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Third Estate National Assembly
845 words
The estates general were elected from the third
estate also. But only propertied men could vote.
2. National Assembly - June 17 1789 They were a
claim made by the third estate saying they
represented the people of France, hence the name
National Assembly. They decided to write a
constitution and invited delegates from other
estates. When the Natl. Assembly found their
meeting hall locked, they moved their meeting to a
nearby indoor tennis court. They swore never to
separate and to meet wherever ...
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Pythagoras And His Followers Believed That The Soul Pythagorean's
860 words
Pythagoras must have been one of the world's
greatest men. However, he wrote nothing and it is
unknown how much of the doctrine of Pythagoras is
due to the founder of society and how much is
later development. Sometimes he is represented as
a man of science, a mathematician, and even as a
preacher of mystical doctrines. None of these
traditional views, however, should be rejected,
for he contributed his genius in each field.
Pythagoras lived from about 569 BC to about 475
BC. His father was Mnes...
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Caribbean Islands British Control
1,330 words
... early - the Caribs either killed or held the
missionaries hostage and the Spanish were not
willing to pit their fighting skills against a
skilled enemy and the rugged terrain of Dominica.
In fact, this attitude pretty much summed up how
the next wave of European colonists, the English
and the French, were to feel when they arrived in
Dominica at the start of the 1600 's. The English
and the French were in a race to colonize the
Caribbean in order to tap into the riches that lay
in exploiting...
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Assured Destruction Second Strike
1,503 words
... action, " in short, states act rationally. The
first principle of realism is for the state to
defend itself and its citizens from other states.
The superpowers tried to defend themselves and
their citizens by deterrence, a preventative
method of ensuring peace. To ensure that each side
knew that the other sides threat was real, the
US-Soviet arms race escalated to enhance their
second strike capability - enabling a country to
withstand an initial strike by an adversary and
retain the ability...
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World War Ii The Axis Powers
1,376 words
Almost everyone knows of The Axis Powers. They
were enemies of The Allied Powers in World War II.
They are synonymous with The Holocaust because
Adolf Hitler was the man who started The Holocaust
and he ws the dictator of Germany. The Axis Powers
originally was the alliance between Adolf Hitler's
Nazi Germany and Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy.
Italy did not do much during the war though. The
goals of The Axis Powers clearly emerged in the
Italo-Germany Pact. It was a pact that was signed
in M...
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Kim Dae Jung Nobel Peace Prize
964 words
... ip to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
He embraced North Korean President Kim Jong-il.
Reunions for families divided by the war's
Demilitarized Zone have been allowed. And in
Sydney, Australia, the two Koreas marched together
in the Olympic Games' opening ceremonies
(globalization. about. com). Kim Dae-jung was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the wonderful
work he achieved by mending the wound between the
north and south (globalization. about. com). If
any other countries were influe...
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Battle At Melvin Bridge Battle At Melvin Constantine
293 words
Brandon Constantine November 9, 1998 Brandon
McGarrell Constantine and Sigma Chi The design of
the white cross that symbolizes Sigma Chi is
patterned after the Christian cross that Emperor
Constantine had envisioned the night before he
attacked Rome in the battle at Melvin Bridge.
Maxentius, the leader of the Roman army had died a
few days earlier due to poor construction of a
bridge while on retreat. However, the main bulk
his army had made it behind Roman walls and were
waiting for Constantine...
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Constructed The Nest Blue Jay Eggs
660 words
Creative Writing: Life As A Hummingbird I eased
behind the huge mass of nesting material and took
a firm hold of several strands, I then pulled
back, quickly, to pull them free. The jarring
concussion, which followed, took me by suprise. I
tried to get my bearings as the ground rushed up
to meet me and recovered about two feet from the
ground. After that near miss I climbed back to the
altitude I had been at and started searching for
my tormentor. I realized that I had grabbed hold
of a humans h...
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Kino And Juana Destroyed Kinos Pearl
446 words
In The Pearl, by John Steinbech, evil transforms
certain humble citizens into envious savages. Evil
was exhibited by the doctor who refused to treat
Coyotito because his parents had no money. When
the doctor heard of Kino and Juana's fortune in
finding the pearl of the world (722), he boasted
that they were patients of his while thinking of a
better life for himself in Paris. Coyotito was
healed when the doctor finally came to their straw
hut. He deceived Kino by giving the baby a white
powder t...
