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Bubonic Plague
Number of Words: 1380 / Number of Pages: 6
... they followed a more northerly route through the grasslands of what is now Russia, establishing a vast infected rodent population there.
In 1346 the disease reached Crimea and found its way to Europe in 1347. The outbreak in Europe was a devastating one, which resulted in more than 25 million deaths-about twenty five percent of the continent's whole population. After that the plague reappeared in many European cities until the early 18th century, when it suddenly stopped there. No explanation has ever been given for the plague's rapid disappearance.
The first symptoms of the are headache, vomiting, n ...
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The Battle Of The Monarchs: Can Cathrine Really Be Worthy Of The Title Great?
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... Russia's intellectual life. She sponsered andedited the journal Vsyaka Vsykaya in 1769 and also very concerned with the danger that may come to it. cathrine was also very influenced by western European thinkers and that people were born equal for some time. Louis the XIV ruled for seventy-two years, which is the longest of that time. He began rule at age five but began his complete rule of the throne at twenty-three. He believed in a strong monarchy because he believed that there would be great disorder without it. Both ruled a very strong throne.
Cathrine and Louis both had very similar views on h ...
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Austria Ottoman Report
Number of Words: 783 / Number of Pages: 3
... leader.
In their Ausgleich, or compromise, Austria set up a new type of government, a dual monarchy. Joseph controlled Austria as an Emperor, and he controlled Hungary as a king. This eased a lot of the troubles from the more organized Hungarians, but it still left 3/5 of the people disenfranchised, or without voting rights. Austria and Hungary would have different politics, but they would have the same military and advisors.
Ottoman Empire was known as the Powder Keg in the Balkans because it was made of very different groups including Europeans, Africans, and Muslims. They lost Greece in 1829, ...
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Kurt Cobain
Number of Words: 1399 / Number of Pages: 6
... as
football and other sports. Instead, he enjoyed painting and
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singing. Therefore, much of his time at school was spent with
the girls("Biography"). For this, Kurt did not have many friends
at school. Many thought he was either strange or bisexual, so he
alienated himself from other people("The Life").
Kurt Cobain was not always alone though. Before he was
famous, Kurt lived with Tracy Merander (immortalized in the song
"About a Girl") for three years in Seattle. During this time,
most of Kurt's talents, such as painting and sculpting, were
cr ...
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Ku Klux Klan 4
Number of Words: 1777 / Number of Pages: 7
... alone. The founders of the KKK lost control, and it became impossible to talk about a single KKK. Yet Klan activities still followed a common pattern throughout the south. (Ingalls 11-12)
The Klan now started to spread across Tennessee. At first the Klan used tricks to keep blacks "in their place". At first, the Klan would ride around on horses, and with their white robes, and white pointed masks, try to scare blacks. They would try to act like ghost with their white uniforms. Unfortunately, the Klan quickly moved to more violent pranks. (Ingalls, 12) The Klan would now suppress blacks. The Klan lead ...
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Feminine Mystique
Number of Words: 681 / Number of Pages: 3
... their country’s call” (307). There were many enticements luring women to join the work force. These enticements included higher war wages, more available time and opportunity to work, and wartime restrictions on leisure activities.
“Despite the general expectation that women would return to their home after the war, female laborers did not simply drop their wrenches and pick up frying pans” (310). After the war many women continued to work outside the home primarily to help support their families. After the war 28% of the labor force was female compared to the 24% prior to the war. When the wa ...
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American Colonies
Number of Words: 675 / Number of Pages: 3
... support. The churches in New England had no temporal power, unlike the church of England. Many seaport towns like Marble head and Gloucester, became more religious as time pasted. This show of religious freedom was a way in which the colonies had religious toleration and differed from the Christian church in England.
Unlike the well-defined social classes of England, the colonies had a streamline class structure, which gave individuals the chance to rise on the social latter. New settlers living on the coast could become rich by fishing and selling what they caught. If fishing was not a settler’s s ...
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The Coal Miners In France During The Second Empire
Number of Words: 1986 / Number of Pages: 8
... there is a situation where the trends of
develop- ment differ from the end towards which the action is oriented. The
situation is composed of two elements; the conditions are that which the
actor cannot manipulate in accordance with his end, and the means are that
over which he does not have control. Finally there is a relation between
these elements; where a situation allows alterna- tive means to the end,
the course is selected from the normative orientation of the actor.
(Parsons, 1968: 44)
In order to account for the interrelationships in the historical event
and to anticipate a successf ...
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Exxon Valdez
Number of Words: 1594 / Number of Pages: 6
... habitat that surrounds these pristine waters, along with an enormous socio-economic effect that has left many people wondering when and where the next oil spill will be. Many associated with the recovery process, and its more than one hundred projects per year, say it will take longer than a human lifetime to determine if a full recovery is possible (Fine 1999).
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The oil spill was initially thought of as a two to three year clean-up project. As time went ahead, scientists and clean-up crews realized that it would take a longer period of time and require a lot more effort than ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Number of Words: 1874 / Number of Pages: 7
... I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He then warned that he did not recognize the secession from the union of the southern states: "...no State, upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the union...resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void...acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary....I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution its ...
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