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    Socrates Vs Leonidas

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    The statue of Socrates and the statue of King Leonidas are different representatives for different empires. The statue of King Leonidas looks as if a warrior was getting prepared for battle. He’s standing tall and confident, and is equipped with a sharp sword and a large circular shield. The statue of Socrates looks as if a man is sitting on what looks like a throne planning his attack. The similarities of the two are very conspicuous. First off, when I examine the statue of Socrates and statue…

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    Every year, people in the U.S. celebrate the holiday dedicated to the people who died serving in the armed forces. That’s the outside meaning of Memorial Day. What does Memorial Day mean in depth? Some people, it’s decorating graves, saying a prayer, and remembering the fallen. To me? It’s much more… When I decorate my great grandpa’s tomb stone, I just don’t lay flowers upon his grave because flowers don’t hold a significant meaning the way the American Flag does. What is the American Flag,…

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    The Matewan Massacre

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    The state of West Virginia charged Keeney, Mooney and some 20 other union men with treason, and hundreds of others were indicted for murder. Nearly all were later acquitted, but the legal battles emptied the UMWA’s coffers and hindered its organizing efforts. By the end of the decade, only a few hundred miners in West Virginia were still members. The union wouldn’t reclaim the coalfields until the mid-1930s and the Great Depression, when workers’…

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    Battleships of WWI Battleships were a major part of battle in WWI. There were many types of warships that played different roles in combat over water. There were dreadnought battleships, pre-dreadnought battleships, torpedo boats, destroyers, monitors, submarines, and cruisers. The types of primary ships evolved throughout the war. Dreadnought Battleships These types of battleships were named after the warship that the British introduced in WWI. They differed from previous…

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    During the battle Ernst Junger witness the horror that he saw on his guide's face. The first that he saw were ruined villages, dead bodies, artillery machines and smoke from the fire. The air sticked as a dead bodies, dead children were laying in their own blood. Bombardment…

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    Remember always as an American lawyer, soldier and a heroic Texas commander of the battle of the Alamo was William Travis. Even though he might be remember mainly under the command of the Alamo he achieve other important roles at early age. Being a thought since a kid, Williams grew to become a lawyer and in later years a leader to rebellions, in due time receiving the post of commander for a significant battle. Williams helped and meet people through his life and make several achievements for…

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    Essay On Spartan Life

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    The way young Spartans were raised gave today’s Western Civilization many key elements that define and affect its way of life. Some of these things are going to school and retirement. How children were treated and raised in Sparta directly affected who they became later in their lives. Boys and girls would go to school and learn teachings which they would use their whole lives. Thanks discipline and vital life lessons, Spartan children carried on the Spartan tradition of being a great military…

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    more effective at war than Persia’s. In ancient Greece, public decisions are discussed and voted by many community members. The only way to get the voting right is for community members to participate in the battles and protect the community’s benefit. To be able to participate in the battles, citizens…

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    easy to depict the actual meaning of the battle going on. The artist uses many different techniques to resemble a historic moment, the painting itself has historic and cultural meaning due to the actual battle taking place, also the painting itself shows high levels of tensions between the two parties. Eric J. Garcia famously painted the oil on canvas painting which he titled Remember, the painting is a still…

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    Another important cause for the disastrous attack on Pearl by the Japanese was that President Roosevelt furthered its “Moral Embargo” by expanding its restrictions to oil and scrap metal to stop Japan from expanding. At the beginning of 1900’s Japan was falling apart as they were running out of raw materials and oil. Japan decided that to survive they had to expand within Asia to get more materials so they invaded French Indochina in 1940 to embargo all imports to China which included war…

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