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Continental Congress
Number of Words: 694 / Number of Pages: 3
... had any complain over them and the other states all agreed on it.
It is evident in Document B that after the Articles of Confederation had been passed, from 1784 and beyond; the gross income from exports to Great Britain had plummeted while the population of the United States continued to rise. By the late 1780’s, the states had fallen behind nearly 80 percent in providing the funds that Congress requested to operate the government and honor the national debt. The statistical chart in Document B shows that under the Articles of Confederation it had not profited the states because of the insuffici ...
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Assassination Of Martin Luther
Number of Words: 2123 / Number of Pages: 8
... the official nickname Land of Opportunity because of the future outlook for the development of business, industry, and agriculture. Other nicknames were the Toothpick state (an allusion to the knives), the Hot Water State (for its hot springs), and the Guinea Pig State (for its willingness to be used as a proving ground for government experiments in agriculture during the 1930s).
5 California
The nickname Golden State comes from its golden poppies, which is also the state flower. Another reason California received this nickname was because of the gold discovery there in 1848, which made Califo ...
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Pocahontas
Number of Words: 1004 / Number of Pages: 4
... stone and bone. The Wood land "culture" was actually an amalgam of various tribes that belonged to different linguistic families not related by blood, their only common ties being certain tools and implements marked by great stands of pine, cypress, and walnut trees and productive in cleared areas of pumpkin, maize, and beans (pecctatoas). (Woodward, 9) The Powhatans were made up of different combinations of Indian tribes some included the Cherokees, Iroquois, Monacans, Siuuan, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and the Muskhogean. The Powhatans dress was different between the sexes and classes ...
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Consensus Historians
Number of Words: 1731 / Number of Pages: 7
... was very different. Hofstadter made some points in the introduction that points in the direction of consensus history. Hofstadter states that it is "of the need for a reinterpretation of our political traditions which emphasizes the common climate of American opinion," the existences of which had been "much obscured by the tendency to place political conflict in the foreground" (Kraus & Joyce Pg.314)
After The American Political Tradition and the Men who made it, Hofstadter went on to publish a book on Turner, Beard, and Parrington. Hofstadter recognizes the personal contributions that Turner, B ...
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East-timor-conflict
Number of Words: 999 / Number of Pages: 4
... force. It was an independence movement in the style of the 70s. Since shortly after the FRETILIN proclaimed the independence at the end of October the Indonesian military marched in East Timor and put down every form of resistance. During the first years after the invasion it got numerous armed struggles and the Indonesian military also take action against the civil population. Today the native population expresses their protest against the occupation of their country above all with political demonstrations.
On December 12th 1991 it came to the most serious incident of the young time. During a funeral ...
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Rhetorical Criticism Of Cross
Number of Words: 1422 / Number of Pages: 6
... analysis, analyzing the artifact, and writing the critical essay.
In applying the theories of metaphoric criticism, I will focus on two metaphors used throughout the “Cross of Gold” speech. The first use of metaphors is to convey violent acts to show the wrongfulness in changing the gold standard. Bryan refers back to fighting, contest, and war to show that the people are not going to go along with the government. Bryan speaks of “brother against brother, father against son” to show that part of the government is on the same level as the citizens and another part is above the rest. But when the c ...
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Jewish History
Number of Words: 1158 / Number of Pages: 5
... under the Nazis. The Jews were deprived of human rights. The Jewish
people were forced to live in Ghetto's which were separated from the main
city. Hitler's plan of genocide was carried out with efficiency. The
total number of Jews exterminated has been calculated at around 5,750,000.
In Warsaw ,where approximately 400,000 Jews had once been
concentrated,was reduced to a population of 60,000. they, virtually unarmed,
resisted the German deportation order and had held back the regular German
troops equipped with flame throwers,armoured cards, and tanks for nearly a
month. This heroism was s ...
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Karl Marx
Number of Words: 810 / Number of Pages: 3
... on the H.M.S. Beagle, across the coastline of South America. While being dropped off and left on the Galapagos Islands for a number of days, he began to watch the species on the Island. To sum it up, He watched, for many days, Nature run its course. Throughout this time, and even after, he started to develop ideas about how he thought species survived. How they do survive, and how they should survive. This has to do with one of his greatest theories of all, Natural Selection. As I explained earlier about “the survival for existence”, Darwin developed a theory that explained how the most fit, bigg ...
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The Korean War And The Damage
Number of Words: 1338 / Number of Pages: 5
... South Korea. South
Korean positions along the 38th parallel, which marked the frontier
between the two republics, were swiftly overrun, and the Communist forces
drove southward. North Korea was aided during the war by personnel and
equipment from both China and the Soviet Union. The UN Security Council,
with the Soviet delegate voluntarily absent, invoked military sanctions
against North Korea on June 27, 1950 and called on member states to aid
the South Korea. Almost simultaneously U.S. President Harry S. Truman
ordered American Military Forces into action against the invaders.
American Forces, t ...
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History Of Popular Culture
Number of Words: 2670 / Number of Pages: 10
... year at the 11th of
November (St. Martin) and culminated in a big festival of 'Dranck,
pleijsier ende vrouwen' (Drink, fun and women) at the end of the Carnival
period, preceding the period of Lent.
Festivals were meant to take the minds of the people off their everyday
life , off the hard times and their work. Everyday life in Early Modern
Europe was filled with rituals, both religious and secular. Songs and
stories played an important role in their lives, although they sometimes
adjusted the details of the legends and stories to fit the way they thought
a certain festival should take place.
Popula ...
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