females the only gender discriminated against ? Throughout most of recent recorded events and around the globe‚ women are taking a “front seat” against men. This is all in the name of "gender inequality".Generally speaking‚ men have had‚ and continue to have‚ more physical and social power and status than women‚ especially in the public arena.This does not guarantee that men are not also discriminated against. Men tend to be more aggressive and violent then women‚ so they fight wars. Similarly
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The Coldest of Wars The exact definition of a cold war is a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats‚ propaganda and other measures short of open warfare‚ in particular. Many historians believe that the Cold War officially started at the end of World War 2 but others will argue that it began with the October Revolution in Russia in 1917.With many primary sources like‚ The Marshall Plan‚ The George Kennan’s famous long telegram‚ the Nonproliferation Treaty‚ the Cuban
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Assess the importance of the Crimean war (1854 – 1856) for Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Crimean war of 1854-1856 that broke out between Russia that was fighting on its own soil against Turkey that had the support from the allied nations Britain and France and then the support from Sardinia had showed its importance to Europe and had showed how Russian government and army were weak. This is what I will write about in my essay. Before the broke out of the Crimean‚ France
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legalization of marijuana for medical use only as it eases pain and suffering of many
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the term greco-persian wars is thought to be less biased aganist the persians than the more winners‚ the Greek side. Greek historian Peter Green characterizes it as a David and Goliath struggle with David holding out for political and intellectual liberty against the monolithic theocratic Persian war machine. It wasn’t just Greeks against Persians‚ nor were all the Greeks on the Greek side. In 499 BC‚ the then-tyrant of Miletus‚ Aristagoras‚ embarked on an expedition to conquer the island of
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Cold War The cause of the Cold War is debatable. Because the Cold War doubles as a conflict between two countries‚ the USA and the USSR‚ and between two ideologies‚ Capitalism and Communism. Several different causes can be suggested for the start of the Cold War. During the war‚ there was a mutual understanding between the two nations‚ which however began to evaporate soon after the war. Difference in ideologies and mutual distrust between the two nations led to the beginning of cold war. Both
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bureaucracy. 8. ABSOLUTISM: A political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers. 9. ZEALOUS: Marked by fervent partisanship for a person‚ a cause‚ or an ideal. 10. PILLAGE: The act of looting or plundering especially in war. 11. CHIEFTAIN: A chief especially of a band‚ tribe‚ or clan. 12. SERFS: A member of a servile feudal class bound to the land and subject to the will of its owner. 13. PULVERIZE: To reduce (as by crushing‚ beating‚ or grinding) to very small
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1930’s through the 1970’s. The Football War‚ or the 100 Hours War‚ was a short four-day war between the Central American countries of El Salvador and Honduras. Though the war itself only lasted four days‚ the build up to the war was ongoing for many years. The Football War got its name from the fact that the war was eventually started because of a series of football games between the two countries. Though there were many factors that played into the war‚ the FIFA World Cup qualifiers were important
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Originally‚ the cause of the war were religious issues. The Peace of Augsburg (1555) brought peace to the German states but only recognized Lutherans and Roman Catholics. Protestants‚ and later Calvinists‚ wanted religious freedom from the ruling Catholics. Add to that the fact that all the countries involved in these wars wanted to make themselves more powerful and you have a Molotov. The war started on May 23‚ 1618‚ when a crowd of Protestants stormed the royal castle in Prague and threw two members
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The Korean War is seen as the “flashpoint” in the Cold War‚ which made the Cold war a global conflict. North Korea was led by Kim Il-Sung and was communist. South Korea was led by Syngman Rhee and was capitalist. Though it is said that Kim Il-Sung‚ who headed The Democratic People’s Republic‚ which was created by the Soviet Union‚ had adopted a policy of opposition to Rhee’s government and for the unification of the Korean peninsula by armed force‚ there are still many other theories as to why the
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