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The Broadcast Of "War Of The World" In 1938
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more countries and terrorizing more people. President Roosevelt was
debating whether to go to war or not. Most of the American people did not
go to war, but some of them did. Many Americans had relatives in Germany
or in Czechoslovakia. Everyone was extremely worried and stressed out due
to war threats and viewed everything that went on around them as a sign
that war would break out. Therefore, when the people heard the news of
Martians they went absolutely insane.
On September 21, 1938, about six weeks before the broadcast, a
vicious hurricane hit the New York an .....
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Immigration
Number of words: 6583 - Number of pages: 24.... from a contagious disease, and persons convicted of certain crimes. The Act of March 3, 1903 and The Act of February 20, 1907 added further categories to the inadmissible list. Immigrants were screened for their political beliefs. Immigrants who were believed to be anarchists or those who advocated the overthrow of government by force or the assassination of a public officer were deported. This act was made mainly do to the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901. On February 5, 1917 another act was made. This Act codified all previous exclusion provisions and added the excl .....
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The Slave Trade
Number of words: 1289 - Number of pages: 5.... in reality had been carrying on many years before that. Slavery has been recorded all through human history. The Islamic civilizations in the fourteen hundreds had a large trade system in which they marched their slaves across the Sahara to areas in the east. Additionally, it was very common amongst competing African tribes that, after a battle, members of the losing side were forced to work as slaves for the victor. Although it is often not displayed in their natural and noble depictions, this was the case as well with many Native American tribes.
The economics of began to make sen .....
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The Civil War
Number of words: 563 - Number of pages: 3.... of the Southern states. The South responded by seceding from the union
and founding the Confederate States of America in 1861. The first state to
secede was South Carolina, on December 20, 1860. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama,
Georgia, and Louisiana followed in January, 1861. Texas then also separated on
February 1st. Three days later on February 4th, 1861, delegates from these
states drafted a constitution for the confederacy. Jefferson Davis, was
proclaimed president on February 18th. This was before Abraham Lincoln himself
even became officially proclaimed President. The wa .....
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Aquinas’ Fifth Way Of Proving
Number of words: 1120 - Number of pages: 5.... of conversation and Socratic debate, the two main characters in his essay set forth and decipher the problems of evil and how it may disprove Aquinas’ fifth way among countless other theories of creation by a omnipotent, omniscient and benevolent God. Hume explains that if God created the universe to achieve an end, and if the path toward that end is the best manner to that end, then how does one explain the existence of evils in the universe such as natural disasters, pain, disappointment, anger, sickness and despair.
Hume uses the two characters in his essay to display the human point .....
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A Comparison Of The French And Russian Revolutions
Number of words: 564 - Number of pages: 3.... for the army to put down the revolution as they did in 1905. But the army joined the revolt and the Czar was kicked out of power soon afterwards. A temporary government was set up to decide on what kind of government Russia was gonna set up. Two political parties were set up. The Bolsheviks were one of the two. The leader of the Bolshevik party was a man named Lenin. Lenin was a firm believer of the theories and ideas of Karl Marx. So with his slogan of "Bread, Peace and Land", Lenin gained the support of the peasants and gained control of Russia and setup a communist state.
The .....
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Boys In The Hood The Begining
Number of words: 732 - Number of pages: 3.... adulthood. He has a job, plans to go to college and, “most important (as writer-director Singleton sees it, at any rate) he lives with his father” (Tornquist 1). Brothers Doughboy and Ricky, on the other hand, live with their mother and are not good role models. Doughboy drives a fancy car but doesn’t appear to have a job, and has been in and out of prison. Ricky does a little better, being a talented football player who hopes to go to USC on a scholarship, but who is already a father while in High school at the age of seventeen. Singleton also portrays issues dealing wi .....
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Al Capone
Number of words: 380 - Number of pages: 2.... 1929. At this occurrence, Capone's gunmen dressed as police officers and executed seven members of the "Bugs" Moran gang. This incident won Capone control of Chicago's underworld. In June 1931 Capone was indicted for federal income tax evasion and in October was tried and found guilty in court. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison and was fined $80,000. He entered Atlanta penitentiary in May 1932 but was transferred to Alcatraz in August 1934.
spent 8 of the 11 years in prison when he was released on parole in 1939. He immediately entered a Baltimore hospital as he was suffering fro .....
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Rousseau And The Artists Of Th
Number of words: 1392 - Number of pages: 6.... the natural man perceived himself as an individual, he must learn to think collectively in order to create a society ’. Therefore to evolve into a humane and agreeable society people should give up their natural rights of appetite and conform to society by consenting to the process of law which has made them free - collectively consenting to the ‘general will’ - a single correct path for people to follow or the policy which is equal in everyone’s interests.
Rousseau believed that it was wrong for the sovereign power over society to be held by just one man - the King. He beli .....
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Ww1 From Begining To The Us En
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Germany had a war plan witch had been prepared by Alfred von Schliffer in 1905. Schliffen was the chief of the German General staff; witch was a group of officials who provided advice on military operations. The plan assumed Germany would have to fight both France and Russia a quick defeat of France while Russia was slowly mobilizing. After they defeated France they would have to deal with Russia. If war came Germany would have to strike first. After the plan was put in motion, the system of military alliances almost assured a general European war.
The plan said that there .....
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