... of the list of 14 points put forward by him. The point of the League of Nations was for collective security and for there to be a world parliament where nations would meet and settle arguments and disputes instead of going to war. The League dealt with nations who started fighting by punishing them with trade and military sanctions. The League had some weaknesses, for example great powers ... weren't members, such as USA, because the US senate didn't want America to get tied up in Europe's affairs. Also, Germany didn't join until 1926 because it was a defeated nation. Another one of the...

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... comes to films depicting such grand dissipation, one of the best is Nicholas Hytner's "The Crucible." Based on Arthur Miller's play of the same name, "The Crucible" is set in the small settler town of Salem, Massachusetts in the early 1690's, a town ... their desperation, the girls consult a slave from Barbados named D'Jouba who is believed to have ancient voodoo powers. According to the opening scene of the film, the girls are attempting to conjure their various crushes into loving them with D'Jouba's help. ... solely on the reason that they spend a lot of time outside the country; Mil...

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... list was produced, and any man whose name was on it was sentenced to death and all his property was confiscated (Augustus). An exact copy of the war between Caesar and Pompey then took place. Marcus Brutus abandoned Greece and went to Asia due to the fact that there was a greater force of ... to straighten out Rome's eastern boarders. A few years later, around 19 BC, the powers of consul for life were bestowed upon him (Augustus). Augustus was a smart man that achieved many things during his reign. The list of senators was revised many times and raised the qualifications needed to ensur...

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... on December 7, near Oahu, the Japanese attack force under the command of Admiral Nagumo, consisting of six carriers with 423 planes, is ready to attack. At 6a.m., the first attack wave of 183 Japanese planes took off from the carriers located 230 miles north of Oahu and headed for the U.S. Pacific Fleet at ... disregarded their reports, thinking they are American B-17 planes, which were expected in from the U.S. west coast. At 7:15 a second attack wave of 167 planes took off from the Japanese carriers and headed for Pearl Harbor. At this point Pearl Harbor is still not on a state on high...

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... , Japan surrenders. The allied powers had already beaten the Axis powers in the European theater, all that was left was the war in the Pacific. The Allied forces made the decision to drop an atomic bomb on the island of Japan with hopes of pushing the Japanese to surrender. It did not take just one atomic bomb, but two to force the country to surrender ... did not start? Japan could have surrendered and the bombings would have never taken place, but when they refused to surrender they brought it upon themselves. The dropping of the bomb was carefully planned; it was a huge deal using a w...

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... ? I for one would like to know how in the name of Ty Cobb can the powers that run baseball, justify keeping Pete Rose out of the "Hall". Pete Rose was placed on baseball's ineligible list in 1989 when commissioner of baseball Giamatti concluded that Rose had bet on baseball games including games involving his own ... energy and determination on the field. Charlie Hustle became Charlie Hustler, seemingly overnight. So the question is this: Should moral integrity be the yardstick which hall of fame judges eligibility? Should only squeaky-clean, church going; "my face should be enshrined on ...

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... RINGS In a battle between the two greatest sagas of all time, who would win? Would it be Dark Vador, his formidable Jedi powers and his Death Star, or would it be Lord Sauron, the once-oh-so-powerful demon who could not keep a damn ring? ... While it is evident who the winner would be, there are people (Halflings maybe) who would think I"m totally prejudiced against the Lord of the Strings. Ok, maybe ... it's not THAT bad Well, first of all, "LOTR" and "Star Wars" share a long list of structural and thematic similarities. They"re both mythical creature fantasies hell bent on rescuing g...

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