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- 19911: African Slave Trade
- "Independence of Latin America" In the 1800's, Latin American countries won independence, but many new independent countries had trouble creating strong, stable governments. The Creoles played an important role in the independent movements. These countries won their independence through strong leaders and ... led the struggle for Latin Independence. Another group, who were known as the Mestizos, revolted against Spain in Peru. Many of these Indians remembered how the Spanish conquered them over 300 years ago. It didn't last much because their leader Tupac Amaru was executed, but the slaves saw independence as a way of freedom. These groups were not the only cause of the Independence. Another cause that led to the ... each country, power struggles often erupted between rival groups. This is when military leaders known as caudillos seized power and ruled as dictators. They only held power for a short time. By the late 1800's, most governments became oligarchies, under an oligarchy, a small elite has ruling power. These ruling groups divided into conservatives and liberals. Conservatives wanted to preserve the old social order of church. However, the liberals ...
- 19912: The Scarlet Letter: The Unavoidable Truth
- ... at the scaffold, displaying the two results of her adultery; the scarlet letter and her child, Pearl. In order to escape her isolation, Hester goes into her inner soul and into the past. In Hester's "dusky mirror" of imagination, she remembers her old home in England, her mother, her father, and most of all, her own youthful face. Then, she thinks of the marital life with her husband, a "tuft of green moss on a crumbling wall". The "green moss" symbolizes Hester's youth, which was clinging onto the "crumbling wall", which represents her aged husband. She tries to loser herself in past memories, but reality rears its ugly head. A few moments later, her mind jumps back ... courageous journey to reality won my admiration and understanding. When I was eight years old, I distinctly remember the time when our family celebrated the Chinese New Year. Since I was still young and didn't have much manners, I had to sit alone on a separate table. The more I saw the adults enjoying themselves, the more furious I got. However, I felt helpless for I couldn't do ...
- 19913: Solving Problem Creatively Over the Net
- ... Within 2 hours I managed to made myself a homepage.I also know to make an impressive homepage,one must have a high counter number so that people will revisit the homepage again. I can't use any "sensual" word to attract people cause it's against Geocities's rule. So I did a very nasty thing. I cheated, I put an extra counter number in my homepage beside my origi nal counter number so each time when it reload it will look ...
- 19914: China (food)
- China (food) Chinas food is very unique and traditional. Grains are the main food in China. Rice is the favorite grain among the people in the South. In the north, people prefer wheat, which they make in to ... cooked fish and crabs for soups and for flavorings such as soy-sauce. Breakfast in China may be rice porridge, chicken noodle soup, or deep fried pastries that taste like donuts. In China the peoples favorite lunch time foods include eggrolls, and dumplings filled with meat or shrimp. A typical Chinese dinner includes vegetables with bits of meat or seafood, soup, and rice and noodles. A Chinese cuisine has definite ... textures and ingredients should complement and harmonize each other, rather than being the same. Food must strike attention in good cuisine cooking. Chef Martin Yan is the best of Asian Chefs. He has his own t.v. show called Yan Can Cook which now airs in 70 countries for the past 19 years. He recently took a trip to Boston to have a cooking duel with a French chef named ...
- 19915: The Artist Verses Society
- ... abilities. Not until after their deaths did we discover these hidden talents and see that these heretics were perhaps geniuses in disguise. Devince arguably the most talented painter ever wrote backwards so that people wouldn't know what he was writing. He would rather have been seen as incompetent than to let people really know what he was thinking. If people had known what he was really writing he would have been branded a heretic and exiled from the painting world. A second example and perhaps one of the best was also a painter, Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh also one of the world's best painters was effected in the deepest ways by things that most people wouldn't give a second thought to. This sensitivity effected every aspect of his life; from the lifestyle he lived to his family relationships. These stranded family relationships drove Van Gogh to cut his own ear ...
