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Civil War Causes And Reconstru
Number of words: 705 - Number of pages: 3.... that had to be defined clearly, and this could not be compromised. Another struggle was between the Blacks (with few white Northerners on their side) and the Southern slave owners. The Southerners claimed that they should have power over the Blacks because they could take care of them and keep them on the right path. Where as the Blacks thought they should have control over themselves. They thought that they could take care of themselves, and that they were being treated wrongly by the white slave owners. The South also just wanted more power, they didn't want an even distribution betw .....
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Bosnia 2
Number of words: 266 - Number of pages: 1.... by the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia as well as other international heads of state. Bosnian Serb nationalists were absent because they would have been arrested of war crimes and genocide if they came to Paris. France signed the agreement two days after two of its pilots shot down over Bosnia during the summer were released by their Serb captors. France threatened unspecified consequences if the men were not released.
The three major ethnic groups of Bosnia- Herzegovina are Muslim, Serb, and Croat. Serbs make up 32% of the population, Muslim 44%, and Croat 17%, and the o .....
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Leo Szilard And The Atomic Bomb
Number of words: 815 - Number of pages: 3.... reaction. Years later in 1939 the atom was split and Dr. Leo Szilard would play a critical part in the making of the atomic bomb. April 24, 1939 physicist Paul Harteck and Lord Rutherford wrote to Hitler's war office telling him about the newest development in nuclear physics. Professor Hans Geiger co-inventor of the Geiger counter was shown this letter. In June of that year Geiger's close associates published an article describing a possible way to produce a chain reaction and a "uranium machine". Export of uranium was banned in Germany as a result of this article. Szilard and scientist W .....
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Who Was The Bard
Number of words: 2333 - Number of pages: 9.... verbal parallels between the plays and letters written by Oxford. William Plumer Fowler gave numerous examples in his book, Shakespeare Revealed in Oxford's Poetry. The plays also reflect Oxford's background and events in his life. The plays include political intrigue, and Oxford served in an Elizabethan court. And Hamlet is a reflection of events related to Oxford's life. His predecessor as candidate for authorship is Francis Bacon. In Penn Leary's book, Are There Ciphers in Shakespeare? He shows that text in plays or poems arranged to attract attention can be ciphered into many dif .....
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The Depression
Number of words: 761 - Number of pages: 3.... was great, but people failed to understand that economies can’t be on the upswing forever, it has to come down sometime. All of the signs of a depression were there; the farmers were producing too much, the uneven distr ibution of income, easy credit/huge debts, imbalance of foreign trade; people just didn’t notice them. Not until October 29, 1929--BLACK TUESDAY--anyway, when the bottom of the stock market fell out, taking millions of American lives with it. Even thoug h any didn’t admit it, they knew what was on the way. People who had been buying stocks on margin (10% down) .....
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Britain And Europe In The Seve
Number of words: 1580 - Number of pages: 6.... full involvement as a major influence after 1688. This involves intellectual and political matters. European intellectual developments during the first part of the century did not significantly affect the main part of English life, and English influences on Europe were negligible. The only groups interested in developments in Europe were minorities who were dissatisfied with the established order in Britain. For most of these “Puritans” the Calvinist churches of Europe provided the model which they hoped to establish in England. During James I’s reign th .....
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Atomic Bomb
Number of words: 1491 - Number of pages: 6.... Japan posed a serious threat to the allies.
During the war, one of the most brilliant scientists in history, Albert Einstein, hypothesized that if the true power of the atom were released in a weapon, the results would be devastating. This was soon confirmed by a large portion of the scientific community. Whoever possessed such a weapon would be in complete power. Many government officials felt that such a weapon could put an end to the war. For this reason, in 1942, the United States decided to pursue the . Later that year, Franklin D. Roosevelt began the Manhattan Project.
The Manhatt .....
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Chinese Dynasties
Number of words: 3084 - Number of pages: 12.... oracle bones. E. *Major Accomplishments, Achievements, and contributions: The Shang society was many agricultural. They had a large army. Bronze casting was highly developed and a writing system had evolved. There commerce was highly developed and they used cowrie shells was used as currency. Shang art consisted of Bronze, pottery, and jade ornaments. Writing: The singular aspect of Shang civilization is their invention of writing. Almost all the written records of the Shang have disappeared, for the court records were kept on strips of bamboo. However, inscriptions on bronze and on the ora .....
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King Philip's War
Number of words: 382 - Number of pages: 2.... men were killed. So many men were lost that the casualties were higher in King Philip’s War than in either the American Revolution or Civil War.
The Wampanoag did not get off so very easy either. An English ally killed Metacom and his head was exhibited at Plymouth for twenty years.
As a result of this war, Native Americans never regained power of southeastern New England again. Because of the loss of men, the settlers had to become dependent on its mother country once again. In the long term, the Native Americans and English never became friends and the Native American culture was left .....
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Analysis Of The Use Of Lighting In THE GODFATHER
Number of words: 966 - Number of pages: 4.... scene is lit so that the background is completely black, so that the only thing we can see is the man. Even though this is logically unrealistic, the stylistic decision to light in this manner is warranted, since this or any other good film draws heavily upon our expectations and imagination to convey a message or meaning. We as audience accept the unrealistic elements, if they assist in making the story more engrossing. There is another light placed so that the man has an obvious highlight in the center of his black eyes. This highlight area of his eye is the part of the frame which ha .....
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