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- 931: Historical Relations Between T
- ... The origin of the Metis Nation is rooted in the historical fabric of Canada. It was in the Canadian Northwest that they evolved into a new and distinct Aboriginal Nation. The mixed-blood offspring of French fur traders from the North West Company or Scottish and English fur traders from the Hudson's Bay Company and Cree, Ojibway or Saulteaux women formed an ever-increasing proportion of the fur trade population ... amalgamation of the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company closed many fur trade posts and forced their employees and families to move to the Red River Settlement. Here the Scottish Metis joined with French Metis to defend common interests against the governing Hudson's Bay Company. As the Metis became more concentrated and endogamous, group consciousness grew. The Hudson's Bay Company authorities took this sentiment into account in ... were made by the application of the Factor's Standard were recorded as the Overplus. The size of the surcharge over the official Company standard of trade varied depending on local competitive conditions. When English-French trade rivalries were strong, the natives were in a position to pressure the traders to relax the Factor's Standard and Overplus trade was reduced. When competition was weak, the Factors were in a ...
- 932: Vietnam War - The Vietnam War
- ... a beginning nor an end, for the purpose of this paper it can be best examined through the decade the United States was involved: February 6, 1965 - August 30, 1975. During World War Two the French had been a major ally to the United States in the defeat of Adolph Hitler and the Axis Powers. France occupied and claimed the small coastline country of Vietnam in Indochina. In this region there ... willing to accept Communism in return for what they had been fighting for over 2000 years: self rule. In 1950 the United States, owing a debt of gratitude towards France, sent several advisors to aid French control in Vietnam. Over the next decade and a half, the United States would send an entire Army and Navy to aid the French in maintaining control in South Vietnam, which had separated from the Communist North Vietnam by treaty in 1954. In early August of 1964 a small Vietcong (term used to identify South Vietnamese in favor ...
- 933: Sinking Of The Titanic
- ... captain Edward J. Smith who went down with the rest of his crew ("Mute Testimony Of The Wreckage" 702). Most of the people sacrificed their own lives to save their families. The Americans and the French spent many hours looking for the wreckage of the Titanic. The French and the Americans joined forces to find the wreckage, and during this period the French revealed their new sonar equipment that enabled them to survey a half-mile strip of land each time it passed by. On June 28, 1985 the Americans revealed a ship with one of the ...
- 934: The End Of Affluence
- ... the deterioration of America would begin. Jackson was not alone in thinking this, many of his peers and colleagues had the same views and beliefs, but were proven wrong with the introduction of the Industrial Revolution. This new era introduced an abundant amount of shortcuts in the area labor and labor saving devices. The introduction of these devices meant that a company could now save on salaries, but still increase productivity ... of scientific, engineering and technological breakthroughs of the nineteenth century and an unregulated market economy. America did not have an edge over other industrial nations in the development of labor replacing machines of the industrial revolution, although U.S. used these inventions to their advantage. The steam engine, the open-hearth furnace, and the internal combustion were all European inventions. British investors roamed all over the world putting their money into ... victory in 1871 in the war against France. Free markets thrived everywhere from the Turkish bazaars to the shops of London long before the American economy took off. What distinguished Americas post civil war industrial revolution was the enormous continent wide market place, which enabled America to sell goods on a scale that could not be matched by the other countries. The mass production that resulted was not just a ...
- 935: Life And Times Of Louis Xiv
- ... s brother, Gaston d'Orleans would eventually inherit the throne. The birth of the new king brought national rejoicing (though not Gaston's). France finally had their longed-for "Dauphin," as the heir to the French throne has been called since the acquisition by France, in 1349, of the province of Dauphine. (Panicucci 4). Since neither parent had any doubt that this was the work of Providence, the baby was named ... them about the virtues of feudalism. The parlements hated him because he set himself and the King above the law. (Durant 5). These corrupt values were installed by Mazarin into Louis. The mistreatment of the French people lead to two Frondes (Civil War). The Parlement of Paris launched the first Fronde (1648-49, seeking to duplicate the movement that in England had just raised Parliament above the king as the source ... Louis believed that he should have total power in France. He did however try to restore the church to peace so the people would not riot against him. "The peace which broke out in the French Church (1668-79) was a compromise, corresponding to a high point in the reign. It could only ever be a truce, because Louis XIV could scarcely distinguish between the supporters of Port-Royal and ...
