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History/Facts of Machu Pichu in Peru.

... the civilization of Peru" had been preserved. No one knows how this great sanctuary had been built which is known today as the Eighth Wonder of the World ...

(3 pages) 53 0 4.0 28/Dec/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

The Allegory of the Cave and The Matrix

... of the crew in order to return to the matrix. His mind was not able to entirely let go of the world that existed only in The ... to Plato, the freed man must have started to question what he saw in front of him and wondered about where the shadows came ...

(5 pages) 25433 0 5.0 08/Feb/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe.

... the reader of the past significance of the number seven. The history of the world was thought to consist of seven ages, just as an individual's life had seven stages. The ancient world had seven wonders ...

(5 pages) 26 0 2.0 06/Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Plato's "The Republic": 3 strong points and 3 weak points in the theory of the city.

... many parts of the world today. Another strong point in the Republic is the question of justice. The main point in the work is the debate over ... self. Another weakness in the theory is the idea of philosopher kings. While it would be wonderful to know that a ...

(5 pages) 61 1 5.0 14/Nov/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

Why did the First World War break out in August 1914? Is any one particular nation especially "guilty" for what happened? Or should responsibility be "shared" among all of the major European powers?

... the nations' colonies joined in, and eventually all of the world's major powers had joined in, causing the First World War. Before the main events of the ...

(5 pages) 31 0 3.0 08/Mar/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

For the Good of All? An essay about Joseph Stalin's elmination of the kulaks, with references to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich".

... the most devastating war in the history of the world, would you kill him? Would you kill the infant Hitler, long before he became the ... ). Giving up his own wealth for the men in his Gang, is there any wonder Stalin wanted him dead? Socially and politically ...

(4 pages) 17 0 4.5 28/Nov/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Two page essay on improtance of Byzantine Art

... The Hagia Sophia is easily one of the greatest feats of architecture and construction in the world, and is sometimes even called the Eighth Wonder of the World. Every aspect of the ...

(3 pages) 49 0 3.0 11/Dec/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

The Great Pyramid Of Giza

... of the Seven Wonders of the World, and continues to mystify us. The unanswered questions regarding the Egyptian monuments are endless but no questions have been the object of as much speculation as the ...

(3 pages) 22 0 0.0 29/Jan/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Allegory Of The Cave - Interpretation

... the beauty of the world. He then decides to return to the cave and tell the other prisoners about the wonders he has seen (truth). When he returns into the ...

(3 pages) 35 0 0.0 01/Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

Allegory of the Cave

... the truth is what we have been taught, seen, and experienced in our lives. The "puppet masters" of the world ...

(5 pages) 44 0 0.0 20/Nov/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

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