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- 1311: Oda Nobunaga
- ... since about 1400. Though his father Nobuhide was a vassal of the Kiyosu branch of the Oda, he was actually a sengoku daimyo. The Oda were shugodai of Owari's lower four districts. As the lord of Nagoya Castle, he had the power to compete with daimyo of neighboring provinces. He made peace with Saito Dosan (neighboring daimyo) by marrying Nobunaga to Dosan's daughter. Nobuhide's abrupt death from a ...
- 1312: Orwell And Marx
- ... newly formed state, that they take a green tablecloth and paint a white hoof and a horn on it similar to the hammer and sickle of the former Soviet Union. It is a flag that flies over the newly-named Animal Farm and at whose base lies a gun taken from a helper of Mr. Jones and later, the disinterred skull of the old Major. Looking deeper at Animal Farm, we ...
- 1313: Utopian Communes
- ... describes the Amana as seeing their community as an island of redemption in a world awash with temptation, sin and avarice; the Elect could come and perfect themselves, if they were prepared to heed the Lords call to chastity, poverty, simplicity, hard work, purity, and brotherly love. 1 Although they sought redemption, the main driving force behind the Amana was that they sought religious freedom. Unhappy with their religious rights ...
- 1314: Radicalism Of American Revolut
- ... American Revolution. Wood furthers his neglect on traditional forces by depersonalizing the heroism that personifies the struggle of the American Revolution. Take for instance the painting done by John Trumbull, which depicts the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Yorktown. Trumbull depicts the American soldiers as proud, and paints the American flag as bright and waving. A painting such as this one reminds us of the struggle to gain ...
- 1315: Karl Marx
- ... Just because I am 100 pounds smaller than someone else, should not hinder me in anyway of surviving and receiving nourishment, and other musts my body has to have. I also believe in creation. My lord in the sky knew who I was, what and who I would become, and created me into something he wanted me to be. I have an incredibly tough time believing my ancestors were hairy, aphonic ...
- 1316: Early Colonies
- ... Haven. Connecticut was founded by those separatists in Massachusetts who felt that the religion was too strict. Yet another colony established for exclusive, religiously motivated purposes was Maryland. Roman Catholics, under George Calvert, the First Lord Baltimore, fled religious persecution in England from the Protestants. Due to the immediate wealth from tobacco harvesting, Protestants came over to the new colony seeking some of the wealth. Ironically, the Protestants began to outnumber ...
- 1317: AMERICAN ADVANTAGES
- ... This remark clearly shows that the British thought that the Americans were weak. In fact, the confident British did not push to accelerate the war in 1775 and 1776. The Americans won the war because Lord Howe, a British leader, and his troops did not fight to destroy, but rather fought to control. If Howe would have fought to destroy, the Americans could not have fought back. England did not win ...
- 1318: Plains Indians
- ... his clansmen. The fork of the lodge represents the eagle's nest. The eagle plays a large part in the Sun Dance for it is one of the Plains Indians' most sacred animal. The eagle flies high, being the closest creature to the Sun. Therefore it is the link between man and spirit, being the messenger that delivers prayers to the Wakan-Tanka (god). (Atwood) In addition to being a messenger ...
- 1319: America
- ... whom God gave the law to, was the same Moses that God had mercy upon when Moses killed the Egyptian in anger. Without judgment, how can mercy have any meaning? "Vengeance is mine" saith the Lord God. Revenge is not for man, so America needs a change in personality. I cannot change my criminal past, but God can and has change me, something man's solutions could not do. Even if ...
- 1320: The Gilded Age
- ... receptacles of any sort, garbage piled up throughout the encampment. Choked with garbage, two well sump-holes filled the area with stench, polluted the well water, and became the breeding ground for swarms of blue flies
The most distress, personal and environmental, was caused by the lack of toilets(Starr159). Although success was imminent in the American economy, social conditions were failing to say the least. The richest one percent of ...
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