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The word Pantheon” comes from Greek and means “Temple of all Gods”. It refers to a famous building in Rome that was initially constructed between 27 BCE and 25 BCE to honor the ancient Gods of the seven planets. However, after the 7th century, it became known as a Christian Church. On the other hand,…

            I am a Puritan leader and the first governor of the colony called Plymouth Massachusetts.   I am 48 and I follow the Preaching of John Robinson who started the separatists and the movement for the congregation to move here.  I have a wife, Mary and 3 children and have very strong religious beliefs.  My…

“You dog,” said the emir, “there is war in the wind and the Archduke has need of your sword.” “Devil eat the Archduke,” answered Gombuk; “Zapolya is a dog because he stood aside at Mohacz and let us, his comrades, be cut to pieces, but Ferdinand is a dog too. When I am penniless I…

This essay concentrates on two representatives of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and in the 1970s–Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The essay introduces the history of the dissident movement in the Russian Empire under the Tsars and in the Soviet Union under various leaders, mainly under Nikita Khruschev, Leonid Brezhnev…

The Weimar Republic, established in Germany after World War One following the Kaiser’s abduction in 1918, gained recognition for being the most democratic government worldwide and even granting women the right to vote. However, it faced significant challenges from the start. The country was on the brink of bankruptcy and experienced unprecedented rates of unemployment….

Since the olden times, man has always made an effort to prove himself different from his fellow men and has done cruelty on one another on the same pretext. The rise of the Nazi rule led by the fascist leader Adolf Hitler was one of the worst discrimination hostilities the world had ever seen. The…

The Aztecs were an American Indian civilization that ruled over a powerful empire in Mexico from the 1400’s to the 1500’s. They had a highly advanced society in the Americas and constructed cities on a massive scale comparable to those found in Europe during that era. Additionally, their religion encompassed the remarkable custom of human…

Nelson Mandela was a writer, a non-US president, and a civil rights activist. He was known as a nonviolent anti-apartheid activist, politician, and philanthropist. Mandela directed a campaign of peaceful, nonviolent defiance against the South African government and it’s racist policies. He became South Africa’s first black president, in office from 1994 to 1999. Nelson…

The idea of argumentative dispute is an invention of ancient Greeks who paid enormous attention to the art of reasoning, argumentation and rhetoric. No wonder that Greek playwrights used to make their heroes argue of some matter and made an ethic conclusion based on their arguments and the outcome. In this paper I will analyze…

Mary Kay an international, multinational, or transnational firm? According to the definition of transnational firms: a transnational firm views the world as one market and emphasizes cultural similarities across countries or universal consumer needs and wants rather than differences. Mary Kay is doing just that; they are adapting their product according to the wants and…