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Zeus
585 Words - 3 Pages

.... born she tricked Cronus into swallowing a rock wrapped in blankets. is more powerful than any other god or even all the other gods combined. But, unlike many gods in other religions he was neither omnipotent nor omniscient. In other words, he wasn't all-powerful or all seeing. He could be, and in fact was, opposed, deceived and tricked by gods and men alike. His power, although great, was not boundless; had no control over The Fates and Destiny. Like all Greek divinities, was subject top leisure, pain, grief, and anger, but he was most susceptible to the power of Eros - love, which often got the objects of his desire in allot of trouble with his wife, Hera. The representat ....


De Las Casas
434 Words - 2 Pages

.... and children both as servants and to satisfy their own base appetites." (Las Casas, Pg.14) Later they recognised that gold was in abundance and opted to massacre the native tribes in order to get it. The Spaniards began to slowly annihilate the Indies with many sorts of torturous tactics. During this horrific process they also chose to enslave substantial amounts of natives. One could argue that the Spaniards viewed the Indians as an inferior race that was placed on earth to serve the superior race: the Europeans. This can be argued effectively because the Christians had no regard whatsoever for the Native's humanity. The Spaniards literally treated dogs with more dignity ....


Red River
991 Words - 4 Pages

.... tells the eager and motivated girl that where they are going is too tough for women and that he will "send for her later." She is ironically killed by Indians some 5 hours later. The two of them made it as far as the , which is the beginning of Texas. During the night Dunson and Rupp are attacked by Indians. As it turned out these were the same Indians, who ambushed the wagon train, they had left earlier in the day. Dunson and Rupp had seen the smoke from the attack that killed the girl as they were riding away. It seems to me that Indians in this film are portrayed as dangerous enemies who are very sneaky. Also in this part of the movie Dunson and Rupp somehow knew ho ....


K0rean War
1397 Words - 6 Pages

.... forces were responsible for the north and the US for the south part of Korea. Later, this partition was made permanent. In 1947, the UN declared for elections to be held in all of Korea to decide one government for the country. However, North Korea refused to take part in the elections and didn't allow it. So on May 10, 1948, South Korea voted for a national assembly which set up the Republic of Korea. On September 9, North Korea set up the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. North and South Korea claimed the whole country and their troops fought several times between 1948-1950. The US removed it's troops from South Korea in 1949. It also said that Korea was outs ....


Cather In The Ryes Vs. Generation X
1561 Words - 6 Pages

.... that Holden is scared of being initiated into the most involving form of relationship--sex. In a society where human relationships are affected by marketplace values, like status and appearance, which commodify people, rather than accepting them. Holden is seeking a deeper, more real relationship with someone, probably anyone, who understands him, and will accept him. Holden doesn't like to see people hurting. He explains when he says that he would like to be "a catcher in the rye", someone who protects children from the pitfalls of hypocrisy and lies, that Holden seems to think infect the adult world. As a result, Holden is very careful not to use other characters as a m ....


J.P. Morgan
4934 Words - 18 Pages

.... the business world more so than any other person at the turn of the century. Morgan was a banker, railroad czar, industrialist, financier, philanthropist, yachtsman, and ladies' man. He was king to a handful of millionaire barons who controlled the country's wealth in an era of little government regulation. The wealth of the Morgan family did not begin with Pierpont but with his grandfather Joseph Morgan. Joseph prospered as a hotelkeeper in Hartford, Connecticut. He helped to organize a canal company, steamboat lines and the new railroad that connected Hartford with Springfield. Finally he became one of the founders of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company. Joseph's first so ....


Japanese Animation
4250 Words - 16 Pages

.... animation continued to flourish within Japan’s entertainment industry. The creative possibilities of animation’s unparalleled visual story-telling capacities had been discovered by Japanese filmmakers, and would continue to be exploited into the present age. , more commonly referred to as anime, or Japanimation, has somewhat different origins than western animation. Where animation developed to entertain European and American children through comedic exploits, anime was created to entertain wider audience groups. Indeed, one might find difficulty in characterizing all anime together; the Japanese have viewed animation as a medium of creation rather a form of entert ....


The Atrocities Of The Vietnam War
1062 Words - 4 Pages

.... civilians, which the United States Army would claim to be Vietcong. While the official goal of U.S. intervention was to prevent the spread of communism and to defend non-communist South Vietnamese citizens, in reality American soldiers had no larger purpose than amassing high body counts. The brutalizations that took place, because of the need for a high body count, are among the most atrocious the eyes of the world have ever seen. During the Vietnam War, the body count was the most important statistic to the U.S. Military command. The efforts to quantify the complexities of the war into simple numbers pervaded every aspect of U.S. military presence in Vietnam. Secre ....



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