Ptolemy was termed a great man in his time as he could answer questions through the stars. He had a strong belief in science‚ mathematics‚ and astronomy as he believed they could answer any question you could possibly ask for. He told the people of Greece his findings on the stars and his theory. Some of his theories explained that the Earth is the center of the universe and he told of his lunar theory. He had numerous evidence to back up his theories so they seemed realistic. Ptolemy amazed the
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How Far did the Nazi Regime depend on fear rather than popular support for maintaining their control of Germany between 1933-39? What is this essay asking you to do? Determine whether the Nazi regime used fear as a method of control of the German people or whether there are other reasons for the fact that the Nazis kept power and control of the German people. For example Did propaganda also help? Was the regime actually popular with Germans? Why was there no opposition? Did the Nazis
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Did Mussolini capture the young and turn them into a nation of Fascists? The propaganda used was aimed particularly at the younger people so it could be said that he did capture the young and turn them into a nation of Fascists up to a certain point. The ways in which this occurred were that R. E was made compulsory in schools‚ in the classrooms a portrait of Mussolini had to be hung next to the portrait of the king- this was used to show that Mussolini was equally as important as the king.
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become an ascetic‚ but his father wouldn’t let him‚ as that is not the expected lifestyle of royalty. Some years later‚ Siddhārtha left his palace to live a life away from luxury and find enlightenment. He went into meditation‚ however‚ he found that it did not bring him profound knowledge or peace‚ and stopped‚ picking up extreme asceticism instead. He went into the forest and began to deny himself basic necessities such as sufficient nourishment. After six years‚ this practice got him no closer to enlightenment
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I agree to a certain extent because there are some insignificant that Stresemann did and that Germany didn’t like it. The things that Stresemann did do for Germany is led the German people to be a part of the League of Nations. Also the French and British didn’t respect Germany and Stresemann showed them that German isn’t bad. Later on French and Britain showed respect to Germany. The things that Germany didn’t like is that it made Germany seem weak or not strong enough to defend themselves from
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This resulted in a mean (average) number of 3.84 errors out of 12 trials. In comparison‚ the control group only had a mean of 0.08 errors out of 12. 75% of all participants gave at least one incorrect answer‚ meaning that 25% of the true participants did not conform with the majority at all. In the control group‚ less than 1% of the participants gave at least one wrong answer. This showed to Asch that when there was less/no pressure to conform‚ less incorrect answers were given showing that we conform
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Nagini really hated muggles. They had reduced her master and greatest friend to nothing more than a posh man who wears too many clothes. Nagini liked to think that he only wore all those fancy suits and used the knorks and fives because the other men did it. She had seen it happen all to often in her lifetime. When she no bigger than a ruler and still roamed her hometown of Berat in Albania‚ she frequently came across young foolish muggles who thought it was fun to make the female muggles dance in
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Why did Lincoln free the slaves? It was a good day for the US when Lincoln finally freed slaves in 1865. But why did he do it? Did he free the slaves out of political necessity or did he free slaves because he felt sorry for them. At the start of the US Civil war Lincoln believe it or not main priority was just to preserve the Union not to free the slaves. Lincoln pursued no clear policy regarding the slaves for the first 15 months of the war perhaps hoping that it would be possible to defeat the
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Propaganda had a large roll in why the colonist left being a part of Britain to begin astheir own nation. The British ruler used propaganda posters to tell British citizens that theAmericas where a great place to start a new life and become rich. But as tension grew the rulerbegan using propaganda as a way to tell how badly the colonist where and to get more soldiers tofight against colonist. The British imposing harsh taxes sparked an age of anger and agitationbetween the colonist and Great Britain
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Thomas’s questioners could get nothing out of him. However frustrating it might be‚ if he did not speak treason‚ he could not be convicted. So‚ since he would
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