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Ceasar
Number of Words: 2226 / Number of Pages: 9
... from republic to empire. When
he was young, Caesar lived through one of the most horrifying decades in the
history of the city of Rome. The city was assaulted twice and captured by
Roman armies, first in 87 BC by the leaders of the populares, his uncle
Marius and Cinna; Cinna was killed the year that Caesar had married
Cinna’s daughter Cornelia. The second attack upon the city was carried our
by Marius’ enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter’s
return from the East. On each occasion the massacre of political
opponents was followed by the confiscation of t ...
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Emancipation Proclamation
Number of Words: 639 / Number of Pages: 3
... abolitionists whom stepped up their efforts against recognition of the Confederacy.
The made clear, once again, what Lincoln had stuck by throughout the war. He repeatedly asserted that the Union's objective in the Civil War was nothing more than ending a rebellion against constitutional authority. The abolishment of slavery was to have no part in the role of the conflict. The truth is the Proclamation wasn't meant to set any slaves free. In all essence, if the southerners withdrew from the Confederacy within the time they were given, their slaves would not have been set free because the on ...
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Andrew Carnegie
Number of Words: 1156 / Number of Pages: 5
... miniscule amount of money. Although the Carnegies lacked in money, they abounded in ideals and training for their children. At age 15, Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy in Pittsburgh. He learned to send and decipher telegraphic messages and became a telegraph operator at the age of 17. Carnegie’s next job was as a railroad clerk, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He worked his way up the ladder, through his dedication and honest desire to succeed, to become train dispatcher and then division manager. At this time, young Carnegie, age 24, had already made some small investments that laid th ...
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Industrialization 2
Number of Words: 672 / Number of Pages: 3
... They came because they wanted to get away from war, famine and religious persecution. They wanted to come to America, The land of the Free, a place for equality. This was all true in America, if you had money, or where the white man. These immigrants surely weren't. They were crammed on to the U.S Permland, which was expensive, just hoping they will be accepted into America. Because of the expense, most families only sent one person. They planned to send the rest later, hoping they could get in, because of the relative already in the country. If you were lucky enough to get into America, you ...
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Animal Farm
Number of Words: 1238 / Number of Pages: 5
... consumes. The animals in return get near nothing, just enough to keep them away from starvation. Old Major gave many speeches to the farm animals about hope and the future. He is the main animal who got the rebellion started even though he died before it actually began. Old Major's role compares to Karl Marx whose ideas sparked the communist revolution. Like Old Major, Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in , were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Old major tells the a ...
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A Brief History Of Clocks: Fro
Number of Words: 2903 / Number of Pages: 11
... for measuring time-the anaphoric clock and the astrolabe. Although Ptolemy was familiar with both the anaphoric clock and the astrolabe, I believe that the development of the anaphoric clock preceded the development of the astrolabe.
The earliest example, in western culture, of a celestial sphere is attributed to the presocratic philosopher Thales. Unfortunately, little is known about Thales' sphere beyond Cicero's description in the De re publica:
For Gallus told us that the other kind of celestial globe, which was solid and contained no hollow space, was a very early invention, the first one of tha ...
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Immigrants And The United
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... 4 times less than the Latin America’s population growth. He also says that the America now still has a very small number of immigrant, he says: “I mentioned their relatively small numbers in the American population,” and “we still have a lot of absorptive capacity” to accept new wave of immigrants. He says that the percentage of foreign born person now only half of those in 1910 in which our nation was not well develop as we are now. So we can see that as our economy becomes more developed, we still have more capacity to absorb new arrivals.
Kennedy also emphasize the important of the variety grou ...
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Great Depression
Number of Words: 1582 / Number of Pages: 6
... hydrogen was ignited by a spark.
For a legal look on the 1930's lets look to the Scottsboro trials. This trial was held against nine Negro boys who were accused of raping two white women on a train. The women were arrested, probably on charges of vagrancy. The women remained under arrest in jail for several days, pending charges of vagrancy and possible violation of the Mann Act. The Mann Act prohibited taking a minor across state lines for immoral
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purposes. The trial of the nine men began April 6, 1931 only twelve days after the arrest and continued through April 9, 1931. On that da ...
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The Devastation Of World War One
Number of Words: 836 / Number of Pages: 4
... chance to choose were they would belong. Another situation where Germany was ignored was the taking away of their colonies. Germany had no choice and nor did the colonies. They were unable to vote whether they wanted to remain under the rule of Germany or not. Germany was ignored in many other situations, the reason for this was because they were considered as a defeated country and were not given any rights. The countries that were given self-determination were too small to be liable. These countries such as Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania did not remain under self-rule for long as the neighbourin ...
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Irannien Revolution
Number of Words: 388 / Number of Pages: 2
... Egypt after suffering many years
of blood cancer. Following this tragedy in January 1981, the 53
American hostages were released even though Iran didn’t get any
of their demands. After the Shah’ s death and the release of the
hostages, the revolution finally came to an end after 3 long and
suffering years. Since then, the Iran and U.S. have been enemies
even though not long ago Akbar Rafsanjani, ho took over Iran after
Khomeiny’ s death in Jun 1989, and Bill Clinton, the president of
the United States of America, had discussed their situation.
Because of the revoluti ...
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