start his adventure; so first he made it to troy island that where there was a war and Odysseus with his men’s fought against the other men’s in war for about 10 years but then Odysseus and men’s thought of a plan to final win the war;so what they did was they build a fake horse and also went to the other men’s headquarters and said we give up. However it was not the other men’s thought it was over because it was only about a few of them that went to go said that they give up but everyone was in
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He knows that survival it a top priority. In The Life of Pi‚ it states that‚ “You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it” (Martel 91). Never once did Pi lose hope. He always tried to find a way to survive with some dangerous animals on board and live. “Even when God seemed to have abandoned me‚" the older Pi says‚ "he was actually watching” (Cooper). The religious beliefs that Pi has do not just
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historic events apart from the black American slavery is the Watergate scandal. Watergate scandal is a major event that occurred in the history of the United States that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon who was the then US president. Watergate is considered to be the greatest political scandal in the American history because no other US president has ever resigned apart from Richard Nixon. The scandal broke out of the release of information that had earlier been restricted from the general public
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stigma of Watergate was so strong that the suffix “gate” had been added to the names of many other scandals‚ “Irangate‚” “Travelgate‚” “Motorgate‚” [etc]‚ to reference the [scandalous] impact each had. The standard set by Watergate . Some hypothesized how the presidency might have gone for Nixon had there been no Watergate scandal. If Nixon had gotten the chance‚ he might have had a successful presidency in foreign affairs. Books and movies spawned after the scandal‚ such as All the Presidents Men. It
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matter if their intentions were peaceful or malicious. According to Patrick Baker‚ another Greek city-state’s opinion of Sparta depended completely upon “how often they were attacked by the Spartan army.” In other words‚ they either loved the Spartans or hated them. The cities that Sparta allied itself with enjoyed “security and protection from outside attack‚” but the cities that “were subjected to multiple invasions over the course of time” tended‚ rightfully so‚ to not look upon the Spartans so
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in his training. Different from Rosemary Jonas received a painful memory in the first two days of his training. The memory that Jonas had received was a sun burn. This to him was very painful because he has
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The Pilgrims were hungry and weak from scurvy after two months at sea by the time the Mayflower anchored in the icy waters on the bay side of Cape Cod in the winter of 1620. Miles Standish led a small group of explorers on desperate scouting missions that predate the landing at Plymouth Rock First Encounter By Stephen Harrigan ‘I I NDIANS! INDIANS!” one of the members of the Mayflower’s shore party screamed as he came running in from the woods toward a tidal beach on
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ahead as though no one else were worth caring about not even its own allies. Ultimately‚ Sparta’s incredible and overweening short-sightedness caused it to lose its domination and become demoted from a world-class reigning military power to a much lesser
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Socrates‚ the father of philosophy‚ and teacher: Is he corrupt? Did this man‚ who still teaches students thousands of years after his life ended‚ earn capital punishment? Was it fair to receive such severe punishment for teaching the youth to ask questions? Was an innocent person murdered? Despite it being the unpopular answer to the question‚ Socrates did deserve his penalty‚ but only through the perspective of the Athenians. The reasons are simple: Socrates really seemed to have committed the crime
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Inca Communication Like the ancient West African civilizations‚ the Inca did not develop a written language. They did‚ however have knowledge of advanced mathematics. They used knotted string called quipu to keep track of population‚ taxes‚ amount of food in storehouses‚ etc. The quipu worked like an abacus in that different knots at various places on the string represented different places on the number line. The Inca were South American Indian people who ruled one of the largest and richest empires
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