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Term Papers on History

Buddhism And The Six Point Att
Number of words: 2558 - Number of pages: 10

.... with an absence of authority. He attacked this authority on two fronts. First he wanted to end “monopolistic” hold of the Hindu Brahmins on religious teaching by making the faith accessible to the average person taking away the secrecy of the Brahmins. Buddha said, “there is no such thing as closed-fistedness in the Buddha”. (The Worlds Religions pg. 94) In other words the religious leadership did not hold all control on spiritual enlightenment. This first attack on authority was directed at an institution of Hinduism, most directly at the Brahmin caste. Th .....

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The Constitution
Number of words: 2246 - Number of pages: 9

.... and the first vote was to totally throw away the Articles of Confederacy. wasn’t formed yet and it was already a flawed document. Because not all states were represented when the articles required it, was an illegal document. The delegates working on new that they needed a stronger document, because the articles proved too weak, but it still needed to please all of the states. This was impossible. So what ended up happening was the new ducocument became more and more vague. The only way to create a document that would pass was to make a document which didn’t really solve any pro .....

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Bhutan
Number of words: 645 - Number of pages: 3

.... (Karan, 224) Economy Bhutan is the poorest of all the Himalayan countries. It’s underdeveloped, but has the potential to develop it’s economy. Farming is Bhutan’s chief economic activity. Different crops are grown depending on it’s elevation. Rice and buckwheat are grown up to 5000 ft. Barley and wheat are grown up to 9000 ft. Coal is the only mineral mined. It’s economy hasn’t been able to develop due to it’s remoteness, lack of convenient markets, qualified technicians, and transportation facilities. In 1974 Bhutan began to welcome tourists. In 1990, more th .....

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Imigration And Discrimination
Number of words: 536 - Number of pages: 2

.... Palmer exasperated this fear in Americans and then presented himself as the country's savior, combatting the evils of Communism. He mainly centered his attack on Russian immigrants. During the infamous Palmer raids thousands of aliens were deported and even more were arrested on little or no evidence. Their civil liberties were violated, they were not told the reasons for their arrests, denied counsel, and not given fair trials. What followed was an investigation of Palmer led by Louis Post which overturned many of Palmer's actions. Palmer's cretability was shattered after in a last minute .....

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Christa Wolf
Number of words: 385 - Number of pages: 2

.... in the newly formed GDR. The second novel is strongly autobiographical and combines references to actual events with a description of life in a conformist provincial town. Wolf was a member of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of the GDR until the party disintegrated in 1989. She was, however, removed from the East Berlin committee of the GDR Writers' Union in 1976 after joining in protest against the withdrawal of citizenship from dissident singer Wolf Biermann. Wolf's controversial novel Was bleibt (What Remains and Other Stories, 1995), written in 1979 but not published until 199 .....

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Monet
Number of words: 1176 - Number of pages: 5

.... son père est mort et a déménagé à Argenteuil. Argenteuil a situé près de Paris sur la Seine. En 1878 Michel, le deuxieme fils, est né. Camille est morte dans 1879 de tuberculose. Après la mort de Camille, Alice Horschedé a prend en charge la famille de Claude en plus de ses six enfants. Toute la famille s'est installé à Poissy en 1881. Neuf ans derniers en date, a acheté la maison de Giverny. Pendant les deux ans prochain, M. Hoschedé a mort et a epousé Alice. En 1907 a le premier symptômes de la cataracte. Alice est morte en 1911 et trois ans prochain Jean est mort. En .....

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The Scientific Revolution & The Enlightenment In Europe
Number of words: 712 - Number of pages: 3

.... authorities such as Aristotle, Ptolemy, as well as the church. Third, the general scientific orientation changed from theological questioning to secular which focused on how things worked. these developments were not very popular in Europe until the eighteenth century when the ideas and methods became known as part of the Enlightenment. Philosophes, a group of thinkers, developed related ideas forming a basis for modern thought. Emphasizing again skepticism, empirical reasoning, and satire. People began believing that reasoning and education were bringing Western civilization into enligh .....

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Mrs. Cage (a Play)
Number of words: 914 - Number of pages: 4

.... symbol to her husband. She helped him project the type of image he needed as an attorney. Mr. Cage paid her little attention after Elizabeth was born and this caused Lillian's slow but obvious progression from a caged woman to a madwoman. It may have begun with her ironing his shirts. One of Mrs. Cage's favorite memories is of the times when Mr. Cage had difficult cases and needed her to bring new shirts to the courthouse. It seems her only real connection with him is in his shirts. She had obviously become obsessed even to the point where it was obvious to Elizabeth who tells he .....

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Papyrus
Number of words: 500 - Number of pages: 2

.... writing are called ostraca). On these materials were recorded everything from high literature to the myriad of Nine of ten published texts are private letters or documents of every conceivable documents and other communications of daily life. they reflect the quotidian affairs of government, commerce, and personal life in much the same way that modern records do. From the papyri, moreover, have come abundant new works of religious literature not only for Judaism and Christianity but also for traditional Greek and Roman cults, for Manicheism, and for the early history of Islam. .....

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Atomic Bomb In World War 2
Number of words: 366 - Number of pages: 2

.... destructive high pressure air blast, which can easily demolish tall buildings, not to mention people. After the initial blast radiation covers the area, causing people, animals, and structures to practically disintegrate. Even years afterwards people were still dying and having health problems related to the radiation they were exposed to long before. There were many people that were strongly opposed to the using of nuclear weapons on Japan. But invading the is land instead of bombing would have taken perhaps 1 million us soldiers lives. After 1945 the US made thous .....

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