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A Study Of The American Revolu
Number of Words: 1638 / Number of Pages: 6
... their basic rights as men. The British thought of the colonists as their primary asset in their practice of mercantilism, which at times may have been profitable for the colonists. Ultimately it became a primary reason for the beginning of social unrest among the early Americans. The colonists were like children who were told that if they don’t disturb their parents they could do anything they wanted. While when it became convenient the parents, Britain, came in and started putting restrictions on them. As many in their position, the colonists rebelled against the new found interest in the soc ...
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Effects Of The WWII Atomic Bombs
Number of Words: 1508 / Number of Pages: 6
... "We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door." The decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japanese citizens in August, 1945, as a means to bring the long Pacific war to an end was justified-militarily, politically and morally.
The goal of waging war is victory with minimum losses on one's own side and, if possible, on the enemy's side. No one disputes the fact that the Japanese military was prepared to fight to the last man to defend the home islands, and indeed had already demonstrated this determination in prev ...
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Albert Einstein
Number of Words: 713 / Number of Pages: 3
... He received his doctrine from the University of Zurich for a theoretical dissertation of molecules. He published three very important papers to twentieth century physics.
The first paper on Brownian motion made significant predictions on the motion of particles that are randomly distributed in a fluid, which were later proved by an experiment
The second paper on Photoelectric effect presented a hypothesis on the nature of light. He proposed that under certain circumstances light could be considered a particles. He also hypothesized that the energy carried by a photon is depositional to the ...
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Atomic Bomb
Number of Words: 1983 / Number of Pages: 8
... hands of the enemy Germans.
On a July day in 1939 Szilard and his associate, Edward Teller, drove to the Long Island home of Albert Einstein to alert him of their findings. Einstein used his political influence by immediately writing a letter to President Roosevelt explaining the consequences of the Germans creating an . His letter read, "I believe, therefore, that is my duty to bring to your attention that it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new-like elements would be generated. A single bomb ...
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Civil Affair
Number of Words: 1290 / Number of Pages: 5
... try to make a living. The Salvadoran government began to take away the opportunities many of the poor had to live on. This lead to a migration out of El Salvador and into Mexico and the United States; however, this still left a large number of unhappy Salvadorans who were still in El Salvador. By the early 1900's the landowners were pressing to get more land for the production of coffee. In the 1960's El Salvador had the worst land to people ratio in the world. The landowners wanted more land and the poor Salvadorans wanted land themselves. The conditions in El Salvador were quickly becoming host ...
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Industrial France And England
Number of Words: 809 / Number of Pages: 3
... a strong
merchant marine which got the materials that didn't occur naturally on there island. This also allowed them
to gain news of technological advances and soon machines replaced the gape where workers couldn't be
because of the limited work force. And due to England's supremacy of the sea anything they couldn't make
now they could trade for it. This led to a better economy, which fell into the time slot of the industrial
revolution. Through out all of this the classes remained the same except the small percent of peasants that
moved up to the middle class. Family life was very similar ...
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Battle Of Chattanooga
Number of Words: 222 / Number of Pages: 1
... The victory set the stage for General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign.
http://americancivilwar.com/tl/tl1863.html
The Battles of Chattanooga, in the U.S. Civil War, were a series of engagements fought around Chattanooga, Tenn., in September and November 1863. The Confederates were commanded by Braxton Bragg, and the Union forces were first under William S. Rosecrans, then George H. Thomas, and finally Ulysses S. Grant. Rosecrans maneuvered Bragg from Chattanooga in early September, but his Army of the Cumberland was met by reinforced Confederate forces and defeated in the Battle of Chickamauga o ...
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Nuclear Warfare
Number of Words: 1305 / Number of Pages: 5
... that lived within a twenty mile radius of the city. We can see what happened to the second generation: children born with severe informities such as sixteen fingers and three arms; children born with cancer; and children with mental and physical handicaps. The radiation of a bomb doesn’t always cause instant death, but it is a lingering experience. Japanese people, thought to be healthy, got cancer in later life, and had dis-formed children. Consequently, we must not be swayed by advocates urging us to further develop and expand nuclear power. We must, instead, examine the larger picture; the risks ...
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Education History
Number of Words: 1753 / Number of Pages: 7
... first "basic textbook", the New England Primer, was America’s own contribution to education(Pulliam, Van Patten 86). Used from 1609 until the beginning of the 19th century, its purpose was to teach both religion and reading. The child learning the letter a, for example, also learned that "In Adam’s fall, We sinned all." As in Europe, then, schools in the colonies were strongly influenced by religion. This was particularly true of schools in the New England area, which had been settled by Puritans and other English religious dissenters. The school in colonial New England was not a pleasant place e ...
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Federal Govt. Vs. States
Number of Words: 473 / Number of Pages: 2
... commerce on borders. Finally, in 1819, he stated that the bank was constitutional and that the federal law was supreme over the states, who had no right to tax it. In doing this, he sharply defined the rights of the states as subordinate to those of the nation’s. However, Marshall’s rulings did not last long. During the term of Andrew Jackson, the Bank was destroyed by the president. Staring with vetoing the renewal of the Bank’s charter, he set out to eliminate what he though was a corrupt monopoly. By demolishing the Bank, he allowed smaller state banks to assume more power. Finally, during th ...
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