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Throughout the process of historicizing the past, women are primarily left out of the history books and stories for their contribution to civilization. However through the unearthing of antiquity it is clear that women were prominent in both the advances and declines of human society and culture. Using examples from three different regions of Africa this essay will discuss the influence that women had in shaping the history of African politics, culutre, and society. Ancient Egypt is an African…

cultures, dwellings often were grouped into compounds with a shared central space.” The center was equivalent to what is today a court yard. This suggest an area of high interaction. The importance of a yard or a central space was highly emphasized in West African culture and it was transmitted into slavery because slaves created and built their homes. The space around the house was just as vital as the house itself. These quarters that were arranged in a circular pattern were either structures…

The Berlin Wall stretched for over one hundred miles. It not only ran through Berlin’s center, but also wrapped around West Berlin, which entirely cut West Berlin off from the rest of East Germany. The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of the night and for 28 years kept most East Germans from fleeing to the West. The wall itself went through four major transformations during its 28 year history, each version being more deadly than the next. The first version of…

On August 13th of 1961, the infamous Berlin Wall was built. The barbed wire and concrete separated Berlin into two different zones; East and West Berlin. This wall stood as an iconic symbol of the Cold War. This wall created pain, sorrow, and suffering for all Germans. Over a long 28 years of the standing Berlin Wall, the concrete that divided Europe stood through the rigorous tensions of political and physical war. After WWII, Germany was split up into 4 different zones ruled by different…

What is Germany and is it Truly United? Throughout history Germany has been a changing nation. It has changed so much that many lines in Germany have been blurred, such as who is German and what Germany comprises of. Germany has gone from a series of kingdoms and principalities to one nation, but even today Germany remains divided. Many of these issues of unity stem from what Germany actually is and the change in that definition over the course of the last couple centuries. Germany has almost…

In 1860s, because the fact of southern states wanted to remain the slavery stable while the North desired to abolish the slavery. Meanwhile Abraham Lincoln led the Union and fought with the Confederacy whose commander was Jefferson Davis. The goal of union was to protect the unity, but many armies were controlled by South, also they owned wide land. It seemed difficult for the Union troops to win the Confederacy drastically. Moreover, the strategy of Confederacy was only to defense, controlled…

“I still remember the day they took him. I watched as the Gestapo dragged him away. Nobody did anything. They all stood there, paralyzed by fear, hoping they were not next.” For my project, I decided to interview my grandmother, Marion Heidi Buechner Fratzscher. Marion was born on June 21st, 1938, the second daughter of Hedwig “Heidi” and Paul Buechner, in Berlin, Germany. Her father worked at the Dresdner Bank building in downtown Zehlendorf. The four-story tall building reflected the Nazi’s…

“St. Thomas Aquinas identifies three criteria for a just war. First, a war must be waged by a legitimate authority. Second, a war must have a just cause. Third, a war must have the right intentions. (P. 139) In order for a war to be waged by a legitimate authority, it must serve the common good, not just private interests and agendas. (P. 138) In order for a war to have just cause, it must include: protecting citizens from hostile or violent behavior, restoring rights that have been taken away…

would ask, ‘What do I need to do to make my teammates better?’ Then he’d do it. Wilt honestly thought the best way for his team to win was for him to be in the best possible setting. He’d ask, ‘what’s the best situation for me?’” Former teammate Jerry West added “I don’t want to rap Wilt because I believe only Russell was better, and I really respect what Wilt did. But I have to say he wouldn’t adjust to you, you had to adjust to him.” It is certainly worth mentioning that Chamberlain wasn’t…

the war has always been for the possession of the greater territory. This war has been destroying and separating families from both sides. The area, Palestine, that both nations have been fighting for, is an area in the Middle East, bounded to the west by the Mediterranean, to the north by Lebanon, to the south by the Sinai Desert, and to the east by the Jordan River (Israeli-Palestinian). The area is occupied at present by two national groups, Israelis and Palestinians. Israel, founded in 1948,…