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D.h. Lawrence

... apart from the other children. Indeed, he had few friends of his own, preferring the company of his younger sister, Ada, and her friends. He was a good scholar, however, and became the first boy from the school to win a scholarship to Nottingham High School. It caused the family considerable hardship to allow the boy to take up this scholarship but in September 1898, three days after his thirteenth birthday Lawrence went to the High School. (Bocker 45) He worked hard and made the best of this opportunity, but it was a strain, certainly on the ...

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British Imperial Regulations D

... them at markets provided by the colonies. Within this system both England and the colonies depended on each other for commerce. To further enforce this system on their oversees empire England enacted the Navigation Laws. In 1650 the first of these laws was aimed at keeping trade between the colonies limited only to their mother country, England. The law restricted trade of such shippers as the Dutch, by stating all goods must be transported on English vessels to or from the colonies. This helped keep money within British control, but a ...

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The Atrocities Of The Vietnam War

... body count, not territory, is the measure of winning or losing. Perhaps unforeseen, this notion of a body count led to the mass killing of Vietnamese civilians, which the United States Army would claim to be Vietcong. While the official goal of U.S. intervention was to prevent the spread of communism and to defend non-communist South Vietnamese citizens, in reality American soldiers had no larger purpose than amassing high body counts. The brutalizations that took place, because of the need for a high body count, are among the most atroc ...

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Causes Of The Civil War

... who believed in the complete abolition of slavery, those who were against the expansion of slavery, and those who were pro slavery. The Republican party was formed in opposition to southern expansion. Their views were Free Soil, Free Men and Free Labor. The Republicans were anti- South but they were in not abolitionists. They believed that slavery was a flawed system that made the south ineffective and because the North's free labor system was superior it must be guarded from southerners. When the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln w ...

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Medea And The Chorus

... speeches to individual members. Nevertheless, the chorus still plays a prominent part and fills the traditional functions of a chorus in Greek tragedy. Many of these functions were merely technical. For example, the chorus often announced the entrances and exits of characters or foreshadowed events in the action. It also recounted or interpreted past events for the purpose of clarifying the plot. These functions aided the movement of the story. First off, when the chorus was introduced into a play, one of its functions was to a ...

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History Of Computer

... the American society. From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of people’s lives for the better.The very earliest existence of the modern day computer’s ancestor is the abacus. These date back to almost 2000 years ago. It is simply a wooden rack holding parallel wires on which beads are strung. When these beads are moved along the wire according to "programming" rules that the user must me! morize, all ordinary arithmetic operations can be performed (Soma, 14 ...

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Indentured Servants And Slaves

... to live out their usually short life in servitude. During their journeys to the New World indentured servants suffered extreme hardships and many perished. The indentured servants were squeezed into 2 foot by 6 foot slots where they spent most of their time. They were fed old, rotted food, and many servants died as a result of malnutrition or disease long before they reached the colonies. When a servant died more than half way through the voyage, his or her spouse would be forced to serve their dead spouse's servitude in addition to hi ...

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The Townshend Act

... used to free royal officials from financial dependence on colonial assemblies, thus further encroaching on colonial autonomy. Once again the colonists protested vigorously. In December 1767, John Dickinson, a Philadelphia lawyer, published 12 popular essays that reiterated the colonists' denial of Parliament's right to tax them and warned of a conspiracy by a corrupt British ministry to enslave Americans. The Sons of Liberty organized protests against customs officials, merchants entered into nonimportation agreements, and the Daughters of L ...

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The Japanese And Manchuria

... of Manchukuo. The Chinese, fearing that Japan would invade northern China, signed a treaty with the Japanese, and China' s last emperor, Puyi, was proclaimed emperor of the state of Manchukuo in 1934. The Japanese were now free to exploit and develop Manchuria. Large investments in transportation, mining, construction, electric power, and other industries followed during the 1930s as Manchuria became the most economically advanced region of China. In fact, the region was virtually a colony of Japan. During World War II a base at Pinfang, ...

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Imigration And Discrimination

... untill the election of 1928. If there was one man who singlely used America's fear of immigrants to advance his own political goals it was Attorney General Palmer. The rise of Communism in Russia created a fear of its spread across Europe, and to America. Palmer tied this fear to that of immigration. He denounced labor unions, the Socialist party, and the Communist party in America, as being infultrated with radicals who sought to overturn America's political, economic, and social institutions. Palmer exasperated this fear in Americans and ...

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Gibbons V. Ogden (1824)

... v. Maryland (1819) he established the Judicial Branch as an independent power. One case in particular, named Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), displayed his intuitive ability to maintain a balance of power, suppress rising sectionalism, and unite the states under the Federal Government. Aaron Ogden, a captain of a ship passing through New York State to trade with other states, was stopped one evening by Thomas Gibbons. He addressed Ogden to cede his ship over to New York officials. Ogden, Gibbons argued, had not a license that permitted him to sai ...

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Hitler

... school. He applied for to the academy of fine arts in Vienna but was reject because of a lack of talent. Staying in Vienna till 1913, he lived first on an orphanage pension, later on small pictures he drew. He read voraciously, developing anti-Jewish and antidemocratic convictions, an admiration for the outstanding individuals, and contempt for the masses. In WWI, , by then in Munich, volunteered for service in bavarian army. He proved a dedicated, courageous solider, but was never promoted beyond private first class because his superior ...

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