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16 Th Century Northwest Passage
1,228 wordsThe promise of new riches and the potential discovery of the fabled Northwest Passage were the primary objectives, which fueled the exploration of the New World. Yet these goals were not practical enough when the European nations decided to colonize the Americas. Apparently, "a prosperous and enduring colonial empire depended on self-sustaining economic development" (page 33) rather than an autocratic and rigidly controlled colony in which everything was to benefit the parent country. The degree...
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Trail Of Tears And The Five Civilized Tribes
1,042 wordsTrial of Tears and the Five Civilized Tribes During the early years of 1800 s, valuable gold deposits were discovered in tribal lands, which by previous cessions had been reduced to about seven million acres in northwest Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and southwest North Carolina. In 1819 Georgia appealed to the U. S. government to remove the Cherokee from Georgia lands. When the appeal failed, attempts were made to purchase the territory. Meanwhile, in 1820 the Cherokee established a governmental ...
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Science Fiction Rhode Island
1,814 wordsA solution for a society facing critical times. - Quite a few net diehards have been suffering from insomnia - trying to figure out, whether psycho history can be applied, as a science, on bushmen in Africa? Another crisis. At times it seems as problems, problems always face the poor defenceless humans. How nice it would be, just to push a bottom on a computer and be given the It was for this purpose Isaac Asimow invented the theory Often in the modern welfare state it seems as our lifes progres...
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Rocky Mountains Mississippi River
881 wordsThe Louisiana Purchase was a vast region in North America, that the United States purchased from France by a treaty signed on Apr. 30, 1803. The Louisiana Territory contained more than 2 million sq km (800, 000 sq mi) of land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The territory comprised present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota west of the Mississippi River, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, nearly all of Kansas, the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Co...
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Brave New World Science And Technology
648 wordsThesis: Man's need for answers to questions that cannot be solved known applications of science and technology has resulted in the belief in religion. Elimination of stress Addiction to soma 1. Rioting addicts 2. Religious fanatics II Characteristics Explaining unknown Sanctioning conduct Delegating decisions The Basis of Religion In the novel "Brave New World" civilized society lives in a world of technology. Major changes have occurred during the future; Utopia now revolves a religion of drugs...
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Aspects Of Life Present Day
1,134 wordsDuring the c. 750 s the world was not at all like it is today. The land was rugged and wild, and the people were just as untamed as the world they lived in. The kingdoms and people, such as the ones portrayed in poems and stories like Beowulf and Grendel, led barbaric lives: where war was common, death was like a brother, and kingdoms came, and went as easy as night and day. In light of this one can still see vast similarities with what was, and what is today; mans never ending quest to understa...
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Amount Of Violent Amount Of Violence
1,187 wordsMonkey see, monkey do has become a well-known saying in todays modern, media warped society, but is it correct? What has the world come to these days? It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The last of these, our homes, is a major source of violence. In many peoples' living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the people who view it are often p...
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Slave Traders Missionary Society
645 wordsDavid Livingstone was one of Africa's most important explorer. He lived from 1813 to 1873. He was originally a Scottish doctor and missionary. Livingstone was born on March 19, 1813, in Blantyre, Scotland. In 1823 he began to work in a cotton-textile factory. While studying medicine in Glasgow, he also attended classes in theology, and in 1838 he offered his services to the London Missionary Society. After completing hid medical course in 1840, Livingstone was later sent as a medical missionary ...
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Harry Potter Medieval Era
758 wordsHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, written by J. K. Rowling, is an excellent example of a modern novel that uses medieval influences extensively. Many of the novels characters are based on medieval ideas and superstitions. The settings in the book resemble old medieval towns as well as castles. The book is also full of medieval imagery such as knights in armour, carriages etc. Whilst there is no time travel involved in the novel, the medieval period is used to such an effect that the reader is...
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17 Th Century Plymouth Colony
2,220 wordsKing Philips War (1675 - 76) is an event that has been largely ignored by the American public and popular historians. However, the almost two-year conflict between the colonists and the Native Americans in New England stands as perhaps the most devastating war in this countrys history. One in ten soldiers on both sides were wounded or killed. At its height, hostilities threatened to push the recently arrived English colonists back to the coast. And, it took years for towns and urban centers to r...
