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New City Essays and Term Papers
The Mexican RevolutionWorld History 3, period 5
June 6, 2000
There was a huge revolution in the country of Mexico that started in the year 1910, led by Porfirio Diaz, the president of Mexico in 1910. In the 1860’s Diaz was important to Mexican politics and then was elected president in 1877. Diaz said that he would ...
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Did Sparta Achieve Her GoalSparta is the most formidable city known in history. Famous for her impressive military power, she proved that strength didn’t lie in numbers, it lay in Spartan discipline. Sparta started out as a small city fighting only to survive against enemy invaders. Her goal was to avoid defeat from other ...
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Romulus And Remus Numitor, King of Alba, had been ousted by his brutal brother, Amulius. Amulius made sure Numitor would have no heirs by forcing Numitor's only child, his daughter, Rhea Silvia, to spend her days as a vestal virgin, serving in the temple of Venus, goddess of the hearth.
Nevertheless, Rhea ...
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Michelangelo, Renaissance ManSculptor, painter, architect, Michelangelo was the greatest artist during the Italian Renaissance, a period known for its creative activity (Comptons's, 1998). Michelangelo created many of the works of art that we think of when we think of the Renaissance. In a time where art flourished only ...
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Mafia. What does this word mean? The actual members of the aren’t even sure where the word first originated or what it really means. One of the theories as to where the word came from is from Sicily, where people would yell “ Morte alla Francia, Italia anela!” (Death to France, Italy groans!), ...
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General Denis Sassou Nguesso And The Congo-Brazzaville ConflictFive years after losing presidential elections, General Denis Sassou Nguesso is back in power in Congo-Brazzaville. In a rapid offensive, his Cobra militia captured the capital Brazzaville and the second city Pointe-Noire last week and have since tightened their grip on the rest of the country. ...
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Harry Shippe TrumanWhen Harry Truman was about five years old, his family noticed he was
having eye troubles. With these eye problems, Harry wasn't able to see
stars or the falling dust from fireworks. Harry never noticed this. When
his mother got his first pair of glasses, they were thick glass in which
the ...
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Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent Into Metaphorical Hell"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"
Only through a journey into hell can we hope to attain paradise...
His Early Life:
Dante Alighieri was born under the sign of Gemini, he was thought
to be born on May 29, but this is not certain. He was born in Florence,
the son of Alighiero II, his ...
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The Lowell ObservatoryLowell Observatory is located in Flagstaff, Arizona. It was
established in 1894 by Dr. Percival Lowell. Dr. Percival borrowed several
telescopes and managed to collect a small staff and began making
observations of the sky. In 1896, Dr. Percival got a 24-inch Alvan Clark
refracting telescope that ...
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Savage Inequalities: Conditions Of Poor SchoolsIn Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol documents the devastating inequalities in American schools, focusing on public education’s “savage inequalities” between affluent districts and poor districts. From 1988 till 1990, Kozol visited schools in over thirty neighborhoods, including East St. ...
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Antigone: CreonIn Antigone, Sophocles examines the age-old conflict between the requirements of human and divine law. This universal problem is crystallized in the dispute about the burial of Polynices, in which Creon's understanding of the public welfare is opposed to Antigone's conception of her religious ...
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Comedy In ShakespeareShakespeare wrote many plays during his lifetime. Some of his plays have similar comedic characteristics and then other plays are the exact opposite of comedy. Shakespeare wrote tragedies, romance, history, comedy and problem plays all with great success. During the performance of these plays ...
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HiroshimaChapter 1 – A Noiseless Flash
The story starts out by a mini intro of the characters. Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the East Asia Tin Works, was sitting down talking to the girl of the next desk. Dr. Fuji was sitting down the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital. Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a ...
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The First Atomic TestOn Monday morning July 16, 1945, the world was changed forever when the first atomic bomb was tested in an isolated area of the New Mexico desert. Conducted in the final month of World War II by the top-secret Manhattan Engineering District, this test was code named Trinity. The Trinity test took ...
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Madonnawas born on August 16, 1958, in the city of Bay City, located in
the state of Michigan. Her real birth name is Louise Ciccone. However,
most people know her as simply . She is known as a controversial singer,
actress, dancer, songwriter, and has become one of America's biggest and well-
known ...
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Operation BarbarossaThe invasion of Russia was the largest military campaign of the Second World War. , as it was known, was launched on 22 June 1941 and completely took Russia by surprise.
The widening war raging in Africa and eastern Europe were key distractions for Hitler from his ultimate goal of attacking ...
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Shakespearean Comedy 2Shakespeare wrote many plays during his lifetime. Some of his plays have similar comedic characteristics and then other plays are the exact opposite of comedy. Shakespeare wrote tragedies, romance, history, comedy and problem plays all with great success. During the performance of these plays ...
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A Look At Post Modern Architecture In CaliforniaEric Owen Moss is in no way new to architecture. However, prior to the design and building of the Schnabel House Moss had designed few residential homes. Moss had always been associated with larger commercial buildings. This is a result of his close work with developer Frederick Norton Smith. ...
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BoB DylanRegarding significant musical movements in history,
the twenty first century, few were more important than the
took shape in the mid-nineteen hundreds. One of the
leaders of this
revolution was Robert Allen Zimmerman, known by his popular
assumed
name, . Born in 1941 in Minnesota, Dylan grew ...
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Alexander Hamiltonwas born as a British subject on the island of Nevis in the West Indies on the 11th of January 1755. His father was James Hamilton, a Scottish merchant of St. Christopher. His grandfather was , of Grange, Lanarkshire. One of his great grandfathers was Sir R. Pollock, the Laird of Cambuskeith. ...
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