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    The Eisenhower Doctrine

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    As Great Britain and France relinquished their hold in the region, the United States feared this was an opportunity for the Soviets to gain power and spread communism in the newly established Arab sovereignties. However, the United States sought to gain influence in the Middle…

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    against the government to have freedom? This story has adventure, action, romance, comedy with some suspense drama. Captain Blood, this wonderful tale is by Vidas Barzdukas. The story has been adapted from the novel by Rafaek Sabatini, its envision by John S. Kuhn and directed by Philip J. Hickman. This play was performed by the “Actors’ Theater of Columbus” in Columbus, Ohio. Each cast members did brilliant performance by performing their role. Main cast of this play was played by James Harper…

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    Wigs In The 18th Century

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    the lower class did not wear it. It is, perhaps, the lower class did not put thick make-up as the aristocrats did. So, the wig also had another function, to differentiate the upper and lower class. The first time they wore a wig started when King of France, Henry III, use a wig to cover his baldness. Then, Queen of England, Elizabeth I, also wear a wig…

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    After World War II, Many powerful nations started to decline. Germany was defeated, France and Britain were in an economic decline and needed to start rebuilding. The United States and the Soviet Union both emerged as the world 's superpowers after World War II. Due to the fact that these nations dominated world politics at this time, they began to have conflicting ideas. After World War II both Soviet Union and the United States had mutual distrust leading to the cold war, which was a state of…

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    On August 31st, 1939 Germany invaded Poland, France and Great Britain responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3rd. This was considered the official start of the deadliest war in human history called, World War II with fatalities up to 50 million according to the authors, John Graham Royde Smith and Thomas A. Hughes (“World War II” Britannica.com, April 26, 2018). Meanwhile Japan was already at war with China two years earlier. The war consisted of two sides known as the Axis alliance…

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    and technology have always been necessary for the advancements of nation-states throughout history. Additionally both science and technology play extensive roles in the progression of the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and World War I and II. In the Enlightenment science and technology helped establish the heliocentric theory, Newton’s laws of motion and the law of gravitation. The Industrial Revolution focused on the transition from wood to metal and farming to industrialization. The…

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    The Hobbit Industrialism

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    Africa, on January 3, 1892, a man was born, his name was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Tolkien, a man who lived in two centuries, a man who has lived in a time when an American president John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the same man who lived through the Korean War, and through a time when two atomic bombs were dropped, desolating the cities of hiroshima and nagasaki in Japan, of course, in an effort to put the kibosh on the fighting in World War II has lived through a lot of things, but has…

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    The defining symbol of the Cold War was built on August 13, 1961. The world was still regaining its strength after the traumatic events of World War II. The country of Germany was divided between the four major allies the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union (Dearden). The city of Berlin, which during the time of World War II was the capital of Nazi Germany, was divided amongst all of the allies even though Berlin is located in East Germany. A democratic government that…

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    John Adams Feminism

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    In life President John Adams was a man of revolving dichotomies, often revered for his statue of part of the ‘trinity’ that were the founding father, while also reviled for his hard nosed opinions and his practices in his single term as president (1797-1801). However, John Adams holds one of the most important places in the history of the United States. As one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence - he was the delegate who introduced it to the other colonial representative -he…

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    St Lucia Essay

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    changed flags fourteen times, until the British finally in 1814, the Treaty of Paris was signed. With the signing of the treaty; “France was restored the majority of its foreign colonies, but Tobago and St. Lucia in the West Indies and the lle-de-France (now Mauritius) in the Indian Ocean were ceded to Great Britain” (britannica.com) and that it ended the war between France and the Sixth Coalition in part of the Napoleonic wars. Even though the European’s settlements were small and all the…

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