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- 151: Lysistrata
- Aristophanes was a "craft" comedy poet in the fourth century B.C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes' usual style was to be too satirical, and suggesting the outlandish. He shows little mercy when mocking Socrates and his "new-fangled ideas" which were most likely designed to ... female lead character of the play. It portrays Athenian Lysistrata and the women of Athens teaming up with the women of Sparta to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War. To make the men agree to a peace treaty, the women seized the Acropolis, where Athens' financial reserves are kept, and prevented the men from squandering them further on the war. They then beat back an attack on their position by the old men who have remained in Athens while the younger men are out on campaign. When their husbands ...
- 152: The Hippie Culture
- ... Author: Nick The Hippie Culture Life in America has been molded by many factors including those of the hippie movement in the Sixties. With the development of new technology, a war against Communism, and an internal war against racial injustice, a change in America was sure to happen. As the children of the baby boom became young adults, they found far more discontent with the world around them. This lead to a subculture labeled as hippies, that as time went one merged into a mass society all its own. These people were upset about a war in Vietnam, skeptical of the present government and its associated authority, and searching for a place to free themselves from society’s current norms, bringing the style they are ...
- 153: Armenian Genocide
- ... probably think that they were talking about "the" holocaust in Nazi Germany. You probably would not suspect that they were talking about Turkey and the Armenians. During the First World War, the Turks set out to annihilate the entire population of Armenians living within their borders (they almost did). An area known as Historic Armenia lies right in the middle of ... Kurds armed by the government. Their official duty was to protect the Russian border, but they spent most of their time plundering and looting Armenian villages instead. The Armenians created revolutionary groups called fedayees in response to this abuse. In 1894, Armenians in Sassun refused to continue paying the extortionary tax to the Kurdish. So Abdul-Hamid ordered Turkish along with ... that would unite Turks from the Mediterranean coast to central Asia. This would exclude all non-Muslim minorities including the Armenians In 1913 the triumverant of Enver Pasha (minister of war) Jalaat (minister of Internal Affairs) and Jemal (minister of the navy) came into power under the homogeneous nation ideality. That same year ex-Sultan Abdul-Hamid attempted to regain ...
- 154: Pablo Picasso
- ... Museum of Fine Art, New York City), "Nude on Red Background" (Louvre, Paris), and "La Toilette." Suddenly, between the end of 1906 and the spring of 1907, Picasso painted a revolutionary and uncompleted work called: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" which was an inspiration given to him by a Postimpressionist painter, Paul Cezanne. After a brief "Negro Period" , Picasso painted landscapes and ... of the picture will oblige me to show that roundness as a square." Just when Picasso's Cubism started to be recognized for its colour and imagination, the outbreak of war in 1914 arrived and caused a climate unfavourable for his work. The war also caused his separation from his friends. In 1917, a young writer, Jean Cocteau, persuaded Picasso to leave Paris and travel to Rome, after the sudden death of Marcelle ...
- 155: Benjamin Banneker
- ... their mills. By 1774 the village of Ellicots Mills had been founded. Ellicot’s wise decision to grow wheat became a key source of food for American troops in the Revolutionary War. Banneker traveled on horseback to Philadelphia in 1776 to attend the Second Constitutional Congress. There he witnessed the future U.S. president Thomas Jefferson submit the Declaration of Independence. Banneker returned to his farm inspired to help in the war effort. Following Ellicot’s lead, he planted wheat for soldiers in the Revolutionary War. Neighbors often commented that Banneker must have been lazy because he slept well into the ...
- 156: Communism East Europe
- ... contributed to the failure and eventual collapse of communism was the fact that the Communist partyÆs domination was illegitimate from the beginning. Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. To Lenin, defeat was unthinkable and he was prepared to make any and every sacrifice to win the war and save the revolution. The forcible requisitioning of food and supplies was approved by Lenin. This could only be achieved by enforcing strict and absolute discipline at every level of ... In relation to foreign policy, Stalin exerted his influence to ensure that all Eastern European countries (except Yugoslavia) had Soviet-imposed puppet regimes. StalinÆs domination was now total. After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. Any resistance he met in establishing communist states was quickly suppressed by intimidation and terror. For ...
- 157: Hippie Culture
- The Hippie Culture Life in America has been molded by many factors including those of the hippie movement in the Sixties. With the development of new technology, a war against Communism, and an internal war against racial injustice, a change in America was sure to happen. As the children of the baby boom became young adults, they found far more discontent with the world around them. This lead to a subculture labeled as hippies, that as time went one merged into a mass society all its own. These people were upset about a war in Vietnam, skeptical of the present government and its associated authority, and searching for a place to free themselves from society’s current norms, bringing the style they are ...
- 158: Communist Containment In Asia
- ... V. Events leading up. VI. Why the United States decided to attempt to contain it. VII. Goals of the containment. VIII. The Truman Doctrine. a. Success IX. Conclusion. During World War II, Communism, combined with fascism, had proven to be very dangerous. Joseph Stalin had obtained absolute power in Russia as a result. The Communists saw their way to be perfect ... is where the conflicts arise. Between 1945 and 1975, the number of countries under communist rule increased greatly. This is partly because of the way the victorious powers of World War II divided the world amongst themselves. This is also due to the fact that countries such as China and The Soviet Union pushed their beliefs tyrannically on other weak countries ... too late; Stalin had turned Russia into a fascist dictatorship. Disillusioned by the clinical self-interest of the Western imperialist powers, the Chinese became more and more interested in the revolutionary changes in Russia and in Marxist-Leninist thought. The Chinese Communist Party, as a result, was organized in Shanghai in1921. Among its original members was Mao Tsetung. There was ...
- 159: Building And Keeping A
- ... America had to start slow. They first had to gain the trust of their people and settle the differences between them. This trust was partly gained by heroes of the Revolutionary War becoming politicians. An example of this was George Washington. He led troops into battle during the war and then became president. American people found it very difficult to start a rebellion or disagree with someone that had led them to victory against Britain. With George at ...
- 160: Communism East Europe
- ... contributed to the failure and eventual collapse of communism was the fact that the Communist partyÆs domination was illegitimate from the beginning. Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. To Lenin, defeat was unthinkable and he was prepared to make any and every sacrifice to win the war and save the revolution. The forcible requisitioning of food and supplies was approved by Lenin. This could only be achieved by enforcing strict and absolute discipline at every level of ... In relation to foreign policy, Stalin exerted his influence to ensure that all Eastern European countries (except Yugoslavia) had Soviet-imposed puppet regimes. StalinÆs domination was now total. After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. Any resistance he met in establishing communist states was quickly suppressed by intimidation and terror. For ...
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