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Kkk
Number of Words: 1166 / Number of Pages: 5
... on their heads. They also draped the linens over their horses. The Ku Klux Klan was going to ride for the first time. In the beginning, the men wanted to do nothing more than play pranks on people. However, the people were more frightened than they were cheered up. They soon realized what they could do with these fear tactics. The South had turned into a place that was no longer theirs. The slaves were now free (many of these men were slave owners) and carpetbaggers were coming from the North to take advantage of the southern people. They saw the opportunity to set back the South to what it had bee ...
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Biography Of Stephen Hawking
Number of Words: 410 / Number of Pages: 2
... Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and since 1979 has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The chair was founded in 1663 with money left in the will of the Reverend Henry Lucas, who had been the Member of Parliament for the University. It was first held by Isaac Barrow, and then in 1663 by Isaac Newton.
Stephen Hawking is perhaps best known for his discovery, in 1974, that black holes emit radiation, and for his no boundary proposal made in 1983 with Jim Hartle of Santa Barbara.
His many publications include The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with G F R Ellis, General Relativit ...
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Cherokees
Number of Words: 667 / Number of Pages: 3
... Europeans in exchange for permanent reserve in northern Arkansas. (Everett 14) She also demonstrates the resistance received from western tribes. “Warfare with Comanches would replace warfare with Osages.” (Everett 25) Both statements are examples of how the Texas were literally “caught between two fires” and was very effective.
Another aspect of the thesis relates the Texas caught between removal and extermination. Everett strongly supports this aspect of the thesis when she gives the example of the new president of the Republic of Texas sending a letter to Duwali’ ...
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Chinese Occupation Of Tibet
Number of Words: 309 / Number of Pages: 2
... failed to punish China for any of its human rights abuses. Major
corporations from around the world continue to do business with China. Last
year, despite continuing pressure, the United States renewed China's Most
Favored Nation trading status. Unfortunately, since China represents such a
potentially gigantic market, politicians are reluctant to impose any trade
sanctions.
The Chinese government claims to be helping the Tibetan culture, but in
reality they have created hogemy over the Tibetan people. China has damaged the
society of Tibet in such an extensive way that if Tibet ever regains its ...
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Albert Einstein
Number of Words: 3249 / Number of Pages: 12
... to worse.
Teenage Years and Graduation:
Einstein's relatives in Northern city of Milan in Italy, offered help to the family. At the time Einstein was at the age of fifteen when he decided to drop-out of high school and join his family to travel to Milan. However he was expelled from school by the principal; he (the principal) said:" on the grounds that his presence in the class is disruptive and affects the other students." Albert Einstein had become a dropout. In Italy he felt free for the first time. With nobody to guide every step of his daily life, he traveled through the countryside. ...
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British Appeasement
Number of Words: 2292 / Number of Pages: 9
... pressure of the world on his shoulders Chamberlain proceeded cautiously not wanting the tensions to explode. Historically, Britain had followed a foreign policy of appeasement and not getting involved with the rest of Europe. Thus the word "appeasement" applies to the policy pursued in the entire inter-war period to avert war. In the 1920s, Britain appeased Weimar Germany with the aim of achieving justice, and paid the price of reducing reparations and treating Germany as an equal. In the 1930s Britain appeased Hitler's Germany with the aim of security and paying the price of turning a blind eye to ...
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Atomic Bombs
Number of Words: 1710 / Number of Pages: 7
... in a secret laboratory under the bleachers of a football field in Chicago achieved the first man-made nuclear reaction. An atomic bomb could now be developed. Many scientists and other skilled workers participated in the making of the first atomic bomb. However, only few knew what they were making. In 1944, after D-Day, a spy was sent to find how far the Germans had come in the building of the atomic bomb; He reported that they had given up in their attempt to make it (Smyth, 145). Still, despite scientists' pleas with the President to discontinue it, the U.S. maintained the work on their a ...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Number of Words: 926 / Number of Pages: 4
... 24). Soon after, Roosevelt started practicing law with a New York law firm. While still in law school, Roosevelt met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt a distant cousin, only a few years younger than him(Alsop 28). They were married on St. Patrick's day, March 17th, 1905(Freidel 13). He was twenty-three and she was twenty-one. Her fathe A few years later in 1910, Roosevelt accepted the Democratic nomination for the New York State Senate(Freidel 17). He won the elections, and in the following January he entered the Senate at the young age of twenty-eight(Freidel 18). Later in 1912 he ra In July of 1 ...
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Behind The Urals
Number of Words: 1484 / Number of Pages: 6
... Russia was left with an entirely new system of thought in its government. This ideology viewed the working class and peasantry as the main citizens in their society, while the rich landowners were not nearly as powerful as they once were. Thus the workers of Magnitogorsk held a very important position as they had the responsibility to help the Soviet Union take flight as a country that could compete with other powerful countries of the world, all while working under the most inhumane conditions. John Scott moved to the Soviet Union leaving the United States and in his eyes, its unsatisfactory ...
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Civil War-54th Massachusettes
Number of Words: 1050 / Number of Pages: 4
... small black community, so recruits were enlisted from other states including New York, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, and even Canada. Among the enlisted men were Frederick Douglass' sons Charles and Lewis.
Reaction from the South to black recruitment was swift. The Confederate Congress issued a proclamation that African Americans captured in uniform would be sold into slavery, and white officers of such troops would be executed. Though not carried out, the threat was a grave challenge to every recruit and officer of the Massachusetts 54th. Among those calling for the authorization of black soldiers in the ...
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