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Huge Franciscus
Number of Words: 523 / Number of Pages: 2
... accept the fact that she died after he had a chance to fix what was wrong.
Dr. Franciscus likes to get his work done correctly and quickly with the absence of any bond with his patients. He moves from patient to patient “ . . . without affection for the patients. He does not want to be touched by them.” (p140). He would continue in his work in a steady fashion if not for Imelda. Hugh “ . . . must have been awed by the sight of this girl.” (p143). With the small act of concealment, he was determined to fix her lip. He already had developed a mental relationship with Imelda. He told himself that he ...
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Louis XIV Had A Greater Impact On European History Than Peter The Great
Number of Words: 1063 / Number of Pages: 4
... a financial burden, yet his long reign is associated with the greatest age of French culture, symbolized by the Palace of Versailles.” (Biographies: Louis XIV). His influence was paramount to all other monarchs prior to him and the glorification of France was his ruthless priority. The legacy of the “Man with the Iron Mask” told of a ruthless side of him that would not even allow his own brother to interfere, if in fact it was his brother in the mask.
Although Peter the Great was equally ruthless, his overall impact on the rest of Europe did not equal that of Louis XIV. Peter the Great was an imposing ...
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Holocaust-concentration Camps
Number of Words: 595 / Number of Pages: 3
... concentration camp. This camp was a holding center camp. This means that the people that were sent there were going to be kept there until they died, or until the war was over. The people at this camp were usually killed by diseases like tuberculosis and typhus. The bodies were thrown all over and just disregarded like they were nothing at all. They had some mass graves to put the bodies in, but most were just lying around. The most famous person from this camp was Anne Frank. Her diary lead today’s generation to fully understand this period of time. When the camp was liberated on April 1 ...
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On Apartheid
Number of Words: 2365 / Number of Pages: 9
... races were separated from one another. However, white South Africans used apartheid chiefly as a way to control the vast nonwhite majority.
Most South Africans strongly opposed apartheid. Leading opposition groups included the African National Congress (ANC). Most ANC members were blacks. Between 1948 and 1991, large numbers of people protested apartheid by staging boycotts, demonstrations, and strikes. Violence often broke out, and thousands of people, most of them blacks, were killed."
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"But apartheid's effects continued even after the laws were repealed. Today, many blacks and othe ...
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Boz
Number of Words: 1451 / Number of Pages: 6
... James Lambert. After John Dickens was released, the family moved in with Mrs. Roylance, the person whom Charles had been staying with while his family was away. After much quarreling between John and James, the Dickens’ moved out and Charles began to attend school again. He became an independent reporter at Doctor’s Commons Courts in 1829. By 1832 he had become a very successful shorthand reporter of Parliamentary deputies in the House of Commons, and began work as a reporter for a newspaper. It was in the new house on Norfolk St. that Charles met his first love, Maria Beadwell. Mari ...
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History Of Th People Of Crete
Number of Words: 465 / Number of Pages: 2
... upper class at times binded their feet with a white leatther shoes.Men wore no clothing above the waist.At the waist the men wore a short skirt or a waist cloth.The skirt had a slit at the side of workingmen.When there were dignitaries and ceremonies the skirt reached to the ground for both male and female.The men sometimes wore drawers in the winter time along with a longer outer garment of wool or skins.The clothing was tightly laced at the middle for both male and female.the bodice of the womens dress was laced below the bust, opens in a circle then closed in a medici collar at the neck.T ...
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Events Leading To The Cause Of
Number of Words: 1257 / Number of Pages: 5
... into the fertile Ohio Valley.
The French and Indian War had cost England much money. To pay this off they started making taxes on the colonies. They first tax was the Sugar Act of 1764. This was an indirect tax on goods such as sugar, coffee, other imported items. The colonists started claiming this was taxation without representation. They repealed the act.
The next act was the Stamp Act of 1765. This was a direct tax on printed goods such as deeds, marriage licenses, advertisements, newspapers, diplomas, custom documents, and playing cards. The colonists were again angered because they had ...
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Industrial Revolution 3
Number of Words: 868 / Number of Pages: 4
... lost their jobs because of technological advances. Very few workers were ever very far from poverty. The American workforce faced many other hardships as well. The performances of routine and repetitive tasks were difficult for the workers to adjust to. Machines now did many tasks once done by artisans. Factories employed workers ten hours a day and six days a week. Factory accidents were very frequent and commonly deadly.
Many employers felt the need to increase the use of women and children in the workforce. They could hire the women and children for lower wages than adult males. Women ...
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The Holocaust
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... covered by skin. After the Jews in
prison camps were freed, their diseases were treated as well as
could be treated. Premature aging was one of the most
prominent disabling effects of survivors. Digestive tract
diseases were also very common because of the emotional
disturbances and inadequate diet during their incarceration. The
experience also placed them at risk of coronary diseases,
cerebrovascular diseases, and arteriosclerosis. All of this was
consistent with the premature aging and the atrophy of the heart
muscle due to the extreme undernourishment during captivity. ...
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Arhurian Romances
Number of Words: 1379 / Number of Pages: 6
... thought of as his chattel, or property. He can do what he pleases with her and she must listen to him or possibly be killed. He respects and loves her as long as she is loyal and faithful to him. If someone were to interfere in his or her relationship, they would fight ‘til death or until someone begs for mercy. The knights fought for the most beautiful and did what they pleased with them. They fought for them if necessary to keep respect for themselves and for their maiden. This is what the chivalric ideology was based on and so the knights followed and respected it. In the story of Erec a ...
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