Inspirational speeches confront the emotions. They focus on topics and matters that are close to people''s hearts. During wars, generals used inspiring speeches to prepare the troops for battle. A speech that conveys knowledge and enhances understanding can inform us. The information must be clear...
I might not feel the same if I did have the same goal. I guess the question is, what carrot would you want? I just feel like I'm treading water. I want to feel a sense of progression with my character, of them improving. For example, EoD gave us two new mounts, a new mini...
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lands. The Western victors, however, have secured no such advantages. It is obvious that modern war is not good business from a financial point of view. Although we won both the world wars, we should now be much richer if they had not occured. If men were actuated by self-interest, wh...
But what directed my fingers to the keyboard regarding the realities of scale was a question that came to me this weekend, when I was asked about the impact of wars on the climate by a journalist, and it struck me very strongly that this exposed a common delusion about the power of ...
When power is locked into the system and it is not easy to kill people, the earth is overcrowded, so we can only digest the population through war, wipe out the weak in the war, and the population suddenly drops sharply, which is the result of repeated world wars. Every war, civilizati...
The religion declares believers to be brothers but he spreads separatist views among them, making believers enemies to one another. This enmity can sometimes cause wars. Or, he magnifies the small problems among them so much that the parties do not show love and respect to one another. ...
As veterans die off, their progeny tend to scrutinize the wars they fought more critically. The Civil War for decades was viewed as a struggle to preserve the Union, “with slavery as a political and social issue being minimized,” cultural historian Michael Kammen recently wrote. “Not until...
It was a series of wars fought between the English kings and the French kings for the French throne. The second historical event was the peasant uprising of 1381, during the reign of King Richard II. This peasant uprising was the direct result of exploitation and oppression of the peasants ...
Parent company Enron had hidden its debt by transferring it (on paper) to wholly-ownedsubsidiaries—many of which were named after Star Wars characters—but it still recognized revenue from the subsidiaries, giving the impression that Enron was performing much better than it was.25 ...