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Russia's Five Year Plans
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... of interest groups such as trade unions was imposed to stop dissension and increase conformity to the new government policies.
After Lenin’s death in 1924, Joseph Stalin quickly gained control of the Communist party and the oppressive reforms started by Lenin were continued and at length became completely totalitarian. Stalin was able to attain control as a result of a multitude of reasons. He was not, however, Lenin’s choice for a successor. Lenin believed that Trotsky was the best suitable to take the Communist party to the next level. Trotsky was not all that popular among party members ...
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Civil War 9
Number of Words: 591 / Number of Pages: 3
... a petition, American citizens of African descent stated that " It (the government) can afford to trust him with a vote as safely as it trusted him with a bayonet." At this time they did not have full protection from the courts, nor did the courts receive a black person’s testimony. In 1865, the blacks did not receive homesteads promised to them by the government. They struggled for the right to purchase land. It seemed unfair to them that a person that was a former rebel could regain the land they owned before the civil war, yet the African Americans, who were good, loyal citizens of the United States ...
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Why Napleon Was A Success Essa
Number of Words: 454 / Number of Pages: 2
... brigadier general.
When Napoleon was made commander of the French army in Italy. He defeated four Austrian generals in succession, and each army he fought got bigger and bigger. This forced Austria and its allies to make peace with France. During this campaign the French realized how smart Napoleon was. He developed a tactic that worked very efficiently. He would cut the enemy's army in to two parts, then throw all his force on one side before the other side could rejoin them. This method was extremely effective against the Sardinian troops, because he defeated them five times in 11 days.
When Na ...
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Cold War Book Review
Number of Words: 680 / Number of Pages: 3
... This extensive research abroad, coupled with Drakulic’s own background experiences, provides a solid groundwork for the author’s thesis. However, any amount of research cannot surmount to the experiences Drakulic faced growing up with the lifestyle that comes with communist rule.
If she is discussing the perils of doing laundry or the conversation she had with her censor, Drakulic approaches each aspect of communist control with the same importance. Her stories focus on one topic at a time and colorful descriptions fill the pages. For example, Drakulic describes the influence her ...
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The Aztecs
Number of Words: 392 / Number of Pages: 2
... it was the best
thing to offer up to the gods. As the Aztec empire grew so did the human
sacrifice.
Sometimes the Aztecs performed cannibalism, believing they absorb the virtues of
the slain. The sacrificed people were thought to be given a high place in heaven.
The average Aztec was a farmer. He lived outside the city and grew crops for his
tribe. Farming was the most important means of survival due to the warm, humid
climate. They lived in small huts. The male was the head of the family. He would
often arrange marriages for their children. The language they spoke was the
Nahuan language that ...
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Early Colonies
Number of Words: 1854 / Number of Pages: 7
... did not rebel against but rather preferred the English culture. They did not want their children to be raised Dutch. Also, they felt that Holland was too liberal. Although they enjoyed the freedom of religion, they decided to leave for America. Pilgrims, or sojourners, left for America on the Mayflower and landed in Cape Cod in 1626. They had missed their destination, Jamestown. Although the climate was extremely rocky, they did not want to move south because of their Puritan beliefs. They thought that everything was predestined, and that they must have landed on this rocky place for a reason. Th ...
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Islamic Terrorism
Number of Words: 2557 / Number of Pages: 10
... demonstrated by the increase in international terrorism. However, Muslims do not view their actions as acts of terrorism, but self defense and their religious duty. The Islamic radical movements main success or failure has been their ability to gain legitimacy from the general public or from the greater part of it in each Muslim country.(14) During the past two decades, they have had enormous success with their ability to present themselves to the Arab and Muslim world as the true bearers of Islam. They appeal to the lower class due to the shared resentment of wealthy westerners while the midd ...
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Civil War 6
Number of Words: 2476 / Number of Pages: 10
... the Confederate armies of the South, ending slavery once and for all with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. All these things might be true but very often the roles of women, blacks, and the white men fighting are forgotten. Every person in every country
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can relate to the battles Americans faced in the mid 1860s. The U. S. Civil War showed slavery would no longer be tolerated, setting a precedent around the globe of human equality. When the United States Civil War is spoken of, the real stories behind the action are often forgotten and misinterpreted.
Summarizing Drew Gil ...
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Early Western Civilization
Number of Words: 1857 / Number of Pages: 7
... the
resting place of up to 50 sons of Ramesses II, perhaps the best known of
all the pharaohs, the ruler believed to have been Moses’nemesis in the
book of Exodus.
The Valley of the Kings, in which Tomb 5 is located, is just across
the Nile River from Luxor, Egypt. It is never exactly been off the
beaten track. Tourism has been brisk in the valley for millenniums:
graffiti scrawled on tomb walls proves that Greek and Roman travelers
stopped here to gaze at the wall paintings and hieroglyphics that were
already old long before the birth of Christ. Archaeologists have been
coming for c ...
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Black And White - A Look At The Existance Of Racial Differen
Number of Words: 740 / Number of Pages: 3
... Well first, you would have to accept that there is a difference in skin color between a Black man and a White man, and this difference is caused by different melanin levels. What causes this difference? Why, it\'s evolution, that gradual process of genetic change due to the environment a particular species habitates. Negroes lived in very hot, sun-drenched parts of Africa, and they needed protection from the sun. So they evolved darker skin so they wouldn\'t get sunburned as easily.
Now we all know that Africa is some of the most fertile, lush land in the world. Africa abounds with game and almos ...
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