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The French Revolution
Number of Words: 926 / Number of Pages: 4
... it went too far, and it achieved too little.
Thomas Paine a radical thinker of the era once said ‘Time makes more converts
than reason’. With this quote we can see why revolution was successful in England, but
not France. England slowly used the Magna Carta (1213), Petition of Rights (1628), and
the Habeas Corpus Act (1679) to limit it’s monarch. It was a long road that was by no
means perfect. With monarchs who paid little attention to the act(s) in place during their
reign and parliament, like James (1603-1625) and Charles I (1625-1649) it was hard to
see progress quickly. These acts played a ...
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Hierogyphics
Number of Words: 1006 / Number of Pages: 4
... is more important then how it is spelled.
For instance, the word that is spelled "cat" is actually pronounced "kat". The
name that is spelled "Cleopatra" is pronounced "Kliopadra". So, these word
would be written in hieroglyphs the way they sound. Because the words
"where" and "wear" sound alike they could be written using the same
hieroglyphic signs. The same could be said of the words "there" and "their".
HIEROGLYPHS are more then just a way of writing, they are also
pictures, and as such they are meant to be estheticly pleasing. The picture
signs can be written from right to left; from le ...
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Cold War 4
Number of Words: 1092 / Number of Pages: 4
... position. In 47 the US started funding the rebuilding of European infrastructure in a system called the Marshall Plan. Russia in turn brought forth its own funding called the Molotov Plan. Because of that, they were able to spread communism through many countries. Some of these nations were: Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Germany, and numerous countries in Southeastern Asia. But on the US side we had the support from almost the entire Western Europe. So the tension started, between Western Europe or a republic society and Eastern Europe and communism.
There are many k ...
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Cruel Treatment From The Briti
Number of Words: 403 / Number of Pages: 2
... right of the people to alter or abolish it." It gives the people of America the freedom to impeach untrustworthy rulers and dictators if they wish to. The freedom that Thomas Jefferson gave us is still in practice today. The middle section justified why the colonists were revolting against the Britis h Empire. Here Jefferson writes that the King of Great Britain "is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations." He reminds the reader that the King has refused to allow the Governors to pass important laws "necessary for the public good," obstru cted the administration and that the king is sending ove ...
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Harry S. Truman
Number of Words: 1482 / Number of Pages: 6
... use atomic bombs against Japan, believing that they would end the war quickly, save lives, and place the United States in a position to revolutionize Japanese life. Two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, coupled with Russia's declaration of war against Japan, brought the war to an end on August 14, 1945.
Some persons have argued that Truman used the bomb to influence the Russians rather than the Japanese, but they have demonstrated only that he and some of his aides hoped that this new evidence of American power would restrain the Russians at the same time that it accomplished American objectives ...
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Plains Indians
Number of Words: 1751 / Number of Pages: 7
... Dance varies slightly between tribes. The Crow held the ceremony to seek aid for revenge for family members killed in warfare. The entire event surrounding the Sun Dance generally lasts from four to seven days, though longer events exist. On the first day a tree is selected to serve as the sun-pole, the center pole for the Sun Dance Lodge, or New-Life-Lodge, as called by the Cheyenne. (Atwood) The selection of the tree is usually done by the eldest woman of the camp, who leads a group of elaborately dressed maidens to the tree to strip off its branches. On the next morning, right as the sun is seen ov ...
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Creation As Seen Through Greco
Number of Words: 3637 / Number of Pages: 14
... parallels that can be found in many of these cultures.
If we take a closer look at some of the different theories of creation one of the most interesting reoccurring themes is the belief that all was created from nothingness. Each culture has a name for it but it is commonly referred to as the void.
For example, The Greco-Roman theory of creation refers to the void as Chaos. “In the beginning, there was only Chaos, who is not quite a god but a shapeless and confused mass of elements. This was all there was for who knows how long” (3). “The Norse believed that at the beginning of ...
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The Toltecs, Aztecs, And Mayans
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... Warfare was considered a religious duty by the
Aztecs. They fought not only to enlarge their empire but also to take
prisoners to sacrifice to the gods. The market place was a major center of
Aztec life, more than 60,000 people visited it daily. They had no system
of money, they traded goods and services for other goods and services. They
had no pack-animals, a nd as a result, they themselves had to carry all
their goods over land. The end of the Aztec empire came when the Spaniards
came. The first time the Spaniards were mistaken for returning gods. When
they returned to Spain, they told of all ...
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Causes Of The Civil War 3
Number of Words: 1709 / Number of Pages: 7
... wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal 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 inter ...
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Black Power
Number of Words: 516 / Number of Pages: 2
... words, "organized a Negro community [meeting] in the South to take up arms in self defense against racist violence and use them!" When night
riders of the KKK and police cars approached his house where the meeting was held, Williams and others fired their guns until their oppressors left. Williams went on later to write (concerning the incident),"I accept this responsibility and am proud of it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves that where the law is unable, or unwilling to enforce order, the citizens can, and must, act in self-defense agai ...
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