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FDR
Number of Words: 866 / Number of Pages: 4
... of the United States) would do anything, if only someone would tell them what to do,” said wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, about the throngs of Americans crowded around their radios listening to President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s inauguration on March 4th, 1933. He would be the 32nd President.
He had promised a recipe for recovery to the very same millions who’s’ president had abandoned them, and it made him an over-night sensation.
Charm and persuasion was what the citizens needed, not someone telling then that all hope was lost. “There is a duty on the part of the government to do something about this ...
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Civil War 4
Number of Words: 1142 / Number of Pages: 5
... south decided to form it’s own country. The Confederate States of America.
The North would not let them go. They felt that the south was a part of the union forever. At the time of this whole uproar within the country a lawyer named Abraham Lincoln had been climbing the political ladder. He who believed in what the north stood for. He was a Congressman and very anti slavery. He helped make up bills that to abolish slavery, but they never got passed . Many southerners did their best to keep Lincoln out of the White House. They feared what he might do as a President. That he would hurt the
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How Adolf Hitler Got To The To
Number of Words: 1299 / Number of Pages: 5
... are deemed equal to men in all aspects of society. Although North American society has come a long way when compared to that of Jordan in terms of treatment and expectation of women, it still has a long way to go. The standards of our society still in many ways mirror those of Jordanian society.
We inhabit two completely opposite ends of the earth, but are our treatments and expectations of women that far removed from those of the Jordanian society? The ways that we view the roles of women in society are quite broad and unestablished. Women today still fight for equality and respect. The actio ...
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Analysis Of Karl Marx And Comm
Number of Words: 2356 / Number of Pages: 9
... he suffered" in the
course of his life. The student culture at Bonn included, as a major
part, being politically rebellious and Marx was involved, presiding
over the Tavern Club and joining a club for poets that included some
politically active students. However, he left Bonn after a year and
enrolled at the University of Berlin to study law and philosophy.
Marx's experience in Berlin was crucial to his introduction to Hegel's
philosophy and to his "adherence to the Young Hegelians." Hegel's
philosophy was crucial to the development of his own ideas and
theories. Upon hi ...
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The Period After The French Revolution
Number of Words: 486 / Number of Pages: 2
... provided for a board of Judges and a jury for criminal cases; an accused person was considered innocent until proven guilty and was guaranteed counsel. Most of these ideas were used after the ratification of the United State’s Constitution.
During the Consulate, Napoleon Bonaparte carried through a series of reforms that were begun during the Revolution. He established the Bank of France, which has continued to function, more or less unchanged, up to the present time. As an independent national bank, and as the agent of the French government for currency, public loans, and the deposit of public funds ...
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A Summary Of Portugese History
Number of Words: 1183 / Number of Pages: 5
... first fort was a triangular in shape surmounted by a central tower. Sinhalese soon besieged the fort, and around 1524 the Portuguese dismantle it. The Portuguese kept an Agent in the Island under the protection of the Sinhalese King at Kotte.Giving up of Colombo was a mistake. The colony of Muslims merchants immediately attempted to win back their supremacy in the Kingdon of Kotte and to re-conquer the cinnamon trade. However, they were to be defeated by the few Portuguese still presents in the Island. The Mappillas (Malabar Muslims) that up to 1539 nourished a dynastic conflict in the Kingdoms of Sit ...
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Underground Railroad
Number of Words: 1497 / Number of Pages: 6
... with being free and living a life where they were not told how
to live. Others ran due to fear of being separted or sold from friends
and family. Then there were some who were treated so cruely, that it
forced them to run just to stay alive. Since coming to America as slaves
even back as far back as when the first colonies began, slaves wanted to
escape. They wanted to get away from the situation they were forced
into. Those who were free were the "whites" who were somewhat separated
in values. The North, was a more industrialized area where jobs were
filled by newly imported immigrants, maki ...
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Automation
Number of Words: 2247 / Number of Pages: 9
... system of manufacturing inexpensive, reliable cars.
"I'm going to democratize the automobile." Ford said, "and when I'm through, everybody will have one." (Chase, 1997, 47)
Cars have made a big difference in the way communities have been designed. Street layout, the design of homes, and traffic laws have changed as methods of transportation has changed throughout history.
Automobiles are responsible for more than half the airborne pollution in the western world. Many plans are being developed to control air pollution. Burning cleaner fuel and burning fuel more efficiently both help the environmen ...
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Confucianism, Daoism And Legal
Number of Words: 1210 / Number of Pages: 5
... adopt his various concepts. Unfortunately, Confucius died in 479 B.C.E., before such a change ever took place. However, he succeeded in winning over a handful of devote followers who continued his legacy and Confucianism later went on to become one of the most influential thought systems of Chinese history. Of his followers, Mencius and Xunzi became the most renown. Since Confucius did not succeed in completing a manual of his views, these followers had to derive their own interpretations of the system which now formulate, the Analects. The Analects portray an idealized gentleman, and his variou ...
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Atomic Bomb
Number of Words: 1491 / Number of Pages: 6
... the war, one of the most brilliant scientists in history, Albert Einstein, hypothesized that if the true power of the atom were released in a weapon, the results would be devastating. This was soon confirmed by a large portion of the scientific community. Whoever possessed such a weapon would be in complete power. Many government officials felt that such a weapon could put an end to the war. For this reason, in 1942, the United States decided to pursue the . Later that year, Franklin D. Roosevelt began the Manhattan Project.
The Manhattan Project was a massive engineering enterprise aimed at the ...
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