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On The Chinese Dynasty
Number of Words: 456 / Number of Pages: 2
... used to exchanged for goods. The currency got of things exchanged for itself. Two nicknames for it are paper money and flying money. One last achievement is trade. Trade is one of the most important systems to the Chinese. They traded silk and other things and eventually got a lot of things back. The Chinese got a lot of things back from trade. These are some examples of the trade system.
The Chinese dynasties are really amazing. The Sui Dynasty lasted between 589-618 A.D. Yian Jian conquered the Chen kingdom and unified China. That was the first time in 400 years it was unified. The ...
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Doomsday
Number of Words: 614 / Number of Pages: 3
... defend themselves. The Berlin Wall went up. Russians controlled West Berlin, Britain controlled the northwest, America controlled the southwest. Two atomic bombs were dropped in total, both on August 6, 1945. The Cold War did not fully end until the destruction of the Berlin Wall, 1990.
What would it be like living each day in constant fear? Afraid that this day will be the final day in the world's existence. In May of 1998 India began its testing of their nuclear weapons. This shows that they are still being made and still in use. Although they are not being used in wars, there is the threat t ...
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Brazil Context
Number of Words: 3190 / Number of Pages: 12
... Table 1) 80% of the population is urban and 20% are rural dwellers. 55% is under 20 years of age and less than 10% is over 60. The average life expectancy is 63 years old.
The majority of Brazilians are of European or African descent. Besides the original Portuguese settlers, other significant ethnic groups include Africans, Germans, Italians, and Japanese. The official language is Portuguese, but English is widely used in the business community. The predominant religion is Roman Catholicism. There is religious freedom, and religion is not a source of social unrest.
The general level of e ...
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Contrasting Views
Number of Words: 606 / Number of Pages: 3
... was too submissive. Washington wanted blacks to try and get along with society "trying to fit in". He was encouraging blacks to become educated in the "white man's world". He tried to get blacks into working in agriculture, helping with industry and, to accepting that they get a second class status in American society. DuBois felt that Washington's plan would cause blacks to give up.
While DuBois respected Booker T. Washington and his accomplishments, he felt that blacks needed political power to protect what they had and what they earned. DuBois called for a new plan of action. He felt that the g ...
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The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
Number of Words: 1113 / Number of Pages: 5
... to Miami, apparently to defect to the United States. The Cuban Revolutionary Council, the government in exile, in New York City released a statement saying that the bombings in Cuba were "... carried out by 'Cubans inside Cuba' who were 'in contact with' the top command of the Revolutionary Council ... ." The New York Times reporter covering the story alluded to something being wrong with the whole situation when he wondered how the council knew the pilots were coming if the pilots had only decided to leave Cuba on Thursday after " ... a suspected betrayal by a fellow pilot had precipitated a ...
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Articles Of Confederation
Number of Words: 767 / Number of Pages: 3
... conducting foreign relations, declaring war or peace,
maintaining an army and navy, settling boundary disputes,
establishing and maintaining a postal service, and various
lesser functions. Some of these responsibilities were
shared with the states, and in one way or another Congress
was dependent upon the cooperation of the states for
carrying out any of them.
Four visible weaknesses of the articles, apart from
those of organization, made it impossible for Congress to
execute its constitutional duties. These were analyzed in
numbers 15-22 of The FEDERALIST, ...
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Analysing War Poetry
Number of Words: 2251 / Number of Pages: 9
... there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,’
He claims the land in the form of a ‘richer dust’ the richer dust being his dead remains that will slowly decompose into the soil, making it English soil.
Brooke is very sentimental about what his country has given him in his lifetime, and this is shown throughout the poem, but especially here:
‘A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns ...
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Importance Of The Renaissance Period For European Overseas Exploration
Number of Words: 297 / Number of Pages: 2
... ideas that affected overseas exploration for Europe are technological advancements in cartography, printing, and navigational devices for ships.
The word Renaissance means “rebirth of knowledge”. during the Renaissance, many Arabic thoughts were reborn, such as mathematics, geometry, and algebra. So were sciences such as chemistry and astronomy. Many of these ideas led to technological advancements in Europe like the Astrolabe, Sextant, and even new forms of shipbuilding such as the caravel, invented in 1470. In 1454, Johannes Gutenburg perfected the printing press. This led to the fast spread of ...
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Holocaust Revisited
Number of Words: 1292 / Number of Pages: 5
... The most prominent theme in this book is the consideration of the uniqueness of the Holocaust as a historical event. The authors examine many opinions on this topic, and why or why not the Holocaust was unprecedented in its practical annihilation of a population and the reasons behind the wished elimination of the Jews. The other questions in the book are in regard to what happened in the concentration camps, and what is true and what is debatable.. These questions can be answered in many ways, and are supported on both sides by widely respected writers and historians. It is, in the end, up to ...
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The Atomic Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki
Number of Words: 1746 / Number of Pages: 7
... 2,
1942, scientists working in a secret laboratory under the bleachers of a
football field in Chicago achieved the first man-made nuclear reaction. An
atomic bomb could now be developed. Many scientists and other skilled
workers participated in the making of the first atomic bomb. However, only
few knew what they were making. In 1944, after D-Day, the Alsos (a troop
sent to find how far the Germans had come in the building of the atomic
bomb) radioed back that they had given up in their attempt to make it.
Still, despite scientists' pleas with the President to discontinue it, the
U.S. maintained ...
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