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The World Trade Center was a hub for economic growth and power until September 11th, 2001. The terror attack on September 11th was an event that no American will ever forget. For those involved the attack it is more than a memory. The attack on the World Trade Center caused respiratory illness and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in people that were involved in the attack as well those who assisted in rescue and clean up. The World Trade Center (WTC) was located on the lower side of…

Aldous Huxley´s book the ¨Brave new world¨ may be relevant today. In today's world and Huxley´s book, external forces can influence and change the way people think without their knowledge or in some case, if they are willing. Bernard Marx, is a principal character because he alters his personality, which influences the other characters in the novel. In the beginning, Bernard is shrewd and makes individual and sensible choices. But at the end, he changes and begins to make selfish, reckless, and…

There are many aspects to the cause of World War II. If any of these causes were to be removed, the war could have been lessened into a smaller war that would not have caused such widespread physical and economic destruction. The Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations, Hitler and the Nazi Party, appeasement and Fascism all played key roles in the war, and because of this none of them can be discussed in total isolation from the others. During World War II Germany became allies with Italy,…

World War I had many causes, but the most commonly known cause and the most immediate cause was the assignation of the Austrian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand. In June 1914,a Serbian terrorist group known as the Black Hand first attempted to assinate the Duke with a hand grenade thrown at the automobile he and his wife was riding in. Although The Duke and his wife The Duchess survived this attack they were later killed by a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip . They were murdered while they…

My World Peace Many people advocate peace, but is peace what we truly need? In terms of this paper, peace an be defined as "A state in which there is no war or fighting."( ) I hold with strong conviction that while peace may be a possible, absolute peace can yield disastrous results. Through active reform, and joint collaboration, war in itself can be significantly reduced worldwide. In order to understand the complexities of peace, one must first identify the causes of war. Many speculate…

illuminated the world by brightening its view on the ocean. The aqua-lung is an autonomous scuba created by Jacques Cousteau. “Aqualung is the name that first introduced the world to scuba diving…

New World, there is a society, known as the World State, which mistakes human values for science, and believes that one cannot have all necessary values at once. There are three characters in the World State Society, Helmholtz, Bernard, and John, who criticize the quality of their lives due to relations between freedom and stability, power and caste, and truth and happiness. The relations between freedom and stability are most often criticized by John and Bernard.…

Imagine a world that has a drug that was like “lying in bed and taking holiday after holiday, without ever having to come back to a headache or a fit of vomiting” (Huxley 154). Whenever one felt overwhelmed or stressed all one had to do was take the drug called soma. One can have sex with whomever one wants with no emotions attached. Also one has no such thing as parents and one believes in a God named Ford. Ones job consists of working on a machine all day but one never gets bored because they…

World War I, also known a The Great War, lasted for four years from July 28th, 1914 to November 11th, 1918. Of course, there were minor and major causes beforehand that eventually made the war more likely to happen. These causes include people’s sense of nationalism and militarism, alliance systems, and a country’s need to imperialize, or expand their colonies. Nationalistic and militaristic feelings that caused the Great War were especially shown in Europe when countries concerned over…

we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to end all wars.” David Lloyd George, the British prime minister declared on the 11th November 1918. The thought that the world would see another war was almost preposterous, yet not even twenty-one years later the second ‘greatest’ war began. There were a number of reasons why World War Two became a tragic reality, some more important than others. The Treaty of Versailles combined with the War Guilt Claus smashed Germany’s dignity and economy.…