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Invisible Man
Number of Words: 740 / Number of Pages: 3
... during that time. This was to rationalize the atrocities he felt necessary and justified. This was a repressive environment,
unbending and too rigid for the French People. Innocent people could be accused of being “outside the sovereign” and
executed. Robespierre’s position became precarious, and the people of the National Convention began to feel threatened by his
so called “emergency measures of terror”. On July 27 1794, rightists joined the Plain - the right wing of the National Convention
- in a rising of the Convention, and Robespierre was arrested, tried, and executed by the guillotine on Ju ...
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Christianity 2
Number of Words: 626 / Number of Pages: 3
... If anyone sinned, when they died they would go to hell. When god sacraficed his son, his son died for our sins, now when we sin all we have to do is asked to be forgiven by God. When we become christians we create our own path to heaven, and when we die we go to heaven and live happily and eternally with god. So you see God is good, without him everyone would go to hell. Other people wonder how we can be so sure our god exists. Nothing, no religion can be totally and completey proved, anything is debatable. To Christains we see, and feel god every day working in our lives. When one askes Jesus in ...
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Native Americans
Number of Words: 1577 / Number of Pages: 6
... campaigns of varying size and intensity. In 1865, there was a least 15 million buffalo, ten years later, fewer than a thousand remained. The army and the Bureau of Indian Affairs went along with and even encouraged the slaughter of the animals. By destroying the buffalo herds, the whites were destroying the Indian’s main source of food and supplies. The only thing the Indians could do was fight to preserve their way of life. There was constant fighting among the Indian and whites as the Indians fought to keep their civilization. Indian often retaliated against the whites for earlier attacks that whites ...
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Civil War The Color Bearer Tra
Number of Words: 4007 / Number of Pages: 15
... would complete the family, making seven children in all. Young Charles' roots ran deep into the soil of the lowcountry. His Whilden ancestors had settled in the Charleston area in the 1690's, and an ancestor on his mother's side, the Rev. William Screven, had arrived in South Carolina even earlier, establishing the First Baptist Church of Charleston in 1683, today the oldest church in the Southern Baptist Convention. Like many Southerners who came of age in the late antebellum period, Charles Whilden took pride in his ancestors' role in the American Revolution, especially his grandfather, Joseph Whild ...
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The Holocaust: Tragedy In The 20th Century
Number of Words: 1642 / Number of Pages: 6
... and who should die, and for that crime he remained unpunished. Those who have survived the holocaust have firsthand knowledge of the evil people, which so unfairly struck and deprived them of what was rightly theirs.
To refer to the holocaust as a “monstrous, inhumane event” is to miss the point. The Holocaust was imposed by men and women on other humans. “It was a time when there were people, not only the Germans, but the others too, who wanted to kill all the Jewish people. After they killed off the Jewish people, they weren’t satisfied yet. They started killing the black people, then the brown ...
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Communism
Number of Words: 606 / Number of Pages: 3
... directly
contrasts the original idea of a united communism movement, as stated in the
Communist Manifesto: “The Communists do not from a separate party opposed to
other working-class parties. The have no interests separate and apart from those of
the proletariat as a whole. They do not set up any secterian principles of their own,
by which to shape and mold the proletarian movement.” (pg.152) The last idea is
almost the direct opposite of the path taken in the communist revolution and of the
ideas of Stalin and Lenin. There were not only many divisions between the
proletariat movement, but in some ca ...
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The New Imperialism
Number of Words: 560 / Number of Pages: 3
... type of exploitation was common throughout , but it was all done in a way that it seemed as beneficial for the colonized, as for them. Technological Advancements were very important in the development of . Inventions such as the maxim machine gun and the steamboats were key for the Europeans too reach their objectives in Asia and Africa. Steamboats were essential for the transport of goods and provisions, all the way from Europe to the colonies. Macgregor Laird states the importance of steamboats at this time, "By this invention every river is laid open to us, time and distance are shortened."(Tool ...
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Area 51 - Short
Number of Words: 732 / Number of Pages: 3
... there. To breach the perimeter could result in your death, because it is so top secret. It is reported that in order to avoid spy plane and satellite reconnaissance, most activities and experiments have been conducted underground. It is the experiments above ground, mainly test flights, that help to perpetuate the UFO stories.(Leiby Richard p.a1) In early 1947, officials at the Roswell Army Air Field collected the remains of what they initially reported to be a wrecked "Flying Disc." That predd release was quickly revised to say it was only a weather baloon. But the lore grew to include tales of alm ...
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Number of Words: 1347 / Number of Pages: 5
... was a malady of mind, emotions and body. Though a physician, Dr. Bob had not known alcoholism to be a disease. Due to Bill’s convincing ideas, he soon got sober, never to drink again. The founding spark of A.A. had been struck (Wekesser 26).
Both men immediately set to work with alcoholics at Akron’s City Hospital, where one patient quickly achieved complete sobriety (Pitman 69). In the fall of 1935, a second group of alcoholics slowly took shape in New York. A third appeared at Cleveland in 1939. It had taken over four years to produce 100 sober alcoholics in the three founding groups. That s ...
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Industrail Revolution
Number of Words: 968 / Number of Pages: 4
... of years. By 1800 a host of new and faster processes were in use in both manufacture and transportation.
Several systems of making goods had grown up by the time of the Industrial Revolution. In country districts families produced most of the supplies that they used, while in the cities merchandise was made in shops, and manufacturing was strictly regulated by the guilds and by the government. The goods made in these shops were limited and costly. The merchants needed cheaper items, as well as larger quantities, for their growing trade. They had to establish another system of producing goods. The c ...
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