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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 ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
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 ...
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 ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Several aspects to the plague that reveal its severity are the cause of the plague, its social and religious effects, and its influence over the population.
... the rest of the world increased in population. The Black Death was eventually taken control of by exterminating the old black ship rat that carried the disease and by isolating the sick. The ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Good essay on the Ironbidge- took me very long. About Abraham Darby and many others.
... of iron. Artists, engineers and sightseers came to Coalbrookdale from all around the world to see this 'wonder of the world' as it was known. Below is a picture of the ironbridge. Although the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
King Leopold's Exploitation of the Congo Colony
... the odour of bodies in decomposition is everywhere noticeable..." It's a wonder how, with all the death that was going on in the area, that the rest of the world ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History
The fall of the roman empire
... the first time and beginning the process of re-defining the structure of the world. This process was accelerated by the Islamic invasions of the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Communism: spreading around the world
... the monarchy and implemented socialism. Going about the ways of Communism, the Soviets wanted to influence these beliefs on four main areas of the world: Southeast Asia, the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Christopher Columbus' discovery of the 'Indies', and what commodities he found there.
... of the world was a lot smaller than it actually was. This resulted in him underestimating the true distance of Japan from Gomera, and in doing so, he discovered the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Assess the Impact of the Cuban missile crisis.
... the end of the decade. The Cold War saw many significant modern events occur, most notably the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was regarded to as "the end of the world ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History