- 19916: Macbeth 2
- ... symbolic of the chivalrous fighter who been injured in a gallant battle for his country. In the next passage, in which the sergeant says "Which smok'd with bloody execution," he is referring to Macbeth's stalwartness in which his sword is covered in the blood of the enemy. After these few references to honor, the symbol of blood now changes to show a theme of deception and treason. Lady Macbeth ... and "If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt." When Banquo states "and question this most bloody piece of work," and Ross says "is't known who did this more than bloody deed?" they are both inquiring as to who performed the treacherous acts upon Duncan. When Macbeth is speaking about Malcolm and Donalbain, he refers to them as "bloody cousins." A final way, and perhaps the most vivid use of the symbol blood, is of the theme of guilt. First Macbeth hints at his guilt when he says, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" meaning that he wondered if he would ever be able to forget the dastardly deed that he had committed. Then the ghost of Banquo, gruesome and ...
- 19917: World War 2
- ... a great hate for Jews. By 1933, Hitler gained political power by winning the election. Soon after he made himself absolute dictator, calling himself the Fuhrer which means "Leader". By the end of the 30's he was already sending Jews off too concentration camps to meet a horrible death. I believe that Hitler was one of the greatest causes of World War 2. Although there are many other reasons, he ... Many Germans were angered by the treaty, for most of the rules in the treaty were unfair and Germany lost a great amount of wealth. One of the cruelest reasons for the war was Hitler's racist hate for Jews. He would send them off in cattle cars to places called concentration camps were they would be slaughtered by the thousands. World War 2 was huge and involved a lot of ... of World War 2 and Japanese Canadians were not treaty fairly for many years after. Just recently the government of Canada has decided to pay compensation for their losses but most agree that it doesn't even come close to what they lost. One of the greatest outcomes of the war was the great world power shift. For more than a century Great Britain had been the wealthiest and most ...
- 19918: The Computer
- ... because they were as big as room. This was because the main thing they used were vacuum valves which made the computer enormous. They also never had anything to hold any memory so they couldn't actually be classed as a true computer. The introduction of a way to store a file was brought around in the year 1954. The computer did not have a big impact on the community until ... the year 1985 Commodore released a gange of computers called the Commodore 64 and also another Commodore computer called the Vic 20 which was released in the year 1982. When Intel saw the Commodore 64's success it released its brand new 386 processor in the year 1985. Though the 386 was easily the better and faster processor the Commodore 64 seemed to be the computer getting all the attention because of it's lower prices so therefore it appealed to a much wider group of people. The 386 was only in the price range of the mega-rich and agencies. The effect of the Commodore 64 was ...
- 19919: Linux Operating System
- ... the most common protocol that is used to get files from Internet. IRC (Internet Relay Chat), one of the most popular protocols on the Internet, is supported by Linux. You can download famous IRC software's Mirc, Pirch or ICQ from the Internet. It is more secure to chat on Linux than Windows. You cannot be banned or nuked on Linux because there is a firewall in Linux and the viruses ... and NFS provides a shared user account. You save the user accounts in the server and after that they are reachable for the clients. This is the basis of a network. If a user can't login on a client, the system wouldn't be called a network. By NIS and NFS, system administration became available. There are also LAN and WAN support. You can connect your local network to the Internet. It is very important for a ...
- 19920: Accusations By The Media
- ... was found innocent in criminal court. Richard Little (the man accused of the Olympic bombing) had his life destroyed because of all his negative media attention. No one has been arrested, but John Benet Ramsey's parents seem to be the target of the media investigation. Throughout every story there seems to be truth and fiction; sensation and sensationalism. This is what I find so disturbing about the Littleton case. I know that school children don't usually kill each other before recess, and I can understand the want of the media to capitalize on the opportunity to instill in us some sense of pathos, but to take on the persona of ... most sickening part of all, the media turned and pointed its finger at the parents of the perpetrators. Why do we need to have the focus continually changing? I appreciate the fact that the media's strongest resource is the collision of different ideas, but recently it seems as if the problems are being stretched way too far. This homicide in Littleton has turned from a mass killing into a ...
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