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20 Th Century Harper Lee
786 wordsIn, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee refers to Oliver Optic, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Victor Appleton as three authors whose works were enjoyed by Scout, Jem and Dill. These 19 th and 20 th century authors had similar writing styles and plot formulations. Adventure stories, which were the genre of the tales written by these particular authors, were extremely appealing to the young children in Harper Lees novel. Scout and her friends wove detailed imaginary dramas portraying characters discover...
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Ford Motor Company Henry Ford
1,265 words... needed. When Henry Ford came out with this idea of using mass-production, he had many quotes like; "Good work is hard unless you have good tools and clean surroundings. Employees and employers ought to be treated by the same standard. Are they indifferent?" Or, "Old production methods say that machines must aid man. Our idea is that man should aid the machine. " He also said this, "Hard labor is for machines, not people. " (The Story of Henry Ford). A few months after this assembly line was ...
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War On Drugs Pros And Cons
976 wordsFor over twenty years the drug debate has been argued over and over. The drug war in the United States has been historically seen as a costly, yet necessary component of public policy; a policy that has been under substantial political fire for years. As we enter a new century, many are reconsidering their feelings towards the drug war. Critics cite the billions of dollars spent every year as well as the overflowing prison problem as reasons to cut back, and even legalize some or all recreationa...
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German Forces Great Depression
657 wordsDuring the twentieth century, Europe went through many changes in politics and trends. On June 28, 1914, Serbian revolutionaries assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian and Hungarian thrones, and his wife, Sophie. With Germany behind Austria-Hungary, Austria attacked Serbia on July 28 th. The following day, Russia ordered full mobilization and in effect declared full all out war. Germany's plan was to knock out France by going through neutral Belgium and then taking out...
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World War 1 Trench Warfare
725 wordsWorld War 1 is perhaps best known for being a war fought in trenches (Grolier 94), ditches dug out of the ground to give troops protection from enemy artillery and machine-gun fire. In Erich Remarque's novel All Quite on the Western Front that is exactly how he described trench warfare. Remarque showed World War 1 as a war fought in trenches, which he depicted well leaving out only a few minor details. The trenches spread from the East to the West. By the end of 1914 trenches stretched all along...
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Ireland Catholic And Protestant Fears In The 1930s
1,097 wordsBy the end of the 1930 's the Northern State had existed for almost two decades, as had its Southern counterpart. During this time the two states set themselves up in a way that seemed to justify the fears that both communities, Catholic and Protestant had when the possibility of Home Rule was first talked about in the 1880 's. The Northern state was one where the Protestant majority was in power and treated the Catholic minority as a threat, thus realising the fears of that community. The South...
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V 8 Engine Henry Ford
1,494 words... that publication, which is the longest any motoring journalist has worked for the same paper. The 1000 cc Toyota Corona was launched in May of 1957. The year of 1958 was the year of the Ford Edsel, a V 8 engine of 5. 9 or 6. 7 liters. The Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford in Detroit launched it. Their appearance was quite strange with a wrap around windshield, prolific fins, lots of flashy chromium plating and a radiator reminiscent of a horses neckwear. Only 35, 000 were sold in the first si...
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Speech By Neville Chamberlain
1,421 wordsBritish Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave this speech to the House of Commons on September 1, 1939, just hours after Hitler's troops had invaded Poland. Chamberlain and others had spent years negotiating with Hitler in order to prevent another war in Europe, two decades after the Great War in which an entire generation of young men had been wiped out. Negotiations with Hitler had included surrendering the sovereign rights of Czechoslovakia and standing by as Hitler's troops took Austria. B...
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Nicholas Ii Privilege Russia
2,032 wordsThe quotation, "I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinchingly as it was preserved by my unforgettable dead father. ' (Nicholas II) In spite of the Czar's decrees and declarations, Russia, by the beginning of the 20 th century, was overripe for revolution, " is supported by political and socioeconomic conditions late Nicholas II was the Czar of Russia from 1896 - 1917, and his rule was the brute of political disarray. An autocrat, Nicholas II had continued the divin...
