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- 6971: The Steam Engine
- ... amount of workers available in manufacturing, which increased merchants’ costs. As a result, merchants turned increasingly to machinery, which was powered by the steam engine, for greater production and also turned to factories for central control over their workers. (Johnson, 30) The steam engine proved to be a reliable investment for merchants of the textile industries not only because it wasn’t accident prone like humans and increased production by unimaginable ...
- 6972: Explain How The Inherent Stren
- ... over, in fact in 1866 Austria-Hungary and Prussia got into war. The reason for this new conflicts was that the two were in dispute over the territories that used to be under Denmark’s control. Once again the winner was Prussia, that with good diplomatic moves, managed to keep neutral Russia and Britain and make an alliance with Italy. Prussia started growing and advancing in all sectors. France started feeling ...
- 6973: Orphan Trains
- ... a good hand on the farm." With that remark Elliot reacted with a bit and a kick. "Everybody in the audience thought I was incorrigible. They didn't want me because I was out of control." This was one of the different things that happened to the children while being shipped off and shipped out. This film surprised me. I never knew that that happened to children in those days. Slavery ...
- 6974: DEPRESSION
- ... leave. A police officer was hit by a brick, and the police retaliated with open fire. A veteran was shot down, and then the rioting started. Federal troops were called in by the President to control the rioters. They were ordered to use force, if necessary, to disperse the veterans. They fired tear gas into the crowd and marched with swords. Two babies died from the effects of the gas. President ...
- 6975: Dolores Claiborne
- The Eclipse On the day of the full eclipse, Dolores Claiborne’s life changes forever. True, it had been changed by events beyond her control long before this fateful day, but she chooses this day to end her husband’s life so she and her family can go on living. Steven King masterfully weaves this tale of love, abuse, and ...
- 6976: Battle Of The Bulge
- ... cut the American forces in to two parts, this way the could easily be destroyed because the allies all ready had a tough time supplying all the troops and Hitler new that if they took control of Antwerp he would have a chance against the allies. Hitler felt he had enough of the resources he would need to win the battle. The main things that the Germans were hoping for was ...
- 6977: European Imperialism
- ... ethnic majority and would fight to the death to "rid the world of evil"(Ahmad*). At first, the rebels were successful. Later, the British incorporated into the war a weapon of mass destruction: the machine gun. Estimating its efficiency on tribal warfare where the enemy possessed no guns, the British knew who would be the victor. On September 2nd, 1898, the British mercilessly eradicated the rebel forces, with incredibly small losses ...
- 6978: Aeschylus
- ... in a nearby city-state. This Spartan failure upset the balance of power, which Pericles’ group wished to exploit. Argos, a city-state in the heart o f the Peloponnesos, without a powerful Sparta, extended control over some smaller neighboring cities. In 462, Argos, Athens, and Thessaly formed an informal alliance. In 461, Argos changed her constitution from aristocratic to democratic. Her assembly, courts, and other features mimicked those of Athens ...
- 6979: Concentration Camps
- ... Polish dancer named Horowitz, who bravely attacks an SS guard named Schillinger while he is trying to force her to undress in the gas chamber, disguised as a shower. She kills Schillinger with his own gun and wounds another guard before she is machine-gunned to her own death. Roza Robota, who is hanged with three other women for her role in the Birkenau Sonderkommando Uprising, just weeks before all three ...
- 6980: Plato
- ... alcoholic because they are not being rational and it is not that they can't stop drinking it is that they don't have enough willpower to stop. It all comes down to lack of control and lack of reason. Most of what we do is not based on rational thought and even though we know that it should be we too do not have the willpower to change our lifestyles ...
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