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Imperialism
Number of Words: 1100 / Number of Pages: 4
... for women artists. His famous remark about women being "goddesses or
doormats" has rendered him odious to feminists, but women tended to walk into both
roles open-eyed and eagerly, for his charm was legendary.
He was also politically lucky. Though to Nazis his work was the epitome of "degenerate
art," his fame protected him during the German occupation of Paris, where he lived; and
after the war, when artists and writers were thought disgraced by the slightest affiliation
with Nazism or fascism, Picasso gave enthusiastic endorsement to Joseph Stalin, a mass
murderer on a scale far beyond Hitler's, ...
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Definition Of American Democra
Number of Words: 4466 / Number of Pages: 17
... a language that was a mixture of all the African languages combined, called Creole. This language now varies from island to island. They also kept their culture which accounts for calypso music and the instruments used in these songs. Slavery was common all over the world until 1794 when France signed the Act of the National Convention abolishing slavery. It would take America about a hundred years to do the same (Slavery Two; Milton Meltzer). George Washington was America's hero. He was America's first president. He was a slave owner. He deplored slavery but did not release his slaves. His will state ...
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Life Of The Settlers
Number of Words: 800 / Number of Pages: 3
... old. She was hired out as a field hand. She did well in the fields. She enjoyed the outdoors, feeling of almost being free since she wasn’t being closely monitored. It also gave her strength and endurance, both of which later served her well. It also brought her in contact with slaves who travelled north with their owners.
Harriet almost killed herself while trying to help Jim, another slave, escape. McCracken, Jim’s owner, had chased him and finally caught him. He demanded Harriet to tie Jim up, but she refused. Jim then bounded out the door and Harriet blocked the door. McCracken responded by thr ...
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Constantinople The Gateway Cit
Number of Words: 400 / Number of Pages: 2
... political power, defense and for the spread of culture. (Doc. B) Nearly 300,000 people made their permanent homes in Constantinople. (Doc. C) The placement of Constantinople let the people enjoy many cultures of the world. There were only two requirements for citizenship: membership in a Christian Church and the ability to speak Greek. (Doc. C) With Constantine being a Christian, he believed that Christianity was the best religion for his city. Constantine was looking for the best for his city.
Many of the structures during Constantine's rule are considered architectural wonders of the world. Of ...
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The Prince
Number of Words: 1040 / Number of Pages: 4
... be very rewarding. Machiavelli
also believed that human nature does not change. In general Machiavelli
thought people were ungrateful, selfish, and insincere people, who only care
about themselves. Therefore the government must take account for man’s true
nature and use his qualities for its purposes. Machiavelli also explained that a
ruler who intends to be successful must be prepared to do bad things when
necessary. He must sometimes caress, sometimes hurt, sometimes forgive, and
sometimes punish. This requirement must override all moral judgments, and
when making the decision, the ruler must ...
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Abraham Lincoln 2
Number of Words: 1360 / Number of Pages: 5
... writings of Shakespeare and Robert Burns that would last his lifetime. He became a regular attendant of the new Salem Debating Society, where he met a more intellectual group of people. The intellectual citizens of New Salem welcomed Lincoln who turned out to be a very good speaker with passion and well versed onhis subjects. The president of the society remarked that all he lacked was culture.
Lincoln decided to take a turn to politics and in 1832 declared himself a candidate for the office of State Legislature. His platform was internal improvements, better educational facilities, and a law to li ...
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Bangkok's Thammasat University Uprising
Number of Words: 842 / Number of Pages: 4
... This, in turn, has thrown up debate on issues relating to the way history has been written in Thailand.
Activist leader's general opinion was that it was about time that Thailand as a society, introspect. They insisted Thailand needed to stop being fearful about their past and must come to terms with their own history, both modern and pre-modern.
Taking a lead in exposing the gaps in official history is the Thai media, which in the past decade has grown more prolific and independent than its counterparts in much of South-East Asia.
An example of its role was early in 1996, when a mob attacked ...
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The Effect Of Militancy In The British Suffragette Movement
Number of Words: 2505 / Number of Pages: 10
... she quietly petitioned Parliament urging the inclusion of propertied women as those priveleged to vote for members of Parliament. The House of Commons laughed at the petition, a reaction that would be repeated several times over the next few decades, until the entire nation was forced to consider the question of women's suffrage seriously.Through much effort, by the early twentieth century English feminists had accomplished many goals: women could serve on town councils and school boards, could be factory inspectors, could even vote in select regional elections if they had enough property, and could ...
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Conversion To Christianity (pa
Number of Words: 1622 / Number of Pages: 6
... read, take it and read".'" (Brown 108) Augustine could not remember these words being part of a game and took them as a command to open his Scripture and read the first thing he saw, just as Anthony had. Paul's Epistles was the first thing he saw. "Not in reveling and drunkenness, not in lust and wantonness, not in quarrels and rivalries. Rather, arm yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, spend no more thought on nature and nature's appetites" was the first passage he read. In that moment, his conversion had hit its high point. "The consequence of the conversion was baptism. But with baptism the author ...
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Ulysses S. Grant
Number of Words: 1548 / Number of Pages: 6
... ancestors of the present historical profession. Although such a minority can sometimes be a source of enlightenment, in this case, it has contributed a monolithic picture of a complex era that is about as depressing as it is inaccurate. Little consideration is given the checkered nature of Grant's eight years of the Gilded Age. Michael Les Benedict observes that Grant "dominated his era, a stronger resident than most have recognized". In both the domestic and foreign realms, President Grant could claim a wide range of achievements. In the aftermath of the most serious fiscal problems the nation ...
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