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Nova Scotia Prohibition Movement
1,671 words... n question. Several interesting points do emerge from this plebiscite of those who did vote. The Maritimes and Manitoba emerged as strongly in favor of prohibition, whereas Western Canada was moderate and Quebec vehemently opposed. (23) 'Wet or Dry' voting patterns seemed very strongly influenced by ethnic origins with cities voting wet and rural areas voting dry. (24) Prohibition was once again thrust into the arms of the provinces. Several small bills were introduced in the years 1900 to 1...
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Op Cit P East Africa
1,493 words... The other women chant: 'She has come into a world of trouble: sickness is in the world, and cold and pain; the pain you knew, the sickness with which you were familiar'. The mother prays on: 'Let her sleep in peace, for there is healing in sleep. Let none among you be angry with me or with my child'. The women take up their chanting: 'Let her grow, let her become strong. Let her become full-grown. Then will she offer such a sacrifice to you that will delight your heart' (56). In this prayer ...
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Checks And Balances Roman Republic
1,264 wordsEssay on the breakdown of the early Ancient roman republic. For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. Sallust The causes for the breakdown of the early Roman Republic cannot be attributed to a single event, trend or individual, rather it was due to a combination of all three in varying degrees. The principal and fundamental cause was the breakdown of the political checks a...
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Consolidate His Power Che Guevara
3,826 wordsThe idea that the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a peasant revolution or had a peasant character is avidly held misconception, one which has been dispersed by the rebels post-revolutionary rhetoric and the wealth of sympathetic knowledge which based its interpretation of the revolution upon this propaganda. To assign an event as complex as the Cuban Revolution any particular nature is a drastic simplification and confuses the many factors which led to the revolution and its victory. Being the prot...
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Cuban Missile Crisis Missiles In Cuba
1,901 wordsCuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the most important conflicts of the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union came close to starting the third world war in October 1962. The reason was the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. For a long time, the Soviets thought that they were years a head of the US in terms of intercontinental missiles. After all, they had put Sputnik into orbit, well before the US had dreamt of such an act. Most of the Soviet organizatio...
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