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Bill Of Rights
Number of Words: 1220 / Number of Pages: 5
... for in the Revolution were not being protected by the Constitution, and then could be ignored by the federal government. The Anti-Federalist called for another convention to outline a before the Constitution was approved. The Federalist, fearing that the progress would unravel completely, urged immediate ratification. With the understanding of a to follow later. Eventually the Federalist prevailed. By 1788, eleven states had ratified the Constitution. Six states, however, sent Congress proposals for amendments, modeled on their state constitutions and designed to protect individual rights. (1) Ja ...
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History Of The Olympics
Number of Words: 697 / Number of Pages: 3
... with the cheese, bread and olives they ate. Sanitation was basically nonexistent. Water was always in short supply until Herodes Atticus of Athens built an aqueduct and a water system. This did not occur until the games had been taking place for 900 years.
The contests consisted of foot races, horse and chariot races, boxing, wrestling, discus, javelin, broad jump, and horse races. The horse races were unique in that the prizes were given to the owner of the horse, not the rider. The discus, javelin and broadjump were part of the pentathlon event which also included a 200-meter dash and a wrestl ...
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Egypt 2
Number of Words: 892 / Number of Pages: 4
... along the Nile in northern Sudan and the very bottom of Egypt, called the Nubian Valley. When the Aswan High Dam was constructed in the 1960’s, it forced the Nubians to move higher up on the Nile.
Arabic is the official language of Egypt. Regional Arabic dialects have their own variations of sounds and words. The most widely used dialect is that of Cairo’s. The Bedouin dialect is different from the settled residents of the Nile Valley. Some people in desert villages even speak Berber. Many educated Egyptians also speak English or French in addition to Arabic.
Egyptian city life is much different ...
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Love Canal
Number of Words: 416 / Number of Pages: 2
... the envoys $2 million
to secure their object. The international situation
favored the American diplomats. Louisiana was of
diminishing importance to France. The costly revolt
in Haiti forced the French emperor Napoleon I to
reconsider his plan to make Hispaniolia the keystone
of his colonial empire, and impending war with Great
Britain made him question the hardness of holding
Louisiana against that great naval power. He
decided to sell Louisiana to the United States. On April
11, 1803, the French foreign minister Charles Maurice
de Talleyrand opened negotiations by ...
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Valley Forge
Number of Words: 246 / Number of Pages: 1
... to quit. Even George Washington, at one point, said "If the army does not get help soon, in all likelihood, it will disband." Early into the six-month encampment, the soldiers were riddled with disease and famine. Death was a common site on the camp. The raw weather stung and numbed the soldiers. Empty stomachs were common. The future promised only more desperation and hunger. Many could not take the cold weather, lack of food, and uncertainty of living. There were dozens of desertions. By February the weather calmed somewhat- changing from brutal to miserable. In March, General Nathaniel Green was a ...
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French Revolution 5
Number of Words: 1071 / Number of Pages: 4
... were subjected to greater and
greater burdens. Crops falied, and trade was stagnant.
The people could no longer be taxed, but the government
faced bankruptcy unless new revenues were found. The only
soulution was to tax the privileged classes. But they were
jealoous of their privileged posistion. Altought they were
not completely unwilling to contribute some additional
taxes, they never understood how grave the economis
crisis was. They say the crises as only some form of
financial corruption that could be explained away by firing
the king's finace ministers. The libiral ideas o ...
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American Revolutionary War
Number of Words: 890 / Number of Pages: 4
... which was benefiting for the country. The use of
propaganda was another way to create unity for the American
cause. An example of this is the book Common Sense by
Thomas Paine. It helped encourage the issuance of the
Declaration of Independence and pointed out the economic
benefits if they continued fighting against the British.
Events such as the Boston Massacre were depicted by Paul
Revere in exaggerated way to Americans to increase their
wanting to fight for independence against the "bad"
British. The American won also because of strong
leaders like General Washington and how h ...
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Teddy Roosevelt
Number of Words: 4332 / Number of Pages: 16
... his point, however, Roosevelt tried to work with the Republican boss to the extent of not abandoning his own principals. Platt for his part could not toss the war hero out on his ear in 1900, but at the same time, he wanted to find a way to gracefully get Roosevelt out of his hair. Platt's opportunity to get rid of Roosevelt came with the approach of the presidential election of 1900. McKinley was discretely looking for a new running mate to replace Hobart in the upcoming election. It was fairly obvious that the Democrats would choose William Jennings Bryan as their candidate of choice again, and McKi ...
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Hiroshima, The World Is No Lon
Number of Words: 2058 / Number of Pages: 8
... Fermi, Italian-American; Leo Szilard, Hungarian; and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French. Enrico Fermi was born in Rome on September 21, 1901. He contributed in the creation of the first controlled nuclear reaction. For his efforts he was awarded the 1938 Peace Prize. Being a skilled and intelligent man in his field of nuclear science, he was one of the many scientists selected to work on Loa Alamos, New Mexico on the American project to construct the first atomic bomb. Leo Szilard, born February 11, 1898 in Budapest. He encouraged and aided Albert Einstein to write the letter to FDR about the pote ...
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French Revolution-death Of Mar
Number of Words: 1677 / Number of Pages: 7
... off revolts in the provinces which supported the Girondins. By the summer of 1793, sixty out of eighty-three departments had joined the rebellion against the government .
Faced with such immense problems, on April the 6th, the Convention set up an emergency group called the Committee of Public Safety. This was quite a contradiction of terms, as on September the 17th “The Law of Suspects” came into effect. “ The Law of Suspects” started a period referred to as the “Reign of Terror”. During this period groups of citizens in every town were required to write up lists of people suspected of opposing ...
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