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Cuban Communism
Number of Words: 2913 / Number of Pages: 11
... experienced in Africa and Asia in several ways. The 19th and 20th centuries displayed a great amount of expansion and the countries of the West were heavily responsible for this experience. Japan, however, played a key role in the history of imperialism as they joined in the fight for world power. First of all, Japan’s experience is different from the West’s in that it was more of a reactionary decision to expand, while the West had strong, rational motives to do so. Secondly, Japan’s choices in altering Korea’s society by such drastic measures are more powerful than how most of the West approa ...
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England's Territorial Expansion
Number of Words: 523 / Number of Pages: 2
... had begun to see themselves as a separate entity.
The opposition to these acts led to England passing even more laws, but this time they were in order to control, rather than tax, the colonists. The first of these decrees was the Declaratory Act in 1766. This law stated that England had the right to pass any laws they wanted and the colonists would have to obey them. In order to test this mandate, Maritime courts and the Writs of Assistance were used. These institutions were restricting the civil liberties of the settlers and the people were not happy with this. A lawyer named James Otis wrote a cri ...
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Brief Shao Lin Monk History
Number of Words: 1227 / Number of Pages: 5
... to the temple because the monks thought he was just an upstart or foreign meddler. Rejected by the monks, Tamo went to a nearby cave and meditated until the monks recognized his religious prowess and admitted him to the temple. Legend has it that he bore a hole through one side of the cave with his constant gaze; in fact, the act that earned him his recognition is lost to history. When Tamo joined the monks, he observed that they were not in good physical condition. Most of their routine paralleled that of Irish monks of the middle ages, who spent hours each day hunched over tables where they tr ...
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Korean And Vietnam Wars
Number of Words: 393 / Number of Pages: 2
... were disappointed and angry that the United States was involved in a slow, costly war that could not end in any kind of victory. As for the Vietnam War the public, for the majority of the war, was split into two groups, the hawks and doves. This was an even split. The hawks supported the war wanting American to commit with the full force possible and the doves wanted peace. The international reaction was also different. During the Korean War, the American troops would make up about 90 percent of the UN forces. Still the war was supported by nations which were a part of the UN but had no mater ...
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AZTECS
Number of Words: 1114 / Number of Pages: 5
... and pyramids. By 1502 the Aztec Empire expanded from Guatemala to San Luis Potosi which is in Central and Southern Mexico and extended 800 miles along a northwest-southeast axis. The conquered many cities and all became part of the empire which was wedged between high mountains and surrounded by lakes( of Lost Civilization/ Azetc Empire History).
The three social classes of the were slave, commoner, and nobility. The slaves (lowest class) were basically servants, although they could buy there way to freedom or if they escaped from their masters and reached the royal palace without being ...
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The Treaty Of Trianon
Number of Words: 1909 / Number of Pages: 7
... treaty, and now we may be able to accurately describe why. The problem of newly drawn borders, new and unique "nation-states", and ethnic minorities was not just a product of internal dispute in the areas effected, but also of external factors and wishes to a large extent. There were many different factors in the formation of the treaty. It was a culmination of nationality and ethnicity issues, economic, military, and transport interests, and geographical and political ambition that resulted in . Ironically, instead of resolving problems or as a stepping stone towards resolution in East Central Eu ...
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Bureacracy In Japan
Number of Words: 1079 / Number of Pages: 4
... sector, the LDP provided special benefits in return for consistent political support. For example, there was extensive reemployment of senior bureaucrats in big business and politics after their retirement. These people are called the amakudari ("decent from heaven"). They deepened the communication between the government and the private sector, giving the private sector a way to manipulate the government or vice versa. Some amakudari in the LDP became members of the zoku (tribes), one of the party factions . The zoku were party officials who developed enough knowledge to force the bureaucracy t ...
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Colonies 2
Number of Words: 535 / Number of Pages: 2
... respected the natives and even employed them from time to time. They remarked on how it wasn’t necessary to bare weapons around these people. Although the goal of these settlements was complete religious toleration, it wasn’t totally feasible.
In addition, the colonies in the south were supported economically mainly be large plantations. The aristocratic class owned large plots of land in which they forced their workers to produce a cash crop, tobacco for the most part. Very little land was owned in these areas by anyone but the wealthy. As for the Middle Colonies, privately owned farms were run b ...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Number of Words: 1467 / Number of Pages: 6
... thing in peoples’ lives during this era and most of Hopkins’ work were about things that went against the church and its beliefs. Even though people did not accept his poems during his time, they are very well accepted now and are considered masterpieces of his era.
Hopkins’ work was very different from what was expected. This reflects how different his era was and how much change it went through. Hopkins’ era was about change and pushing away from the norm. The reason that Hopkins’ work was not very well accepted by the people of his time was because the people were stuck only on what the ...
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Emperor Claudius
Number of Words: 2566 / Number of Pages: 10
... of the Julio-Claudian line.
Claudius was born on 1 August 10 BC at Lugdunum in Gaul, into the heart of the Julio-Claudian dynasty: he was the son of Drusus Claudius Nero, the son of Augustus\'s wife Livia, and Antonia, the daughter of Mark Antony. His uncle, Tiberius, went on to become emperor in AD 14 and his brother Germanicus was marked out for succession to the purple when, in AD 4, he was adopted by Tiberius. It might be expected that Claudius, as a well-connected imperial prince, would have enjoyed the active public life customary for young men of his standing but this was not the case. In ...
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