Bulgaria

The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty that was discussed at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The treaty discussed the punishment for those who were held responsible for World War I. While the Ottoman Empire was completely destroyed, other countries, including newly formed Austria and Hungary were punished. The country that was most severely punished, however, was Germany. There was an extraordinary amount of punishment that was outlined in the treaty such as a diminished army, large…

The trial of the defendants before me, your honor, is an act of injustice. The entirety of these Nuremberg Trials is illegitimate, clouded by irrational, unjust, and hypocritical accusations that at their core sprout from the victor’s justice of the Allied justices that come from France, England, America, Russia, and countries of the like. When I turn my head in search of a justice whose bias doesn’t lie with Allies and when I search for a justice whose conscience isn’t subjugated by victor’s…

Throughout the First World War, two opposing alliances existed. The first being, the Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The second, the Central Powers: Germany, Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. Of particular interest to these states is that of the Ottoman Empire. In 1916 during the First World War, France, Britain and Russia began to create a divided Ottoman Empire between them, sketched out on a map. This secret agreement, known as the Sykes-Picot agreement, so named…

part. For the tune The Arra Mountains/ Hunting The Hare/ Petko, it is known as slip jigs/ horo. Kevin made the addition of overwhelming three part harmonies on the flute for the Petko set. It portrayed a different style of traditional music from Bulgaria. This set is taken from Breton piper Patrick Molard who learnt this tune from Petko Stefanov himself. Petko is a Gaïda…

Hidden figures by Margot Lee Shetterly tells the story of a group of women who had an impact in the Space Race against the Soviet Union. This was a very critical time for the United States. With political tensions on the rise, both countries were fighting to be the first on the moon. Many believed that whoever went to the moon first was the victor in the fight between communism and democracy. Hidden Figures takes place in the early 1950’s. Although the Cold War is considered as a just war there…

INTRODUCTION The Berlin Treaty, which was signed in 1878 between Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Italy, revised the Treaty of San Stefano in the same year, was the turning point for Armenian Question and Eastern Question. As a result of this treaty, the situation in the Balkans was settled to a large extent by European Powers in accordance with their interest. However, the Armenian Question was suspended for the next decades. The decision…

APPLE & DELL Financial Analysis Project INTRODUCTION Dell and Apple are American companies that participate in the industry of Electronic Computers, according to the SIC 3571. This industry is oriented to the manufacture of diverse kind of data processing systems. In 2001, the largest computer makers in the United States were Dell, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. They produced about 40 percent of personal computers shipments in the world according to International Data Corporation…

It was just more than one year after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact that the directive for Operation Barbarossa was issued. Signed by Hitler on December 18, 1940, the secret document demanded the Wehrmacht to crush Russia in a rapid campaign, undoing the agreement for spheres of influence throughout Eastern Europe. It remains a point of contention whether Berlin wooed Moscow into benign rapprochement in a series of deceptions stemming from the directive or Stalin, throughout it all,…

Candide and his companions experience misery, but Pangloss’s best of all worlds philosophy is used to explain the reason it has occurred. Going back to chapter three, Candide has been driven from his beloved, beaten from an inch of his life by the Bulgaria soldiers, and now forced to beg for bread from the Protestant preacher. Candide still returns to Pangloss’s philosophy that it was meant to be. The cause and effect philosophy of the delusional…

1945. The war involved many of the world’s countries including all the superpowers. These countries formed two opposing alliances called the Axis and the Allies. The Axis were made up of Germany, Italy, Japan and other minor powers such as Hungary, Bulgaria, Thailand, Yugoslavia and Romania. The Allies, on the other hand, were made up of France, Poland, China, Soviet Union, United States and Britain (Bosworth 2002). The war was widespread with major players throwing their entire economy behind…