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Development of the Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile

Throughout history, navies have made significant impacts in the technological development of human kind. These impacts range from improvements in metal technologies made while perfecting the cannon to the advent of cybernetics, which allowed more precise targeting of weaponry. One of the more sophisticated developments in naval history has been the invention of the submarine.…

De Tocqueville’s Democracy In America: Summary & Analysis

It has been said that a French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville, who visited the United States in the 1830’s, “understood us” in a way that few observers (foreign and domestic) have. Furthermore, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is often cited by present-day critics because so many of the observations in it seem extraordinarily suitable even more…

Communist China and Mao Tse-tung

To say that the Chinese Communist revolution is a non-Western revolution is more than a clich‚. That revolution has been primarily directed, not like the French Revolution but against alien Western influences that approached the level of domination and drastically altered China’s traditional relationship with the world. Hence the Chinese Communist attitude toward China’s traditional…

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Biography & Music

The composer of some of the most influential pieces of music ever written, Ludwig van Beethoven created a bridge between the 18th-century classical period and the new beginnings of Romanticism. His greatest breakthroughs in composition came in his instrumental work, including his symphonies. Unlike his predecessor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, for whom writing music seemed to…