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Jewish History
Number of words: 1158 - Number of pages: 5.... World War II brought the majority of European
Jewry under the Nazis. The Jews were deprived of human rights. The Jewish
people were forced to live in Ghetto's which were separated from the main
city. Hitler's plan of genocide was carried out with efficiency. The
total number of Jews exterminated has been calculated at around 5,750,000.
In Warsaw ,where approximately 400,000 Jews had once been
concentrated,was reduced to a population of 60,000. they, virtually unarmed,
resisted the German deportation order and had held back the regular German
troops equipped with flame throwers,armou .....
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Boxer Rebellion
Number of words: 636 - Number of pages: 3.... as such, they were certainly a threat to the Ch’ing government. However, anti-foreign sentiment had risen so greatly in China that the Empress Dowager
,ruler of China, believed that the secret societies could be the leaders in a military deportation of Europeans. This policy reached its crucial period in 1900 with the .
The Boxers, or “The Righteous and Harmonious Fists,” were a religious society that had originally rebelled against the imperial government in Shantung in 1898. They practiced an animistic magic of rituals and spells that they believed made them invulner .....
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Exxon Valdez
Number of words: 1594 - Number of pages: 6.... left a lingering, long-term effect on the natural habitat that surrounds these pristine waters, along with an enormous socio-economic effect that has left many people wondering when and where the next oil spill will be. Many associated with the recovery process, and its more than one hundred projects per year, say it will take longer than a human lifetime to determine if a full recovery is possible (Fine 1999).
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The oil spill was initially thought of as a two to three year clean-up project. As time went ahead, scientists and clean-up crews realized that it would tak .....
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Jamestown Fiasco
Number of words: 472 - Number of pages: 2.... is the "collective organization" of labor in the colony. The colonists were expected to work together as a whole to produce food and exports to make money. Those with shares would get part of the profits, but meanwhile the idea of private farming was lacking. The contribution of a worker had no affect on his share of the profit. The loafer would get the same amount in the end as the person who worked hard.
Still another explanation for the dilemma is one that John Smith often pointed out, which was the character of the immigrants. There were a variety of groups, among them were the "gent .....
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Andy Warhol
Number of words: 1954 - Number of pages: 8.... the torture that children threw at him for being the different person he was. He was able to attend college. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in pictorial design from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, he went to New York City with Philip Pearlstein, who was a fellow student that later became a well-known realist painter. In 1960, Warhol finally began to paint in earnest and to view art seriously as a career. He began his career with commercial drawings of women's shoes. In 1961, an early manifestation was his Dick Tracy, an enlarged version of the comic strip that was .....
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Egyptian And Mexican Pyramids
Number of words: 2205 - Number of pages: 9.... That is the reason for Egyptian tombs being full with the golden jewelry, precious stones and art objects. Most of the time art objects were not considered a treasury but they played their particular role in religious rituals. Jars were holding food and drinks for pharaoh’s journey, so he would not get hungry and would have
food and drinks to offer to the Gods. The figurative sculptures were suppose to accompany Ka ( spiritual entity) in its lonely stay or serve as a twin for the mummy. If something happens to the mummy the ka could use the sculpture of the pharaoh for the .....
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Descarte 2
Number of words: 1111 - Number of pages: 5.... perception of the mind. Nothing could make him doubt it. Furthermore, in Discourse on the method, Descartes introduced the famous Latin phrase “cogito ergo sum”, which means “I think, therefore I am.” Descartes then argued that “cogito ergo sum” has passed the test for “method of doubt ” because he can not be mistaken in his beliefs about the way things seem to him. Descartes held that by means of reason alone, certain universal, self-evident truths could be discovered, from which the remaining content of philosophy and the sciences could be deductively derived. Descartes the .....
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Beatles Again
Number of words: 561 - Number of pages: 3.... of a record
store in Liverpool as well as an x British Army soldier.
The Beatles first two song were "Love Me Do" and
"Please, Please Me." The Beatles starred in two movies, "A
Hard Days Night," and "Help." They also had their own full
length cartoon called "Yellow Submarine." The movie "A Hard
Days Night" earned 1.3 million dollars in its first week.
The Beatles early music was influenced by singers Chuck
Berry and Elvis Presley.
In November of 1963 the Beatles performed in front of
the Queen of England. This was an incredible honor. By .....
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The Golden Age Of Greece
Number of words: 2562 - Number of pages: 10.... land of the oak trees and the most ancient shrine, famous for its oracle, and at
Olympia, where the Olympian Games were celebrated in his honor every fourth year.
The Nemean games, held at Nemea, northwest of Argos, were also dedicated to Zeus.
Zeus was the youngest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea and the brother of the deities
Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera. According to one of the ancient myths of
the birth of Zeus, Cronus, fearing that he might be dethroned by one of his children,
swallowed them as they were born. Upon the birth of Zeus, Rhea wrapped a stone in
swaddl .....
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History Repeats Itself
Number of words: 1697 - Number of pages: 7.... started a trend. Once HOLLAND
gained their independence from Spanish rule, at the beginning of the seventeenth
century, it moved on to become a great power. Holland had relied on seafaring
and the economic success of Amsterdam until around 1620. "By mid-century,
however, they had used their technical sophistication and control of vital raw
commodities to build successful industries . . . and supported by Holland's
bourgeois virtues, trading preeminence and credit, Dutch manufactures soon
dominated a number of European markets" (BP 198). Holland remained in power
until its decline beg .....
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