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Confucianism And Japanese Grow
Number of Words: 772 / Number of Pages: 3
... of these nations was a direct result of Confucian values being
indoctrinated into the population. Confucian placement of the group
over the individual and strong belief in filial piety also caused
families and local communities to accept social responsibility for
members of their community. This safety net that was provided by
communities and families allowed the government to limit it's spending
on social welfare programs and thus channel more funds into
infrastructure and industry. Confucianism also placed an emphasis
on self-cultivation which has helped East Asian Co ...
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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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Civil Disobedience
Number of Words: 3688 / Number of Pages: 14
... Africa", 1 when King said this he was only speaking half jokingly. In Birmingham the unwritten rule towards blacks was that "if the Klan doesn't stop you, the police will."2 When King decided that the time had come to end the racial hatred, or at least end the violence, he chose to fight in a non-traditional way. Rather than giving the white people the pleasure of participating in violent confrontations, King believed if they fought without violence for their rights, they would have a faster success rate. King also saw Birmingham as the major problem in America.
If Birmingham could be cracked, the ...
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Austrailian Aborigines
Number of Words: 1916 / Number of Pages: 7
... Northern Territory. The city of Sydney, in New South Wales, is the largest city with a population of 3,500,000.
The natural vegetation of Australia is comprised of six types, rainforest, sclerophyll forest, woodland, grassland, shrubland, and desert. The interior is comprised of desert, shurbland, and grassland. The Northern Territory, the location of most aboriginal clans and tribes, has woodland along the coast and grasslands and shrublands in the interior.
Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory is a very spiritual symbol for the Aborigines. (See Picture) The most important possession of the A ...
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Abolute Monarchs
Number of Words: 493 / Number of Pages: 2
... beautified Berlin with new churches and huge public buildings. He also established an academy of Sciences. Tsar Peter I was the only one of the autocrats to build an entirely new capital, called ST. Petersburg.
Policies were implemented to establish precedence. Louis XIV implemented polices to expand Frances’s frontiers and to assert his superiority over other European states. In the early 1680s, Louis adopted the Marquis aim and asserted his right to a succession of territories on Frances’s northeast border. Also, in 1685 Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes, he for ...
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Amelia Earhart
Number of Words: 1797 / Number of Pages: 7
... in Long Beach. She had become very interested in flying. The next day, given a
helmet and goggles, she boarded the open-cockpit biplane for a 10 minute flight over
Los Angeles.
Amelia had heard of a woman pilot who gave flying instructions and shortly
afterwards began lessons with Anita "Neta" Snook at Kinner Field near Long
Beach. She had several accidents during this period, some could be attributed to
unreliable engines and slowness of the planes. By October 1922, Amelia began
participating in record breaking attempts and set a women's altitude record o ...
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General William Tecumseh Sherm
Number of Words: 1631 / Number of Pages: 6
... general. Sherman was born into a large family in Lancaster, Ohio on February 8, 1820 (McPhersonxxx 731). His family had had a long history of political positions, although Sherman was always strong in his dislike for the such. 1829 proved to be an impacting year in his life, when his father died leaving his mother responsible for their ten children (Sherman 1). Sherman was taken in as an adoptive child by Mr. Thomas Ewing, a family friend (Sherman 1). This man proved to be an important figure in his life because his political influence managed to get Tecumseh into West Point when he was sixte ...
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Is Einstein About To Be Dethro
Number of Words: 1298 / Number of Pages: 5
... took him to the University of Lisbon, then Cambridge as a research fellow at St John's, and now London. But if he is right, Einstein's conviction that light travels at a fixed and unalterable speed is about to be dethroned.
Dr Magueijo and colleagues with whom he has worked - Dr Andy Albrecht, of the University of California at Davis, and Professor John Barrow, of Cambridge - were not quite the first to have this idea. Dr John Moffat of the University of Toronto had floated it, but they were unaware of his work until he complained it hadn't been properly acknowledged in the Physical Review.
Of cou ...
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Economics Of Eisenhower .
Number of Words: 1891 / Number of Pages: 7
... Eisenhower was elected they immediately
made plans for cutbacks in the spending on these programs. Unfortunately for them the
newly elected president was not opposed to the programs Truman had began and
improved upon. Over the course of his administration Eisenhower often did not hold the
same opinions as some of the members of his party.
As the Chief Economic advisor to the President of the United States there are
many different issues which I must consider. These issues are both large and small,
foreign and domestic, and affect the upper, middle, and lower classes. At this point in
tim ...
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Civil War - Radical Reconstruction
Number of Words: 1100 / Number of Pages: 4
... Civil Rights Act as soon as he could. But the Radicals held most of the power in Congress and overrode his veto. Due to Johnson’s resistance, Congress took it a step further and then passed the 14th Amendment. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor d ...
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