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- 11291: Creative Writing: The Meadow
- ... my mind. A breeze that wafted across the meadow was full of many different scents. The yellow wildflowers smelled like a rich box of dark chocolate fudge: that was presented as a gift on Christmas Day. The green grass was an odoriferous carpet smelling mostly of mildew. Perhaps, the most pleasant scent associated with the meadow was that of an approaching storm. I often found solace in the rhythmic noise of ...
- 11292: Canadian Confederation
- ... and who assisted the Confederates by making the loyalty cry more creditable. Without the Fenians, the Unionist majority might have been smaller but Pro-Confederates believed probably correctly that they would still have carried the day.22 By 1866 Premier Tupper decided to bring the Confederation issue before the Legislature. Capitalizing on the opportunity provided by the Fenians scare, the Nova Scotia assembly passed a resolution to accept Confederation, or at ...
- 11293: Canadian And French Relations
- ... t want to get assimilated into the United States. The French Canadian attitudes towards confederation in the eighteen sixty's, can best be seen through the views of the leading French Canadian politicians of the day. In French Canada around the period of confederacy, their were two main political parties, the bleus and the rouges. In the 1860's, the leading French Canadian party was the conservative bleu party. This party ...
- 11294: Civil War-54th Massachusettes
- ... then Folly Island toward Morris Island. They walked on planks in the mud flats, boarded transport boats from the edge of one island to the other, and, though tired and parched after a night and day of travel, undertook responsibility for an infantry attack on the fort. The assault was to be at dusk. Shaw positioned himself at the front of his regiment, not behind as was customary. At 3:00 ...
- 11295: Ceasar Vs. Louis 16th
- ... And, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, but for the general. He would be crowned. How that might change his nature, theres the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking. Crown him that, and then I grant him we put a sting in him that at his will he may do danger with. The abuse ...
- 11296: Causes Of The Great Depression
- ... stimulate the market. But that was not enough to keep prices from falling. Then on Black Tuesday, 16.4 million shares changed hands (EV 548). Stocks fell so much, that at many times during the day no buyers were available at any price (EV 549). This speculation and the resulting stock market crash acted as a trigger to the already unstable U.S. economy. Due to the poor distribution of wealth ...
- 11297: Causes Of The Civil War 3
- ... said that succession was illegal and said that he intended to maintain federal possessions in the South. Southerners hoped the threat of succession would force acceptance of Southern demands, but it did not. Finally the day came on Dec. 20, 1860 when South Carolina adopted an ordinance of succession. The other states to follow and succeed were: Mississippi on Jan 9, 1861, Florida on January 10, Alabama on Jan 11, Georgia ...
- 11298: Castro Rise The Power
- ... during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. After the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Castro openly admitted that he was committed to communism. "I am a Marxist-Leninist and will be a Marxist-Leninist until the day I die," he declared. In the summer of 1962, U.S. spy planes saw that Cuba was receiving large amounts of military equilpment from the Soviet Union. Photographs revealed that the Soviets were building missile ...
- 11299: Courtly And Uncourtly Views Of
- ... slender waist and is often described as being prudent and wise. But these poems focus not on the lady but on the lover and his suffering for derne love or secret love. The lovers day is spent sighing and begging his lady to pity and have mercy on him. His night is spent lying awake, thinking unending thoughts of her. He often tells us that he feels condemned to death ...
- 11300: Comparison Of Honor
- ... all alone in a strange land he prays to the Lord that he wants to find someplace where he can pray on Christmas. Gawain is clearly more concerned with honoring his Lord of this special day than praying for a nice warm place so he can survive. Honoring his faith like this proves that Gawain put what he believes in before his own life, and one could say that the only ...
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