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“The God of War has gone over to the other side” commented Adolf Hitler himself in February of 1943 when Germany fell short of the glory of winning to the Soviet Union. For this reason, it is mainly believed that the turning point of WWII (1939-1945) began when the USSR conquered Germany in the disastrous battle which took place in Stalingrad, Russia. However, history speaks otherwise. June 6, 1944 was the day when the Western forces successfully commenced and executed their attack upon Nazi…

 Venice monopolized 1/8th of all printed books  Illustrations increased book sales  How did printing affect the world?  Governments printed laws, declarations of war, and propaganda  Book banning and illegal book smuggling occurred  Mass publication of the Bible Art and the Artist/Art and Power  The 3 capitals of renaissance art : Florence, Rome, and Venice  During the Middle Ages and 1400s, the main subject of art was religion  Religious art pieces were created to keep people in the…

Fear and Hate: Homophobia One of the main human interactions, love, allows people to express their feelings for something or one another resulting in them spreading their affection. What happens when the controlling force over the people, the government, derive those of the same-sexual identities from expressing their own love to each other? Andrew E. Kramer is the writer of the article “Chechen Authorities Arresting and Killing Gay Men, Russian Paper Says” where he writes of the horrors taking…

sought after in Europe. There are many accounts of ambassadors who beheld and later wrote about the dazzling garments. The reign of the Ottoman Empire lasted from 1299 to 1922. The Ottoman Empire was quite vast and “spread from Anatolia and the Caucasus across North Africa and into Syria, Arabia, and Iraq.” The sheer size of the empire easily rivaled the land mass ruled by the Abbasids. Their conquests, particularly in the…

Hephaestus had many skills and traits, but he is most widely known for being the god of fire, metalworking, and sculpting art. Hephaestus came from Greek royalty, being the son of Zeus and Hera. Legend has it that when Hephaestus was born, he was crippled so Hera threw him from Olympus, where he landed in the ocean. He was then raised by Thetis and Eurynome. Hephaestus married Aphrodite, making her a Greek goddess. Together they had six children, making them fall in the line of Greek royalty as…

But the campaign had caused lasting devastation, the exact numbers may never be known, but most historians estimate that millions of Russians were either executed or shipped off to the dreaded Siberian gulags between 1936 and '38. Perhaps the Soviet psyche suffered just as much damage, as an entire nation and its attendant culture sank into a deep-seated paranoia and a frightened submission to the state, the effects of which are still being felt in Russia today. This was, not coincidentally, the…

Mary Prince is a female African American who was born into slavery in Antigua and had many different slave owners. Semsigul is a white female teenager who was sold into slavery in Istanbul under the Ottoman control. The Indians in Mexico were being forced into labor by the Spaniards. A comparison of Mary Prince, Semsigul and the Indians in Mexico will show the various forms of slavery, the legal aspect that shaped it, the effect on the individuals involved and why slavery was so difficult to…

Joseph Stalin was a man with huge power that came with consequences for the people of the Soviet Union. Although he didn’t always have a remarkable childhood, things had changed for him later on his life. Looking back, Stalin climbed to his success in his near future because of one decision that was made by another in his life, which lead him to rule. Many events that fell through from his leadership had impacted the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as not every decision Stalin made was wise…

Age to the Bronze Age and immediately to the Iron Age in a matter of 150 years. This took the first civilizations 2000 years to accomplish. The cause of this is thought to be due to the Aryan migration. For a short time the Aryans lived below the Caucasus Mountains in modern day Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. In 8000 BC, the Aryans moved southeast to modern-day Iran to begin the Indus River Valley Civilization. In a later migration the Aryans began to move north into…

Moreover, the United Nations has gone on to address the various ways in which terrorism may derive from. In United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/Res/51/210, the development of terrorist groups, both international and domestic, was highlighted as a major aspect of terrorism, as well as an acts of terrors committed. Within Resolution A/Res/51/210 a multitude of measures were called for in order to combat the increasingly fatal repercussions of terrorism. These measures included a…