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The Introduction Feminist and Queer Theories to the Archaeological Study of Prehistoric Art The study of prehistoric sexual imagery has been the subject of much debate within the academic community for the past two decades. Anthropologists, art historians, and psychologists have all played a role in adapting the way we view both modern and prehistoric sexuality. For it is clear that as we delve further into exploring possible alternative approaches to prehistoric sexuality, that “there is no…

Who is there to really blame for the Great War? The question is not who but rather what caused the war. The Preliminary Peace conference’s decision on the responsibility of the authors of the war establishes a broad view of who and how initiated the war. The decision to blame only a couple of super powers is absurd considering that more than two participated in the war. According to Hunt Tooley’s more narrow explanation the blame does not lay solely on Germany and Austria- Hungary, because there…

Schindler’s List relates to Europe during World War II from around 1939-1945. These dates mark the start and end of World War II. In the movie, the opening scene of Jewish families being registered occurs in 1939. The end of the main plot occurs around the end of World War II in 1945 as Schindler, who is a Nazi has to flee his factory and a Russian Allied soldier is sent to tell the Jewish workers that they are free. While Schindler’s list mostly relates to the events of the Holocaust, other…

World War One would be the first time you would see countries around the world declare war on each other and fight for 4 years 3 months and 2 weeks. In the early 1900’s, many of the Europe countries wanted to show the other countries who has the greater strength. Over the years the build of war was on the brink in Europe but the assassination Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 the heir to the Austria-Hungarian would be the leading cause of World War One. Austria-Hungary would declare war…

Warsan Shire’s poem “Home” describes the atrocities of abandoning a person’s homeland, for reasons like takeover and danger, to the point that the emotions inspired by a homeland become unrecognizable, this cause many to become refugees seeking safety. This can correlate to many real-world events in which people lose their homelands and none is better known than that of the Jewish Holocaust during World War II. In particular, this is true for the case of the Bulgarian Jews during World War II…

In Tuchman’s book, The Guns of August, she highlights Bismarck’s fateful prediction that “Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans” would be the requisite spark igniting the powder keg of tension between the major powers in Europe and Russia—a spark ultimately leading to an explosion we refer to today as “World War I.” This prescient forecast manifested itself as Gavrilo Princip’s trigger-pull on June 28, 1914, and the successful assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand fulfilled the…

Chapter four The notion of ambiguity was explored in the previous chapter in depth. Several categories of ambiguities have therefore been identified. In this chapter an experiment will be conducted using Personal Translator, a commercial machine translation system based on rules, and Google translate, a free online machine translation system that implements the statistical method. A brief description of these tools are given below in section one. Since a critical part of this chapter is devoted…

Russia is known as one of the most popular country thanks to its ethnicity, rich heritage, architectural wonders, and legendary leaders.This country is also home of some of the world’s greatest intellectuals and academicians who have influenced the life of many people across the globe in many ways. There are many intellectuals of Russia and I will be telling you about three of them. The names of these three famous Russian Intellectuals are Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Leo Tolstoy. One…

"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism" - Benito Mussolini Whether or not Fascism was seen and followed as a religion is debatable, however there is no denying that the twentieth century is famously known as the birth and progression of the fascist movement. Having originated in the twentieth century and spreading from its place of origin, in Italy, to other countries such as Germany, Romania, and Hungary, certain…

THE GREAT WAR BETWEEN ANTIOCHUS AND ROME The Eagle of Rome was rising, and the Western Mediterranean had already fell to its talons. In the East, however, a man was reforging an empire that are been birthed out of the conquests of Alexander the Great. The Empire was that of the Seleucids, and the man was Antiochus III, as per the Encyclopedia of World History’s article “Antiochus” (“Antiochus”). According to Michael Taylor, author of the book Antiochus the Great, The Eastern Mediterranean had…