Fielder 18 November 2010 Soviet Intervention on Afghanistan When someone intervenes in your life‚ it’s usually to project their beliefs onto you and force you to stop a destructive behavior. During the Cold War‚ the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan‚ not to stop a destructive behavior‚ but to project their own wants and needs (for the oil and other resources) onto Afghan culture. Forcing them to submit to foreign rule‚ the people of Afghanistan fought back to protect their land‚ as a result
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Giza‚ where the sphinx is majestically perched and three great pyramids adorn the horizon‚ is well known through the realm of Egyptian history and in people’s mind in a general sense. When students and researchers are shown one picture of these great monuments‚ it sparks a response saying “Hey‚ that’s Egypt!”. However‚ there is more to Giza than the sphinx and the pyramids. People lived there and built the entire thing. They are normally the forgotten ones. Fortunately‚ there are two men named Mark
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At the time of my writing‚ the NATO war in Afghanistan has just become the longest war in U.S. history‚ a status it seems likely to retain for some time. It has been‚ and remains‚ a very strange war‚ all the stranger now that General Stanley McChrystal has been fired as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan following the lamest Douglas MacArthur impression on record. He has been replaced by General David Petraeus‚ the father and executor of the doctrine that lay behind the eventual U.S. military
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The great pyramids of Giza in Egypt are a breathtaking site and is hard to believe that they were built in 2560 BC. The tools and knowledge we have today would have been considered science fiction at the time and yet they were still able to build them with the little they had. But there are more than one theories of who they actually are. Most people will tell you the ancient egyptians were the makers of this enormous monument but other groups think differently. There is a percentage of people that
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I am against the US troops in Afghanistan. First of all‚ it made many American soldiers and families feeling of agony. For example‚ after more than 10 years of war in Afghanistan‚ the U.S. reached a milestone on Wednesday when the 2‚000th American died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom‚ CNN reports. Marine Cpl. Taylor J. Baune of Andover‚ was killed in Helmand province‚ Afghanistan‚ according to The Star-Tribune. Baune had married his wife just three months prior to his deployment. So‚ there
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Justifying the War in Afghanistan Before arguing whether or not the war in Afghanistan was a just or unjust war‚ I am going to give some history about what was happening before 911 or talks of war even began. The Taliban was the government in Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001. The Taliban means "Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement". They came into power during the civil war in Afghanistan‚ and were detested from the world community because of their actions. They held about 90% of the country’s
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An Andean pyramid much like an Egyptian one is a building of great proportions used and commissioned by the chiefs (leaders) as the center of their activities‚ for any manner of religious‚ political or economic means. It served as a physical symbol and center of power demonstrating the state/chiefdom’s power over the people/tribe. However unlike Egyptian Pyramids religious leaders would host ceremonies that would determine the established
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Narcotic Drugs has an extremely ambitious topic area to cover. Each delegate shall‚ explore the tumultuous world of Afghanistan’s illicit drug trade; treading through the mountainous borders of Afghanistan‚ Pakistan and Iran‚ while uncovering a trail of drugs‚ an addicted populace‚ and widespread crime. Afghanistan produced a record opium poppy crop in 2007‚ supplying 93% of the world’s opium. Opium trade has become an increasingly substantial source of revenue for various criminal groups and finances
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Michael Harris English II Honors May 19th‚ 2013 Montgomery The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan On April of 1978‚ the Afghan central government was just overthrown their own leader‚ Mohammad Duad Khan. A group of military officials on a quest for power led by Nur Mohammad Taraki‚ a distinct military general. To replace Duad Khan‚ two Marxist political groups fill in. The Khalq‚ or the people’s political group‚ and the Parcham‚ the Banner Party. “The new government‚ which had little popular support
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Twelve years have passed since the invasion of Afghanistan by US‚ British and Canadian troops and much has changed. Some are very beneficial like all girl schools‚ efforts to stop drug trade and sense of democracy in Afghanistan‚ states Michael Turner‚ US congressman of third district of Ohio. He explains how the education of women is a drastic change from a mere four years ago‚ where few women could rarely set foot out of home without a male chaperone‚ and even fewer knew how to read or write‚ and
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