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From Fidel Castro’s rise to power in Cuba on New Year’s Day of 1959 until the mid-1960s, the U.S. government resorted to economic and political destabilization, propaganda, manipulation, sabotage, and assassination plots to remove him. It was one of the most extensive, sustained, and ultimately futile covert action programs by one country against the government…

f Situation in Oedipus RexThe Signifigance of Irony, Metaphor, and Reverasal of Situation in Oedipus RexOedipus Rex is a tragedy of a man who attempts to flee a prophecy out of fear of what the future may hold for him, and in doing so blindly falls straight into his tragic fate. The use of literary…

            It was the age of antiquity. There were no mechanized tools, electrical equipment, gasoline powered pumps, motorized winches etc. There were no trucks that can haul tons of debris. There were no powerful bulldozer for quarrying and there were no computers to provide accurate architectural designs. But in the year 75 A.D. the Roman…

Hitler believed in cultural cleaning. He wanted the colored race to vanish. To him non-whites were an inferior race. Persons of Judaic descent were peculiarly singled out. Hitler ordered their imprisonment in concentration cantonments which had distressing life conditions. Jewish? captives? were severely mistreated and so most were killed. This cultural cleaning didnT merely take…

Introduction In recent years, television programming, along with publishing ventures, have presented a number of projects looking at the concept of catastrophism, along with diffusionism. One of the best of these books is Brad Steiger’s Worlds Before Our Own, a work that initially earned that writer a great deal of ridicule and personal attacks. Yet…

There have been many things in the past that play importance on our world today. As the old saying says, history repeats itself, which is why it is important for us to understand history and why certain things happened and how to avoid them. Some of the things that have happened in history that have…

‘As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition’s hands’ (Lord Byron). Ambition is a powerful characteristic that can be used for evil. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a play written by Julius Caesar based on the true story about the death of Julius Caesar. In the play, a group…

America is a beautiful place where people are supposed to live in peace and be treated equally. But, some people may disagree with this because they are mistreated due to their racial background. Racism has always been a problem everyone has to encounter at some point in his or her life. However, most people would…

Dear Diary, Hitler’s rise to power gives us all hope, something of somewhat importance especially in the circumstances we are facing. We are in a financial crisis, in need of dictatorship and with remaining bitterness from the First World War we need a strong leader to help us through. I recognise Hitler as this person!As…

The Colosseum was a ‘wonder’ of Rome when it was new, almost nineteen hundred years ago, partly because of its size and partly because the circumstances under which it was built made it one of the world’s great ‘gallery plays’. ‘Here, where the far-seen Amphitheatre lifts its mass august,’ wrote Martial, ‘was Nero’s mere.’ Vespasian…