.... ethnic identities and tight regions causes major complications and conflict in Kosovo. Furthermore, the past histories of these regions are another indicator on how geography plays a vital role in the Kosovo conflict. In 1945 Socialist Yugoslavia was declared. The communists were able to deal with national aspirations by creating a federation of six nominally equal republics- Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonian, In Serbia the two provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina were given autonomous status. By 1992 the Yugoslavian Federation was falling apart. Nationalism had once again replaced communism as the dominant force in the Balkans ....

.... suffering that it caused was cruel beyond expression. Above all, the Korean War left its scars on an entire generation of survivors, a legacy of fear and insecurity that continues even now to affect the two Koreas both in their internal development and in their relations with each other. Fighting began on June 25, 1950, when the North Korean army, substantially equipped by the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea. South Korean positions along the 38th parallel, which marked the frontier between the two republics, were swiftly overrun, and the Communist forces drove southward. North Korea was aided during the war by personnel and equipment from both China and the Soviet Un ....

.... They also had to just use the naked eye when they would have to use the naked eye when looking at distant objects that could have been easily seen by . was one of the main instruments of what has been called the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. It revealed unsuspected phenomena in the heaves and had a profound influence on the controversy between followers of the traditional astronomy, the cosmos, and those who favored the naked eye. It was the first extension of man’s senses and demonstrated that ordinary observers could see things that Aristotle had not dreamed of. It therefore helped shift authority in the observation of nature from men to instrum ....

.... social plans) and are not turned off because of raised taxes, knowing full well the money taken away will do the country good. Frankly, liberals believe in more government in the daily lives of people. Conservatives believe in directly the opposite of what liberals do. They believe heavily in the free enterprise system (private ownership). Their economics rely on the theory of supply and demand and profit motive. Their lassiez-faire policy was introduced in a book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. This economic policy can be seen directly in the rest of what conservatives believe in. They are resistant to change, being strong believers of traditional values. They thought ....

.... of Debendranath Tagore, a philosopher. began to write poetry as a child. When he was 17 years old, his first book appeared. In 1878, after a brief stay in England, he returned to India where he quickly became the most important and popular author of the colonial era. He wrote poetry, short stories, novels, and plays. His Collected Poems and Plays was published in 1966. He also composed several hundred popular songs. In 1929 he also began painting. was a dedicated internationalist and educator. He established a school in 1901 in his estate in Bengal. He did this to teach a blend of eastern and western philosophies. His school was expanded into an international u ....

.... had previously worked with Dr Nikolaus August Otto, applied a single cylinder and air-cooled vertical machine to a carriage. A few years later Daimler created his first "four wheeled wooden built light wagonnete" powered by petrol. Karl Benz of Manheim (Germany) then built an engine specifically intended for motor cars, leading to the four-wheelers (Thomas 321). As petrol cars became more dependable the advantage of not having to wait until steam was generated gave them clear superiority over the steamers, and the self-starter took away the principal advantage from electric propulsion. At the beginning of the century, petrol driven internal-combustion motor car had est ....

.... of negative film. She worked long hours, at low pay, at a boring and tedious eyestraining job. Since she was at her job most of the time, she had to pay others to look after Marilyn. Sometimes she would only get to see her mother only early in the morning or at night. It was enough for any mom to have a nervous breakdown. All Marilyn remembered was her mother being in and out of hospitals. Marilyn’s mother was working long hours at the film lab just to make ends meet. She became very tired and nervous; life became difficult for her. She had been sent to the Norwalk State hospital for Mental Diseases for a rest when Marilyn was only five years old. ....

.... given case what really happened (202)." The problem was evident when Tompkins was researching the history of the Europeans and Indians. She started her inquiry with the book Errand into the Wilderness by Perry Miller. In the preface of his book Tompkins found that Miller didn’t even recognize the Indian’s existence in America, calling it "vacant." The fact is that there were Indians here, Miller just didn’t see history in that light. Secondly, Tompkins went to the book, New England Frontier Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 authored by Alden Vuaghan in 1965. This Vuaghan’s angle toward American history was antipodal to Miller, even though the writers spoke of the ....