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- 5301: Charles Dickens 2
- ... 1836. In 1836, Charles dickens published his first novel The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. The success of the Pickwick Papers made him famous. At the same time it influenced the publishing industry in Great Britain, being issued in an unusual form, that of inexpensive monthly installments that would run in literary magazines. For the next couple of years dickens would spend full time cranking out a constant stream of novels. He would write such classics as A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities. For a list of all his major works visit my WORKS page. All these successes, however, were shadowed by domestic unhappiness. He separated from ...
- 5302: Causes Of The Wwi
- ... the 100 years before World War I began. Although small wars broke out, they did not involve many countries. But during the 1800's, a force swept across the continent that helped bring about the Great War. The force was nationalism--the belief that loyalty to a person's nation and its political and economic goals comes before any other public loyalty. That exaggerated form of patriotism increased the possibility of ... world's strongest navy. But in 1898, Germany began to develop a naval force big enough to challenge the British navy. Germany's decision to become a major seapower made it a bitter enemy of Great Britain. In 1906, the British navy launched the Dreadnought, the first modern battleship. The heavily armed Dreadnought had greater firepower than any other ship of its time. Germany rushed to construct ships like it. Advances ...
- 5303: Chicago
- Chicago has been the fastest growing city of the world. “The city of the Century” is the name given to this historic city. It is a great city of the greatest people who devoted almost their whole life to this city. Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Clarence Darrow, Mary McDowell, Thorstein Veblen, Albert Parsons, Ida B. Wells, George Pullman, Louis Sullivan and Danker Adler are few of the people among them. No large city even Peter the Great’s St. Petersburg had ever grown as fast as Chicago. Right from the beginning, the city was envisioned. In 1830, empty prairie defined the grid of the future metropolis. The streets, the blocks and the ...
- 5304: Civil Affair
- ... the violence that took place as a natural occurrence that should take place. Much like El Salvador, Guatemala was a hot zone for Civil War. The production of coffee and cotton for export placed a great deal of pressure on the land. The poor were getting pressured off the lands that they did have so the government and the elite could have more land. The original guerilla movement that developed in the 1960's in resistance to the wrong doings of the government was eventually defeated. These actions led to the military gaining a great deal of strength in Guatemala. In the highlands of Guatemala there were a good number of Indian cultures, which were settled in the area. They farmed what they could and were used as labor on ...
- 5305: Cleopatra Vii Ptolemaic Dynast
- ... After Caesar's murder, Cleopatra fled Rome and returned home to Alexandria. Caesar had not mentioned Cleopatra or Caesarion in his will. She felt her life, as well as that of her child, was in great danger. Upon returning to Alexandria, she had her consort Ptolemy XIV, assassinated and established Caesarion as her co-regent at the age of four. She found Egypt suffering from plagues and famine. The Nile canals ... with his mother and was called the King of Kings. Cleopatra was called the Queen of Kings, which was a higher position than that of Caesarion's. Alexander Helios, which meant the sun, was named Great King of the Seleucid empire when it was at its highest. Cleopatra Selene, which meant the moon, was called Queen of Cyrenaica and Crete. Cleopatra and Antony's son, Ptolemy Philadelphos was named King of ...
- 5306: Civiliation And Culture
- ... unified cultures all over. This belief in one main god is used in many religions and is the main belief used in our time, unlike the ancient Egyptian belief of more than one god.the great Egyptians however did have a great impact on our contemporary culture, the concept of thirty days in a month and twelve months in a year created a calender which used today helps keep track of certain events in a set period ...
- 5307: Civil War Causes And Reconstru
- Since the beginning of time, man has pursued power by any means necessary; the Civil War is a great example of this theory in action. The reason conflict started and the reason it became such a two sided battle all points back to one thing, power. The way it should be distributed, what type ... political power. They were trying to figure out a way to keep the power in Congress between the slave states and the free states equal. The Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act are two great examples of the long list of compromises the two sides have tried to come to. The compromises continued but to no avail, the subject of who had the final say involving slavery was one that ...
- 5308: Close Company, Stories Of Moth
- ... the story, both the men and the women are really against the idea of the footbinding deep down. When asked if it will hurt, Tiger Mouse tells Pleasure Mouse that perhaps “the pain is so great that one’s sentiments are smashed like egg shells”(Prager 50]. Warm Milk, the concubine, fell in front of Pleasure Mouse’s door one night and said, “It is my legs. They are swollen like ... traditions in which they are based upon. Traditional roles, prejudices, and beliefs are kept because no one chooses to challenge. Society is so strong that women are willing to bind their feet and suffer such great pain that “one cries out for death and cries unheeded, pines for it, yearns for it” (Prager 50). In the case of Pleasant Mouse, a girl like any other of her class, she must conform ...
- 5309: Compare And Contrast The Way T
- ... S defeat in Vietnam. As the media was not able to determine the number of civilian deaths or the extent of the damage caused by the invasion it was in the military's eyes a great success in media relations and became the model that was utilised during the Gulf War (10). During the Gulf War the control of the news and other information became one of the main tasks of ... the U.S defeat in Vietnam. It was much more preferred to have them where they could be easily managed. Without having to rely on the military for transmission of their reports the unilateralists enjoyed great freedom. However this was not without its dangers as at least one group of unilateralists was captured by the Iraqi's when they ventured too close to the front line. Another off shot from this ...
- 5310: Consensus Historians
- ... the attention away from this and looks at what made America wonderful. "But whatever the later development in Boorstin's thought his interpretation of consensus remains of lasting interest" (Sternsher pg19). Louis Hartz was another great contributor for consensus history. Hartz, compared to Boorstin, had many differences. The major difference was that Hartz did not like the consensus in the American past. Hartz had one major contribution into the consensus field ... thinking. Hofstadter through the book, The American Political Tradition and the Men who made it and also his view point on the Progressive approach and the idea of the Comity. Boorstin contributed through his many great works of writing and also his thoughts on giveness. Hartz, on his contribution to consensus theory, through his book The Liberal Tradition in America and his feelings on the progressive historian. Each writer had a ...
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