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The African-American Story In 1619, twenty Africans were brought to Virginia and forced into slavery. By 1790, there were 700,000 slaves in the United States and in the 1800s, African-American slaves were 40% of the Southern part of America (Brunner). Africans were not slaves before they were brought to America. They were kidnapped and shipped…

As we know, not only one cause helped Hitler to raise power, but a combination of many. Some of them long-term; The Treaty of Versailles, Munich Putsch (1923), Hitler’s character and others short-term causes; The Enabling Law (1933), The decision by Papen and Hindenburg to appoint him as Chancellor in 1933, but others are a…

In Antigone, both Antigone and Kreon could be considered the tragic heroes of the play. A tragic hero, defined by A Dictionary of Literary, Dramatic, and Cinematic Terms, is someone who suffers due to a tragic flaw, or hamartia. This Greek word is variously translated as “tragic flaw” or “error” or “weakness.” Kreon’s hamartia, like…

Part 1 Cleopatra What impression does Dio give of the relationship between Cleopatra and Antony, and how does this impression relate to other Roman attitudes found in the chapter? The portrait of Cleopatra overpowering and enslaving Antony in their relationship was a constant subject in the Roman sources. (Fear, 2008 p. 10) Dio’s impression of…

The Gebusi, written by Knauft, was written with the intention of sharing the author’s discoveries during his stay with and study of the Gebusi people in Papua New Guinea. Starting in the early 1980’s, he traveled to Papua New Guinea and lived with the Gebusi people. At that time, they were still in their traditional…

A Comparison between Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Lenin Introduction The erstwhile Soviet Union was formed after the Russian Revolution of 1917. The fall of the Russian Empire led to the creation of the Soviet Union. It was established in December 1922 with the union of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Trans-Caucus. The Soviet Union always remained…

            The tragic play Oedipus the King shows that in ancient times, and in this present day in age, your fate cannot be controlled and your actions also play a role in your fate. The fate of our lives is pretty much inevitable but in this play Oedipus, Jocasta, and Laius felt that they could…

Croon had a big ego, he believed that whatever he said went and that all should obey his saws, despite if they broke moral, religious, and all other beliefs. He proves this when he says, “Policies, I say, is to have no burial. NO man is to touch him or say the least of prayers,…

In 1925, Adolf Hitler wrote a book that would forever change not only the history of Germany, but the history of Europe. This book became the manifesto of the Holocaust and Hitler’s reasoning for everything he did while he was in power. The title of the book is Mein Kampf which in English is translated…

The Swadeshi movement, part of the Indian independence movement and the developing Indian nationalism, was an economic strategy aimed at removing the British Empire from power and improving economic conditions in India by following the principles of swadeshi (self-sufficiency; Hindi: ??????? svadesi), which had some success. Strategies of the Swadeshi movement involved boycotting British products…