Welcome to the Term Paper Galaxy!
  Search Papers  
 
  Site Navigation
    Main
       Home
       Instant Access!
       Members Login
       Questions
       Email Us

    Paper Topics
       American History
       Arts and Theatre
       Biographies
       Book Reports
       Business
       Computers
       Creative Writing
       English
       Geography
       Government
       Medical
       Legal
       Miscellaneous
       Music
       Poetry
       Religion
       Science
       Social Issues
       World History




Find World History Term Papers

Megellan's Voyage
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1065

.... began to get colder and colder, for they were moving south. The ships were in terrible shape, and some attempted mutinies even occured. The Santiago, which was set out on a different route, sank, and with it the crew and many provisions. They finally arrived at Puerto San Julian, where, according to Winchester, they found "patagones" which means big feet. They captured several "patagones" and named the land Patagonia. On October 21, 1520, Magellan finally sighted Cabo Virjenes, the eastern end of the M agellan strait, the entrance to the Pacific Ocean. Magellan sent two ships .....


Buddhism And The Six Point Att
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2558

.... that must be obeyed. Buddha preached his religion with an absence of authority. He attacked this authority on two fronts. First he wanted to end “monopolistic” hold of the Hindu Brahmins on religious teaching by making the faith accessible to the average person taking away the secrecy of the Brahmins. Buddha said, “there is no such thing as closed-fistedness in the Buddha”. (The Worlds Religions pg. 94) In other words the religious leadership did not hold all control on spiritual enlightenment. This first attack on authority was directed at an .....


The Significance Of The Franco-Prussian War On Europe
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 360

.... could have matched that of Britain. Britain saw this as a threat and the tension escalated between Britain and Germany. When war developed between the other countries in Europe Germany and Britain also began to wage war against one another. Germany's fleet of submarines sank an English ship prior to the United States joining in the War. The U.S. came out of their neutral status in the war so that they could keep the German naval submarines under control. At the same time nationalism began to flourish. in Germany. This nationalism evolved into an ideology of super .....


A Reflection Of Egypt In The 2
Number of pages: 12 | Number of words: 3197

.... of the character of Fahmy · Palace of Desire: Analysis of the character of Kamal · Sugar Street: Analysis of III. Conclusion Bibliography · Beard, Michael,ed. Naguib Mahfouz: from regional fame to global recognition. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1993. · Boger, Allen. "World Literature in Review: Egypt." World Literature Today 68 (Winter 1994): 203. · Cole, Gregory. "Conversation with Mahfouz." Africa Report 35, no.2, May/June 1990, 65-66. · Dickey, C."A Baedeker to Egypt's Soul." Newsweek 115 (June 26, 1990): 64. · El-Enany, Rashe .....


Comparison Of Martin Luther King Jr And Malcom X
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1691

.... bring it down. From the pain and exhaustion of his fight to free all people from the bondage of separation and injustice, he wrung his eloquent statement of what America could be. (Ansboro, pg.1) An American clergyman and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, he was one of the principle leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950's and 1960's, helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. After his assassination .....


US Generals Of WWII
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2899

.... in the Philippine Islands from 1902 to 1903. During World War I he served as chief of operations with the U.S. First Army in France. He became a colonel in 1918 and received wide military recognition for his handling of troops and equipment during the Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne operations. From 1919 to 1924 he was aide to the U.S. commander in chief, General John Pershing, and during the next three years he saw service in China. Marshall taught in various army schools and organizations from 1927 to 1936, when he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. In 1939 Marsh .....


Atomic Bomb
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 807

.... process to refining the Uranium was the first step in developing the . A massive enrichment laboratory/plant was built in Oak ridge, Tennessee. H.C. Urey and other associates at Columbia University devised a system that separated the Uranium using the principle of gaseous diffusion. Ernest Lawrence shortly following this invention came up with a process using magnetic separation. This process was quicker then the first. After the Uranium metal was separated form the Uranium ore it is put into a gas centrifuge to separate the U-235 and U-238. The first step of building an .....


Persian Gulf Crisis
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1758

.... comes out "victoriously". Repeatedly, Saddam and his government break international convention laws. During his war fought with Iran, the Iraqi army used chemical weapons on the Iranian troops and even on their own Iraqi population. This was seemingly overlooked by the rest of the world because most nations didn't want to see the Ayatollah's Islamic revolution rise. Iraq often obtained foreign arms support from other nations because of this. It wasn't until the invasion of Kuwait that the rest of the world seemed to realize the danger that Iraq posed to its own people and t .....



« prev  131  132  133  134  135  136  137  138  139  140  next »