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Article Of Confederation

... government received money that it couldn’t find in any other way. Instead of using this vast area like the European did with the thirteen colonies we made an “Empire for Liberty.” The Empire was built by adding new states. This was an extremely unique idea among people during the time. The charting of the vast western public domain was one way the government under the Articles of Confederation was praiseworthy. It was the greatest single achievement in domestic policy for the Confederation Under the Articles of Confede ...

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The Decline Of The Plains Indians

... the Indian population began to decrease. There were multiple factors that contributed to , but the three major were fighting between the American troops and the Indians, the extreme loss of buffalo, and the passing of the Dawes Act. The first concentrated fighting broke out in Colorado, just after the Civil war. Government officials tried to force the Arapaho and Cheyenne from an area that had been granted to them ten years earlier. Warfare continued for three years until Black Kettle, Cheyenne chief, was trapped at Sand Creek in e ...

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Brian Mulroney And The Free Tr

... United States. Canada's ability to compete on a world market was of primary importance to Brian Mulroney, one that he felt had been eroded by years of Liberal social spending. Canadian economic success could only be secured by access to foreign markets; this Mulroney achieved through the 1988 Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Martin Brian Mulroney was born in Baie-Comeau, Quebec in 1939, the son of an electrician. At fourteen, the young Mulroney went to St. Thomas, a Catholic high school in Chatham, New Brunswick. In 1955, he at ...

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National Socialism

... century, attitudes of nationalism, Prussian militarism and expansionism saturated German society. As one can clearly see in the writings of the influential German historian, Heinrich von Treitschke, war and territorial expansion were seen as being necessary to the preservation and advancement of German society. He states that, “War is for an afflicted people the only remedy… Those who preach the nonsense about everlasting peace do not understand the life of the Aryan race, the Aryans are before all brave.” The mobilization of the ...

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The Watergate Scandal

... with the registration of President Richard M. Nixon on August 9, 1974. (Watergate) At approximately 2:30 in the morning of June 17, 1972 five men were arrested at the Watergate Complex. The police seized a walkie talkie, 40 rolls of unexposed film, two 35 millimeter cameras, lock picks, pensized teargas guns, and bugging devices. (Gold, 75) These five men and two co-plotters were indicated in September 1972 on charges of burglary, conspiracy and wire tapping. Four months later they were convicted and sentenced to prison terms by District Cour ...

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British Army In Wwii

... ordered, the recruiting offices were swamped with volunteers, rising to 33,000 per day in September 1914, who could hardly be accommodated in barracks or equipped. After the rush slowed, in July 1915 the National Registration Act provided for the listing of all men aged 18-41, and in October 1915 the 'Derby Scheme' provided for the enlistment of recruits for one day's service, then passing to the reserve for call-up when required, this brought in some two million men by the end of the year. Conscription was introduced by the Military Service A ...

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Huck Finn

... were stereotypically superstitious. This also shows Jim’s gullibility and is referred to later on in the story. In the first eleven chapters of the story, the only evident character and element in the story being satirized is Jim and the simple stereotypes of an African American living in Finn’s and Clemens’ time. Jim is once again satirized in chapter ten, where he is bitten after Huck places a dead snake near his blanket. Jim, being superstitious, chides Huck after he touches a snakeskin earlier in the story. Huck ignores this a ...

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Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel Frescos

... make it one of thegreatest fresco paintings there will ever be.(Brandes, 254). The scaffolding that was to be used for the work was horrible. Bramante haddesigned a scaffolding that required holes in my ceiling. How was I to paint a gloriouswork of art with holes in it! The first thing I did was have his scaffolding torn apart. Ithen designed a new structure; my ingenious scaffold increased its strength with the weight that was put on it. I mounted floor boards along obliquely running columns thatwere separated my wedges of wood. Ma ...

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Romanticism 2

... his poem. He situates the speaker in a lecture about astronomy that the speaker finds very dull and tedious. Thus the speaker looks past the charts, diagrams and the work that is involved with them and starts to imagine the beauty of the stars alone. Being lifted out of the lecture room, the speaker is freed of his stress and boredom and is able to enjoy the peace and true beauty that the stars embrace. Varying degrees of Romantic attitude has affected many areas in our lives today. A vast area that Romantic attitude has affected is The Ar ...

Number of words: 348 | Number of pages: 2

Blaxploitation - Dolemite Vs The Mack

... in McKissack). Two movies, Dolemite and The Mack, are both blaxploitation movies about pimps which clearly show the conditions and inherent social problems behind the blaxploitation phenomenon. Blaxploitation movies affected the music industry as well, because modern hip hop music is derived from these movies. Dolemite, starring and produced by Rudy Ray Moore, was made in 1975. "Directed by D'Urville Martin, Dolemite deals with a street smart pimp who was framed by the 4th ward's biggest dope dealer, Willie Green (played by D'Urville Marti ...

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Labor Relations

... worked for themselves, or in small shops. They were often in conflict with customers or merchants which they supplied." (35) These associations were formed to protect their craft, rather than as a collective bargaining union. In the mid 19th Century, America was in the middle of the industrial revolution. We were becoming an urban industrial society. Immigration was becoming a great source of labor supply. These large manufacturing enterprises, exploiting workers without regards to human cost, were ripe for National Union Organization. Je ...

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The Women's Civil Rights Movement

... have a free choice of courses or education. Women could not keep ownership of property when they married. Women could be beaten legally by their "overlords"- their husbands. Women joined and fought by picketing, protesting, parading, campaigning - demanding that women be given the same rights as men. Some of the women involved in this movement were Elizabeth Cady St5anton, who was called the "Mother of the Women's Suffrage Movement". She organized the Woman's Rights Covention of 1747. She was a leader in the fight for women's rights to ...

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