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  • The Great Chinese Revolution

    The Great Chinese Revolution

    "The Great Chinese Revolution" Workbook Chapter 1- This Chapter begins by describing what China is like and the unique characteristics it carries hidden within itself. China has modernized from within there own cultural tradition, but resists change. Two great institutions have held the Chinese state together, the ruling elite and the writing system. They have coexisted in mutual support for three thousand years. This says to me that China's slowness to modernize in material matters

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    Submitted: April 7, 2010 By: Tasha
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression was a period, which seemed to go out of control. The crashing of the stock markets left most Canadians unemployed and in debt, prairie farmers suffered immensely with the inability to produce valuable crops, and the Canadian Government and World War II became influential factors in the ending of the Great Depression. The 1920's meant prosperity for Canada. Canadians living in the 1920's were freer in values, less disciplined, and concerned with

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Janna
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression was a time of sadness and poverty for many. It became an unforgettable historical time in American history. The author of the book The Great Depression, Pierre Berton gives a clear view of what happened from 1929-1941. He basically outlines the Depression event by event, explaining what happened where and who was involved. Although many books can tell stories of the depression, I think the author of this book did a good

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression was a time of sadness and poverty for many. It became an unforgettable historical time in American history. The author of the book The Great Depression, Pierre Berton gives a clear view of what happened from 1929-1941. He basically outlines the Depression event by event, explaining what happened where and who was involved. Although many books can tell stories of the depression, I think the author of this book did a good

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Janna
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    Maybe You Haven't Come Such a Long Way Baby It's Time To Close the Wage Gap and End Gender Discrimination Equal pay for both men and women has been the law since 1963 but even now, 41 years late, women are still paid less than men. Ins 2002, despite the fact women have similar knowledge, education, and experience, they were paid 77 cents for every dollar a man received. Over a lifetime this injustice begins

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression The Great Depression is probably one of the most misunderstood events in American history. It is routinely cited as proof that unregulated capitalism is bad, and that only a massive welfare state, huge amounts of economic regulation, and other interventions, can save capitalism from itself. Among the many myths surrounding the Great Depression are that Herbert Hoover was a laissez faire president and that FDR brought us out of the depression. What

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    Submitted: June 11, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Great Depression, World War II and Suburban Growth

    The Great Depression, World War II and Suburban Growth

    The function of the Democratic machine in Chicago, which has dominated Chicago politics for nearly half a century, could be described as a political group that recruits its members by offering patronage, the act of offering handouts in return for support. You wash my hand I'll wash yours, in other words, you do something for me and I'll do something for you. Incentives such as political jobs, money, opportunities to get favors from the government

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Great Depression: A Time of Struggles

    The Great Depression: A Time of Struggles

    The Great 1 The Great Depression The Great Depression: A Time of Struggles ________________ The Great 2 The Great Depression was a worldwide economic shock that left millions of people unemployed, leading to empty stomachs and homelessness; impacting the United States and Canada the most. This huge economic downturn lasted ten years from 1929 to 1939 and began after the stock market crash of October 24, 1929, commonly referred to as “Black Thursday”. On this

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    Submitted: December 11, 2017 By: John Oakwood
  • The Great Renaissance

    The Great Renaissance

    The Renaissance was one of the greatest cultural movements and it started in the early 1300's in Italy then later spread to other countries in Europe. The word renaissance comes from the act of being reborn. The reason this is used to describe this period in history is that many artists and scholars were studying the way of life in ancient Rome and Greece. To be more specific they were trying to restart the essence

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    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Andrew
  • The Great Schism

    The Great Schism

    After the 4th century when Constantinople emerged as a great capital and church center, tensions sometimes arose between its leaders and the bishop of Rome. After the fall of Rome to Germanic invaders in 476, the Roman pope was the only guardian of Christian universalism in the West. He began more explicitly to attribute his dominance to Rome's being the burial place of Saint Peter, whom Jesus had called the "rock" on which the church

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Great Trek, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal

    The Great Trek, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal

    The Great Trek or Voortrek is the central event in the history of South Africa, beginning in the mid-thirties of the 19th century and going out in the early forties. This great northward migration of the Afrikaner people, involved thousands of cattle and sheep farmers who fled British authority. Leaving the frontier regions of the Cape Colony, and founded the independent republics of Natal, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. The struggle of the

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Greatest Paper Ever Written

    The Greatest Paper Ever Written

    This is an essay on and about the rights, duties, and responsibilities of citizens. Rights are going to be somewhere in this essay. Duties are will be mentioned in this essay as well. Responsibilities of citizens will also be included. Obeying the laws is a duty of being a citizen. Obeying the laws is important because it makes everyone happy because there is no crime everyone smiles especially Jesus and the Pope hahaha now thats

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Tommy
  • The Greece Empire

    The Greece Empire

    Natalie Aquino Politics of the Near and Middle East Professor Zubida Spring Semester Final Paper May 1, 2006 Middle Eastern Women and Terrorism: A Comparison Between Women in Politics and in Terrorist Activity "Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." -Clare Boothe Luce # The above quotation expresses

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    Submitted: April 1, 2010 By: Wendy
  • The Greek Strategy of Defense in 480

    The Greek Strategy of Defense in 480

    The Greek Strategy of Defense in 480 In 480 Persia amassed a huge fleet, built with the intensions of taking over the entire country of Greece. Although this was not there first attempt, with the enormous fleet they brought it would be one of their best. In order to counter this attack from the Persians the Greek city-states had to unite together to defend themselves. Many great leaders came to the forefront because of this

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Greek Tactics

    The Greek Tactics

    The ancient Greeks were one of the most successful superpowers of the era conquering large parts of the Middle East. They are also very famous for there unique fighting style which was completely different from the exotic and intricate tactics of the Middle Eastern countries. But why were they so effective? What did the Greeks do to conquer such vast areas? In this essay I will try to explain what made the Greeks so good

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    Submitted: May 30, 2010 By: Victor
  • The Greeks

    The Greeks

    A civilization that boomed for about a thousand years and contributed more to the development of western civilization more than any other culture. Most believe that Greek people set the foundation to western civilization, the first to use reason, and the first to embrace the present world. It's said that to understand our culture one must have an understanding of the ancient Greek culture, or else considered ignorant. The Greeks have contributed things such as

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    Submitted: March 30, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The Greeks Besieged

    The Greeks Besieged

    The Greeks besieged Troy for ten years. According to legend, the gods took great interest in the war. Hera and Athena still resented Paris for not giving them the Apple of Discord, so they helped the Greek side. Aphrodite assisted the Trojans. Zeus also favored the Trojans, but tried to remain impartial. Eris and her brother Ares helped both sides because they loved war! In the tenth year of the siege Agamemnon took Achilles's female

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Growing Association of Witchcraft with Heresy

    The Growing Association of Witchcraft with Heresy

    During the Middle Ages the concept of the witch was developing. During ancient times, there had existed an image of the sorcery, but the traditional typology of the witch did not exist. The development of this typology dealt with many aspects of the witch. There was the growing association between witchcraft and heresy. The practices that came to be viewed as witchcraft had their foundation in ancient practices. Those ancient practices were not seen as

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    Submitted: June 5, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Growth of Islam

    The Growth of Islam

    One of the world's fastest growing religions is Islam. Stretching to almost all four corners of the globe, it has had a very powerful influence in every part of the world it touches, especially in America. First starting with the preachings of Elijah Muhammad, and continuing with those of Malcolm X, it has spread rapidly throughout America, especially within the black or African American community. This rapid growth of the religion throughout the African American

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Tommy
  • The Haitian Revolution

    The Haitian Revolution

    The Haitian Revolution The Haitian Revolution was a very important, historical, event that has been the stepping stones for more events in the future. It may seem like this affair is so minor and beside the point, but it really has, in my opinion, one of the biggest impacts on the world; I may be wrong, however it is my opinion. I don’t really understand everything about the revolution, and I never will, but it

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    Submitted: April 12, 2017 By: DavietheCat
  • The Harlem Renaissance

    The Harlem Renaissance

    The Harlem Renaissance In the 1920s and early 1930s, there was an African American cultural movement that took place in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York. It is variously known as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Literary Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement. This movement developed at the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s, and faded in the mid 1930s. This movement developed amid social and intellectual

