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- 4051: Cold War
- ... Dream, and the belief that all people should have the right to a democratic life, complete with liberty, equality, and a representative government. Also playing a large part in Cold War tensions was the US interest in protecting its profitable foreign markets. The spread of communism challenged every one of these US aim’s, and therefore the US became convinced it had to stop this spread. The deliberate opposition to the ...
- 4052: The Roles African American In
- ... was President at this time, wanted to save the nation by bringing the southern states back to the Union, but this “Great Emancipator” ironically did not have much intention of freeing the slaves. His greatest interest lie in preventing a war from occurring. However, even he could not stop the outbreak of the Civil War (Fincher). With the war just beginning, ex-slaves and other African Americans wanted to get in ...
- 4053: Salem Whichcraft Trials
- ... trials. It all began when a group of girls accused others, generally older women, of consorting with the devil. The witchcraft hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts resulted from the strict Puritan code which aroused the girls interest in superstition and magic and caused strange behavior. The Salem witch trials were based on the Puritans and their God versus Satan and his followers and their strict codes. Puritans had always thought that they ...
- 4054: Maurice Sendak
- ... has said that the emphasis of his books is to teach children how to cope with difficult problems that they must deal with and how to be heroic in an adult world. Sendak’s special interest is to get kids and parents to read together. This, he believes, is the best way for kids to learn to love reading, and more importantly, share magical times with their parents. "Perhaps no one ...
- 4055: Renaisance
- ... course, a scale in which to weigh coins. Most banks were owned by rich and powerful families and only sometimes were banks owned by the local government. At first borrowing money from banks and paying interest was considered morally wrong. This was because you have to pay back more then you borrowed. Even so, eventually banking became popular and more and more cities began to have banks. As towns and cities ...
- 4056: Rousseau And The Artists Of Th
- ... will. ‘People need to be brought up the right way so that they learn to ‘cherish one another as brothers’. This cements the social bond and widens each person’s view so they take an interest in the state as a whole, and hence will naturally seek to advance the general will’ . People therefore had to vote in a way that was, in their view the morally correct outcome, for the ...
- 4057: Edison
- ... about electricity and physics, he would never have succeeded in realizing how to make the light bulb burn for a substantial period of time. (Thomas Alva Edison) There are several other examples of how his interest in the sciences propelled his inventions. One is his design of the battery. The battery has many chemicals in it, which are what makes it store electricity. Although it took over 10,000 experiments to ...
- 4058: English And French Relations I
- ... took place, Quebec's premier, Honore Mercier, was already fighting for greater provincial powers. The Boer War was a reminder that Canada was very much a client of Britain, a war that francophones had no interest in contributing to. The Laurier Boom largely excluded Quebec because America and English Canada shared so much language and culture that Quebec was left behind by comparison. In 1905, while Laurier tried to implement dual ...
- 4059: Early Chinese Immigrant
- ... in virtual slavery. They were ensnared by brokers into this system by debts, clan war prisoners, or kidnapping. (From Gold Rush) Like the African slave trade, this method flourished over Asia and had high mortality rates due to cramped quarters and malnourishment. It was referred to as the "buying and selling of pigs." Hawaii made use of this practice in order to fulfill the great demand of the booming sugar industry ...
- 4060: E.E. Cummings
- ... moving, one's motion causes the other to seem still (106). The 'd,' at the end of the poem is showing that after the poet has finally named the object he saw, he immediately loses interest and stops, as writing more to further organize his thoughts would be superfluous (106). The contrasting words in this poem are very important. 'against' contrasts with 'across', and signifies a halt. It seems that the ...
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