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Ford Car Company
Number of Words: 848 / Number of Pages: 4
... of the plant, being able to manufacture all components of the cars without having to ship parts to or from other locations in the country.
The next collection of photographs is of the exterior of the Rouge plant. These photos were obtained from the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. These pictures are of the Rouge during the switch of all production, from the Highland Park plant, to the Rouge. It was also the time that the Model A was beginning production.
This collection shows examples of four exterior views of the plant, allude to the many different factories within the Rouge plant. The ...
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British India And Revolution
Number of Words: 1388 / Number of Pages: 6
... began to fearfully question British motives.
The rebellion in 1857 can be seen as caused by the accumulating grievances of the Sepoy Army of Bengal. Certain factors contributed to the deterioration of morale amongst the Sepoy army that was comprised of Brahmins and other high caste Hindus who assisted in promoting a “focus of sedition”. The poor standard of British officers and the lack of improvement to the overall position of men serving in the army also increased insurgent tendencies. These military grievances which were significant were not themselves enough to incite rebellion ...
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American Colonies
Number of Words: 604 / Number of Pages: 3
... They had a two-class system of upper class landowners and middle class professionals living in large cities. In the Southern Colonies the plantations and cosmopolitan environment dominated social life. The Southern Colonies had a strict three class system: upper class rich plantation owners, middle class small plantation owners, lower class poor whites and a population of Negroes of “no” class. As can be seen socially all three sets of colonies were different.
The three colonies all wanted to make money but they had to go about it in different ways. This was mainly due to what they ha ...
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Human Rights In Yugoslavia (98
Number of Words: 2447 / Number of Pages: 9
... ended most of the fighting in Croatia in January 1992. But in May 1995, Croatian government forces began to take back the areas that were held by the Serbs.
In April 1992, Serbia and Montenegro formed a new, smaller Yugoslavia. However, the United States and most other nations have refused to recognize the country.
Economy
After the Communists took control of Yugoslavia in 1945, they began working to develop Yugoslavia from an agricultural country into an industrial nation. The government introduced programs to encourage industrial growth and to raise living standards. At first, ...
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United Nations
Number of Words: 730 / Number of Pages: 3
... All have different, yet major roles in striving to make the UN a success.
4. The Security Council is the council in charge of the peacekeeping side of the United Nations. The Security Council contained 15 countries in 1995. The countries were Argentina, Botswana, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Honduras, Indonesia, Italy, Nigeria, Oman, Russian Federation, Rwanda, UK and the U.S. China, France, UK, U.S and Russia are all permanent heads of the council. There are over 50 countries now listed in the Security Council.
5. The UN can be so ineffective because they do not have the power they wou ...
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Oregon Trail
Number of Words: 351 / Number of Pages: 2
... been blazed by the Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye; the Lewis and Clark Expedition, between 1804 and 1806, made more of it known. The German-American fur trader and financier John Jacob Astor, in establishing his trading posts, dispatched a party overland in 1811 to follow the trail of these explorers. Later, mountain men such as James Bridger, who founded Fort Bridger in 1843, contributed their knowledge of the trail and often acted as guides. The first emigrant wagon train, headed by the American pioneer physician Elijah White, reached Oregon in 1842. The trip ...
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Hostile Takeover Of The New Wo
Number of Words: 2926 / Number of Pages: 11
... the Americans blamed the Indians for existing, despite the want of the Indians to simply live on their lands peacefully. The "Trail of Tears" was a great tragedy and many thought it would be the last now that all of the Indians were out of the eastern United States. But the U.S. government became land hungry and due to their idealism of "Manifest Destiny," the "Trail of Tears" was only a starting point on the path to the destruction of the Indians of the West. By 1850 gold had been discovered in California, and white settlers were heading West to strike it rich and lay claim to the entire continent. ...
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Alphonse Scarface Capone
Number of Words: 764 / Number of Pages: 3
... of George “Bugs” Moran, Capone’s latest rival. Five police officers walked into the garage, lined up Moran’s men, and shot them down.
While these men appeared to be police officers, all five were really some of Capone’s hitmen.
Capone was able time and time again to avoid criminal charges, and became a true racketeer, an art of its own. Ironically, the government finally was able to put Scarface behind bars on charges of federal income tax evasion. He was sentenced to eleven years in prison. Eleven years that couldn’t even be saved by the four milli ...
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An American Epidemic
Number of Words: 1723 / Number of Pages: 7
... the most dangerous. He doesn’t want to take advantage of those who are smaller than him, but wants to seek vengeance on those who have hurt him, basically everyone. He, in fact, is sometimes a she.
Of course, offenders can’t be classified into one group. Many times it is the last person you would ever imagine. That is the way it happened for Chester Jackson, a Detroit high school football star. Chester was a seventeen-year-old hero, a senior who had reached godlike status due to his work for the school football team. But if you ask his high school friends of their memories of Ches ...
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Is Chivalry Alive Today
Number of Words: 707 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the greatest country in the world is breaking these rules, why should civilians be expected to keep them?
Another rule is that you have to grant another mercy if they ask you for it. I like this rule a lot because instead of having to kill someone to win a battle they can beg you for mercy and you can take just as much satisfaction in that than having to kill them. There are some in this world that will grant mercy but there are also the many that are too ruthless to give people mercy. It is seen as very honorable to give someone who asks mercy but I don’t see too much honor shown in our wo ...
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