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The Influence Of Christianity On Modern American Culture
2,008 wordsThe question of whether or not America is a Christian country seems to be evident at a first hand glance. Religion, especially Christianity, has been in America before it was even called America. Christianity is the most popular religion in America today, counting all of the different denominations together. But in the last century its growth has slowed down. The United States of America is the most religiously diverse country in the world today. Over the last hundred years or so America has see...
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Lewis And Clark Bow And Arrow
1,962 wordsThe Mandan Indians were a small, peaceful tribe located at the mouth of the Knife River on the Missouri near present day Bismarck, North Dakota. The Mandan were most known for their friendliness and their homes, called earth lodges. The women of the Mandan tribe tended their gardens, prepared food, and maintained lodges while the men spent their time hunting or seeking spiritual knowledge. The Mandan Indians performed many ceremonies such as the Buffalo Dance and the Okipa Ceremony that have bee...
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The Rise Of Civilization And Writing
990 wordsThe phenomenon of writing has been invented independently five separate times in the history of man. While History textbooks almost exclusively talk about the writing of Mesopotamia and Egypt, writing has also been developed in the Indus Valley, China, and Mesoamerica. This strange phenomenon has led many historians and anthropologist to conclude that writing is necessary for a complex society to exist. Nevertheless, there was a society located in the Andean Mountain in present day Peru in which...
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The Evolution Of Family On Television
1,346 wordsThe Evolution of the Family on Television Introduction Television is not just a form of entertainment, it is also an excellent way to study society's ever-changing families. From the beginning of the history of television in the early 1950 s to present day, there have been many television shows and sitcoms about the common North American family. Todays sitcoms have single-parent households, several friends and roommates, gay relationships and unmarried adults whose lives revolve around the workp...
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Library Of Congress East Africa
2,167 words... , which meant establishing a colonial government and a river fleet, so in 1886, the National African Company was chartered as the Royal Niger Company, and charged with administering, in the name of the Queen, an area one-hundred times larger than Great Britain itself (Chamberlain 58). In West Africa, Britain had really been trying to keep France, and later Germany, out. The simplest explanation for the rampant European interest in West Africa was trade. In East Africa, which was considerably...
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Industrial Revolutions Christian Theology
2,202 wordsLynn White Having written his famous article "The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis" in 1967 Lynn White placed himself among the first environmental ethicist's, who successfully criticized and caricatured Christianity. Some scholars and critics even now still do not know how that article should be considered: as an ecological appeal or as religious one. This single article woke up all the Christian community up and provoked a lot of talks on this matter. This process became even more com...
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Fiber Optic Cable Alexander Graham Bell
1,258 wordsFiber Fiber Optics Fiber Optics Fiber Optic Cable Facts A relatively new technology with vast potential importance, fiber optics is the channeled transmission of light through hair-thin glass fibers. [ Less expensive than copper cables [ Raw material is silica sand [ Less expensive to maintain If damaged, restoration time is faster (although more users are affected) [ Backbone to the Information Superhighway Information (data and voice) is transmitted through the fiber digitally by the use of hi...
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Nineteenth Century Early Church
1,902 wordsIs The Idea Of Doctrinal Development Compatible Is The Idea Of Doctrinal Development Compatible With Belief In The Abiding Truth Of Christianity Is the idea of doctrinal development compatible with belief in the abiding truth of Christianity? The problem that the development of doctrine presents to the church is simple. On the one hand, Christianity is presented as containing the lasting and eternal truth of salvation and eternal life, and on the other hand, when the history of the church is stu...
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Brave New World John The Savage
2,749 wordsPost Industrial Society: A Brave New World? Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Surrey, England. He was born to a very scholarly family, most notably his grandfather T. H. Huxley, a well-known biologist and foremost advocate for Darwin? s evolutionary theory. Aldous? upbringing was shaped by many diverse influences, from his brother Julian, a notable biologist, to his mother? s uncle Matthew Arnold, a well-known English poet and literary critic. This mix of disciplines led to Huxley? s ec...
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James K Polk United States Of America
1,723 wordsJefferson versus Polk: Expansionism Exemplified and Failed the span of some fifty years, the United States of America almost tripled the area of its territory. In two separate acquisitions, one by Thomas Jefferson in 1803, and the other by James K. Polk in 1848, not only did the size of the U. S. increase, but also the administrative nightmares associated with territorial expansion. Still just a maturing nation, Jefferson faced a host of difficulties in governing such a vast expanse of land, but...
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