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The Spanish Inquisition
Number of Words: 1929 / Number of Pages: 8
... parts of Europe, to enter Spain. Consequently, the universities remained stagnant, unable to produce graduates understanding the world around them. from the lack of information on the other civilizations in the rest of Europe. As a result of this, they came into the 20th century intellectually inferior and bankrupt. With the banished, tortured, and persecuted heretics in mind, it is possible that is perhaps one of the most cruel acts performed on innocent people in the name of religion.
Before took place, several other inquisition movements appeared, but none quite so barbaric and brutal as th ...
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Holocaust
Number of Words: 779 / Number of Pages: 3
... the recognition that they thought would be beneficial. The Nazi’s held Mass meetings usually associated with brainwashing the Germans of anti-Semitic views. They distributed various visual aids such as flyers, posters, and eventually the use of radio and cinema would be used as well.
The common effort of Hitler was to speak to the masses. He wasn’t looking for smart and intelligent people to accept what he was saying; he was looking solely for the masses. By getting into a large amount of people’s heads, ideas were easier, and more effective to spread. The messages given were repeated constantly ...
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Slavery In America
Number of Words: 1507 / Number of Pages: 6
... a mixture of all the African languages combined, called Creole. This language now varies from island to island. They also kept their culture, which accounts for calypso music and the instruments used in these songs.
Slavery was common all over the world until 1794 when France signed the Act of the National Convention abolishing slavery. It would take America about a hundred years to do the same. George Washington was America's hero. He was America's first president. He was a slave owner. He deplored slavery but did not release his slaves. His will stated that they would be released after the d ...
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ASSATA Shakur
Number of Words: 1468 / Number of Pages: 6
... that the slaves hadn't fought back, yet truly was, hundred of black people had got together to fight for their freedom.
Much of Assata's revolutionary inspiration came about from her observing of her society, especially her neighborhoods. It came apparent to her that something was not right within the quality of housings in her city blocks. Homes were usually poor in a certain city block while another was lavishing. The difference became even more attention grabbing, when she realized that the troubled looking neighborhoods belonged to the black, while the well-adhered blocks were homes of the white. ...
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Confucius 3
Number of Words: 646 / Number of Pages: 3
... fell into relative poverty, and Confucius joined a growing class of impoverished descendants of aristocrats who made their careers by acquiring knowledge of feudal ritual and taking positions of influence serving the rulers of the many separate states of ancient China. Confucius devoted himself to learning. At the age of 30, however, when his short-lived official career floundered, he turned to teaching others. Confucius himself never wrote down his own philosophy, although tradition credits him with editing some of the historical classics that were used as texts in his school. He apparently ma ...
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Apartheid In South Africa
Number of Words: 1200 / Number of Pages: 5
... East India Company tried to keep the tension at a minimum, and limited the amount of land the settlers could use and the amount of crops they could grow. The amount grown was to be sold to the Company for a low price. The settlers did not take that well, and resorted to smuggling.
During the Napoleonic wars, the British took over the post as a naval station. Although the Dutch had been unhappy under the rule of the East India Company, the British turned out to be much worse for them. The British had a different language, different church, and a different way of dealing with the natives. Some of the ...
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Neoclassical Period
Number of Words: 366 / Number of Pages: 2
... overall effort towards stability.
While the Romantics, from 1798 until 1832, emphasized a number of ideas that were a reaction against the proceeding "Age of Reason". As Shelley stated, that the literature of the age “has arisen as it were from a new birth”. They concentrated on innovation rather than traditionalism in their material, forms and style of literature, and introduced symbolism. Wordsworth was one of the key poets in that age; his poetry was about his own feelings, spontaneous and genuine rather than a mirror of men in action, therefor concentrating on inner self and life but not society. ...
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Before 1640, Parliament Was No
Number of Words: 1206 / Number of Pages: 5
... contradicting ideals, Elizabeth and her prerogatives over the "matters of state" (religion, foreign policy, marriage, succession and finance) in which Parliament couldn't discuss without her consent. Parliament having the contradictory view that it was their privilege and right to discuss these matters. The era of Elizabeth is a chronological chart of parliamentary opposition. 1566, a petition from Parliament over her marriage, Elizabeth ordered them to stop this debate because it was a "matters of state", Wentworth reacted to this by saying this was "a breach of the liberty of the free speech of th ...
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Middle East And Canada
Number of Words: 4558 / Number of Pages: 17
... press? Had the priest been peacefully saying mass on the Mattawa would this religious item have been deemed worthy of
coverage? Or was it the newspapers' sense of the irony of these events, of their news value as symbols depicting the pervasive conflict and violence we have come
to associate with the Middle East that led to their selection for publication from the reams of teletype endlessly flowing into the editorial departments of the Canadian
press? It would seem that even when the subject matter is scientific or religious--about mice or monsignors--the press is inclined to remind its readers of ...
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The Rise Of Communism In Russi
Number of Words: 2294 / Number of Pages: 9
... Socialism, of which "Marxism-Leninism" is a takeoff, originated
in the West. Designed in France and Germany, it was brought into
Russia in the middle of the nineteenth century and promptly attracted
support among the country's educated, public-minded elite, who at that
time were called intelligentsia (Pipes, 21). After Revolution broke
out over Europe in 1848 the modern working class appeared on the scene
as a major historical force. However, Russia remained out of the
changes that Europe was experiencing. As a socialist movement and
inclination, the Russian Social-Democratic Party cont ...
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