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    of the Peloponnesian War was the fear that Sparta and its allies had of the growing Athenian Empire.” (Spielvogel, 55) For example, the attempted submission of the Melos island was Athenians asserting their power to become more powerful than their rivals. Both Sparta and Athens knew that power was the key to protection and stability of each other’s empire. These two dominant forces regulated their society to fit the standards of war and to maintain the power they had. “Spartans chose to…

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    The Hundred Years War is one of the most notable conflicts of the Medieval ages. Two rival dynasties were fighting over land in a struggle that is marked by numerous battles, multiple characters, and disregarded treaty after disregarded treaty. The land in question, known as Aquitaine or Guyenne, should have belonged to England, but was being treated as a French territory causing a conflict that would span over the rule of different monarchs on both sides. The war was long enough to be divided…

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    El Chapo Sinaloa Cartel

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    journalist, in his 2012 Newsweek article called “‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, Mexico’s Most Powerful Drug Lord,” both the countries’ governments are on the receiving end of this partnership being played by El Chapo. “Guzmán’s broad strategy has been to knock off rivals and build his own cartel into the dominant criminal force south of the border. One of his tactics for achieving that has been to place his drug-dealing lieutenants as informants for the DEA and ICE. According to sources and court records,…

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    to counter Soviet power. The Soviet Union and its allied Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, known as the Warsaw Pact. The primary purpose of NATO was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies.The alignment of almost every European nation into one of the two rival camps explained the political division of the European continent that had taken place since WWII. This…

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    Compare and Contrast (Macbeth and Throne Of Blood) Macbeth is a play written by the great English poet Shakespeare. Macbeth is a story about a soon to become king Macbeth. He is the main character of the story as he plays a big role in the events that occur during the story. Macbeth was known for being ambitious and a person with great perseverance. The movie Throne Of Blood is an adaption of the play Macbeth, but it’s not just a translation of literary text. In Fact, The director of the…

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    Criminals In Pulp Fiction

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    movie whilst they end up in t-shirt, shorts and flip flops at the end of the film discarding the gangster stereotype. -Involvement in illegality from childhood: We have no clue if the gangsters in the movie had a borderline childhood, only Butch, the rival character is haunted by a childhood encounter with his late father’s best friend about a wristwatch, this priceless family heirloom has come down through many generations and he is determined to risk his own life for its…

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    The majority of American youth is in a time of distress, for their future is rather bleak with a harsh and demanding labor pool that asks for theatrical requisites, deficits from student loans by which they need to obtain said jobs that take hold and control lives, and just discouragement for even taking up higher than minimal education which leads to a weak workforce. By the reason of the nation’s people creating these factors, although it may be indirect, it is nonetheless the duty of this…

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    Sae Koyama Ms. Holdsworth Character Analysis Nick has a moral sense that distinguishes him from other characters in the book, but his beliefs make him an unreliable narrator for the story. In The Great Gatsby, he alone is disgusted by the death of Myrtle and Gatsby. He finds himself unable to forgive the Buchanans after he finds out the reason for Gatsby’s death “I couldn’t forgive him or like him…They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures…and let other…

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    They twisted the meanings of the laws to favor their rule, through violence and persecution. There were citizens at the time who took advantage of the laws to punish those they held grudges against by reporting supposedly illegal acts that their rivals had committed to the Nazi authorities. One may argue that because it was the law at the time, these citizens were fully justified within the…

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