the most despicable acts of humankind. It’s always saddening to look back on history and view the bad things. When we think of history most think of the success of others in the before times‚ but not everybody thinks of what the other side of success was for some people. America‚ such a great country with a solid structure‚ but how did it get to be such? Let’s take a ponder into the past history of America from the standpoint of a slave. Slaves came to America by boats with terrible conditions. These
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Atomic Bomb Position Paper Was the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary? No‚ it was not. Neither of the two cities were military targets. Both cities had more civilians than troops. This would also mean that we broke the rules of war. We bombed innocent civilians. This‚ according to multiple documents of war‚ is illegal. Especially since the towns had no means of defending themselves. Bombing these towns also started the Cold war arms race. Everyone wanted the atomic bomb
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Why was Australia involved in the Vietnam War? Australia became involved in the Vietnam War for a number of reasons. The main reasons included the fear of the spread of communism‚ Australia’s alliance with the USA and Australia’s membership of SEATO. In the years after World War 2 Australians feared that communism would spread through South-East Asia and eventually to Australia. The fear grew more when China became a communist state is 1949‚ the reason why China became a communist state was
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Why the Illegalization of Marijuana was Corrupt For most of human history marijuana has been legal and has actually only been illegal for 1% of the period of time of which it has been in use. Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific‚ medical‚ and government hearings‚ and that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug. However‚ some of the actual reasons that marijuana was wrongly banned include racism
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The League of Nations‚ established in 1921‚ was the brainchild of Thomas Woodrow Wilson‚ president of the United States during World War 1. The idea was conceived during the advent of the "Great War"‚ and aimed to stop war through working together‚ improve people’s lives‚ fight disease and slavery‚ help workers‚ and disarm the world. Although the League of Nations was successful in some of its endeavours to maintain world peace and harmony‚ the majority of their attempts at creating a new world order
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Why was the house of Usher doomed to fall? 141210401 邓瑶菡 Although the end of the Fall of the House of Usher illustrated a scene that the house fell apart all of sudden‚ for a craftsman like Poe who declare “… no word should be used which does not contribute to the ‘pre-established’ design of the work”(textbook 110) as one of his theories for writing short stories‚ examining some details could reverse of the impression that this final collapse was only an accident occurred naturally. In fact‚ there
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Why was Josiah Wedgewood so successful? Josiah Wedgewood was famous throughout the world for making pottery. He was successful for many reasons. In this essay I am going to explain why I think he was so successful. Wedgewood was extremely hard working‚ for example he made over 100 experiments‚ recording each one. This must have taken a lot of time and effort just to make one discovery so 100 must have taken a great deal more. Also‚ Wedgewood invented and developed products: black basalt‚ thermometer
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Why was Luther summoned to the diet of worms? There were many reasons for why Luther was summoned to the diet of worms‚ one of which was production the 95 theses by Martin Luther. Luther only sent his 95 Theses to a small number of bishops and a few of his close companions; he was not aiming for a response or retaliation form anybody. But copies of the 95 Theses over time had been distributed and printed in Basel Leipzig‚ and Nuremberg. The impact of this was that pope was informed about what was
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Introduction Egypt was the most successful ancient civilization. Ancient Egypt stood as one of the world’s most advanced civilizations for nearly 3‚000 years and created a culture so rich that it has spawned its own field of study. The reasons why Egypt was so successful was because the Egyptian people built the Great Pyramid of Giza‚ developed strong religious beliefs‚ and the Egyptian scribes made their own picture writing called hieroglyphs. Great Pyramid of Giza Pharaoh Khufu‚ whom the
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I associate part with the motivation behind why Nietzsche was so angry with Socrates may have been from a specific sentiment family relationship. In the event that Socrates was as he has been depicted‚ then he would have been an extremely shrewd individual‚ and prevalent regardless of being a dissident. These are qualities I think Nietzsche would have preferred. In any case‚ the bearing Socrates took these things were so in opposition to Nietzsche’s own perspectives‚ that perhaps it might be said
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