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the United States for attacking the lesser and weaker country. As US pressed for manifest destiny the people in the north called it an American iniquitous. The American government later admitted to the wrongdoing of Mexico by paying "conscience money".…

Michael Jordan is a phenomenal athlete with a unique combination of grace, power, and outstanding ability. Michael Jordan has single-handedly redefined the NBA superstar. He is the most recognizable athlete in the world. He is not only…

Middle Ages was a time period between the end of the classical age and the beginning of the renaissance. During this period of time the people suffered violence, poverty, legalized human abuse, economic strife, bad government, and they still managed…

an overreaction, to events of the prior era. In the Middle Ages, a proper education was extremely rare for the common people. As a reaction to the Middle Ages, in the early renaissance, there was a strong focus on a classical education consisting…

conflict. The struggle for the control of Jerusalem between the Jews, Christians and Muslims has been going on for hundreds of years. After WWII with the establishment of Israel, the conflict grew even stronger. Now, as Israel is currently the…

of simplicity and little cultural development. Feudalism was the structure that governed medieval society and came to represent this time period. The church became the universal symbol of medieval unity. Toward the end of the medieval period, however,…

to an end when Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Empire, was put into power in the late 80s. He ended oppression with his policies of glasnost, openness, and perestroika, restructuring, and finally opened Russia up to the rest of the…

The words "material" and "personnel" are abstractions, but the weapons systems and the devoted human beings organized to make and use them are real. Reducing the size of the military also means ending jobs and forcing career…

may be defined as a concrete breakthrough from the invisible, supernatural world into our own visible, natural world. The ultimate source of the miracle is when the creator, God, created the Universe and dwells above us. He is transcendent, yet…

Native American life has changed drastically from that of what it used to be. One can only imagine how incredibly hard life would have been in the late 1800s without the help of modern technology. In James Welch's book, Fool's Crow, one not…