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Declaration For War In 1917

... this resolution 100%. I agree with war against Germany, as I have said ever since the sinking of the Lusitania. All this had started back in February of 1915 when Germany had stated its War Zone Policy. They said that neutral ships may enter the war zone at their own risk. President Wilson’s reaction to this was that the United States will take action if American lives or property are destroyed. In May of 1915, the Germans had torpedoed and sunk a British ship, The Lusitania. On that ship were 128 Americans, that had been killed. Instea ...

Number of words: 1384 | Number of pages: 6

Dead Sea Scrolls

... the Essenes, a Jewish religious sect living an ascetic communal agricultural life in that region between the 2nd century B.C. and 2nd century A.D. Parallels between the Qumran scrolls and the New Testament have led some scholars to suggest a tie between the Essenes and the early Christians, including the much-disputed suggestion that Jesus and John the Baptist may have The Dead been Essenes. More recent work by other archaeologists and biblical scholars has questioned the association of the scrolls with the Qumran ruins and the Essenes. Her ...

Number of words: 830 | Number of pages: 4

Puritans Vs. Anti-puritans

... Provided opportunity, 3. Insured liberty, 4. Protected individual rights and liberty, and 5. Had a more lasting effect on the methods used for ruling our country. The federalists definantly protected the people of their country from tyranny. Before the federalists, the anti-federalists ruled the states, and they were very tyrannous. For example, they wanted all of the states to each take up a portion of the debt from the revolutionary war. This was easily payable by the larger states that had much industry, but for the smaller or less industr ...

Number of words: 702 | Number of pages: 3

Great Depression Timeline

... and 1929. Organized labor declines throughout the decade. The United Mine Workers Union will see its membership fall from 500,000 in 1920 to 75,000 in 1928. The American Federation of Labor would fall from 5.1 million in 1920 to 3.4 million in 1929. "Technological unemployment" enters the nation's vocabulary; as many as 200,000 workers a year are replaced by automatic or semi-automatic machinery. Over the decade, about 1,200 mergers will swallow up more than 6,000 previously independent companies; by 1929, only 200 corporations will contr ...

Number of words: 1725 | Number of pages: 7

Emile Durkheim & Anomie Or Strain Theory

... the theory to try to make it a general theory that could explain most types of deviance. Anomie is a concept that is associated with two theorists, Emile Durkheim and Robert Merton. Durkheim introduced the term in his 1893 book The Division of Labor in Society, when he described it as a condition of deregulation occurring in society. This occurs when the general rules of a society have broken down and that people no longer know what to expect from one another. It is this state of normlessness or deregulation in society that leads to ...

Number of words: 7826 | Number of pages: 29

Nineteenth Century

... in Saratoga Springs, New York. Crum made French fries that were too thin to grab with a fork, to make a customer mad. They ate many things but mostly simple things. The enjoyed eating the hamburger, but they ate it on a plate, and not on a bun. Also Dr. Pepper was invented in the . A man named Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas invented it in 1885. He was a pharmacist, and he was experimenting with different flavors in soda. Also Americans ate oysters, oyster stew, New England clam chowder, many kinds of fruit pies, and seafood. Coffee was ...

Number of words: 1073 | Number of pages: 4

A Comparison Of Three Abolitio

... of his book: "Equiano's Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavas Vassa the African." In this book he tells of the terrible ordeals that he endures while he is on the slave ship. In one of his lines he states that, ". . .one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across, I think, the winlass, and tied my feet, while the other flogged me severely." (pg. 216) He also tells of when three men jumped overboard to try and drown themselves, how the crew of the ship went after them: ". . .and there was ...

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1968

... quo, a restless yearning for something more than a "realistic" conformity. Others had been aroused by the southern sit-in movement, "The first hint," wore a contemporary, "That there was a world beyond the campus that demanded some kind of personal response. "Not so much ideological as moral, in Jessica Mitford's words, "An Indignant Generation." Although an image of arrogance, even ruthlessness, had followed him from his early days as counsel to a Senate committee investigating labor racketeering, Robert Kennedy had shown a remarkab ...

Number of words: 2112 | Number of pages: 8

Heart Of Darkness And Apocalyp

... left Europe in hopes of finding a new world to welcome them and their beliefs. What they found was a vast new world, loaded with Indian cultures new to them. This overwhelming cultural interaction caused some Puritans to go mad and try to purge themselves of a perceived evil. This came to be known as the Salem witch trials. During World War II, Germany made an attempt to overrun Europe. What happened when the Nazis came into power and persecuted the Jews in Germany, Austria and Poland is well known as the Holocaust. Here, human’s evil side ...

Number of words: 1978 | Number of pages: 8

The New Imperialism

... developing in Europe. The west exploited these continents with the excuse they were civilizing them and their culture. A perfect example of this were the English in Africa, through the Royal Niger company, which supposedly in a treaty offered protection and money to the tribes of the Niger river delta for their land, which was rich in resources. These tribes couldn't even read the treaty they were signing, "We understand the said Royal Niger company have full power to mine, farm and build in any portion of our country."(Human record, pg.92) T ...

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Futurism

... a fine example of the Futurist vision. In his Futurist Painting: A Technical Manifesto, Boccioni tells us that the “growing need of truth is no longer satisfied with Form and Colour as they have been understood hitherto. The gesture which we would reproduce on canvas shall no longer be a fixed moment in universal dynamism. It shall be the “dynamic sensation itself” (Apollonio 27). This goal of creating the dynamic sensation itself, rather than simply a fixed moment within a dynamic action is exemplified, among other ideas of the F ...

Number of words: 981 | Number of pages: 4

The Battle Of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele)

... an important military centre for the Allied lines and all troops left for the front line through the Menin Gate. In 1917, the area of Flanders to the east of Ypres had great strategic importance because it was dominated by a German occupied ridge from the East to the South of Ypres. This was the only high ground in a flat, featureless plain and, if the British could only break out of the Ypres salient and take it, they could turn North and drive the Germans from the Belgian coast and capture the ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge from the enemy. ...

Number of words: 3180 | Number of pages: 12

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