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World War II
Number of Words: 472 / Number of Pages: 2
... for the U.S. to ship or sell arms to
countries where a state of war existed. Roosevelt and the U.S. congress had
different views about isolationism. Roosevelt was not an isolationist, and was
concerned about what was happening. Congress, on the other hand, was not as
concerned. For example, Roosevelt could have eased European tensions somewhat
by wiping out allied war debts. Congress, however, would not go along with such
a thing.
As time went by, the crisis in Europe continued to deepen. Hitler had
started to become more aggressive. In 1938, Germany invaded Austria, and
annexed it two days ...
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Chinese Kinship Systems
Number of Words: 3281 / Number of Pages: 12
... It is my aim then, to include examples of a patriarchal system encountering problems and realities that are difficult to explain in an “ideal” sense.There is little doubt, according to Baker, that the first and foremost aspect to understanding Chinese families and society at large is the importance placed on male relationships and descent that is traced through a male line. In contrast, women in Chinese society were given little thought and even less power. They were to be used as reproducers of the male line and to aid in home/farm labour, apart from this; women had only small amounts of power and re ...
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Commonwealth
Number of Words: 2501 / Number of Pages: 10
... like the Vikings before them married the local Irish and became even more Irish than the Irish themselves. Religious Problems: Henry VIII replaced the Roman Catholic Church in England with the Protestant Church of England in 1536. He attempted to introduce his religious policies into Catholic Ireland by closing down Catholic churches and monasteries. Queen Mary I tried to giving land in Ireland to English, Scottish and Welsh settlers. This was the start of the Plantation of Ireland. Queen Elizabeth I sending Protestant and managed to bring all of the country under English rule. Irish land was ...
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The Turks And Mongols
Number of Words: 4512 / Number of Pages: 17
... in Mongolia, a number of semi-agricultural, semi-pastoral tribes, possessing the sheep, probably also cattle, and perhaps wagons, but apparently not the horse, came in early times to the attention of the Chinese historians. By 800 B.C. we hear of a people called the Hiung-Nu, who gradually grew in importance until they came to dominate all of Mongolia.8 At a fairly late date, set by McGovern between 541 and 300 B.C., the Hiung-Nu presumably obtained horses, and learned to ride them. They seem to have acquired these animals from the Iranians or from Turkish-speaking peoples, along with the whole complex ...
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Grant Scandals
Number of Words: 351 / Number of Pages: 2
... revealed many congressmen, high ranking republicans, and vice-president Schuyler Colfax took stock in the company. The scandal marred Grant's first term. Schuyler was replaced for the election in 1872. This began the uncovering of several scandals.
The Whiskey Ring 187
A national tax evasion scheme where indictments were brought against 86 government officials, including the chief clerk of the Treasury Department as well as President Ulysses S. Grant's private secretary. A group of distillers was falsifying reports and cheated the government millions in tax dollars. Many of Gran't appointees were in ...
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American Revolution 3
Number of Words: 694 / Number of Pages: 3
... ensued. The idea of mercantilism where the channelizing of all trade through England, was a restriction upon economic prosperity of the New England colony. The major cause for revolution within the economic theory is of economic subordination of colonies to England. The Grenville Ministry passed a number of acts, but of provocation to the colonists was the stamp act. On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee’s passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. The stamp act was protested upon the principle of "no taxat ...
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Huck Finn
Number of Words: 398 / Number of Pages: 2
... snake at the foot of Jim’s blanket one night and Jim gets bitten in the foot by the dead snake’s mate. This portion of the book once again satirizes Jim’s superstition and adds to the element of humor in the story by describing the treatment that Jim applies to his foot after he is bitten. “He was barefooted, and the snake bit him right on the heel. That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remember that whenever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it. Jim told me to chop off the snake’s head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of i ...
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The First Battle Of The Somme
Number of Words: 1645 / Number of Pages: 6
... 475 miles of trenches, running from the Belgian coast across the face of France to Switzerland (Macdonald 10). The French Army held 400 miles of this trench, and Great Britian held the other 70 miles, with the remaining 5 miles taken over by the Germans (Macdonald 10). If the Germans would have been able to pick one part of their own 500 mile-long trench on which to hold off the Allied offensive, they would have chosen the Somme, where their line was surely impenetrable (Macdonald 12). The Germans knew that an offensive was being readied and that the British would attack from their own lines to h ...
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The History Of Canada
Number of Words: 709 / Number of Pages: 3
... changes in temperature, Canada's
precipitation is very light.
Our home is enclosed by the United States of south, the Pacific ocean
and Alaska on the west side, the Atlantic ocean on the east side and the
Arctic up north. One of the dominant reasons Canada is so well populated is
due to the fact of our financial status. At this present time, the economy
is not doing too well, but who's is? Canada is highly industrialised by
manufacturing Automobiles, food, liquor and tobacco. We as a Unified
country accept other cultures and religions. Canada has about every
nationality possible and together the ...
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Oda Nobunaga
Number of Words: 2486 / Number of Pages: 10
... a deputy military governor (shugodai) house in Owari Province since about 1400. Though his father Nobuhide was a vassal of the Kiyosu branch of the Oda, he was actually a sengoku daimyo. The Oda were shugodai of Owari's lower four districts. As the lord of Nagoya Castle, he had the power to compete with daimyo of neighboring provinces. He made peace with Saito Dosan (neighboring daimyo) by marrying Nobunaga to Dosan's daughter. Nobuhide's abrupt death from a disease in 1551 left Nobunaga to fill his shoes at the age of seventeen. At his father's funeral, he grabbed a handful of incense and threw ...
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