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- 2201: Druids
- ... Druids are magical and there are a number of good reason for modern people to consider Druidism today. Some see it as a way to reconnect, or "ground" themselves in history, or to prove their understanding of their origins, beliefs, rituals and worships. Works Cited Melton, Gordon J. The Encyclopedia of American Religions Gale Research Company. Detroit: 1987 A. Carr-Gomm, Philip. The Druid Way Rockport, Mass Element: 1993 Spence, Lewis. Druids Their Origins and History. New York. Barnes and Noble: 1995
- 2202: Dr. J (julius Erving)
- ... He was voted most valuable player on this tour. Julius Erving left the University to go professional after his junior year. He is one of only seven players in the history of NCAA basketballto average over 20 points and 20 rebounds per game. In 1971, Julius Erving began his professional career with the Virginia Squires of the American Basketball Association. The ... championship in 1983. When Dr. J. finally retired in 1987, he had scored over 30,000 points in his professional career; he is one of only three players in the history of the game to achieve this feat. After retiring from professional basketball, Julius Erving became a commentator for NBC and appeared in the feature film The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh ...
- 2203: Diversity Of Leadership In Ame
- ... remind us of the power of language and the diversity of leadership skills. Washington was the first president of the United States and one of the most important leaders in history. His role in gaining independence for the American colonies and later in unifying them under the new U. S federal government cannot be overestimated. Washington was the most revered man ... the essence of what came to be called Jeffersonian democracy. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States and was considered one of the greatest men in U. S history. He was a humane, far-sighted statesman in his lifetime, and became a legend and a folk hero after his death. A superb politician, he persuaded the people, with reasoned ...
- 2204: Descartes
- ... that due to it's limited access via social castes as well as it's provincial ideology once attained, education before the 1800's played a limited role in the history of Education. From the rhetoric-based Greek age of Plato and Aristotle to colonial America, education was mostly an elitist institution that was inaccessible to most and, if one was so privileged as to attain it, full of hackneyed, non-progressive ritual; thus making its' impact evident mostly in history textbooks. In Greek times it is clear that true education was limited those with much free time and/or the means to pay for private tutors. Due to this, the ...
- 2205: Decline Of The American Empire
- ... power, economic and military supremacy, exerts its influence over much of the world. It has risen from the obscurity of the New World, to a level of predominance unprecedented in history. America is more than the sum of its territories, it the sun around which the other powers revolve. Regardless of geographic location or technological development, American culture, economics and politics ... of direction, fiscal excess, cultural degradation and a bloated military. When a dominant empire declines, another empire emerges to replace it. It is a cycle that has held true throughout history. Rome replaced Carthage, Ottoman Turkey replaced Byzantium, Britain replaced France, America replaced Britain. Like past empires, America can neither sustain its power indefinitely, nor can it exist statically under the ...
- 2206: Death Camps Of World War Ii
- Starvation. Mass shootings. Gas chambers. Beatings. Mass murder. In the early 1940s, perhaps the most brutal attrocities ever committed on a people in our world’s history took place. It was World War II. The Nazi Regime, led by Adolf Hitler, was waging war across Europe. Occupied Poland became the place where those prisoners and captives held ... 5 million Jews died there. Others say the number more realistically is closer to 4 million. Regardless, the crimes committed in these times of war should never be repeated. Luckily, history has a few heroes to relate to us these horrors so that they might never happen again.
- 2207: D-day Invasion Of Normandy
- ... entire continent. Although fewer Allied ground troops went ashore on D-Day than on the first day of the earlier invasion of Sicily, the invasion of Normandy was in total history's greatest amphibious operation, involving on the first day 5,000 ships, the largest armada ever assembled; 11,000 aircraft (following months of preliminary bombardment); and approximately 154,000 British ... agents. Six days before the targeted date of June 5, troops boarded ships, transports, aircraft all along the southern and southwestern coasts of England. All was ready for one of history's most dramatic and momentous events. One important question was left unanswered though: what did the Germans know? Under Operation Fortitude, a fictitious American force-the 1st Army Group-assembled ...
- 2208: Canada And Nato
- ... Canada’s decision making as though Canada went along with the decisions made by other countries. Canada, NATO, and The Bomb is not a book to inform it is a history book. It addressed issues that had happened previously and stated the type of involvement Canada had in it. In most cases, a book dealing with these sensitive issues, which involved ... it. It came across as if Canada was only complaining and nothing was being done. NATO and its position are expressed as only conflicts within the congress. It was giving history presentation information dealing with NATO, its purpose and its views on important topics. Canada or the Canadian Government in particular, was expressed as if they had no mind of their ...
- 2209: Causes Of The French Revolutio
- Causes of the French Revolution On July 14, 1789, several starving working people of Paris and sixty soldiers seized control of the Bastille, forever changing the course of French history. The seizing of the Bastille wasn’t caused by one event, but several underlying causes such as the Old Regime, the raising of taxes, the American revolution, and the idea ... Krieger 486). The French Revolution was caused by many underlying causes, immediate causes, and finally, a spark which touched off a national revolution, forever changing the course of France’s history.
- 2210: Causes And Effects Of The Amer
- ... on April 12, 1861 when General Pierre Beauregard opened fire with 50 cannons on Fort Sumter. This marked the beginning of one of the longest and bloodiest wars in American history. It was also the only war that took place fully on American soil. The entire war lasted four years and claimed over 620,000 American lives with many more injured ... a long way to go before they were to have anything close to equal rights. Conclusion- The American Civil War was one of the most defining points in America’s history. This war split the entire nation in half and sealed it back together again with a stronger government than ever before. This war was also an extremely devastating war pitting ...
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