world‚ but to himself. I will be naming even more in the following text to help people better comprehend why Wegner was not insane and how reliable his work is to this very day. Wegener was convinced that all of Earth’s continents were once part of an enormous‚ single landmass called Pangaea. To describe continental drift & pangea‚ Wegner used geology‚ biology‚ and ecology; even though he was initially trained as an astronomer. Pangaea existed about 240 million
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Q: Was there a Trojan War? Compare the literary with the archaeological evidence. "...in that matter of Wilusa over which we were at enmity." Despite the continuing debate‚ the literary and archaeological evidence indicates that there was a Trojan War. The reality of this war however‚ was not the epic conflict as narrated by Homer‚ but more likely part of an ongoing enmity between the Mycenaean ’s and the Hittites. Troy was a wealthy city‚ well placed at the mouth of the Hellespont in the
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his father and his mother marrying his uncle‚ but it is not an excuse to plan a murder. Hamlet displayed motives‚ the kiling was premeditated‚ he openly admitted that he was wanted to kill Claudius‚ and Hamlet does not fit into one spefic disease. First‚ Hamelt was mourning the death of his father‚ like any normal human would (1.2.133-138). Throughout the same time Hamlet was sickened by the behavoir his mother’s with Claudius‚ Hamlet’s uncle who killed his father. His mother marrying Claudius did
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1. Why was the European Union created? Are these goals still matching the actual needs of the Union? In 1795‚ German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote in his famous essay Towards a Perpetual Peace that the ‘the spirit of commerce sooner or later takes hold of every people 1 and it cannot exist side by side with war’ . In the case of the European states this spirit has been able to manifest itself through the evolutionary creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)‚ the European Economic
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World War 2 (WW2) was one of the most destructive wars in history‚ which killed more than 38 million people. More than 50 countries were involved and it changed the world forever. After the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919‚ WW2 became inevitable. WW2 began in September 1939 when Britain and France declared war on Germany after Germany invaded Poland. Although Germany’s invasion of Poland was a trigger for the war‚ there were multiple causes. The three main factors that caused WW2 to
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Clayton Was Wrong About Japan Clayton was born in a middle-class household to two White parents and raised Protestant. His Great Grandfather served in World War 2 fighting against Japan in the Pacific Theater. Coming from rural Indiana‚ he was not often exposed to people who weren’t also White Protestants of a similar class. Clayton was an American through and through. You could say that he bled red‚ white‚ and blue. He was very nationalistic about the United States‚ often saying things such as‚
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There were numerous amounts of reasons to why the Renaissance was significant. One reason is because it is known as the revival of the arts. The Enlightenment‚ Scientific Revolution‚ and Industrial Revolution started to develop better than ever before. The arts was such a major area and till this day people come from all over the world to see the art. Many philosophers started to emerge during this time period like John Locke‚ Immanuel Kant‚ Jean Jacques Rousseau‚ and Voltaire. Everything that
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are measured. It is defined as the industrialized mass-murder of predominately Jews‚ gypsies‚ homosexuals‚ Jehovah’s Witnesses‚ the homeless‚ and the disabled; orchestrated and directed by the German Nazi Government1. Many questions arise such as: why was it socially allowed? How were the murders concocted? And what is meant by “industrialized?” Industrialized murder is the mechanized‚ impersonal‚ and sustained mass destruction of human beings‚ organized and administered by states‚ legitimized and
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s significance was that he won presidency after narrowly beating Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election. The debates between Nixon and Kennedy were the first to be televised and many tilted toward Kennedy because he looked younger and healthier than Nixon did‚ which introduced the idea that public image was highly influential in the way Americans voted. Among John F. Kennedy ’s most notable and long-standing accomplishments was the establishment of the Peace Corps‚
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of wartime deaths. After the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7‚ 1941‚ it became clear that a mass amount of penicillin needed to be produced in order to win the war. The U.S. was able to produce 2.3 million portions of penicillin in order to prepare for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Penicillin soon was known as the “miracle drug” of the war‚ curing diseases and saving the lives of millions. The discovery of penicillin changed the lives of everyone on the globe‚ but it also changed the
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