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Gladstonian Liberalism
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... of the Irish Church Act. This broke the connection between church and state and ended the Anglican church's status as the established church of Ireland, this aimed to reduce endowments and redistributing a third of its annual reserve to non-religious ends, e.g. improving hospitals. This was quite a liberal act as it allowed people to freely attend whichever church they wanted. This however showed Gladstone's willingness to solve a problem without appreciating its background and not understanding its immediate practical requirements. Th Irish Church Act was Gladstone's first liberal move and ga ...
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Ben Quarles Negro In The Revol
Number of Words: 1334 / Number of Pages: 5
... This achievement could have been performed if not for the black soldiers in the armies. The first American to shed blood in the revolution that freed America from British rule was Crispus Attucks. Attucks along with four white men was killed in the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770. Even though Attucks was a fugitive slave running from his master, he was still willing to fight against England along with other whites and give the ultimate sacrifice, his life, for freedom. This was not the only incident of Blacks giving it all during the War for Independence.
From the first battles of Concor ...
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Bureau Of Alchohol, Tobacco, A
Number of Words: 267 / Number of Pages: 1
... of the ATF's responsibilities were under the care of the IRS.
The Bureau's responsibilities consist of administering and enforcing the federal laws
relating tofirearms and explosives, and to alcohol and tobacco products. Since 1982,
when the federal Anti-Arson Act was passed, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms has also dealt with arson activities that were for profit. Right now the ATF
operates on about $335 million per year, and employs about 4,100 people.
The ATF is divided into two sections. The first is Regulatory Enforcement, and
the second is Criminal Enfor ...
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African Americans
Number of Words: 2516 / Number of Pages: 10
... in the United States has been that persons having any black African ancestry are considered to be black. In some parts of the United States, especially in the antebellum South, laws were written to define racial group membership in this way, generally to the detriment of those who were not Caucasian. It is important to note, however, that ancestry and physical characteristics are only part of what has set black Americans apart as a distinct group. The concept of race, as it applies to the black minority in the United States, is as much a social and political concept as a biological one. Blacks U ...
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History Of The Dust Bowl
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... Millions of hectares of farmland became useless, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their lands, and homes.
The Dust Bowl lasted about a decade. Beginning in 1935, intensive efforts were made both by federal and state goverments to develop adequate programs for soil conservation and for rehabilitation of the Dust Bowl. The measures taken have included seeding large areas in grass; three year rotation of wheat, sorghum, and lying of fallow; the introduction of counterplowing, terracing, and strip planting; and in areas of greater rainfall, the planting of long "shelter belts" o ...
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Overpopulation
Number of Words: 1406 / Number of Pages: 6
... of years, if the population continuous to increase, are resources will disappear in a short term of time. Also, I will try to explain the reasons why this subject became what it is now . Why did did the population increase so much in the past decades, will be answered. And finally, will be looking at solutions to solve this problem in ethical and unethical ways.
If everyone on the planet today would adopt a North American lifestyle, natural resources would quickly disappear. Luckily most nations are still careful. They will need to remain so while improving their standard of living. It will be nec ...
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Dredd Scott Decision
Number of Words: 2556 / Number of Pages: 10
... Missouri Compromise of 1820, Missouri was added as a slave state, but no state may allow slavery if that state falls above the 36 degree 30 minute latitudinal line. Later, in 1854 under the Kansas-Nebraska Act, states were allowed to vote on whether they will allow slavery or not, known commonly as popular sovereignty. In St. Louis, Scott was sold to an army surgeon named Dr. John Emerson in 1833. A year later, Emerson, on a tour of duty, took Scott, his slave, to Illinois, a free state. In 1836, Emerson's military career then took the both of them to the free Wisconsin territory known today as Min ...
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Eleanor Aquitaine
Number of Words: 2374 / Number of Pages: 9
... a clown of herself.
A holy hermit came to Williams IX protesting in God's name at the rape of Dangerosa, and after being received by the dukes usual mocking banter, the hermit placed a curse upon the family. Through both male and female lines they would never know happiness in their children.1
William the X had an unexpected gift of versifying, in a mixture of Lemosin and Poitou. Arab songs he heard from Moorish slave girls, which had been brought home by his father from Spain, may have inspired him. William was also a very competent poet, eleven of whose pieces are ashamedly licentious, although one ...
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Aristotle 2
Number of Words: 1146 / Number of Pages: 5
... to drink lies between two vices: sobriety and drunkenness. Although neither may be his intention for the evening, it is obvious that the less erroneous of the two is sobriety. “So much, then, makes it plain that the intermediate state is in all things to be praised, but that we must incline sometimes towards the excess, sometimes towards the deficiency; for so shall we most easily hit the mean and what is right” (Aristotle 387).
Aristotle defines virtue (also known as excellence) of humankind as living in accordance with reason in the best kind of way. Simply put, doing what is char ...
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Early Colonies
Number of Words: 1852 / Number of Pages: 7
... did not rebel against but rather preferred the English culture. They did not want their children to be raised Dutch. Also, they felt that Holland was too liberal. Although they enjoyed the freedom of religion, they decided to leave for America. Pilgrims, or sojourners, left for America on the Mayflower and landed in Cape Cod in 1626. They had missed their destination, Jamestown. Although the climate was extremely rocky, they did not want to move south because of their Puritan beliefs. They thought that everything was predestined, and that they must have landed on this rocky place for a reason. T ...
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