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    The conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Jews is a phenomenon that stems from the struggle over land defined exclusively as a “Holy Land” by both groups. Their competing claim to this territory and the constant struggle for exclusive political control has created irreconcilable differences. Jewish claim over the land is based on a covenant made between God and Abraham and the need for haven from the growing anti-Semitism in Europe. Palestinian Arabs claims to the land are based on their continuous

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    World War One that I will discuss. The first example of anti-Semitism in Europe prior to World War One is when a new anti-Judaism evolved after the advent of Christianity. (History.com, n.d.) When the Rome economy went to shit they established Pogroms. The pogroms attacked Jewish people. The Romans destroyed the Jewish State. (A Brief History of Anti-Semitism) They destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and forced Jews to leave Palestine. (History.com, n.d.) The second example of anti-Semitism in

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    Since the beginning of media, producers have created products that applied to the biggest audience. Unreliable political and current event information and bias leads to underrepresentation of various ethnicities and identities. Mass media coverage portrays figures that appeals to the larger audience, hence, isolating others. The Ghost In The Shell trailer was released on Nov. 13 2016 and featured Scarlet Johansson - a white actress. The film is based on the Japanese manga series of the same name

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    The Russian Civil War of 1918 was the cumulating of the Russian monarchial government’s slow reformation to institute civil reforms and freedoms for the intelligentsia, the creation and subsequent closing of the Constituent Assembly by the Socialist Revolutionary Party, the embarrassing Treaty of Brest Litovsk, and the Czarist support of the nobility, who were stripped of their land after the Bolsheviks coup. These emotions came to a head when a coalition of multiple Russian political parties joined

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    Title: How U.S immigration laws impacted the Holocaust. Research question: How did U.S laws impact the Holocaust? Length of essay: 5 pages Through out history there’s a ground breaking event that forces society to reform its beliefs. The Holocaust was one of these events, refugees were persecuted in a number of ways and society had a choice to help, become isolated, or to confirm any persecution as ok or right. In every choice our society has depicted that there's a right and a wrong decision

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    Antisemitism And Racism

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    Throughout global history, there have been large debates pertaining to people that aren’t accepted as the “ideal” race. These debates are mostly about the ongoing “injustices” of non-Caucasians and the actions that should be taken to ensure the protection of white Christian “values”. Whether they are brown, yellow, or blue, the majority has found horrible ways to prevent minorities from having equal rights as human beings. I have found that people as high up as government officials have even promoted

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    The Black Death completely changed the social structure of medieval Europe by causing the downfall of feudalism and manorialism, its effect on the Catholic church, and its push towards creating a society that oppressed Jews. Europeans of the Middle Ages were no strangers to horrific disease. Chronic illnesses such as typhoid, dysentery and diphtheria were common, but the most feared disease was leprosy, which may not have been the most fatal disease, but by far the most horrific. Those infected

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    The Gestapo, also known as the secret police of the Nazi’s, was a very important piece in the Holocaust. It was formed on April 26, 1933 by Herman Goring, who then became the commander of it. Throughout its course it had a few other commanders. The group dissolved on May 8, 1945. Just their group alone caused millions of deaths in Germany, and after the group was over, it made the remaining Jewish people want revenge. The Gestapo is the secret police under the Nazi rule before and during World War

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    Black Death Effects

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    The Black Death was one of the most devastating outbreaks in human history. The disease spread fast and covered the territory from China to England and the ultimate western part of Europe. Covering almost entire Europe within several years. The disease was a true mystery for Medieval people since the medicine was under developed to cope with such a disease as the Black Death, which was presumably a plague. The development and spread of the disease was fast and provoked the depopulation of Europe

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    The Tragedy of Kristallnacht Kristallnacht was a very tragic night during the Holocaust. Nothing was ever the same between the millions of Jews getting killed, their homes getting destroyed, and their race being slowly eradicated by Hitler. The aftermath led to even more severe damage. However, the death of one person started it all. The Night of Broken Glass was an intensely devastating occurrence which took place due to the assassination of Ernst Vom Rath and brought upon various consequences to

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