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The Cuban Missile Crisis
Number of Words: 2313 / Number of Pages: 9
... would have seemed unlikely. To the communist party in Cuba, Fidel Castro appeared tempestuous, irresponsible and stubbornly bourgeois. In 1943 President Batista appointed a communist to his Cabinet, as he used communists as leaders of the labor unions. Batista started to fail the Cuban communists and their loyalties transferred gradually to Castro, completely by 1958. On December 1st, 1961 Castro declared himself a Marxist and claimed he had always been a revolutionary, studying Das Kapital of Karl Marx. Most Cubans idolized Castro, supported his government and at least accepted his measures.2 He claim ...
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History Repeats Itself
Number of Words: 1697 / Number of Pages: 7
... from Spanish rule, at the beginning of the seventeenth
century, it moved on to become a great power. Holland had relied on seafaring
and the economic success of Amsterdam until around 1620. "By mid-century,
however, they had used their technical sophistication and control of vital raw
commodities to build successful industries . . . and supported by Holland's
bourgeois virtues, trading preeminence and credit, Dutch manufactures soon
dominated a number of European markets" (BP 198). Holland remained in power
until its decline began in the middle of the eighteenth century. In 1750, the
Du ...
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Apache And Cherokee Indians
Number of Words: 621 / Number of Pages: 3
... forced upon the Apache robbing them of their culture. In 1934 The Indian Recognition Act helped establish the Indian culture as a recognized way of life. This act gave the Apache land, which the Apache in turn used for ranching. The destruction of the Apache culture was not recoverable and saw the Apache lose much of their language.
The documentary on the Apache was very well done. The Indians of North America series, produced by Chelsea House, seems to be a very well thought-out series and the film on the Apache was no exception. The film moved quickly throughout the life and times of t ...
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George III
Number of Words: 425 / Number of Pages: 2
... Townshend Acts, in 1766, taxing many commodity items
including tea resulting in the infamous Boston Tea Party. King George was eventually humbled as the American colonies
successfully became the United States Of America. Other colonies began to rebel after America's success and King George
remained embroiled in one conflict or another for many years.
George III inherited more than just the throne. He also had the royal hereditary disease
porphyria which had afflicted Mary Queen of Scots. She passed it to her son, King James I
of England. Porphyria is caused by the insufficient production of hem ...
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George III, Our Last King
Number of Words: 254 / Number of Pages: 1
... be a dumb man. He did not learn read until the age of eleven and he never did master grammar. He came to throne in 1760. George did not believe that the power of a king should be limited. He ignored Parliament relying on the suggestions of a man named Chatham. But Chatham's mental health was not good and he locked himself up, talking to no one. George waited for him to recover for many years in which time the country of England slipped more and more into ruin.
George then found Lord North. North's association with George, however, would be disasterous to England and very fortunate for America. ...
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The Spanish-American War: What It Meant For Cuba And America
Number of Words: 706 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the explosion on the Maine comes from Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee,
he said:
I laid down my pen and listened to the notes of the bugle, which were singularly beautiful in the oppressive stillness of the night. . . . I was enclosing my letter in its envelope when the explosion came. It was a bursting, rending, and crashing roar of immense volume, largely metallic in character. It was followed by heavy, ominous metallic sounds. There was a trembling and lurching motion of the vessel, a list to port. The electric lights went out. Then there was intense blackness and smoke.
The situation could not ...
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If Martin Luther King Were Ali
Number of Words: 543 / Number of Pages: 2
... likely defend the rights of the rightless, and be the voice of the voiceless, as he was more than 30 years ago.
I think that Martin Luther King would make a tremendous amount of change in cases of mistreated Americans. Incidents such as the Rodney King beating, and Reginald Denny. Along with the cases of Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo. They were all classified as racial crimes, and all created a large amount of racial tension. Dr King was very good at defusing tension like that. He never preached radical opinions about violence or the such, just about all races getting along. Especially dur ...
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The Baroque Era
Number of Words: 784 / Number of Pages: 3
... If the English had not started the colonization when and where they did, we might not be speaking the same language as we do today. A group of English settlers established the colony Jamestown along the Jamestown River in Virginia. This is known as the first English settlement in the New World. However, it is also known as the last colony due to its mysterious disappearance. It is thought that the winter was too harsh for the unprepared settlers and in an attempt to find a better climate, they met their deaths.
Most historians think the first telescope was made in 1608 by a Dutch optitrcian na ...
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JFK Assination - Conspiracy
Number of Words: 3026 / Number of Pages: 12
... investigation was set up as direct result of the assassinations of two other major political figures; the civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King and the Presidents brother Robert Kennedy, in 1968. Naturally this aroused immense suspicion and the American public started questioning why so many key US figures had been assassinated in the space of just four years when previously this type of incident had been rare. At the time there was also an increasing amount of corruption and scandal within the government. This alarmed the public who had completely trusted the government before. The Waterga ...
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European Animals- The Major Pa
Number of Words: 1310 / Number of Pages: 5
... new world as possible into the old world." Because they were people who practiced mixed farming with a heavy emphasis on herding and because they saw only very few domesticated animals in the new land, the Europeans began the action of importing Old World domesticated animals, such as the pig, cow, and horse. This action could most definitely be described as "the greatest biological revolution in the Americas since the end of the Pleistocene era." The Europeans had no idea as to what they unleashed upon the New World when they introduced their domesticated animals. Many of these animals flourished in ...
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