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Quebec's Quiet Revolution: What Is It? How Has It Changed Quebec's
Number of Words: 1076 / Number of Pages: 4
... of
Medi-Care. For these programs, the Quebec Liberals had to struggle with
Ottawa for a larger share of the tax dollars.
One of the greatest reforms was the modernization of the entire school
system. The Church used to own the schools of Quebec. Most of the
teachers were Priests, Nuns and Brothers. They provided a good education
but Quebec needed more in business and technology. Lesage wanted a
government-run school system that would provide Quebec with people in
engineering, science, business and commerce.
With the new freedom of expression, lots of books, plays and music
about Fre ...
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Hieroglyphic Writing
Number of Words: 455 / Number of Pages: 2
... decree in honor of Ptolemy Epiphanes which finishes with a formal instruction that “this decree, engraved on a tablet of hard stone, in three scripts, hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek, shall be engraved in each of the great temples of Egypt”.
The honor of deciphering the hieroglyphs fell to two scholars, the Englishman Thomas Young and the Frenchman Francois Champollion who started work on it almost the same time and who were to see their efforts crowned by success. What Young achieved by instinct Champollion achieved by scientific method and with such success that by his death in 1832 he could leave be ...
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Ancient Greeks' Way Of Life: Loyalty, Devotion, Fortitude
Number of Words: 563 / Number of Pages: 3
... for as if they were ones closest friends. “So
every day I wove on the great loom, but every night by torchlight I unwove
it…” (pg. 728). This quote speaks of the shroud she told the suitors that
she must weave for her husband before she could choose one of them to marry.
This shows loyalty to her husband, because even though she knew she might
be caught by one of the suitors, she would still try and stall for time, as
long as she could.
Odysseus' crew showed loyalty to Odysseus, and great fortitude. “
The lovely voices in ardor appealing over the water made me crave to listen,
and I tried to sa ...
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Atomic Bomb 2
Number of Words: 1816 / Number of Pages: 7
... homes. Over the course of the next forty years, these two bombings, and the nuclear arms race that followed them, would come to have a direct or indirect effect on almost every man, woman and child on this Earth, including people in the United States. The atomic bomb would penetrate every fabric of American existence. From our politics to our educational system. Our industry and our art. Historians have gone so far as to call this period in our history the atomic age, for the way it has shaped and guided world politics, relations and culture. The entire history behind the bomb itself is rooted in Twen ...
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French Revolution
Number of Words: 1077 / Number of Pages: 4
... Crops falied, and
trade was stagnant. The people could no longer be taxed, but the
government faced bankruptcy unless new revenues were found. The only
soulution was to tax the privileged classes. But they were jealoous of
their privileged posistion. Altought they were not completely unwilling to
contribute some additional taxes, they never understood how grave the
economis crisis was. They say the crises as only some form of financial
corruption that could be explained away by firing the king's finace
ministers. The libiral ideas of the French Enlightenment had been absorbed
by some of the clergy and ...
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The Invasion Of Spain
Number of Words: 3103 / Number of Pages: 12
... Apart from the moral effect of this campaign upon the Moslem rulers of Spain, its result was insignificant, though the famous ambuscade in which perished Roland, the great Paladin, at the Pass of Roncesvalles, furnished to the medieval world the material for its most glorious and influential epic, the "Chanson de Roland".
Much more important to posterity were the next succeeding events which continued and decided the long struggle in Saxony. During the Spanish crusade Wittekind had returned from his exile, bringing with him Danish allies, and was now ravaging Hesse; the Rhine valley from Deutz to An ...
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Karl Marx 2
Number of Words: 2064 / Number of Pages: 8
... and carefree one. His parents had a good relationship and it helps set Karl in the right direction. "His splendid natural gifts' awakened in his father the hope that they would one day be used in the service of humanity, whilst his mother declared him to be a child of fortune in whose hands everything would go well." (The story of his life, Mehring, page 2)
In High school Karl stood out among the crowd. When asked to write a report on "How to choose a profession" he took a different approach. He took the angle in which most interested him, by saying that there was no way to choose a profession, but be ...
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A "Golden Age" For Athens?
Number of Words: 1305 / Number of Pages: 5
... the city. The city's
walls had already been rebuilt right after the end of the second Persian
War so Pericles rebuilt temples, public grounds, and other impressive
structures. One of the most famous structures to result from Pericles'
building project was the Parthenon. The Parthenon and other such
structures re-established Athens's glory and while some Athenians
criticized the projects as too lavish, most Athenians enjoyed the benefits
of the program. A major benefit to the Athenian people was that there was
an abundance of work in the polis.
The 5th century BCE was also an important time fo ...
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American Revolution
Number of Words: 595 / Number of Pages: 3
... was the stamp act. The stamp act was protested upon the principle of "no taxation without representation". The stamp act was affecting virtually all the colonists, and restricted economic prosperity, thus it was protested by colonists. The Townshend acts were also a factor in the economic theory, Sam Adams had said "The parliament was taxing illegally!", most colonists agreed, and a boycott of British goods resulted. When the British passed the Currency act, this left the paper money worthless, and the colonists had to rely (economically) on England for Hard Currency. The main reason for revolu ...
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Vietnam
Number of Words: 1818 / Number of Pages: 7
... entered after the French lost the war in 1954, why did it feel, it was necessary to choose to fight the Ho Chi Men lead communists, without even allowing the ese people a chance to elect their own leader under a free parlimentory electoral system. The Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968 Robert McNamara saw the conflict escalate from 100 American advisors in 1961 to over 275,000 troops during the time of his departure. was caught in a revolution, not unlike the civil war, split in two, north versus south. The battle lines where drawn, the 17th parellel the boundry, the communist state split to t ...
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