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The Algerian Civil War 1992-2002
Chris Thorman POLA 293-04 Research Paper April 7, 2003 "Thus, what motivates men to slay the enemy is anger," Sun Tzu says in The Art of War. The conflict between Algerian Islamic fundamentalists and the Algerian military backed government is rooted in anger. The conflict, which began as skirmishes between
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The Alutrya Family
The Alutrya family is a nuclear family. He is living with his 3rd partner and their 2 sons. The index patient had been with two other women to whom he had children before meeting his current partner. His current partner is a widow who has a son from her previous
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The American and French Revolutions
The American and French Revolutions How were the French Revolution and the American Revolution similar? How were they different? In what ways was the French Revolution more radical, as well as more threatening to Europe than the American Revolution? Do you think a French style revolution would have worked in
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The American Civil War
The American Civil War was a major war that took place (1861-1865) between the United States Northern part and Southern part. The Northern part was called The Union. The Union was ran by Abraham Lincoln. The Southern part was called the Confederacy. The Confederacy was ran by Thomas Jefferson. In
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The American Civil War
"The American Civil War ushered in a new era in land warfare. In this war, mass armies first experienced widespread impact of industrial technology, while American armies first encountered both the consequences of this new technology and the belated development of the mass army in America. In addition, the American
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The American Indian
Introduction: It was from the time of the Stone Age and until the meeting with Europeans, the original settlers in North America lived mainly as hunters and gatherers. During the earliest times, i.e. the Stone Age, the North American settlers had the same culture as did other people living in
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The American Occupation of Japan
The American occupation of Japan Fifty years after the end of the second World War, it is easy to look back on the American occupation of Japan and see it as a mild nudge to the left rather than a new beginning for the country. We still see an emperor,
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The American Scholar
After reading the text, The American Scholar, by Emerson, I feel that he is trying to build a new American identity. This lecture was given in 1837, only fifty or so years written after the Declaration of Independence was written. Thus, I think that Emerson is trying to break away
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The Americas Vs. Asia and Africa
A new wave of colonialism took shape after the early explorations during the early modern period between the years 1450 and 1750. During this time, major European settlements developed direct empires overseas. These settlements include the colonial empires in both North and South America and in colonial possessions in Africa
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The Ancient Greeks
The Ancient Greeks believed in a series of myths which explained nature, set up a moral code for the people, and were just folk lore of the people. In this paper, the beginnings of myths, the Greek gods themselves, and several myths concerning morals, nature, and old lore of the
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The Ancient Greeks and Democracy
Democracy is Power of the People. This was defined by the Greeks who first thought up democracy. The meaning we use now is, a government by the people exercised or directly through an elected representative. The terms politics, democracy and republic all originated from Greece and from Rome. The key
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The Ancient Maya: Archaeology and History
Wenger Matthew Wenger November 23, 2015 Dr. Freidel The Ancient Maya: Archaeology and History The Mesoamerican Ballgame Introduction Perhaps one of the first exposures any of us had to the ancient ballgame played by Mesoamerican people was while watching “The Road to El Dorado” (the animated movie that was released
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The Ancient Minoans Vs. Modern Americans
The Ancient Minoans vs. Modern Americans The paper I had been writing on Minoan civilization was almost complete. It compared the myth of the Labyrinth by the Greeks to today's movie of the same name by Jim Henson. I was pretty proud of it, especially because of how creative I
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The Angel of the Battlefield
Angel of the Battlefield Clara Barton once said, "I have an almost disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been doneÐ'... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed
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The Anglo-Saxon Period
The Anglo Saxon period is the oldest known period of time that had a complex culture with stable government, art, and a fairly large amount of literature. Many people believe that the culture then was extremely unsophisticated, but it was actually extremely advanced for the time. Despite the many advancements,
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The Anomaly of Human Invasions
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The Appalling Racism During the Conflict in the Asian Theater of World War II
THE APPALLING RACISM DURING THE CONFLICT IN THE ASIAN THEATER OF WORLD WAR II By Charles Modern China and Japan Karen Garner December 13, 2006 "In the United States and Britain," According to Dower, "the Japanese were more hated than the Germans before as well as after Pearl Harbor. On
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The Apple of Discord
The Apple of Discord "The Apple of Discord," also known as "The Golden Apple," is a Greek Mythology tale that involved three Goddesses. The three Goddesses included: "Aphrodite" who is noted to have rose up from the foam on the ocean in Babylonian/Sumerian. Aphrodite was worshiped as the Goddess of
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict
On November 29, 1947, the United Nations voted to split the Middle Eastern land called Palestine into two independent nations, one Arab and one Jewish. On May 14, 1948, a new nation was born: Israel. However, with Jews from all around the world returning to Israel, the Arabs residing in
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The Arabian Knights
I will tell you about the tales I have just read in Arabian knights, but I will do it in far less nights than Shahrazad did. To start, Arabian Knights is a story told by one woman named Shahrazad. She tells these stories to King Shahrayar in a series of
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The Arabians - Islam
The Arabs keep such pledges more religiously than almost any other people. They plight faith with the forms following. When two men would swear a friendship, they stand on each side of a third: he with a sharp stone makes a cut on the inside of the hand of each
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The Archigram Movement
Very little has been written about the visionary, predominantly British architectural movement, Archigram, since it first came to prominence in 1960. Of the scant texts available (of which many are in Japanese, as opposed to English), the authors generally attempt to describe this radical form of architecture only in terms
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The Armenian Genocide
By the late 1880's there were approximately 2,500,000 Armenian people living in the Ottoman Empire. Since World War I, the number of Armenians in Turkey has barely reached more than 120,000. The difference can be accounted for in the large number of Armenians who were slaughtered or forced to flee
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The Art of Hospitality - the Greeks and the Odyssey
Each culture treats strangers and guests with distinct differences from every other culture. One of the most hospitable cultures was that of the ancient Greeks, exemplified in Homer's The Odyssey by both gracious hosts and guests. In Greece and The Odyssey, not only was good hospitality etiquette expected, but the
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The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the Start of Wwi
While there is never just a single event that has led to the start of a world war, or any other serious war, there is often one thing that triggers long lived tensions and thus war ensues. Such was the case in WWI with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand Was the Single Most Significant Event That Plunged Europe into War
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was the single most significant event that plunged Europe into war. World War I, the war to end all wars involved most of the civilized world. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 is regarded as the cause of World War I, but really, can
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The Assassination of Julius Ceasar
The assassination of Julius Caesar was truly a tragic event in history. Many would say that it was the event which began the decline of the Roman Republic. The ides of March was the date set by the conspirators to assassinate the great leader, general and dictator of Rome. Although
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The Athenian and American Systems of Government
Athens of ancient Greece had perhaps the most advanced system of government of the ancient world. The system of Athens was called a Democracy. That is, every citizen voted on everything. People have claimed that the United States is also a Democracy. This is not true. The government of the
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The Atomic Technology of War:
The Atomic Technology of War: The spread of atomic weapons. Scientists in several countries performed experiments in connection with nuclear reactors and fission weapons during World War II, but no country other than the United States carried its projects as far as separating uranium-235 or manufacturing plutonium-239. The Axis powers
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The Atrocities and Liberation of Concentration Camps
The Atrocities and Liberation of Concentration Camps If you combine sadistic Nazi soldiers, a "license to kill," and twenty-six million people whom they took their aggression out on, you have the Holocaust. From torture to murder, the concentration camp prisoners experienced almost every despicably, inhumane act one can imagine. Hitler's
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