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Middle French Word Gai French Word Gai Gay
458 wordsThe word gay originated from the Old High German word game, which means rapid and impetuous. In the twelfth century, the word game gave rise to the Middle French word gai, meaning merry and happily excited. The English word gay was borrowed from the Middle French word gai in the fourteenth century. The word gay greatly reflects the cultural changes in English speaking countries. In English, the word was used to indicate excessive heterosexual activity. However, today, the word gay is often appli...
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Separate But Equal 14 Th Amendment
573 wordsAfter the Civil War and the emancipation proclamation by lincoln the slaves of america were free. This was a huge step in making our country truly free to all people. The reconstruction of the south did not however work out smoothly for the freed slaves. There were many road blocks along the way such as the "Black Codes", the Plessy vs. Ferguson case and the terror of the Ku Klux Klan. The 14 th amendment gave the freed slaves citizenship and some voting rights. From the reconstruction the 14 th...
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Roman Catholic Church Spanish People
1,403 wordsSpain is a sunny land famous for bullfighting and for more than 1400 beautiful castles and palaces. The country has a history tied closely to North Africa, which includes the Spanish provinces of Info and the Spanish Sahara. The Spanish people like to call there country by the original name of Espana and they refer to Madrid as there capital. As well as serving as the capital of Spain, Madrid is also the countries biggest city. Many people have conquered and lived in Spain. They also have contri...
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Italian Immigrants Southern Italy
869 wordsItalians immigrated in large numbers in the early 1900 's. It is estimated that nearly three million immigrants came to the United States between 1900 and 1914. They immigrated to America to better themselves. Most of them lived in poverty and desperately needed an alternative. America was their alternative for a new way of life, a new horizon. I will discuss the arrival and acculturation experiences of Italian immigrants in New York City and Chicago. To understand these immigrants, one must fir...
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Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Sentenced To Death
1,296 wordsTo this date, Seven hundred and seventy two criminals in the U. S. alone have been subject to Capital Punishment. (Executions USA 2002). Using specific examples such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Timothy McVeigh execution, capital punishment is seen as inhumane, wrong and an unusual punishment. The death penalty is greatly rejected and discouraged by many countries and states. There are more than one hundred countries who have abolished the death penalty in law or practice...
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Art Deco Gothic Architecture
1,424 wordsIn this essay information will be given in order to compare and contrast data about three different styles of architecture. The three styles are Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Neo Gothic. In order to fully give a clear explanation of these styles, information about architecture will be given first then the three styles will follow with comparing and contrasting points in between. First, to inform about architecture, one must explain what it is. Architecture, referring to building is defined as The p...
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Constitutional Law High Court
1,196 wordsThe Australian constitution which came into effect on the first of January, 1901 was a significant Act which forged the Federal Commonwealth of Australia. The constitution is a set of rules which have been created to establish principles to help define and control the institutions of government and sets out rules and procedures that must be followed in order for their actions to be lawful. (Butterworth Course Materials, 2001) It has been recently stated by a writer that the Australian Constituti...
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Women In The Progressive Era
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Battle Creek Healthy Lifestyle
591 wordsInsist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique- Emerson Great men and women constantly change the world that we live in today, whether they are politicians, scientists, religious leaders, musicians, engineers, or even celebrities. Likewise, brilliant minds created the modern world, by shaping the past with their ideas and their actions. The heroes of the past drastically altered the era that they lived in using their unique ideas to create theories, machines, algorithms, and even...
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Head Of State Point Of View
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Target Market Younger Generation
1,396 wordsThe product, which I have chosen for this assignment, is the mobile phone Nokia 7210. The Nokia 7210 phone has a new keypad layout and a versatile four-way scroll that makes it easy to navigate the high-resolution colour display. (Http 1) Polyphonic sounds played through a speaker give improved sound quality for ringing tones and message alerts. The Nokia 7210 tri-band phone operates in three networks - EGSM 900 and GSM 1800 / 1900 - providing coverage on five continents. The Nokia 7210 phone is...
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Comparison Travels Amp Animal Farm
1,029 wordsComparing these two novels is far from hard. There is one main similarity between the two, which any sharp person can pick out after reading the two books, between the lines. I will follow on later explaining this parallelism, but before that I will list down a few facts about the two books. Animal Farm is my post-nineteen hundreds book written by George Orwell. The book is about, in a brief description, a group of animals, from Manor Farm, take on a dream unfulfilled by a pig who was looked on ...
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British History Of The Industrial Revolution
1,002 wordsIn 1750 Britain was very different to what it is like now. People think that Britain just lacked technology, such as Televisions and computers etc. How ever these were not everything that Britain did not have during the 18 th century. People had not yet discovered that germs caused disease and only simple operations could be made because there were no anesthetics. The Industrial Revolution created an enormous increase in the production of many kinds of goods. Some of this increase in production ...
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History Of The Nobel Prize Foundation
1,732 wordsThe whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: the capital, invested in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: one part to the person who shall have made the most important dis...
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Technological Advance East Coast
515 wordsThe Effects of Railroads on Washington State Railroads brought crowds of people to the northwest looking for a new life, and made transportation around the northwest easier and faster. They also provided jobs in the northwest which brought many immigrants to Seattle, and revolutionized the way people in Washington lived allowing news, information, and technology to spread freely. In 1883, a railway connecting the Puget Sound with Portland and the east coast was completed (Le Warne 166). This was...
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World War Ii Won The Election
1,988 wordsFranklin Delano Roosevelt, popularly known as FDR, was born on January 30, 1882 at the family estate in Hyde Park, New York. His father, James, graduated from Harvard Law School, married, had a son, and took over his family? s rights in coal and transportation. Despite the fact that he lost a good deal of money in financial gambles, he remained wealthy enough to travel by private railroad car, to live comfortably on his Hudson River estate at Hyde Park, and to travel at length. After his first w...
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Mexican Immigrants Mcgraw Hill
1,416 wordsImmigration in America Most Americans place their pride in being apart of a country where a man can start at the bottom and work his way to the top. We also stress the fact that we are all created equal with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. (Jefferson 45) During the early 1900 s white Americans picked and chose who they saw fit to live in America and become an American. Those that separate the desirable from the undesirable citizen or n...
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King Leopold Slave Labor
2,109 wordsKing Leopold's Ghost tells a story of the Belgian King Leopold II and his misrule of an African colony, named (at the time) the Congo Free State. It is a wild and unpleasant story of a mans capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestation of it. In telling this story, Hochschild does a wonderful job of giving detailed descriptions, especially of the colorful individuals involved, both good and bad. His analysis of the situation is very solid, starting with the movement when the Congolese hero (M...
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Booker T Washington E L Doctorow
1,370 wordsIn the classic E. L. Doctorow novel, Ragtime, we see the juxtaposition of many motifs to represent Doctorow? s view of the early century. By combining history and fiction Doctorow allows himself to write a semi-accurate interpretation of the early 1900? s while also being able to strongly express his own biases and opinions of the era. The biggest, and perhaps most important theme Doctorow applies in the novel is social tension, or the battle of the rich versus the poor. Other important themes i...
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Robert Charles Hair 1979 Whites
836 wordsA Black Sufferer Who Died for His Pride Robert Charles, AKA Curtis Robertson of Copies County, Mississippi was denied his rights as a human being and thus opened fire on a group of white supremacists in New Orleans, Louisiana in the year 1900, bringing about a racial riot that outraged thousands. Society in this time period was on the threshold of a segregation n war, and Roberts actions on the 27 th of July, represented his attempt to achieve dignity and self-respect, as well as equal rights on...
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