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    definition were Mussolini. Mussolini was the leader of the Italian government, and Adolf Hitler the leader of Germany. They both brought the fascist regimen to their countries. These two Fascist were known to try to bring law and order to society with an iron fist(Findley & Rothney,2011). Mussolini and Hitler are both perhaps the most famous to have followed the Fascism order. Fascism was first a term used to describe political parties in Italy. But as the 1920s and 1930s started to come around the word

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    without him. But others wish they never were led by him. He went from nothing to the most powerful man in the now most powerful country. In the early years. He was first born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili to a poor shoemaker of a father on December 21 1879. It was a small village called Gori Georgia. He was a only child, whose father was a drunk and would beat him from time-to-time was a poor man. And a mother who did luandre just to earn more money. As a child he contracted smallpox which

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    Soviet challenge; all parties agree upon the city of Las Vegas, Nevada as the exhibition site. Creed and the boxing promoters stage a lavish, patriotic show complete with showgirls, rhythm and blues singer, James Brown, and glitzy, red-white-and-blue decoration. As the fight begins, an over-confident Creed attempts to outbox Drago, but as the bout progresses, Creed cannot match Drago’s brute strength and superior size. After a brutally hard punch from Drago, Creed falls, unable to recover. He dies

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    epic western literature of a demigod who lived as long of 126 years. Gilgamesh was the king of Uruk City of Mesopotamia. He was born two-thirds divine and one-third human. Gilgamesh was known to sleep with all the woman and rule his city with an iron fist. The people of his city begged and pleaded with the Gods to send them a savior and they bought in the God Enkidu, which later Gilgamesh and Enkidu became best friends. Odysseus was a king of the island Ithaca and also the main character of Homers

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    This supernatural ability prevents any man made weapon from harming Grendel. Grendel's mother is a vicious she-wolf who seeks revenge on the warrior who killed her beloved son Grendel. Just as her son's supernatural power Grendel's mother's skin is harmless to man's iron sword. During Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother he discovers that he could not defeat her with his sword. Hrunting "could not slice

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    Puritans’ love of involvement in intellectual pursuits without sacrificing piety. Book II, on Cosmology, discusses reason and how Puritans balanced it with faith without sacrificing either. Book III, entitled Anthropology, is a discussion of the nature of man, the means of conversion and rhetoric. Book IV, on Sociology discusses the covenant of grace, the social covenant and the church covenant. The book closes with two

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    To him, the state is everything and the people’s respect for its authority is in fact its power. With the frame of mind, Creon governs Thebes with an iron fist, and like many other rulers of the past, obsessively controls everything that happens within his territory.     The tyrant’s ‘death’ in this play signifies on two levels. On the first level, Creon can

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    he adopted the name 'Stalin' whilst in prison as he felt the translation 'Man of Steel' would help his image. Stalin joined the Bolshevik party as a young man and soon became an active member organizing bank raids to gain money for party funds; this led to Stalin's imprisonment a number of times. Stalin first met Lenin in December 1905 in Finland and was quite surprised to see him as an ordinary man unlike the person he had imagined. In 1918 Stalin was made Commissar for

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    According to Machiavelli's view of how to be an effective leader, a ruler should be one who is feared but not hated. Machiavelli states that fear is better than love because love is unreliable. All of the reasons that Machiavelli gives relate to how human nature controls men and drives them to commit crimes in order to reach their goals and satisfy themselves. Before the organization of Italy as a country, it was broken into city-states one of which Machiavelli called home. He was a Florentine

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    The epic of Gilgamesh opens with the people of Uruk unhappy about Gilgamesh's behavior. He sends all boys off to war and no virgin is left to her groom because Gilgamesh must have them first. The people appeal to the gods and Aruru, goddess of creation, fashions Enkidu. Her intentions are to create someone who can resist Gilgamesh, although Enkidu first acts as a wild beast grazing in the fields and protecting the other animals. A harlot is called for to civilize Enkidu and after sleeping with her

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