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Articles Of Confederation
Number of Words: 602 / Number of Pages: 3
... armed forces. Congress could also borrow money as well as declare war and enter into treaties and alliances with foreign nations. With this power, Congress was able to make the look good by signing the Treaty of Paris in 1783. This treaty, signed along with Great Britain, concluded the American Revolution. By its terms, Great Britain recognized the thirteen colonies as the free and independent United States of America. However, the most important power was that Congress had the right to obtain territory and control development of the western territories, which was previously controlled by their mothe ...
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The Idea Of Humanism And The Renaissance
Number of Words: 508 / Number of Pages: 2
... skills to strongly rally the people of Florence
against their enemies.
The great changes in Education of the Renaissance were inspired at
first, by the desire of Humanists to be wise and to speak eloquently. The
idea of useful education for the people, and very "well rounded" schooling
in many different fields of learning were the new defined goals of
Renaissance education. People all over (Especially in Florence) revived
the Ancient Greek studies of Plato, Aristotle, and many others. People
began seriously questioning what these people said and re-developed the
"Scientific Theory" in which yo ...
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Egyptian Cosmogony
Number of Words: 2722 / Number of Pages: 10
... often improvised acts, of a group nature. This is a valuable kind of expression through out all types of black music America holds a rich artistic background, expressively reflecting the circumstances and times of their place. Of these creative endeavors, the most cultural and uniquely American music is that of the art of Jazz. Jazz music is a story, idea, or feeling through the infusion of complex rhythm and musical interface, which often comes so effortlessly and naturally to these musicians. Their instruments provided a voice to be heard, a voice that commonly was countered by the ignorance of a you ...
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Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
Number of Words: 571 / Number of Pages: 3
... be fashioned into sleek aerodynamic shape with small frontal area. These long, thin, 'sausage' shapes tended to be highly unstable. Slight changes in the craft's center of gravity could cause the larger volumes of hydrogen to shift wildly with sometimes with tragic results. Zeppelin's design broke the technological barrier and made his name a synonym for the airship. His solution contained the hydrogen in separate 'cells' all within a long, thin, light-weight metal frame covered with
stretched fabric. His first rigid airship, the Luftshiff Zeppelin 1, made its initial flight in July 1900. While ...
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Enclosure Act
Number of Words: 330 / Number of Pages: 2
... own land. These attitudes, however, hurt the poor farmers. The landlords, who were concerned about profits, did not care like they did during the village method about waving rents and look out for the farmers. Now all they wanted was their money.
One of the bad things that happened during the enclosure of land was what happened to the small farmers. In some cases the population of the poor cottagers, common pasturagers, and small farmers dropped. The landlords were not taking care of them like they us to during depressed times. The broke up small traditional communities.
After the in England ...
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Cold War Propaganda
Number of Words: 1897 / Number of Pages: 7
... from satellite imagery that showed the missiles being transported to Cuba and show the missile sites inside Cuba. "With Castro's approval, the Soviet Union began building secret missile bases in Cuba. On October 16, President Kennedy was shown photographs of the missile installations in Cuba." (Rawnsley, 7) On the surface one would get scared by something like this and that is exactly what The Soviet Union wanted to happen. The whole Cold war was propaganda so by scaring the U.S into thinking they had missiles in Cuba gave them the edge on the war. If The Soviet Union wanted to bomb the U ...
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Causes Of The Civil War
Number of Words: 1949 / Number of Pages: 8
... government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected the Northern manufacturer. It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods.
The North also wanted a good banking and currency system and federal subsidies for shipping and internal improvements. The South felt these were discriminatory and that they favored Northern commercial interests.
Now the main reason for the South's secession was t ...
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The Reign Of Terror
Number of Words: 1312 / Number of Pages: 5
... but rather ordinary citizens accused
of hoarding, profiteering, or one of the various offenses included under
the Law of Suspects. In 1794 the dictatorship of the Committee intensified,
but from fear, not popular support. Executions continued to increase (258
in April of 1794, 345 in May, and 688 in June) and differences in the
Committee became dramatically. And on July 27, 1794 Robespierre was
shouted down from the national convention while giving a speech to answer
attacks against his policies. Because his speeches were so aggressive it
caused people to fear for there own safety. Cries of “Dow ...
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Debate - “crito,” By Plato, An
Number of Words: 1805 / Number of Pages: 7
... populace doesn’t matter, only the opinion of the authority should be taken into consideration. Socrates also says that he shouldn’t mind dying considering he had a long and full life. He goes on to point out that, the point of living is not to live long but to live well. Moreover, that to live well, one has to live honorably. He feels that he has lived a good life and if he were to escape, then he wouldn’t be living honorably, thus not making life worth living. Crito gives him a few other reasons including; thinking about his family (who would raise his children?), thinking about his followers ...
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Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 819 / Number of Pages: 3
... meeting of the tiny German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi Party. In 1920, the 25 Points of the Nazi Party were proclaimed, one of which called for the removal of the Jews from German society. The Nazis tried to seize power by force in November 1923 (called the Beer Hall Putsch), but were thwarted by the Munich police. Hitler was Convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which ...
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