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Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as India’s first independent Prime Minister in 1947, and re-elected when the Congress party won India’s first general election in 1951. He was one of the founders of the international Non-Aligned Movement. The son of moderate nationalist leader and Congressman Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru…

New England Puritans’ Aspirations and Fulfillment As of today, many of our ancient mentality as well as values has been based off of a 1 7th Century group called Puritans, people from New England who were not satisfied with the Church and their power, and decided to leave New England to create a Utopia of…

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…

Abstract. Buddhism is considered the most important religion in Oriental Asia. Developed from Indian roots, it has affected culture, politics, philosophy and even standards of living for the past two thousand years in two significant countries of Oriental Asia: China and Japan. As the major religion in both countries, Buddhism is very similar in China…

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…

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…

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…

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…