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Oskar Schindler

... not as happy as he tough he would be. After seeing a lot of murders he decided to “buy” as many as many Jews as he could to make them work for him so that they could be saved. He made lists with a lot of names and he paid for each of them. Most of the people in those lists were those who could not work. He took them to labor in his weapon factory, and he told his workers that he was going to be very angry if one of the weapons really worked. When the war ended and the Jews got their freedom, Schindler lost all his money. Even thought ...

Number of words: 2120 | Number of pages: 8

Arab-Israeli Wars

... then still under British mandate, into an Arab state and a Jewish state. Fighting quickly spread as Arab guerrillas attacked Jewish settlements and communication links to prevent implementation of the UN plan. Jewish forces prevented seizure of most settlements, but Arab guerrillas, supported by the Transjordanian Arab Legion under the command of British officers, besieged Jerusalem. By April, Haganah, the principal Jewish military group, seized the offensive, scoring victories against the Arab Liberation Army in northern Palestine, Jaffa, and ...

Number of words: 1608 | Number of pages: 6

The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy Or Single-Gunman?

... a conspiracy must have been present. According to the old facts regarding the case of the JFK assassination, Kennedy was killed by a single gunman. On November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST (Central Standard Time), Kennedy was riding in an open limousine through Dallas, Texas. At this time, Kennedy was shot in the head and neck by a sniper. He was then taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Later, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine, at a nearby theater. By the next morning, Oswald was booke ...

Number of words: 1375 | Number of pages: 5

Analysis Of 1 Samuel 1:28

... an important figure in telling the story of the Israelites’ move from the judges’ leadership to the establishment of a kingship. 1 Samuel is presented in the form of a narrative account of the life and contributions of Samuel. Like most of the bible, scholars have tried to determine the author, date of writing, purpose of the text and the historical and chronological order of events. The author is unknown. Some scholars believe Zabud, son of the prophet Nathan, a priest and the “personal adviser” to King Solomon, wr ...

Number of words: 1633 | Number of pages: 6

History Of The Counterculture

... "I have a dream." (Constable, 144) He was not the only one who felt this way. For many, the 1960s was a decade in which their dreams about America might be fulfilled. For Martin Luther King Jr., this was a dream of a truly equal America; for John F. Kennedy, it was a dream of a young vigorous nation that would put a man on the moon; and for the hippie movement, it was one of love, peace, and freedom. (Constable, 34) The 1960s was a tumultuous decade of social and political upheaval. We are still confronting many social issues that were ad ...

Number of words: 2992 | Number of pages: 11

Greek Olympics

... the same time in which women competed. Besides this, however, women normally did not participate in the games (though there were a few exceptions in the equestrian events). In addition to their significance as athletic events, the Athletic Games were one of the most important forces uniting the Greek world. Its political and economic importance is difficult to overstate. Before and during the games, a sacred truce [called ekecheiria] was called between all warring cities. This allowed every athlete to enter the games safely and promoted ...

Number of words: 362 | Number of pages: 2

Germany 3

... their economy had stabilized due to American loans. The Great Depression had really hit Germany hard. This is what gave Hitler is chance to move. He promised to restore jobs to Germans, which he did to some degree. Hitler was a Nazi. Nazi’s denounced communism, rejected democracy, believed in the right of the individual, and anti-seminitism (Jews were to blame for all the Germany’s problems). Germany had no universal knowledge. They said that there was only a German science and a German math. And that Physics was a Jewish discipline. ...

Number of words: 770 | Number of pages: 3

Watergate Scandal

... Post had two reporters who researched deep into the story. There names were Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, they discovered that one of the suspects had an address book with the name and phone number of a White House official who could have been involved in the crime. The reporters suspected that the break-in had been ordered by other White House officials. In a press conference on August in 1972, President Nixon said that nobody on the White House Staff was involved in the crime. Most of the public accepted Nixon's word and dropped th ...

Number of words: 1995 | Number of pages: 8

Babylon

... south of Bagdad. Babylon was believed to have originated from the Mesopotamia tribes in the Euphrates Valley, which were believed to come from Mongolian ancestry, these tribes were than taken over by the northern kingdom of Akkad. The semitic invaders, however, eagerly adopted, improved, and widely spread the beliefs and knowledge of the civilizations they conquered( Hotbot Babylon). The Akkads, although widely debated, are believed it be the Aborigional Babylonians. "The First was Eridu, then a seaport on the ...

Number of words: 588 | Number of pages: 3

Leonardo Da Vinci 2

... and paintings from altarpieces to panel pictures. In 1478, I became an independent master. My first commission was to paint an altarpiece for the chapel of the Palazzo Vecchio. It was the Florentine town hall. The Adoration of the Magi was my first large painting though but was unfinished and was ordered in 1481 for a monastery that I just can not remember. I painted another picture also called the Benois Madonna and a few others but my mind is old and I have lost most my memory. In a year around 1482, I began to give service to ...

Number of words: 519 | Number of pages: 2

Bird Flu Crisis In Hong Kong

... would like to talk about the topic ¡¥¡¦. We will give a brief introduction of the bird flu virus H5N1, analyse the short-term and long-term consequences of the flu in Hong Kong and see what Hong Kong have learned from this incident. What is Influenza A (H5N1)? There are three types of influenza, designated A, B and C. Influenza B and C rarely cause local outbreak of flu but not the influenza A. It is very important to all mankind as this is the type of virus that has caused world-wide pandemics. And H5N1 belongs to the vision of influenza ...

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Marilyn Monroe

... father was Stanley Gifford who left Gladys when he found out she was pregnant. Her mother worked at the Consolidated Film Industries lab as a cutter of negative film. She worked long hours, at low pay, at a boring and tedious eyestraining job. Since she was at her job most of the time, she had to pay others to look after Marilyn. Sometimes she would only get to see her mother only early in the morning or at night. It was enough for any mom to have a nervous breakdown. All Marilyn remembered was her mother being in and out of ...

Number of words: 4898 | Number of pages: 18

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