... Dai, at the same time during the 1930’s Ngo Dinh Diem began to disapprove of the French rule over Vietnam. He decided to leave the government and follow the many Vietnamese nationalists who were also against French rule. In 1950 he left Vietnam and headed for the U.S. after Vietnam had fallen under rule of Viet Minh in August of 1945, seeing Communism as a threat to his values as a Catholic and to an independent Vietnam. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration fearing Communist takeovers in Southeast Asia saw Ngo Dinh Diem as a Vietnamese nationalist capable of overturning Communist Viet Minh. In 1954 Viet Minh defeated the French and he won control of ...

... between Orthodox Judaism and the secular world. Many of Chaim Potok’s characters want the American Jewry to remain isolated from the mainstream American culture: The world kills us! The world flays our skin from our bodies and throws us into the flames! The world laughs at Torah! And if it does not kill us, it tempts us! It misleads us! It contaminates us! It asks us to join in its ugliness, its abominations! (The Chosen 127) The Chosen "deals with the problems Jews have faced in trying to preserve their heritage – in particular, the problem of how to deal with the danger of assimilation" (Young)). The Jews have always been professionals occupyi ...

... The American strengths included their ability to unite, their strong leaders and their receiving aid from France. One of the main reasons the Americans won the war was because of their unification. For example we can see their unification with the Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence where they agreed upon an action which was benefiting for the country. The use of propaganda was another way to create unity for the American cause. An example of this is the book Common Sense by Thomas Paine. It helped encourage the issuance of the Declaration of Independence and pointed out the economic benefits if they continued fighting ag ...

... later was recognized as Lord Cherwell) delivered to Winston Churchill a report which contained a strong argument in favor of striking civilian targets. .Cherwell.s report contained the final rationalization for the program Bomber Command was undertaking., and it would henceforth be paper-clipped to the plans of the bomber offensive. (Hastings). In his report, Lindemann estimated that forty tons of explosives detonated in heavily populated areas would destroy the homes of 4,000-8,000 people. The report also stated that there was a population of 22 million people in fifty-eight of the major cities in Germany. Lindemann claimed that a nation of refugees could be the r ...

... the reforms made to the main institutions of government throughout the period to assess the extent of monarchical influence and how far this influence resulted in actual power. Aswell as a consideration of how the characteristics of the Kings and their most notable justiciars effected monarchical power, specific areas to be looked at will be legal affairs including the dispensation of justice and jurisdiction; the Exchequer and the systems of collecting revenue and taxes; feudal lords and their reaction to increased Kingly power; and also the clergy whose capabilities were restricted. This new era of officialdom whereby 'a regular staff was appointed to execute ...

... to leave the school in 1870 and to take job in railroad enginehouse. At that time, Eugene Victor, thin, tall, about six feet tall, with angular power boy, began cleaning oil from the trucks of freight engines . Everybody in Terre Haute liked Gene for his open-handed and genuine manner. By 1872 he was promoted to locomotive fireman in Terre Haute. In 1874 Eugene became a clerk in a wholesale grocery business, helping to found the next year the first local lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman. Finally, in the autumn of 1874, Eugene left his job after one of his friends slipped under a locomotive and was killed. In July 1877, the railroad workers revol ...

... system based on the gold solidus, or nomisma which lasted well into the middle of the 11th century. Because of the commercial thriving throughout the 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries, many ancient cities flourished. Large estates dominated agriculture which continued to be fruitful in spite of the heavy taxation causing an abandonment of land. From the beginning to the end of the Byzantine empire, the church and the emperor had been the largest landholders, therefore being the largest profiteers of Byzantine. (Encarta) After the Roman empire fell in 476 AD, Byzantine conquered all. It took over the space of southeastern Europe, southwestern Asia, and the northeast ...

... Principia was published, censorship or imprisonment for ideas disliked by the church was still common. By 1750, extreme measures were rare anywhere north of the Alps or in the American colonies. Scholars in Italy began to study the works of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and the ideals of education, art and intellect again appeared in society. Innovation began to permeate Europe, as humans discovered better ways to print books, tighten communications over distance, and cure diseases more reliably. Mankind started trying to deduce the laws of the universe. England's neighbor, France, erupted into the disorder of the French Revolution, killing their own king and harsh ...

... most livid affair was when he stole and seduced Dangerosa of Châtellerault. He then kept her in a tower of his palace at Poitiers. She then became known as La Maubergeonne. William died excommunicated in 1127. Eleanor took very much after her grandfather's sarcastic wit and humor in the frivolity of her early years, although never making a clown of herself. A holy hermit came to Williams IX protesting in God's name at the rape of Dangerosa, and after being received by the dukes usual mocking banter, the hermit placed a curse upon the family. Through both male and female lines they would never know happiness in their children.1 William the X had an unexpec ...

... to conquer its empire and bring Babylon back to its original standing. As Babylon's golden age was born there was much work to be done to satisfy Nebuchadnezzar's determination to make his capital a masterpiece in its self. His spendthrift ways resulted in a city of awe. The entrance to Babylon, the Ishtar Gate, was decorated with glazed bricks and tiles of many beautiful colors. One of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, was constructed inside the walls rising 82 feet high similar in shape to a ziggurat. It is thought that this masterpiece was build to please one of the king's Persian concubines who longed for the mountains of ...