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Woodstock

... Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang. The oldest of the four was 26. Their original odea was to have it in Wallkill, New York, but the residents objected so greatly, that the site was then taken to a farm about eight miles outside of Bethel, N.Y. , population 3,900. There was objections from this city as well, but a permit had already been purchased to have a concert, so not much could be done about it. Although the conditions were terrible, (Lack of food, sparse sanitation facilities, drugs and alcohol, mud, to name a few) the ...

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Herbert Hoover

... government should not directly aid the citizens but the government should help out the businesses and the help would trickle down through the system and eventually help the people. Hoover thought that the government should not support people. He believed that private charities and local communities should help people, not the federal government. He thought that organizations at a local level could best help the people. Hoover wasn’t opposed to all forms of aid however. He was for giving aid or businesses so that when business picked up, mor ...

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Tennyson As A Victorian

... by the following feeling from her people. The Victorian age has been said to be a very diverse time. Historian T.B. Macaulay in 1838 said that the English had become "the greatest and most highly civilized people that ever the world saw." Yet, another man by the name of Benjamin Disraeli, who was a writer and a politician, disagreed with this statement and pointed out that the existence of an England of "two nations who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were ... of different planets; who are for ...

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Background And Emergence Of Democracy In The British North American Colonies

... The Anglo-American political thought in the eighteenth century contained notions of right and freedom, which fueled their passion for a better way of life. . The Virginia House of Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact, New England town meetings, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were all early stepping stones toward a truly democratic government. These documents and organizations may not have been what we perceive, today, as being democratic, but they were a start. The first permanent English settlement was a trading post founded in 16 ...

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Origins Of Buddhism

... a life of seclusion. When he was twenty-nine years old, he ventured out into the world and was confronted with the reality of suffering and death in the world. The next day he left his wife and son to search for a way to put an end to human suffering. After six years of living ascetically, he realized that the path to success and enlightenment was neither of the extremes of vast material possessions or the lack thereof , but a balance between the two. He called this the Middle Way. By the time he was thirty-five, Siddartha had achieve ...

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Life In Victorian England

... that consist of different lifestyles. In Victorian England life among the lower class was difficult since the people in lower class don’t have the money to support their family and since their occupation requires them to do a large amount of work with very little pay. Many people in the lower class shared one room with eight people and they had very little to eat. It is extremely depressing to imagine that a large family could be crowded into one room where on some nights the only thing they had to eat was bread. People in the lower c ...

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Korea 2

... Hong Kong, and South Korea which will be the focus, stand as perhaps the best examples of successful economic development. The economic development of South Korea, which has been among the most rapid in the world is typical of the ‘miracle’ that is the NIEs. Korea has come far since the days it was ‘a nation of hungry rice farmers’, by pursuing an industrialisation-led development commitment since 1961, which has since produced annual GDP growth of 8.4% per annum, second only to China. The success of South Korea, has been identi ...

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Rabindranath Tagore

... to write poetry as a child. When he was 17 years old, his first book appeared. In 1878, after a brief stay in England, he returned to India where he quickly became the most important and popular author of the colonial era. He wrote poetry, short stories, novels, and plays. His Collected Poems and Plays was published in 1966. He also composed several hundred popular songs. In 1929 he also began painting. was a dedicated internationalist and educator. He established a school in 1901 in his estate in Bengal. He did this to teach a blend ...

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Hitler And The Nazi Party

... price for eggs was 80 billion marks each. The hyperinflation meant that 90% of people's savings were destroyed. Germany lacked faith in democracy. The reason being was the corruption and mismanagement, which characterised the Weimar Republic (inflation). The Democrats were reasonable and well-meaning men, representing the inflation impoverished middle class and business. They relied on chronic credit inflation (which put them more and more into debt. The Germans were also upset by the loss of World War 1, but the thing that made them the m ...

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Earthquake San Francisco- 1906

... around the city. The city was in the middle of a great economic boom and almost all was lost on that day. The old buildings were never made to withstand earthquakes and easily crumbled and fell crushed people. Some sailers on the coast tried to leave but the waves flew the boats around like toys. The buildings were made out of unreined forced brick or wood which couldn't withstand a earthquake of that magnitude. After the earthquake, they noticed that the San Andreas Fault shifted a 250-mile long section witch tore roads and fences. Ri ...

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Roswell

... of the movies and television. By watching this, people are at a level at which they understand. Not only do these movies entertain, they inform people about the little information we obtained from the government. The thought of government cover-ups have been long discussed. The government has always, in the past, tried to keep any sign of aliens, whether it be pictures from space, to crashes on earth, to a low or nonexistent level. Just recently has the government been harassed to the point where they actually gave us clues to alien exist ...

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England's Territorial Expansion

... colonies, England expected them to pay for at least a third of the debt. So in 1774, they imposed two laws on taxation called the Currency and Sugar Acts. The British did not feel that these laws were enough, and the very next year they passed the momentous Stamp Act. This law required that the colonists pay a tax on anything that was printed, which caused a great amount of anger and resistance among the settlers. They pulled together and created the Stamp Act Congress, which was one of the first feats of defiance towards England. The coloni ...

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