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Akenotn
... god or solar disk, which he believed to be a universal, omnipresent spirit and the sole creator of the universe. He commisioned the building of a new open air temple to Aton it was different that temples to previous gods like Amun re which were dark with catacombs.
Some scholars believe that the Hebrew prophets' concept of a universal God, preached seven or eight centuries later in a land that Akhenaton once ruled, was derived in part from his cult. After he established the new religion, sometimes referred to as solar monotheism, he changed his name from the royal designation Amenhotep IV to Akhenaton, meaning “Aton is satisfied.” He moved his capital f ...
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1929 Stock Market Crash
... banks and corporations sent in $150 million of call loans, and Wall Street was in a panic before the New York Stock Exchange opened. (1929…)
On Thursday, October 24th, 1929, people began to sell their stocks as fast as they could. Sell orders flooded the market exchanges. (1929…) This day became known as Black Thursday. (Black Thursday…) On a normal day, only 750-800 members of the New York Stock Exchange started the exchange. (1929…) There were 1100 members on the floor for the morning opening. (1929…) Furthermore, the exchange directed all employees to be on the floor since there were numerous margin calls and sell orders placed overnight. Extra telephone staf ...
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The American Civil War
... as the "Butcher" (Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co.,1894) and many wanted to see him removed. But Lincoln stood firm with his General, and the war continued. This paper will follow the happenings and events between the winter of 1864-65 and the surrender of The Confederate States of America. All of this will most certainly illustrate that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end of a tragedy.
CUTTING OFF THE SOUTH
In September of 1864, General William T. Sherman and his army cleared the city of Atlanta of its civilian population then rested ever so briefly. It was from there that General Sherman and his army began it ...
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Robinson Crusoe
... nor his mother's concern did take his passion away; he went on a voyage. This first voyage was not very successful one, as the ship and her crew were encountered with a violent storm. After the voyage, he did not give up his dream of being out in the sea. Instead, he went on another journey and another after that. After terrible experiences of being a slave in some foreign country and shipwreck, he settled for a while. However, this "settlement" did not last long, as he went on another journey. This journey absolutely turned his life up side down. He and his crew were faced with very violent storm, which in result washed him and himself only, up on the isola ...
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Civil Affair
... war.
El Salvador is a small country in Central America. Coffee production is the major source of income for the country. With this much importance on one crop, the country began to expand the production of coffee. As coffee production grew, there was less and less land available for the every day farmer to use for crops to feed his family and try to make a living. The Salvadoran government began to take away the opportunities many of the poor had to live on. This lead to a migration out of El Salvador and into Mexico and the United States; however, this still left a large number of unhappy Salvadorans who were still in El Salvador. By the early 1900's the la ...
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Lysistrata
... husbands to end the
Peloponnesian War.
To make the men agree to a peace treaty, the women seized the
Acropolis, where Athens' financial reserves are kept, and prevented the
men from squandering them further on the war. They then beat back an
attack on their position by the old men who have remained in Athens
while the younger men are out on campaign. When their husbands return
from battle, the women refuse to have sex with them. This sex strike,
which is portrayed in a series of (badly) exaggerated and blatant sexual
innuendoes, finally convinces the men of Athens and Sparta to agree to a
peace treaty.
The Lysistrata shows women acting bravely and e ...
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The Rise And Fall Of Hitlers Reich
... he
hit an adolescent age, he began to rebel. When Hitler's dad acquired a top
ranking job in the military, he wanted his son to work hard so that he might
become a civil servant. Hitler wanted nothing of it. He wanted to become an
artist like he always dreamed.
One of the teachers in his high school classified young Hitler as "notorious,
cantankerous, willful, arrogant, and irascible. He has an obvious difficulty in
fitting in at school." He did well enough to get by in some of his courses but
had no time for subjects that did not interest him. Years later, his former
school mates would remember how Adolf would taunt his teachers and draw sketches
of them ...
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Atlas
... them on his back/shoulders for eternity. This punishment is ’s role in The Odyssey. Hercules became involved with . Eurystheus, Hercules cousin, challenged Hercules to twelve Labors. The eleventh Labor was to retrieve the golden apples of the Hesperides. Hercules asked to help him obtain the Golden Apples. In return for ’s help, Hercules took his burden from him while he retrieved the apples. agreed to Hercules’ proposal. secured the apples and realized how nice it was not to have the strain of keeping heaven and earth apart for eternity. Hercules deceived when he returned with the apples. Hercules told that he needed a cushion for ...
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The Downfall Of The Middle Ages
... money in trade. For the middle class, the king granted
Charters, made a uniform law, started banking, offered protection, and expanded
territory. In return, the middle class payed taxes to the king. While t his
money economy grew, the feudal lords were put into an economic squeeze. As one
may see, that didn't leave much of a place for the nobles, who were rapidly
losing power. Another thing that contributed to their loss of power was the
enforcement of Common Law, which applied throughout the kingdom.
The effects of the Hundred Years' War hastened the decline of the feudal
system. The use of the longbow and firearms made the feudal methods of fighting
ob ...
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The Aborigines
... riding camels which was just enough for the trip. The line of camels was not to good. They were either very old or very young and would not last a really long trip.
have a legend about Mount Conner. They say that in creation times a camp of Ice Men made a camp here and when they left it the Mountain rose from the ground to mark the spot. Mount Conner is a mesa like formation that rises 800 feet above the surrounding desert. After that the next destination was Ayers Rock which is a large boulder. Then the last destination was Mount Olga. This is a grouping of large round-toped pillars. Most of these pillars were more than five hundred feet high. Some were ...
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