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Guatemala

... From there on the Spanish was in-control of until Independence was finally brought to from the Spanish rule in 1821. Bell: "The history in was very controversial over the years, it was more like the power going back and forth for many years, until in finally fell into the right hands, the hands it should have belonged to in the first place" The 36 years of civil war and military dictatorships, which ended in December of 1996, left the majority of people poor with the slow economy and bad country ecology. The Political situation i ...

Number of words: 1280 | Number of pages: 5

Come As You Are The Nirvana St

... Kurt soon started listening to his fathers Led Zeppelin and Beatles records. On Kurt's four tenth birth day his uncle bought him his first guitar. Kurt started hanging around with a guy named Buzz Osborne. Kurt roadied for Buzz's band the Melvins. Osborne took Kurt to his first punk concert, Black Flag, and introduced him to Krist { at the time Chris} Novoselic. Krist Anthony Novoselic was born on May 16, 1965 in Compton Ca. Kurt was starting to get kicked out of his house, he didn't have a job, He began sleeping at friends houses. On some ...

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Cruel Treatment From The Briti

... The most important part, the preamble, justifies the rights of the American citizens. It declar es that "men are created equal[and]...are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." That sentence still remains a truth with the Americans today. Jefferson wrote the preamble with the help of John Locke and Rousteu. Within the preamble Jefferson writes that the people, "to secure these rights...whenever any form of government becomes destructive...it is th ...

Number of words: 403 | Number of pages: 2

Civil War - The Cavalry During The Civil War

... the Union Army. It was a six shot, .44 caliber revolver that weighed two pounds. "This weapon accounted for 40% of all handguns bought by the Union Ordinance Department" (Weapons of the Civil War 2). The Navy model was very similar to the Army. It had a round barrel instead of an octagonal barrel and held .36 caliber cartridges. "38,000 were produced during The Civil War and 15,000 of those were produced within the Confederacy" (Weapons of the Civil War 2). The most famous foreign pistol of the war was The Le Mat, produced by Dr. Le Mat ...

Number of words: 853 | Number of pages: 4

Into The Abyss Marquis De Sade

... was able to reconcile the concept of a society questioning her religion but still looking to affirm her old values and moral codes. Many enlightened thinkers like Montesquieu argued for an emphasis on social, over individual welfare, and presented it as a solution left open by this vacuum. This concept eventually evolved to a redefinition of morality in general. Prior, morality and social laws were frigid and prone to the dictums of the Church. Now, they were accountable to general society, and not the individual's demands. Voltaire writes ...

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Terrorism In The US

... States, in fact it's been around for quite some time. Ever since the first war in America broke out terrorism has been a constant threat. One of the earliest terrorist acts was committed in 1963 when four young girls were crushed after a bomb demolished a Baptist Church in Birmingham (Greene 1). Terrorism creates continual worries that people are, but should not have to worry about. Terrorism can come in as many different styles as one can think and at any given time, usually when it is expected least. The Congressional Research Service ...

Number of words: 1079 | Number of pages: 4

General Denis Sassou Nguesso And The Congo-Brazzaville Conflict

... already damaged from fighting after the 1992 election, in ruins. Brazzaville, pounded by indiscriminate shelling, is all but deserted. More than 50 percent of Congo-Brazzaville's population of 2.6 million were urban based. Thousands are now scattered throughout the country and region. Members of a UN inter-agency humanitarian assessment mission which arrived in the country on Tuesday reported the centre of the capital was "completely destroyed" and resembled a ghost town. They said dead bodies, many rotting, littered the streets. T ...

Number of words: 2199 | Number of pages: 8

Invasion Of Normandy

... Omaha and Utah, but first they had to send in a airborne division I so the men could take out some German guns from behind. After the paratroopers dropped they armada accented the five beaches. At Utah beach the infantry took all the German guns almost with out a problem. They loaded the trucks on the shore and only 200 people died. The allies got 23,250 men aboard at Utah. That was a great success for the allies. Omaha beach was a lot harder to get inland. they had two battle ships to work with but the rough water was hard to get in ...

Number of words: 1243 | Number of pages: 5

Shih Huang Ti

... and then destroy everything left behind. Shih was very disturbed with these invasions, so in the year 214 B.C.E. he freed prisoners and gathered workers and herds of animals. He gave all this to Meng T’ien, his loyal general. Meng and the men and animals were sent north to fortify Shih’s kingdoms from invading armies. Shih planned to make a great wall by extending and enlarging preexisting walls made by previous rulers. This "great" wall would serve as a barricade to keep out all tribes that wanted to invade China. It also served to sep ...

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Monroe Doctrine

... had still considered the new nations as still belonging to Spain. The Americans had a sense of pride in the former Spanish colonies gaining independence. They felt as if the American Revolution was a model for these new Latin American nations (Faragher 265). After Napoleon went down, the monarchy in Spain regained power ("" 617). The Spanish had felt embarrassed after losing their colonies to independence. In 1815 Tsar Alexander I of Russia and the monarchs of Austria and Prussia formed the Holy Alliance. This alliance was a group ...

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Franklin Roosevelt 3

... public service through politics, but as a Democrat. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920. In the summer of 1921, when he was 39, disaster hit-h-e was stricken with poliomyelitis. Demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as "th ...

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The Diary Of Anne Frank

... the Netherlands. During the two years in hiding which Anne refers to as \"a time when the ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when the worst side of human nature predominates, when every one has come to doubt truth, justice and God.\" Anne kept a diary that was given to her by her father, Otto Frank, on her birthday. Between June 1942 and August 1944, from Anne\'s thirteenth birthday until shortly after her fifteenth birthday, Anne recorded her feelings, her emotions, and her thoughts, as well as the events that happened to her ...

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