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Europe And The New World
Number of Words: 1612 / Number of Pages: 6
... if they were to survive in the ‘new world.’ However was this triumph over the inhabitants of the land evidence of a superior civilisation?
How does one define ‘Civilisation’? For if we are to discuss what is a superior and an inferior race then understanding of the term ‘civilisation’ is critical. The term ‘civilisation’ is used everyday and is understood by everyone, yet a proper definition is more difficult to pin down. The oxford university dictionary defines civilisation as: ‘a developed or advanced sate of human society.’ This is helpful, yet the question of how developed or ho ...
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Dracula
Number of Words: 1457 / Number of Pages: 6
... when the Host is used as a deterrence of vampires is at the time Van Helsing and the other men are going to leave Mina alone in the house. Van Helsing touches a Host to Mina's forehead and it burns into her head since she, herself, was unclean. Another abstruction of the Christian religion would be the fact that sleeps in a coffin and especially because the dirt in his coffin is consecrated and , being evil, uses this ground to rest in. has several of the powers that Christians believe no one but God could control. For instance, can control the weather, wild or unclean animals and, he can change ...
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Ira Remsen
Number of Words: 915 / Number of Pages: 4
... sweet at first, but it left a bitter after-taste. He made his wife taste the bread and he found nothing wrong or something unusual about the taste. So Remsen decided to taste his fingers and there he found that same sweet then bitter taste despite washing his hands thoroughly after working in his lab. After dinner, he returned to his laboratory and started to taste all the chemicals he was handling. When he found that chemical, it was oxidation of o-toluenesulfonamide and he called it saccharin. In 1880, Remsen and Fahlberg published their findings in the February issue of The Chemical Journal. ...
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The Holocaust
Number of Words: 1487 / Number of Pages: 6
... For example, Jewish children were expelled from German schools simply because of their religious beliefs. After that, people were beginning to be sent to ghettos. Ghettos were places where the Jews were isolated from other people. There were usually walls or fences to keep them in their own place, because they were basically rejected from society.
After spending some time in the ghettos, they were transported by cargo trains to what was called a concentration camp. It was basically like a prison, they had no rights, they were worked like slaves, and they were exposed to horrible conditions that kille ...
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Contain Communism
Number of Words: 719 / Number of Pages: 3
... forth by United States President Harry S. Truman in 1947.
The immediate objective of the policy was to send U.S. aid to anti-Communist forces in
Greece and Turkey, but it was later expanded to justify support for any nation that the United
States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2
Moves and Countermoves
U.S. officials, concerned over Soviet pressures against Iran and Turkey, interpreted a 1946
speech by Stalin as declaring ideological war against the West. In 1947 the president proposed
the Truman Doctrine, which had two objectives: to send U.S. aid t ...
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Andrew Jacksons Presidency And
Number of Words: 1852 / Number of Pages: 7
... the “simple machine in which the constitution created”.1 He had a strong yet stubborn personality and for the most part began his presidential career as a well liked man. However, some Jackson supporters were not fully aware of his views and intentions. He was known for ignoring Supreme Court decisions and he vetoed twelve bills while in his two terms as U.S. President.2
Jackson did not fear the use and enforcement of violence to prove his points and acquire what he thought necessary. Public opinion was not a large concern of the seventh president either. Jackson usually sought to imp ...
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Arthur Miller And His Distorted Historical Accuracies
Number of Words: 1970 / Number of Pages: 8
... most readers today bring out of the play is that history has a way of repeating itself. Miller’s play was an extreme hit upon release and won a Tony award. The play is so popular today that many teachers in secondary schools use it to base their lesson around when teaching their students about 1692 Salem and there are multimedia activities based on Salem through The Crucible’s view. Miller is often asked to speak at events where similar "witch hunts" occur, acting as a sort of expert on the subject of Puritan Salem and acts of hysteria.
The question is, why is Arthur Miller revered by so ...
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Titanic
Number of Words: 1265 / Number of Pages: 5
... temperature was
one degree above freezing. When lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee had
come on duty at 10 P.M., the sky was cloudless and the air clear. At around
11:30 P.M., just half an hour before they were to be rewired, a slight haze had
appeared, directly ahead. And about two points on either side. Suddenly - his
training causing his reflexes to function instinctively. Fleet gave the warning
bell and immediately reached across the crowns nest to the bridges telephone. In
its compartment on the starboard side. He rang ms bell urgently. Fleet replaced
the telephone and gripped the crowns ...
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Castro Rise The Power
Number of Words: 1603 / Number of Pages: 6
... but a small group including Fidel
Castro and an Argentinian Marxist Ernesto "Che" Guevara, survived and went
into the mountains. During the next two years, Castro and Guevara fought the
Batista army continuously in small guerrilla wars. They called themselves
the Twenty-sixth of July Movement, after the earlier unsuccessful raid on
the Moncada barracks. Their group gained in numbers and popularity among
Cubans as the desire for political change in Cuba increased. Castro promised
sweeping changes including free elections, non-corrupt government, land,
improved educational systems, jobs a ...
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Watergate Scandal
Number of Words: 1998 / Number of Pages: 8
... Nixon's word and dropped the questioning. But when the burglars went to trial four months later, the story changed rapidly from a small story to a national scandal. It ended only when Richard Nixon was forced from office. Watergate was connected to Vietnam, it eventually exposed a long series of illegal activities in the Nixon administration. Nixon and his staff were found to have spied on and harassed political opponents, planned contributions to the campaign, and tried to cover-up their illegal acts. These crimes that they did were called the , named after the building that it happened. For years Ni ...
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