1918 a war of blood ended with the homecoming of the lost and insane soldiers from the many battles. World War One or The Great War was sparked by the death of the duke of a country that wasn’t super important or big. It was started between two countries but ended with almost every country in the world taking sides. So what was the main cause for this great war. Of the three main causes of World War One‚ militarism‚ alliances‚ and imperialism. There are many reasons why imperialism was one of the
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Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity? Lori Sheets The insanity defense is a defense by excuse. The defendant argues that they should not be held criminally responsible for breaking the law because they were mentally ill or mentally incompetent at the time of their alleged criminal action. The thought behind this is that someone suffering from a mental disorder is not capable of knowing or choosing right from wrong so they should not be punished. When this is the case‚ they are pleading not guilty
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two men are innocent or guilty. On the one hand‚ some argue that they are innocent. From this perspective‚ there was little evidence to support the verdict. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that they were guilty. From this perspective‚ there are letters that were recently released that link them to the crime. In the words of Bartolomeo Vanzetti‚ “I am convinced that the human history has yet begun‚ that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric. I see with the eyes of my
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innocent person to enter the guilty plea‚ is that there is a possibility that when entering guilty plea they could possible get charged with a lesser crime. It is known that if someone was to go in front of a jury and get charged with a crime it will be a much larger sentencing time than if the defendant would of taken a plea bargain in the first place. So in this day and time it could be easier for someone to see the outside world again to just take a plea bargain and plea guilty to something rather than
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Socrates was guilty as charged as he did not believe in the same gods as Athens while extorting the truth for his personal benefit‚ disregarding the pureness of Athens and its youth. To begin‚ Socrates did not believe in the same gods as Athens‚ the easiest of his convictions to prove because of his Apology. In his plea‚ Socrates distracts the jury with stories of disbelievers. As the defense begins‚ he does not say that he does believe or disbelieve in the gods of Athens‚ since the easiest answer
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While there was a chain of events tat directly led to the fighting‚ the actual root causes are much deeper. The causes of World War One were alliances‚ Imperialism‚ Militarism and Nationalism. I will be going into the detail of these matters to explain the events that triggered the World War. Countries throughout Europe made defense agreements that would pull them into battle meaning‚ it one country was attacked‚ allied countries were bound to defend them. This was called alliances. At the
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The Balkan War took place from 1912-1913 in the Balkan Peninsula in the southeastern part of Europe. Greece‚ Bulgaria‚ Montenegro and Serbia had gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 2oth century but their ethnic population was still under Ottoman rule. These nations formed the Balkan League. The League decided to attack the Ottoman Empire and the First Balkan War took place in October of 1912 and ended seven months later. The Ottoman Empire lost power of all its nations in the Balkans
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Diseases was a big killer in World War 1 because of the little medicine and medical knowledge. The Anzacs would have experienced many diseases such as influenza‚ typhoid‚ trench foot and trench fever. Trench foot is a disease which makes your foot turn blue or red and makes your foot very numb. It often involves blisters and open sores which allows fungal infections to enter. If the foot is untreated it can result into gangrene. Trench foot is caused by exposure to damp and wet conditions. In this
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military historians have written about the American Civil war as been the first total war ‚ however it is not enough for one to just agree with this view without understanding in details what total war is all about‚ and what are the characteristics of a total war‚ it also imperative to know whether the American civil war was a total war‚ before proceeding to see if it was the first total war by closely examining what Scholars and war historians have said about the topic‚ some Authors and
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On the eve of the World War I‚ no country was prepared for using aircraft or would have even thought about making an effective weapon of war. Several had experimented with dropping bombs from aircraft‚ firing guns‚ and taking off and landing from aircraft carriers‚ but no country had designed or built an aircraft specifically for war functions (Century of Flight). During World War 1‚ they had made many changed to the aircraft to make it create havoc on the enemy’s. They would add many weapons to
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