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Roaring Twenties
Number of Words: 2606 / Number of Pages: 10
... war. One of the greatest problems which arose was the Red Scare which was seen as an international communist conspiracy that was blamed for various protest movements and union activities in 1919 and 1920. The Red Scare was touched off by a national distrust of foreigners. Many Americas also kept a close eye on the increasing activities of the Klu Klux Klan who were terrorizing foreigners, blacks, Jews and Roman Catholics. Once Americans put the war behind them, they were able to forget the problems of European affairs, and focus on the country, their town, and themselves. Americans found themselves in ...
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Oeconomicus And Lysistrata
Number of Words: 718 / Number of Pages: 3
... outdoor task”(page 69). “…knowing that he who deals with the outdoor tasks will have to be their defender against any wrong-doer, he meted out to him again a larger share of courage”(page 69). The wife is saying with this remark that Greek men are naturally braver that the women are.
In Greek society, according to this work, It is mans place, given to him by God, to be courageous, correct, attend the outside work, and be the master of woman.
The second work shows a very different and less powerful view of men and a more prominent view of females in Greek society. Lysistrata is a play that was written ...
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History Of The Original Lincol
Number of Words: 2952 / Number of Pages: 11
... second speaker for an hour and a half, and the first speaker again for half an hour. On August 21, excitement was in the air. The town’s population of over 7,000 doubled overnight. At 2:30 p.m. Douglas began speaking and the battle was on! The Little Giant, Douglas, displayed the art that marked him as the master “stump-speaker” of his day. He first criticized Lincoln’s background and political history. He talked about Black inferiority, and the social as well as political dangers of freeing Blacks.
The highlight of his speech was the surprising argument he threw at Lincoln in the form of the ...
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Killer Angels Civil War Book
Number of Words: 952 / Number of Pages: 4
... soon made lieutenant colonel of the 20th
Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
He is best remembered for two great events: the action
at Little Round Top, on the second day of Gettysburg (2 July
1863), when then-Colonel Chamberlain and the 20th Maine held
the extreme left flank of the Union line against a fierce
rebel attack, and the surrender of Lee's Army of Northern
Virginia at Appomattox, when Grant chose Chamberlain to
receive the formal surrender of weapons and colors (12 April
1865). Always a chivalrous man, Chamberlain had his men
salute the defeated Confederates as they marched by, ...
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Discourse Analysis
Number of Words: 2354 / Number of Pages: 9
... regardless of the quality of its academic matter. Therefore the author must strive to excite as well as educate the reader. To achieve this, the author must use various styles, as well as assorted other literary practices such as formality to spice up the text. For each purpose of a text, there is a balance of literary styles which is most effective. For example, kids' books must express ideas as simply as possible. To achieve the maximum effect, simple vocabulary, short paragraphs, as well as casual style are used. Likewise, each purpose has a literary style that is established for its maximum e ...
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Freedom And Revolution
Number of Words: 7266 / Number of Pages: 27
... to the dictum from each according to his/her
ability, to each according to his/her needs. To anarchists, material
equality is one dimension to socialism, but there is another of equal
importance, that of freedom.
The world has enough wealth to provide for all our material comforts.
Socialism seeks to liberate people from the constant worries about mortgages
or landlords, the rising cost of living and the numerous other issues,
trivial yet vital that grind us down in our daily life. What's more,
socialism must also give us the power to control our own lives, power to
take control of our ow ...
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Kosovo And US Involvement
Number of Words: 1198 / Number of Pages: 5
... gain their cultural rites. The President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, is refusing to allow Kosovo to break away from Serbia without a fight. Kosovo is a site of great emotional significance to the Serbs; it is the site of a historic defeat by the Ottoman Empire in the 14th century. From this defeat, Kosovo became the cradle of Serbia's cultural and ethnic identity. Milosevic began an ethnic cleansing campaign in which he killed thousands of ethnic Albanians. NATO forces, as well as the United States, began firing in the winter of 1998. The United States made a cease-fire contract with Milosevic, wh ...
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Slave Ownership In The Southern United States
Number of Words: 1967 / Number of Pages: 8
... notion that slave ownership was confined to only a few southern white plantation owners and that most of the white population was unaffected by it. The author spends nearly half of his thirty-seven paragraph article displaying the past and present attitudes of the general population through several case studies which he lists chronologically and explains in brief detail. He tries to discredit a handful of them while, at the same time, injecting his own views. In an attempt to persuade the reader he sets up his side of the debate by citing a few case studies that promote his hypothesis and conclude ...
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Israel 2
Number of Words: 1548 / Number of Pages: 6
... temperatures average 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit). In coastal plains, including Haifa and Tel Aviv – Yafo, January averages 12 degrees Celsius (54 degrees Fahrenheit) and August averages 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit). The highest and lowest elevations are subject to extremes: frost occurs a few days a year in mountainous inland regions, while summer temperatures can reach the upper 30 degrees Celsius (lower 100degree Fahrenheit) in the Jordan valley and in the southern desert regions. Israel subtropical (it borders the tropical zone) desert is hot and dry year round. The n ...
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The Steam Engine
Number of Words: 1974 / Number of Pages: 8
... was the flooding of the mining shafts. (The Penetration of the Industry by Steam Power) The mine owners “worried…that the mines would have to be shut down unless water could be pumped out of the shafts.” “The engine successfully raised water from the bottom of deep mines.” (Siegel, 17) This saved the shutting down of the mines, which were essential to further the economy. Not only did save the mines, it provided a method of mining that proved to be extremely quicker than the traditional techniques. One of the biggest incomes for the British was found in their textile industry. In the te ...
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