Michael Serravalle 1st response paper 9-17-2011 History 121- Professor Byczkiewicz First Response Paper: Akhenaten and the Hymn of Aten Akhenaten; Radical success or dismal failure? Formerly known as Amenhotep the IV‚ he grew up in the most powerful family on earth. His father Amenhotep III died leaving a reign of peace and prosperity in the hands of his son. His son was a King of radical change. He changed many customary ideas of ancient Egypt like art for example. Akhenaten celebrated
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peoples’ money every day and it just flat out pissed off the French citizens. So eventually they started the French Revolution and decapitated Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Although in the end‚ the French Revolution turned out to be quite a failure. Three failures of the French Revolution were that France was still under the rule of one man‚ the liberty that was promised to the people of France was never given to them‚ and there was widespread dissatisfaction throughout
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MGMT 6237 Milton Hershey Milton Hershey was born September 13‚ 1857 to Fannie Snavely and Henry Hershey in the city of Derry Township‚ Pennsylvania. He had one sibling name Serina who was born in 1862. Fannie was the daughter of Bishop Abraham Snavely‚ who was of the Mennonite Church. His father too was a member of the Mennonite Church‚ but unfortunately‚ he always schemed “get rich schemes” that always seemed to fail. This would adversely affect the family‚ as there was not
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Successes and Failures of the United Nations The United Nations Organizations or simply the United Nations is an international organization that was created in order to provide a global forum for all nations to come together and discuss issues and global problems‚ as well as attempt to solve these issues through global cooperation. For almost 65 years now‚ the United Nations has been somewhat successful in achieving its’ main goal: to prevent future world wars and stop suffering on a mass scale
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Throughout the history of the world‚ there have been many failures. The existence of slavery pushed "United States" into a dreadful collision between the Northern abolitionists and the Southern proslavery southerners. With the Civil war being the most horrific war in American history with the most casualties‚ the country was bound to reconstruct. The South was devastated due to abolition of slavery causing the economy to become insubstantial. After the nation faced economic downfall‚ the reconstruction
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Failures: Holt had a scandal involving the miss use of an air craft‚ this‚ and his refusal to sack the present minister of Air to control the situation led to his loss of much support and heavy criticism. Another arguable failure was the briefness of his term‚ it limited any personal and political impact‚ the short time span means he is over looked when compared to
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civilians. The life and analysis of Timur’s reign can be divided into three areas: military conquest‚ governance‚ and downfall. Upon examination of these three areas‚ one can understand the basic framework of Timur’s life and rule‚ as well as his failures. Before discussing Timur’s military conquests and concurrent rise to power‚ it is necessary
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The Failure of Prohibition What made America repeal Prohibition? Prohibition went into effect early 1920 after approval of the Eighteenth Amendment. The Eighteenth Amendment banned the transportation‚ manufacturing‚ and sale of alcohol in the United States. Americans believed that the consumption of alcohol was behind a few of America’s issues and some saw it as a drag on the economy. World War I also influenced the support of prohibition. Many Americans believed it was not American-like to spend
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activities. I wanted to accomplish something that my parents would be proud of but I didn’t have much motivation. It wasn’t until my freshman year that I decided to work harder to achieve something to be proud of; I was just waiting around for the success to come to me. I quickly learned that I wasn’t going to get anywhere that way. When I started eighth grade my grades went rapidly downhill‚ I was extremely sluggish every day. My grades didn’t really bother me because in my mind I was only
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By the 1890s Morgan had begun to shift from his history in finances to industry‚ particularly steel‚ and by 1900 Federal Steel ranked second to Carnegie Steel. Due to Morgan’s success Andrew Carnegie began to contemplate vertical integration and began to prepare for Morgan’s competition‚ which Morgan was extremely opposed to. Carnegie preferred an alliance that would eliminate any competition altogether. Inevitably to avoid this
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