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The Boston Massacre
Number of words: 326 - Number of pages: 2.... people become radicals. It was really an accident and the radicals
tried to use propaganda and turn something small into something big. The
British soldiers were accused of Murder and manslaughter. To represent them
was John Adams, a relative of Samuel Adams. Adams wanted the trial to get
over and didn't want the truth to come out. The Boston Massacre and
misleading visual representation by Paul Revere could have been one cause
of a later war.
The Boston Massacre increased the hatred between the Americans and
the British. The radical people tried to use this minor event as prop .....
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French War
Number of words: 964 - Number of pages: 4.... the cheerless soldiers and the overbearing size of the castle which they hope to achieve, it is clear not only that the English army must fight against all the odds to win, but that even the conditions are detrimental to the English cause. The scene where Bardolph, Nym and Pistol are backing away from the battle to save themselves is an important inclusion to the film. Had Branagh intended the film to be a glorification of war, this small scene could have easily been removed. However, he chose to keep it in his film because it actually assists the message which he attempts to convey. This sce .....
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Boston Massacre
Number of words: 977 - Number of pages: 4.... regiments meant there were to inadequate amounts of soldiers to keep the peace. There were enough on the other hand to remind the patriots of the great British military.
The last reason would be the revolt of the Townshend Acts. The patriots and Americans did not agree and strife with the British soldiers over it. The Act built tension between the two. (Griswold 23)
On March 5, 1770 the dreadful day came. A mob of people went in front of the Customs Office in Boston Massachusetts and started to throw stuff and give insults at the soldiers. As a result to this so-called harassment the .....
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Marbury Vs. Madison
Number of words: 914 - Number of pages: 4.... of the constitution and the ability to forge a road of precedent unfamiliar to the new government, as well as firmly grounding the role of the Judicial Branch. To up hold the precedent already established in the united states by Federalists such as Washington and in fear of the Democratic republican ideas of Jefferson, Adams was determined to keep the federalists in office. Jefferson would have power over congress, but in a “midnight appointment”, Adam’s last day in office he created a “judiciary with a stronghold of Federalism”. A few technicalities derived into a failure to .....
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The Cause Of The War Between Britain And America
Number of words: 1189 - Number of pages: 5.... colonists. Britain took it too far
when it passed the Quartering Act. The act gave British troops the right
to stay at any colonist house. Colonist where not only to house the troops,
but provide food as well. British General Thomas Gage asked the New York
assembly to convince colonists to agree to these terms. The assembly
refused the General's request. "If England had the right to pass tax laws
for them, it could pass any other sort of law it pleased"(Lancaster 07).
The English Parliament later passed the Declaratory Act. This act was
established to give all power to the British gove .....
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Crusades 4
Number of words: 1957 - Number of pages: 8.... Towards 1071 the fierce Seldjuk Turks started conquering the East. The Turks had become Muslims (), but the Turks made it difficult for Christians to reach the holy places. The military expeditions planned and fought by western European Christians that began around 1095 are known today as the Crusades. The soul purpose of these expeditions was to overtake and gain control of the Holy Land, Jerusalem, from the Muslims. "Deus vult! (God wills it!)" was the battle cry of the thousands of Christians who participated in the event of the Crusades. It was Christian belief that fate was to g .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
Number of words: 580 - Number of pages: 3.... the army but in 1829 he left and decided to apply for a cadetship at West Point.
Before he was able to enter West Point Edgar published a book entitled "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and minor poems", this time the book was published, not anonymously, but under the name Edgar A. Poe, where the middle initial acknowledged John Allan's name. Before Edgar left West Point he received financial aid from his fellow cadets to publish a third edition of the book. Edgar called it a second edition though and it was entitled "Poems by Edgar A. Poe" in which his famous poems "To Helen" (another version was pub .....
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Neoclassical Period
Number of words: 366 - Number of pages: 2.... and moral universe, and in constant human nature, overall effort towards stability.
While the Romantics, from 1798 until 1832, emphasized a number of ideas that were a reaction against the proceeding "Age of Reason". As Shelley stated, that the literature of the age “has arisen as it were from a new birth”. They concentrated on innovation rather than traditionalism in their material, forms and style of literature, and introduced symbolism. Wordsworth was one of the key poets in that age; his poetry was about his own feelings, spontaneous and genuine rather than a mirror of men in act .....
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Ancient Egypt
Number of words: 1990 - Number of pages: 8.... the main food the Egyptians ate were bread
made from the grain grown with the precious silt and water from the Nile River.
Barges and boats made with papyrus reeds or wooden planks(used after 3,000BC)
were filled with different thing such as grains were floated downstream and
carried by the current, or if they needed to be floated upstream, you would
simply just raise the sails up and the ship would sail upstream, the Egyptians
invented sails at approximately 3,200BC. Although the Nile is such an abundant
source of life, it fertilize just a narrow strip of land, eventually the
Egyptians bui .....
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American Revolution 3
Number of words: 694 - Number of pages: 3.... stop this trade would lead to rebellion and consequently ensued. The idea of mercantilism where the channelizing of all trade through England, was a restriction upon economic prosperity of the New England colony. The major cause for revolution within the economic theory is of economic subordination of colonies to England. The Grenville Ministry passed a number of acts, but of provocation to the colonists was the stamp act. On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee’s passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. .....
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