicts who were sent there to work off their crimes. They were usually sent as indentured servants, only against their free wills.
Secondly, political backgrounds varied between the colonists. A lot of people came to get away from England and their bureaucrati .....
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