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    When artists go through an emotional down fall in there career’s you see some stars fall and other’s reflect to back when it all started to better themselves. As Katy Perry stated in her interview with U.S.A Today Prism is “less over-the-top and more “me””. I have come to realize that when artist put out an album, it isn’t just to see how many copies they can sell but it’s about making music with feelings, getting into there inner self and reaching out to those who admire them, the social text of

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    October 23, 2017 Blonde Ambition: How the Similar Careers of Madonna and Britney Spears Created Two Different Pop Icons At the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, pop icon Madonna joined two of the biggest pop stars at the time, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, on stage and would share a buzzworthy performance that kept the world talking and cemented the performers as some of the greatest MTV has ever seen. At the time, Spears was about to release a new album. She was still in the only years of her career

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    Broken Spears

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    The author argues that the Spanish were completely at fault for the total destruction of the Aztec Empire. In Broken spears, the author explains how many factors other than Spanish power contributed to the downfall of the Aztecs. Not only did the Spanish have many advantages over the Aztecs, but also they also exploited them and took advantage of the cultural difference. The main key aspects to the Spanish victory, is that the Spanish were viewed as gods at first because of their appearance, the

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    believed later on the setup was changed to fit four horses. On the right side of the chariot, the driver’s job was to control the horses and to get the warrior in the best position to make his attacks. His attacks could be made with a bow and arrow, spear, mace, sword or dagger, however the bow was normally a prime choice for the average warrior. A typical warrior riding into battle was in full armor and ready to defend his chariot at all costs. The use of chariots spread very quickly as their

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    Greece and most of their soldiers were forced to join the military. Despite the views, The Hoplite Revolution was influential because they it marked a turning point in the military evolution before, there was no organized formation, just heroic with spears,bows,slings, and chariots. Moreover, the Hoplites were created in 675 B.C. and the rise of the them occurred when metal became cheaper a lot cheaper in the bronze age, so then more hoplites were being enlisted and they promised them political rights

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    to their beloved gods. They believed if they did not sacrifice people the gods would get angry and the world would end. Other reasons to go to war were that they could expand their territory, and collect resources. The Aztec threw scattered wooden spears to disperse the enemy troops, come in and knock out the dispersed enemy warriors. The Spanish had a very different approach to war the Spanish tried to peacefully negotiate and discover the most powerful. When the Spanish found the strongest colony

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    phalanx was the syntagma that was usually 16 men deep. Each of these soldiers was armed with the sarrissa, which was a 13-21-foot spear. In formation, the first five of these ranks held their sarissas horizontally facing the advancing enemy, with each of these five ranks being squished together, practically on each others heels. The residual 11 ranks either rested their spears on the shoulders of the men in front of them or they held their sarissas vertically. Due to the unfamiliarity with this formation

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    Spartans Military (Greece) vs. Rome Military " War. War never changes. Since the dawn of humankind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything from god to justice to simple psychotic rage" (Howard). When you think about all the armies that have walked this earth the first two you might think of are the Spartan Warriors and the Roman Legionnaires. With both empires so vastly iconic they share a lot of ideas such as their

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    The Broken Spears

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    present it should be in gold…” (p.93) this shows how in this document the people, the moors, in Calicut acted in a mean way towards the European, da Gama, but also in a way they were defending their King. On the other hand, the document, The Broken Spears; The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (1519) was much different. In this document Moctezuma welcomes Cortez and the Spaniards in such a really good way that he let the Spaniards do what they wanted to do with the gold in Mexico city as well

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    The Hoplon One of the new developments that define Greek civilization during the Archaic period, particularly warfare, was the hoplon shield. It was a bronze, circular shield used by Hoplites, heavy armored soldiers who's defining trait was the hoplon. "It was round, made of wood covered with a thin sheet of bronze, and was held by inserting the left arm through a central band and gripping a strap at the rim, which gave it maneuverability" (BHAG, p.74). This circular shield could allow for faster

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