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- 5471: Declaration Of Independence -
- ... in common: equality, life, liberty, and happiness. Out of these four words, I chose liberty as the word that most exemplifies truth in the document. Liberty has many meanings, all of which applied to the American colonists as they attempted to get out of British control. Through enacting a separation from a political paradigm, overturning political and theological thought, and gaining the right to form a government however they saw fit ...
- 5472: Events Leading To The Cause Of
- ... sent an "olive branch partition" to the king that asked him to help protect them from parliament. They also set up an official Continental Army. They chose George Washington to be the commander in chief. American forces surrounding Boston outnumbered British troops within. Washington was eager to attack but waited for a more strategic decision. In January 1776, Henry Knox brought twenty-one heavy cannon from Fort Ticonderoga. They strategically placed ...
- 5473: East-timor-conflict
- ... military on December the 7th 1975 produced an armed conflict. After the invasion followed the annexation on 17th of Juli 1976. About a third of 690,000 inhabitants died through hunger and sickness. The US-American Scientist Noam Chomsky said the Indonesian occupying forces is guilty for the maybe highest deathrate related to the total population since the Holocaust. For your engagement for a peaceful solution of the conflict the East ...
- 5474: Geographical Analysis of Early Civilization
- Geographical Analysis of Early Civilization Toward the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution( dated approximately 10,000 b.c.), the ancestors of modern man began the great transformation from nomadic gatherers and hunters, to recognizably civilized people. This change is evidenced by the agricultural and urban revolutions, as ...
- 5475: Effectiveness Of The Articles
- ... Articles of Confederation. John Jay (Secretary of Foreign Affairs and great international negotiator), expresses this discontent of the people through a letter of concern to George Washington. He foreshadowed some sort of revolt, crisis, or revolution and expressed his feeling of uneasiness and the need for change. Shays rebellion turned out to be a milestone because it set a need for a new national government, the revolt was against the ...
- 5476: Eloquent Boldness
- ... divided against itself cannot stand, is masterful evidence appealing to logic. This statement forced the delegates to agree due to the fact that past civilizations that have fallen, such as the French during the French Revolution because the nation was divided against itself. Lincoln also uses repetition to strengthen the evidence appealing to reason. This is exemplified though frequent reference to the, care not policy posed by Senator Douglas towards the ...
- 5477: Essat On Taiwan Now And Then
- ... to try and win recognition of its territorial right to Ryukyu. The following year the Japanese government set up a consulate in Fuchow and sent a consul to spy on Taiwan. Japan also hired ex-American consul of Amoi, C.W. LeGendre, who was well acquainted with Taiwan affairs, to act as an advisor to the Foreign Affairs Department. These moves were part of the preparation for a military venture into ...
- 5478: Longitude
- ... that longitude could be found by the position of the moon and select stars. At the time, Dr. Edmond Halley proved this theory wrong. After many observations, Halley concluded that the moon s rate of revolution around the earth was accelerating overtime. John Harrison was a simple clockmaker and a self-educated person who was accredited for finding longitude by means of a timekeeper. John built his first pendulum watch in ...
- 5479: The Situation In Kosovo
- ... about foreign affairs. People dont see how these things affect the big picture until a blow up occurs, and then they panic. When I asked Mr. Bassmeier what he thought about how concerned the American people were, he said that more and more people are becoming concerned about the plight of the Albanians because of publicity. They are sympathizing with the refugees more the more they hear about it on ...
- 5480: Atomic Bomb
- ... such conditions should be taken seriously, and the citizens should have evacuated. One might also point out the fact, however brutal this may seem, that ever since Sherman's March to the Sea of the American Civil War, which was a turning point in modern warfare, civilian population centers are also considered fair game to the military. The moral issue of dropping an atomic bomb is very controversial. Especially since radiation ...
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