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Germany 2
Number of Words: 462 / Number of Pages: 2
... age, had the most powerful engineering industry, the best chemists, and the mighty German Army, superior to any other army, that Germany should share in world affairs by expanding abroad, and become more imperialistic. He felt economic power should be reflected in political power. He ordered the build up of the Navy, which poisoned his relations with England.
The Kaiser had deep affection for things English and was even
made a British Admiral of the Fleet in 1889 (his grandmother was Queen
Victoria). However his determination to strengthen the German Navy
alienated Great Britain. When the B ...
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Dominican Republic
Number of Words: 688 / Number of Pages: 3
... Pedro de Macoris.
Another 1/3 of the population is located in the capitol city of Santo Domingo and between the cities of La Romana and San Cristobal. The annual growth rate is estimated to be at 1.71% for the next couple of years until the year 2000. Mulattos form the largest ethnic group in the being roughly 73% of the population. The next largest group is 16% Caucasian and 11% Black. The life expectancy from birth is for males 65 years and for females 69 years. Out of 100,000 live births 61.4% of the babies die.
The start religion for the is Roman Catholicism. Over 90% of the populati ...
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History Of The World
Number of Words: 2051 / Number of Pages: 8
... based largely on
what has been written down by peoples through the ages.
The development of agriculture about 9,000 B.C. brought about a great
revolution in human life. Prehistoric people who learned to farm no longer
had to roam in search of food. Instead, they could settle in one place.
Some of their settlements grew to become the world's first cities. People
in the cities learned new skills and developed specialized occupations.
Some became builders and craftworkers. Others became merchants and priests.
Eventually, systems of writing were invented. These developments gave rise
to t ...
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The Beginning Of World War II
Number of Words: 2181 / Number of Pages: 8
... Germany was the major player in World War II, the seeds of war had already been planted in the Far East years before conflict in Europe. On September 18, 1931, the powerful Japanese military forces began an invasion of the region know as Machuria, an area belonging to Mainland, China. This action broke non-aggression treaties that had been signed earlier (Byrne, B1). Japanese generals without the consent of the Japanese government also carried it out. In spite of this, no one was ever punished for the actions. Soon after the assault on China, the Japanese government decided it had no choice but to su ...
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Nineteenth Century
Number of Words: 1073 / Number of Pages: 4
... served with all meals. Breakfast was served around seven, dinner (now called lunch) at noon (except on Sunday where it was served around two), and supper at six. Americans wore completely different clothes than the Twentieth Century Americans. Many young boys and men would wear suits, even as play clothes. Many were dark blue, with or black. There were many ruffles and cuffs. Many men and boys would wear tan colored shoes. Most women wore long hooping skirts, also with many cuffs and ruffles. For work, many men wore blue jeans, after Levi Straus invented them. In the early , most people were of the Pr ...
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The French Revolution
Number of Words: 2247 / Number of Pages: 9
... of government. The writings of the philosophes such as Voltaire and Diderot, were critical of the government. They said that not one official in power was corrupt, but that the whole system of government needed some change. Eventually, when the royal finances were expended in the 1780's, there began a time of greater criticism. This sparked the peasants notion of wanting change. Under the Old Regime in France, the king was the absolute monarch. Louis XIV had centralized power in the royal bureaucracy, the government departments which administered his policies. Together, Louis XIV and the bureaucra ...
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Beer
Number of Words: 4476 / Number of Pages: 17
... period. After kilning, the result is finished malt, with soluble starches and developed enzymes. These grains each have a different and distinct flavor depending on how long they are cooked in the kiln. (Porter)
After the malting, the grain is ready for milling. Milling is the cracking, and crushing of the grain. This procedure is controlled carefully so as to break the grain while keeping the husk as large and as intact as possible. Milling allows the grain to absorb the water it will be mixed with later as the water will extract sugars from the malt. The malt will now be mixed with warm water in t ...
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Business In Ancient China
Number of Words: 2307 / Number of Pages: 9
... in carts and chariots and also from wearing silk.
Huo Kuang sponsored a conference to inquire into the grievances of his emperor's subjects. Invited to the conference were government officials of the Legalist school and worthy representatives of Confucianism. The Legalists argued for maintaining the status quo. They argued that their economic policies helped maintain China's defenses against the continued hostility of the Hsiung-nu and that they were protecting the people from the exploitation of traders. They argued in favor of the government's policy of western expansion on the grounds that it br ...
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Why Rome Fell (a Condensed Version)
Number of Words: 1006 / Number of Pages: 4
... unrelated to each other. This quote taken from the
seventh chapter of Jordan's Gibbon and his Roman Empire sum up my feelings
concerning the work; however, I will attempt to show some of Gibbon's Causes for
this decline.
Two of Gibbon's causes are the political blunders of its emperors and
their search for personal glory. These are especially obvious in his chapters
on Constantine. In them Gibbon accuses the emperor of destroying Rome for his
own personal glory. Another cause would have to be the anti-Roman nature of
Christianity. Gibbons argues that the ‘insensible' penetration of Chris ...
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British Imperialism In America
Number of Words: 593 / Number of Pages: 3
... that no more Soviet missiles would enter Cuba. Kennedy told the public about the situation and his decision to quarantine Cuba on October 22. He also said that any nuclear missile launched from Cuba would be regarded as an attack on the United States by the Soviet Union and demanded that the Soviets remove all of their offensive weapons from Cuba.
Then on the 26th, Khrushchev wrote a letter to the U.S. proposing that he would remove all of the Soviet missiles if the U.S. guaranteed not to invade Cuba. Then the next day, which was the worst day of the crisis, a U-2 airplane was shot down over ...
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