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Edgar Allan Poe Biography
Number of words: 394 - Number of pages: 2

.... where his foster parents lived. When he was six years old, he was taken to England with the Allan family and placed in the Manor House School, a private school conducted by a conductor just like the one in " William Wilson, " one of Poe's short stories. Poe returned to the United States in 1820 where he continued to be taught in private schools. In 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia, but only stayed for one year. He had to drop out because John Allan would no longer pay his tuition. The reason that Allan stopped paying Poe's tuition was because he received bills from his gamb .....

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The New Deal
Number of words: 644 - Number of pages: 3

.... rights of blacks. Blacks were still unchanged in the labors. Even under , blacks were treated unfair. Women were also treated very poorly when it came to the labor situation. They were given the so-called women's jobs, such as teachers, clerks, typists, nurses, and textile workers. Unions for blacks and women were rare until John Lewis formed the CIO, a union anyone could join, no matter what race they were. The CIO one of the top unions in the nation. had again prettied much failed with the creation of the AF of L. The AF of L was a division of many craft unions. Government jobs and politi .....

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Argument For Caesar To Be The King
Number of words: 374 - Number of pages: 2

.... for the people and decides for the people. A representative ruler’s rule can be changed be the senate or like in the U.S. today Congress. I feel that Caesar is not yet ready for the title of an absolute king because his power can cloud his judgment making him a different person. Julius Caesar is in fact a great general but that is a military position not in relation to a king. I can already see that Caesar will change completely if he becomes king. When the senate came over to him he did not stand to greet them but when they did not greet him he was not pleased with it. In that y .....

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The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
Number of words: 1878 - Number of pages: 7

.... square shape. The executive order was intended to alleviate local land conflicts among the tribes and to establish a protected homeland for the Hopi. Instead, it effectively set the stage for a convoluted century-long dispute. From 1882 on, no real problems occurred until one of the world's densest deposits of accessible coal - representing about $10 billion in revenue - was discovered in the 1950s beneath land occupied by both tribes (Wood 1999), an area later established as the "joint-use area" (JUA) in 1962. While the JUA existed in relative peace, the technical problem of lan .....

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Christian Reformation
Number of words: 321 - Number of pages: 2

.... The Catholic church taught that salvation comes from faith, good deeds and the assistance of the church. Martin Luther´s concept was that salvation comes by faith alone. Martin Luther also translated the bible into German. So far the bible was only written in Latin and the most people could not read it. For Protestant people the bible was the only source of truth. After a long argument between Luther and the church Luther was excomunicated from the church in the year 1521. That meant that he was not allowed to be a catholic priest anymore. After that he founded a completly new form o .....

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Roots Of Individualism In Euro
Number of words: 1193 - Number of pages: 5

.... helped contribute to the abolishment of the Church’s imposition of its absolute truth and its claim to ultimate authority. As the church lost power, so did the political units. The bonds between church and state began to erode. Feudalism declined, hence giving rise to new political opportunity. The noble class no longer held a monopoly on the valued positions in society. Rather, one was able to pursue wealth and fame through various endeavors ranging from artist to soldier. The most empowering change of this era was the dominance of a secular attitude and the decline of church absolut .....

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The Shocks Of European Colonization
Number of words: 333 - Number of pages: 2

.... to those of Europeans. Not only did these outrages happen to these two cultures, but this happened to the North American Indians. Englishman pushed Indians out of their homes and set up their own society. The Africans brought over from Africa did not do so great either. Portuguese pioneered the market for African slave trade and Africans have suffered ever since. Due to an inadequate immune system, many Africans were killed. By 1619, the first africans stepped foot on America. By 1672, slave trading had gone out of control. Merchants captured 200 or more Africans, hauled them on shi .....

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Earthquake San Francisco- 1906
Number of words: 400 - Number of pages: 2

.... long section witch tore roads and fences. Rivers, roads and power lines were severed and not aligned with its surroundings. A road across the fault ended up 21 feet north of the road to the east same with the rivers and creeks. The earthquake's most damage were in Los Bonas 30km east of the fault yet there was little damage along towns to the east side of San Francisco Bay such as Berkely, 25km east of the fault. And the capital of California Sacramento that was 120km east of the rupture showed no damage. Scientists found out that the earthquake originated north of Oregon and south .....

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Mozart
Number of words: 649 - Number of pages: 3

.... died during their visit. In 1782, Mozart married Constanze Weber against his father's wishes. In 1783, Mozart and Constanze visited Salzburg, where he helped Michael Haydn out of a difficult spot, by writting some violin duets. He completed a set of string quartets, and in so doing, deeply impressed Josef Haydn who was the greatest master of music for string quartets. In 1786, Mozart's London friends took part in the first performance of The Marriage of Figaro. This was a triumph for Mozart in Prague, and he wrote his "Prague" symphony as a tribute to its generous people. In Paris, Mozart pu .....

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The Hindenburg
Number of words: 734 - Number of pages: 3

.... all the passengers!(Marben 58)" When this floating cathedral, called , burst into a geyser of flaming hydrogen there was a tremendous impact on the public, although two thirds of the people on board survived. Two theories about why it happened surfaced and this tragedy put an end to the short age of these massive airships. The demise of had a searing impact on public consciousness that far surpassed the bare statistics of the calamity. Men and women escaped, even from this inferno. One elderly lady walked out by the normal exit as though nothing had happened and was unscratched. A fourteen- .....

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