- 936: Sexual Urges, Society, and Religion
- ... one's life would be! ( The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud pg. 19 ) This openness about sexuality would help open the door to discussion in the Twentieth century and eventually into the sexual revolution. The sexual revolution began as a new century was growing . America was attempting to grow through the imperialistic push of Teddy Roosevelt. America was booming. Then with it's involvement with the First World War, America jumped into ... and Marilyn Monroe became the first Playboy centre fold. In 1958, the birth control pill was created. With the "pill" ready for use and a growing movement of free love, a radical shift in the revolution was about to take place. The sixties will always be remembered as the hippie era of sex, drugs and rock ‘n' roll. Women were educated, independent and now chemically shielded from pregnancy. With the ...
- 937: Alchemy
- ... by Avicenna, Mesna and Rhasis, and in France by Alain of Lisle, Arnold de Villanova and Jean de Meung the troubadour; in England by Roger Bacon and in Spain itself by Raymond Lully. Later, in French alchemy the most illustrious names are those of Flamel (b. ca. 1330), and Bernard Trevisan (b. ca. 1460) after which the center of of interest changes to Germany and in some measure to England, in ... be no doubt. M. figuier in his "L'Alchimie et les Alchimistes", dealing with the subject of modern alchemy, as expressed by the initiates of the first half of the nineteenth century, states that many French alchemists of his time regarded the discoveries of modern science as merely so many evidences of the truth of the doctrines they embraced. Throughout Europe, he says, the positive alchemical doctrine had many adherents at ... 1819, under the name of the "Hermetic Society". In 1837, an alchemist of Thuringia presented to the Societe Industrielle of Weimar a tincture which he averred would effect metallic transmutation. About the same time several French journals announced a public course of lectures on hermetic philosophy by a professor of the University of Munich. He further states that many Honoverian and Bavarian families pursued in common the search for the ...
- 938: The Vietnam War
- ... the spreading of communism in Southeast Asia. The United States played a major role in the Vietnam War. Its influence was greatest in the South, led by the Capitalist party of Ngo Dinh Diem. The French had been defeated by the Vietminh, trying to defend South Vietnam and failed to end the Vietnamese conflict. The United States was forced into the war by its anti-communist policies, which were to prevent ... start it's own country. But with little compromise the only thing that occurred was negotiation by force. The Geneva Conference in 1954, officially split Vietnam into two parts, North or Vietminh and South or French supported. It also ended the fighting of the North and South under several circumstances. First it officially declared France defeated by the Vietminh. After this was officially declared the United States stepped in to influence ... from the United States, who wanted Diem to lead the government in South Vietnam. In 1954, shortly after the Geneva Conference, Diem was appointed Prime Minister of Vietnam to defend against both Communists and the French. He was given total political control and military power in the south. The few communists that did not migrate to the North were either put in reeducation camps or killed. Many reeducation camps were ...
- 939: Lenis, Vladimir
- ... ruled aloof of his disorganized nation. His government of appointed officials and men in inherited positions did not represent the people (The Tyranny of Stupidity 120). Even though all of Europe had experienced the Industrial Revolution, Russia had precious little machinery. To obtain more advanced machines, the government traded grain to other countries in exchange for machinery, even though it meant that more people would starve (Haney 17). Compound this with ... left in the government. Different political factions formed, and none got along (U.S.S.R. 63). Liberal constitutionalists wanted to remove the czar and form a republic; social revolutionists tried to promote a peasant revolution; Marxists promoted a revolution among the proletariat, or urban working class. The people were fed up with Russia s state of affairs and ready for the change. Change was presented in the form of Vladimir Lenin, a committed, ...
- 940: Collective Farms of the Soviet Union
- ... efficient farms. In theory, industrialization would increase the number and hence the strength of the proletariat as a class, thwart an already staunchly anticommunist world, and fulfill Marx's promise of material wealth following the revolution. The idea of industrialization as the means to true socialism never occurred to Lenin. He assumed, at least initially, that communism could would and should exist in the pre revolutionary way of life. Before Stalin ... to collectivize and industrialize Russia. There were rapid food shortages towards the beginning of the collectivization procedures, when the percentage of collectivized farms was set at only 14%, due to the fact that before the revolution, landlords and their estates had provided the food on a large scale. In splitting up the large estates into tiny plots, the government had succeeded in winning support during the revolution, but made the land less productive. Now that the small families that previously worked he land owned the land, the output wasn't as great as that of before the revolution. The farms only ...
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