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War In The Falklands
Number of Words: 711 / Number of Pages: 3
... Some thought
Spain, Argentina thought they owned it, and Britain thought they owned it. No
agreements could be made.
Fact:
The war of the Falklands was a perfect opportunity to unleash
state of the art weapons on the opponents.
Later, after the first invasions, some messages went out over the radios.
The first ones told people of a small invasion, then they began broadcasting
from live sights, complete with gun fire in the background.
There were a lot of battles that went on between the British and
the Argentineans. The British won some, and the Argentineans won others. T ...
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The French Revolution
Number of Words: 321 / Number of Pages: 2
... revolution of 1792 occured because of the growing dissatisfaction of groups such as the Jacobins toward the constitutional monarchy. These groups were interested in forming a republic, allowing for more radical reformation at the hands of the people. The Jocobins themselves soon became divided, however, between the Girondists, who wanted a representative and more conservative republic, and the Mountain, who wanted a more direct repuplican government and who worked with the sans-culottes to achieve their goals. The sans- culottes were influential because they were comprised of the masses and wanted i ...
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Langston Hughes Voice Of A Tim
Number of Words: 1516 / Number of Pages: 6
... had just begun.
The turn of the century brought many changes for African-Americans. They had slowly built up communities in America’s urban areas or rural land. Although a very few number of African-Americans could actually be considered successful at this point in time, most had cut all ties from their family’s slave master and had made a life for themselves and the generations to come. Despite the advances made, African-Americans were still treated horribly by whites. They were segregated from society, placed on the outside and looked upon as outcasts. They were not given the same freedom ...
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Lincoln And His Generals
Number of Words: 1494 / Number of Pages: 6
... He introduces the state of the Union army as one that has no shape to it. This includes the lack of any plan of attack, as the thought of war had not been translated into any type of scheme. The armies lacked organization and communication, and existing qualified generals were old and inept. The first task that Lincoln had was the immediate selection of Generals. Lincoln’s selection process was sometimes based on political and personal grounds, and he was in the position of selecting from a pool of generals that had no experience leading a large army. Williams
tells us that even if the selectio ...
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Article Of Confederation
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... each state was given the power to regulate their own currency. Each state issued it’s own money. As a result nobody knew exactly how much a New York dollar was worth compared to a one from New Jersey or Virginia. The more money there was in circulation, the less a dollar was worth. Finally, there was just a financial collapse and a paper money was considered worthless. For five long years the colonies experienced the worst business depression. This inefficiency to deal with the regulation of currency not only caused one of the worst depressions the colonists had ever seen but also set ...
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D-Day
Number of Words: 4908 / Number of Pages: 18
... work on preparing
the hundreds of thousands of men for the greatest battle in history.
By June of 1944 the landing forces were training hard, awaiting D-Day.
1,700,000 British, 1,500,000 Americans, 175,000 from Dominions (mostly Canada),
and another 44,000 from other countries were going to take part.
Not only did men have to be recruited and trained but also equipment had to be
built to transport and fight with the soldiers. 1,300 warships, 1,600 merchant
ships, 4,000 landing craft and 13,000 aircraft including bombers, fighters and
gliders were built. Also several new types of tanks and ar ...
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Hong Kong 2
Number of Words: 1353 / Number of Pages: 5
... lifestyle to which they are accustomed.
The Chinese government’s restriction of free speech has oppressed many citizens of Hong Kong. Before the hand-over on July 1, 1997, a vigil was held in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park for the victims of the June 4, 1989 massacre at Tianemen Square. Fifty-thousand people attended the vigil, which remembered
those who died while rallying for democracy. Said pro-democracy campaigner Szeto Wah, “Tonight. we are again using sparks of candlelight, solidified drops of ‘tears,’ to remember you and mourn you." However, demonstrations like this are not looked on by approval b ...
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“how Important Was The Role Of
Number of Words: 608 / Number of Pages: 3
... workers were women.
“ The courage of women in the munitions factories has never been sufficiently recognized. They had to work under conditions of real danger to life and limb, and what some of them dreaded still more, of grotesque disfigurement some of the pearls of the shell filling factories was toxic jaundice resulting from TNT poisoning. This turned their faces a bright repulsive yellow. The poor girls were nicknamed “canaries”. They were quite proud of this designation as they had earned it in the path of duty.” From the war memoirs of Lloyd George.
The crisis caused by the second U-boat campaig ...
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Aeschylus
Number of Words: 1840 / Number of Pages: 7
... The Libation-Bearers continues the story with
the return of
Agamemnon's son, Orestes, who kills his mother and avenges his father.
Orestes is
pursued by the Furies in punishment for his matricide, and finally finds
refuge in Athens,
where the god Athena relieves him of his persecution.
The events of Agamemnon take place against a backdrop that would have been
familiar to an Athenian audience. Agamemnon is returning from his victory at
Troy, which
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has been besieged for ten years by Greek armies attempting to recover Helen,
Agamemnon's brother's wife, stolen treacherously by the Tro ...
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Life In 18th Century Europe
Number of Words: 1006 / Number of Pages: 4
... Madame de Sevigne told her daughter that if she wants to survive, “Don’t get pregnant and don’t catch smallpox.” (5) Disease was so rampant during the 18th century that even the rich and powerful could not avoid infection.
One might think that the royalty of the 18th century would rarely catch such deadly diseases, but they did. Disease was a major influence on the aristocracy. During the eighty years between 1695 and 1775 disease killed a tsar of Russia, a king of France, a king of Austria, a queen of England, and a queen of Sweden. Disease many times ended dynasties by killing heirs. In 1700 ...
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