Cause of World War 1 World War I officially began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. The war started between two nations, Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and ended with thirty-two nations. France, England, Russia, the United States, and Serbia, along with twenty-three other nations fought as the Associated Powers. Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria fought as the Central Powers. According to Encarta Encyclopedia, the four-year war...

Cartoons The cartoons of this century have been very ground breaking and funny. Cartoons that have made many people laugh and cry. These cartoons that force us to use our imagination and our emotions are ground breaking cartoons. Cartoons are drawings that artist draw and are put together at very high speeds. Cartoons appeal to all ages and makes us all laugh. Cartoons appeal to our emotions and to our funny...

Camera Techniques To optimize the quality of one’s portrait photos, a photographer must combine a series of camera techniques. A photo is a piece of art used to capture a moment in time. For a photographer to beautify the appearance of the photos he takes, he must know how his camera works. The photographer must adjust his aperture to suit the type of film he has and know how to load...

Buy a Computer Purchasing a computer consists of research and planning. Computers are absolutely marvellous and delightful, and it is very difficult to get by without having one intimately involved in your life. However, they are also obnoxious, frustrating, uncooperative, and a royal pain in the neck and cost twice as much to purchase, as they will be worth a few months down the road. If computers were not, identical to...

Burkina Faso Until the end of the 19th century, the history of Burkina Faso was dominated by the empire-building Mossi, who are believed to have come from central or eastern Africa sometime in the 11th century. For centuries, the Mossi peasant was both farmer and soldier, and the Mossi people were able to defend their religious beliefs and social structure against forcible attempts to convert them to Islam by Muslims from...

Bullfighting Bullfighting is a sports spectacle involving a bull and one or more contestants. It is fought in an outdoor arena and is done according to certain rules and procedures. Traditionally, the bullfight is a combination of ritual and mortal combat. The purpose is to maneuver the bull gracefully and kill it in a manner both courageous and extraordinary. Although bullfighting is mainly confined to Spain and Spanish-speaking countries in the...

Buddhism Although Buddhism was a major influence on both Chinese and Japanese history, key political and social circumstances led to the rise and rapid decline of Buddhism in China, while it remained a dominant religion in Japan. There are many political and social reasons that help explain why the period of history in China between 500 and 1200 was not compatible with Buddhism influences on Japan. In China, the periods of...

Buddha and His Teachings   The Buddha and His Teachings Buddhism was founded he Siddhartha Gautama. Gautama was born around 566 BC where he began life as a Kshatriya Prince. When he was young, he lived a more sheltered life; not seeing the sickness and poverty he was surrounded by outside of the kingdom. When his charioteer drove him around one day he saw, for the first time, illness, old age,...