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Emily Greene Balch Approach Generating A New Reconstructive Women
612 wordsEmily and a band of women in the early World War I attempted to do what had never been done before by any women acting together as women to enter into international political activity, bringing to birth a new spirit, a new approach, generating a new reconstructive force in the world. Emily and the other women were the first in 1914 and 1915 to get involved Emily Greene Balch was born After Civil War, on Jan 8, 1867 in Jamaica, Plains. Then she was raised in a small community in the neighbor- hoo...
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Fascist Party Socialist Party
1,237 wordsBentio Mussolini, (18833 - 1945) was the Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. He centralized all power in himself as the leader (il duce) of the Fascist party and attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitlers Germany. The defeat of Italian arms in World War II brought an end to his imperial dream and led to his down fall. Mussolini was born in Predappio, near Forli, in Romagna, on July 29, 1883. His father, Alejandro, was a Blacksmith, and his mother, Rosa wa...
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World War Ii Benito Mussolini
1,348 wordsWho was Benito Mussolini? Benito Mussolini was the Fascist dictator of Italy. He was dictator from 1922 to 1943. Benito was five foot six inches, with black hair and eyes. He centralized all of the power of Italy in himself and on one else as the leader of the Fascist party and tried but failed to create an Italian Empire. Italy would eventually be in an alliance with the all powerful Germany. Mussolini was born in Predappio, near Forli, in Romagna, a poverty stricken district of central Italy. ...
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World War One British Society
862 wordsComment on any one of the leisure activities featured in Evelyn Waughs Vile Bodies. Explain if it was a new development of the interwar era. The interwar period witnessed an explosion of a variety of leisure activities within British society, some of which were new and some of which were not. One such leisure activity was that of the cinema, and featured as a popular pastime in Evelyn Waughs Vile Bodies. Whilst the cinema was not a new leisure activity during the interwar era, there were however...
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Spoke English 90 Percent Immigrants
556 wordsThe New Immigration In 1886 the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland. Set at the entrance to New York, the statue was just in time to greet the biggest migration in global history. Between 1880 and World War I, about 22 million men, women, and children entered the United States. More than a million arrived in each of the years 1905, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1913, and 1914. Not everyone had to travel in steerage. Passenge...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est First Day
610 wordsThe Battles of Ypres, 1914, 1915, 1917 There were in fact three battles fought around the Ypres salient during the War. The first, in 1914 was an attempt by the BEF to halt the rapid advances made by the Germans. The second, in 1915, was notable for the first use of poison gas bythe Germans. However, it is the long-planned offensive of July 31, 1917, that holds the most significance. Here, a combination of over-ambitious aims, appalling weather conditions, and misguided persistence by Haig led t...
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Britian Powerful Nations Britian Powerful India
445 wordsBritian was the most powerful country at the time of its empire in India. Between 1850 to 1890, Great Britian had a very powerful control over the world. Expanding from, formerly known, United Kingdom to China and from China to the North Americas maybe South America. It had territories between these land masses. With its naval glory and pride and its superior land army, India was just another country to take over who played a big part in their economy. India is known by many countries as the eco...
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Door To Door Jehovahs Witnesses
1,253 wordsThere is more to Jehovahs Witnesses than we may believe. When we think of them as people who go door to door ringing doorbells and talking about religion. This particular faith is a separate part of the religion related to Christianity. They have their own thoughts about life and after life. They also have their own views on issues dealing on a worldly basis. The founder of Jehovahs Witnesses is Charles The Russell. The faith is simple and is derived from Orthodox Christianity. This faith is led...
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French Painter Open Window
1,129 wordsJuan Gris was born in 1887. He was a Spanish born French painter who went to the cubist school. Originally his name was Jose Victorian Gonzalez, he was born in Madrid and educated there. He left Madrid in 1906 and went to Paris, making the acquaintance of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and of the French painter Georges Braque. Gris first cubist paintings, generally more calculated than those of Picasso and Braque, appeared in 1912. He spent the next summer in C? et, France, with Picasso, and while...
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Cold War Nation State
1,523 wordsStill riding the Trojan horse The Shield of Achilles: War, Law and the Course of History by Philip Bobbitt 960 pp, Allen Lane This is a book of extraordinary ambition. It could well have been called A General Theory of War, Peace and History. For that is what it proffers, at least for political history over the last half-millennium as perceived through European and American eyes. And it has a message: that, as Sir Michael Howard puts it in his magisterial foreword, mankind could be facing a trag...
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Nicholas Ii Privilege Russia
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