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Jon
  • The Harlem Renaissance: An American Experience

    The Harlem Renaissance: An American Experience

    The Harlem Renaissance: An American Experience Painter Aaron Douglas, the "father" of African Art, stated in 1925, "Let's bare our arms and plunge them deep through laughter, through pain, through sorrow, through hope, through disappointment, into the very depths of the souls of our people and drag forth material crude, rough, neglected. Then let's sing it, dance it, write it, paint it" ("Harlem Renaissance" 1, par. 4). These words of triumph and strife epitomize the

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Wendy
  • The Hawthorne Studies

    The Hawthorne Studies

    2. Behavioral Approach It Refers to An approach to management that emphasizes improving management through an understanding the psychological makeup of people. There are 3 key elements of this approach * The Hawthorne Studies The Hawthorne experiments were groundbreaking studies in human relations that were conducted between 1924 and 1932 at Western Electric Company's Hawthorne Works in Chicago. It originally designed as illumination studies to determine the relationship between lighting and productivity, the initial tests

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    Submitted: April 21, 2017 By: Khải Lê
  • The Healing Power of Nature and Romantic Love

    The Healing Power of Nature and Romantic Love

    Brielle Giesen T.R 1130-1245 Final Essay I. Introduction Although the Healing Power of Nature may seem to be a long lost remedy from the Native Americans, William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, and Jean Jacques Rousseau see it not as form of medicine, but rather as a state of mind. After a sensible state of mind has been developed, one can only assume their heart will develop next, with enchanting ideas of Romantic Love, which is

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Help of Sir William Wallace

    The Help of Sir William Wallace

    The Help of Sir William Wallace Sir William Wallace is one of Scotland's greatest generals and was a great help towards the freedom of Scotland because he brought patriotism to the minds of his fellow Scotsmen in order fight for the freedom for which was nearly taken away by the their English neighbors. He would ride through Scotland gathering clans both from the high and lowlands. Over the years after his death, Scots have proclaimed

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    Submitted: March 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Help of Sir William Wallace

    The Help of Sir William Wallace

    The Help of Sir William Wallace Sir William Wallace is one of Scotland's greatest generals and was a great help towards the freedom of Scotland because he brought patriotism to the minds of his fellow Scotsmen in order fight for the freedom for which was nearly taken away by the their English neighbors. He would ride through Scotland gathering clans both from the high and lowlands. Over the years after his death, Scots have proclaimed

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Hip Hop Generation

    The Hip Hop Generation

    The Hip Hop Generation A heated discussion arose last Monday regarding the hip hop generation. It stirred up a lot of unanswered questions. A few of my own are, what the term hip hop generation defines, what are the misconceptions of this generation, and what does the future of this generation hold? When you take a look at society from one generation to the next each era has there own significance. It's like a fad

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Hiroshima Bombing: A Necessity

    The Hiroshima Bombing: A Necessity

    The Hiroshima Bombing: A Necessity During World War II on August 6, 1945, the United States made a decision to drop an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Many believe that this decision was criminal and immoral. Some defend this devastating act by claiming that the U.S. was in a "supreme emergency" and that drastic measures were necessary to bring the gruesome war to a quick end and to avoid further casualties

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: David
  • The History and Rise of Nazism

    The History and Rise of Nazism

    Following defeat suffered at the end of WW I the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933, dealt with tre- mendous internal struggles. Reactions to the Treaty of Versailles and to the reparation payments were mixed. In general there was opposition to the terms of the Treaty from the political left and from the extreme right. Attempts to stabilize the republic and reestablish Germany's international position failed. The stock market crash of 1929 fueled the rise to power of

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The History Behind Marriage

    The History Behind Marriage

    The symbols and rituals that are used in the wedding mass is the development of the Sacrament of Marriage. There are many symbols and rituals involved with marriage, including: the unity candle, the bouquet, tossing of rice, and the bride's veil. The most common symbol there is in marriage is the wedding ring. The wedding ring dates back to the Egyptian time. Back then the wife would have a money ring instead of actual money

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Mike
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