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Ancient Babylon
Number of Words: 1287 / Number of Pages: 5
... harsh do to their ineducation. Despite this the wealthy class usually enjoyed more freedom from the law than the lower classes. There was no jury in the court back in the times of Babylon. The code of Hammurabi was like an eye for an eye punishment. If you killed someone than you would be killed.
The last law was the Law of Procedures. This dealt with the way all of the other laws were carried out. It also had to do with the way ceremonies were carried out. These ceremonies could include marriage and other religious ceremony.
The first group of people to take over the Mesopotamia region was the ...
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Franklin Roosevelt
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... Happy Warrior." In 1928
Roosevelt became Governor of New
York.
He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March
there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and
almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and
Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring
recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in
danger of losing farms and homes, and reform,
especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
By 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery, but businessmen and
bankers ...
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Gothic Cathedrals
Number of Words: 865 / Number of Pages: 4
... buttress to create a great cathedral that is at once taller, lighter, wider, and more elegant than the ones before. Even though the pointed arch could support more weight than its predecessors, there was still the problem of finding a way to support the heavy masonry ceiling vaults over wide spans. In order to support the outward thrust of barrel vaults, vertical support walls have to be very thick and heavy. What makes possible the extensive use of ribbed vaulting and pointed arches to “open” and “lighten” the walls and space of the cathedral is the flying buttress—“an arched bridge above the ...
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The Ice Age
Number of Words: 309 / Number of Pages: 2
... make it across the oceans.
and all its hardships were mostly expressed by the people with no clothing or food. Many of the humans then could not find any food when the plants died, so they had to put all their ideas together to think of hunting any kind of animal. Many of the animals they hunted included buffalo, and buffalo was the main animal besides the fish they caught. They also shot and speared different kinds of birds. Back then, they didn't have your ordinary domestic animals and pets. There were probably some very hard times and discomfort. ...
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The Fall Of The Roman Empire
Number of Words: 1281 / Number of Pages: 5
... things, 10 years of military or legal service before any magistracy could be held, annual election and two years between consecutive offices. This system was designed to ensure that no individual could become too powerful by dividing jurisdiction between several groups and allowing for veto. The Gracchi brothers, Tiberius and Gaius are often blamed for causing divisions and antagonizing the aristocracy and particularly the senate by introducing laws and legislation that, although promoting egalitarianism for the poor, were catalysts to later breaches of the Cursus Honorum. Both Tiberius and Gaius had ...
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Richard M. Nixon
Number of Words: 985 / Number of Pages: 4
... to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition, he seemed likely to win a scholarship to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Nixon had dreamed for years of going to a famous college in the East, but his dreams were shattered when he had to turn down both opportunities. Because his older brother Harold’s long battle with tuberculous had drained the family’s funds there was no money to pay for the cost of traveling to the East Coast and living there. Nixon swallowed his disappointment and enrolled at nearby Whittier College. Nixon majored in history, and one of his histo ...
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George S. Patton
Number of Words: 2027 / Number of Pages: 8
... Benito” who was very well known for once returning from a battle with Indians, with a basket full of the enemies heads. George Smith Patton Junior was born on November 11, 1885 in San Gabriel, California. Even though George grew up on his father ranch, he learned a lot of things. Here he was taught how to hunt, fish, sail, horseback ride and many things about agriculture. His mother was an excellent horsewoman who taught Patton, while his father read to him the works of Homer, Shakespeare and the Holy Bible.
All that Patton could learn from his parents was very important because he was not able to be ...
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The 1960s
Number of Words: 1432 / Number of Pages: 6
... significant to you? Name some of the social trends you took part in. Well, I didn't have any hero's or someone to look up to until later on in my 20's when someone invited me to Montreal to watch a folk singer called Pete Seager. From this time on, I became really dedicated and interested in music and this really influenced my life. I was a teacher than, so I didn't really take part in social events, yet there was a building north of Jarvis called Yorkville and teenagers would usually gather there to dance and have fun. I would occasionally go to that place.
State the differences in fashion from t ...
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Abstract On Communist Mannifes
Number of Words: 415 / Number of Pages: 2
... in was that the laborers themselves should reap the fruits of their labor not the capitalist bourgeois. In order to accomplish this the ownership of all capital must be redistributed from the upper-middle class to all the people including the laborers. He also believed that the bourgeois was no longer morally fit to be the ruling class in society because it allowed its workers to sink into such a state of poverty. According to Marx, society could no longer live under the bourgeois. The bourgeois was no longer compatible with society. The proletarians would have to revolt against the politically ...
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Building And Keeping A
Number of Words: 1276 / Number of Pages: 5
... together. America depends on many things to keep it running, when these things
cross paths we develop an infrastructure. America must solve internal problems all of the
time. What these problems are and how we solve them is what shapes America. America
slowly began to build a continental empire.
In order to achieve the five things needed to create a continental empire America
had to start slow. They first had to gain the trust of their people and settle the differences
between them. This trust was partly gained by heroes of the Revolutionary War becoming
politicians. An example of th ...
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