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Spousal Abuse Wife Beating
1,459 words
Domestic Violence towards women has become a major
problem in Canada which is often over looked by
society today. Violence is defined by Websters
Dictionary as: 1. Physical force employed so as to
damage or injure and 2. As an instance of violent
action. So many women are beaten by loved ones
each year and why is there little or nothing is
done to correct this violent and hostile
situation? In this paper I will attempt to answer
this question along with many others which plague
women in these wa...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Movement
1,067 words
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I have a dream that
one day this nation will rise up and live out the
true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to
be self-evident, that all men are created equal I
have a dream that my four little children will one
day live in a nation where they will not be judged
by the color of their skin but by the content of
their character. Not only did Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. have a dream, he had a vested interest in
acquiring equality in the black community. His
nonv...
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Monster Finds His First Make Me Happy Victor
1,502 words
Life Sucks Through Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
shows the values of companionship, fear, trust,
and happiness. All of these values the monster
wants or portrays, but due to society, he is
unable to achieve them. The monster tries to
understand these values throughout his life but
cant because of the injustice he receives from the
humans. When the monster finds his first home at
the house of the De lacey's he understands humans
better and tries to mimic them. While his stay
here the monster watches...
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Franklin D Roosevelt Supreme Court
565 words
Franklin Roosevelt Assuming the Presidency at the
depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D.
Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith
in themselves. He brought hope as he promised
prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his
Inaugural Address, the only thing we have to fear
is fear itself. Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New
York now a national historic site attended Harvard
University and Columbia Law School. On St.
Patricks Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt.
Following the example of ...
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Keeping Faith With His Ideals Faith With His Ideals Robert
728 words
Many people say that the metal of a man is found
in his ability to keep his ideals in spite of
anything that life can through at you. If a man is
found to have done these things he can be called a
hero. Through a lifelong need to accept
responsibility for all living things, Robert Ross
defines his heroism by keeping faith with his
ideals despite the betrayal, despair and tragedy
he suffers throughout the course of The Wars by
Timothy Findley. Many times throughout Roberts
life, all those whom he...
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Class Of People Communist Party
972 words
Historical Background to Animal Farm Karl Marx was
a German scholar who lived in the nineteenth
century. He spent most of his life studying,
thinking and writing about history and economics.
A many years of study, much of it spent in
England, he believed that he understood more
deeply than anyone who had ever lived before him
why there is injustice in the world. He said that
all injustice and inequality is a result of one
underlying conflict in society. He called it a
class struggle, that is, a ...
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Made Of Heavy Heavy Nylon Dogs
893 words
The Iditarod Picture this: You are going to travel
over one thousand miles across Alaska car? by
train? by plane? NO! ! You are travelling by
dogsled your only companions on this journey will
be eleven to fourteen of the most honest, loyal
and strong dogs that you can find. For over six
grueling months, you and your carefully selected
dogs have been training, and now it is up to you
and your canine companions. For sledders (or
mushers) this is a dream come true because they
are about to start th...
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Discovery Of Quinine Gave The World Indians
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Stories of Native Americans contributions to the
advancement of health and medicine traces were
discovered in a small town in Name, Africa. The
very first onset of the beggining of modern
pharmacology is the substance called quinine. This
is the substance that came from a bark of a tree
that grew in high elevations. The Indians has been
using this substance to cure malaria, cramps,
chills, hear-rythm disorders and many other
ailments. Prior to the discovery of quinine, the
old world suffers enor...
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Railroad Workers Cattle Industry Indians
477 words
a. Why were the Indians treated so unjustly? (12)
The American settlers? greed was the basis for the
injustice forced upon the Indians. At first the
American? s simply wanted the land that could be
used to grow or create products. Then the Indians
were viewed as hostile enemies. This was unfair
because the American? s were too greedy to give
the Indians the supplies they were promised;
therefore, the Indians attacked. The Indians also
attacked because the Americans put them on
reservations so th...
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Ft Long James B
618 words
Ironclad ships were also a big part in the Civil
War, two of the most famous ironclads were the USS
Monitor and the CSS Virginia a. k. a. Merrimack.
The Monitor was built on Mar. 9, 1862 at Hamton
Rds. VA. by John Ericsson they, for 4 hours the
Monitor and the Merrimack battled. The Confederate
ironclad was destroyed by its own crew to prevent
it from being captured. The Confederates planned
to build several ironclads that could challenge
and defeat the wooden frigates and gunboats of the
union....
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United States Figured States Figured War
295 words
Japan had a goal of making an empire called the
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. This
empire would serve the economic needs of Japan.
This huge empire would stretch from Manchuria in
the north to Australia in the south. It was
similar to Hitlers dream of Europe filled with the
Aryan race. To start this plan, Japan took over
Chinas northeastern province, Manchuria. The war
between China and Japan went on for three years.
Japans supply of oil, iron, rubber, and tin were
low. The only way th...
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