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staging and written techniques which define western theatre as we know it were being established in Athens, Greece. The ancient Athenians created a theatre culture whose structure, technique and terminology have survived to the present day…

a passionate philosopher, and a great thinker in the turning point from Middle Ages to Modern World. His name remains one of the most controversial names of political history today. Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy on May 3, 1469. He…

and Stalin and evaluate their success. Comparing Lenin and Stalin one finds that both were following a communist ideal but what is the communist ideal? The main principal is to share a country's wealth amongst its people. This is the theoretical…

By 1900 the process of unification in Italy, the Risorgimento, had largely been completed territorially, but not in any other respect. The vast majority of the population still felt no real attachment to Italy at all, as a result of "Italy's continui…

way to explain it is that your eye is like a camera. The camera only takes the picture like the eye, the film in the camera is sent to the developing studio, which is like the eye sending the picture to the brain. Then when they give you back the …

and most horrendous concentration camp. It was established by order of Heinrich Himler on April 27, 1940. At first, it was small because it was a work camp for Polish and Soviet prisoners of war. It became a death camp in 1941. The reasons for the epidem…

a series of swift, ruthless and devastating actions which firmly established Germany as a fascist state. The centralisation of power in Germany, known as 'co-ordination' (Gleichschaltung), was initiated on the day of the election and was carried out…

came for us will always be a memory I will never forget. I am Elsie, a Jew that was taken from my home to a concentration camp during World War II. We had to leave every thing we had with no preparation. Before I had to depart, I managed to…

in 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia), Europe was a hotbed for military warfare; a trend that did not subside until 1763 with the Peace of Paris, a treaty that ended all of the wars between quarreling European countries within the past 30 years.…

messages to the eye of its beholder. It divulges a meticulous story about the era in which it was created and the points of view and biases of its creator. Like all other things, the purposes and inspirations for art change over time. A more…