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Continental Congress
<view this essay>.... goods. There was no authority to regulate trade, which is apparent that the Articles of Confederation had created problems. One, of which these reasons are, is that it allowed every state one vote no matter how big or small it was. For example, Rhode Island being the smallest state had the same amount of votes as that of New York (being one of the largest states). Also, it stated that every state must ALL agree to pass a law or tax, making it impossible for anything to be passed if one state had any complain over them and the other states all agreed on it.
It is evident in Document B that after the Articles of Confederation had been passed, from 1784 a .....
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Chinese New Year
<view this essay>.... start buying presents, decoration materials, food and clothing. A huge clean-up gets underway days before the New Year, when Chinese houses are cleaned from top to bottom, to sweep away any traces of bad luck, and doors and windowpanes are given a new coat of paint, usually red. The doors and windows are then decorated with paper cuts and couplets with themes such as happiness, wealth and longevity printed on them.
The eve of the New Year is perhaps the most exciting part of the event, as anticipation creeps in. Here, traditions and rituals are very carefully observed in everything from food to clothing. Dinner is usually a feast of seafood and dumplings .....
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Industrial Revolution
<view this essay>.... 2. The use of steam, and later of other kinds of power, in place of the muscles. 3. The adoption of the factory system. The came gradually. However, when measured against the centuries people had worked entirely by hand, it happened in a short span of time. Until the inventions of the flying shuttle in 1733 and the spinning jenny in 1764, the making of yarn and the weaving of cloth had been much the same for thousands of years. By 1800 a host of new and faster processes were in use in both manufacture and transportation. Several systems of making goods had grown up by the time of the . In country districts families produced most of the supplies that they use .....
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Castro Rise The Power
<view this essay>.... from the mountains.
Sure enough, the government kept its promise and Fidel Castro and his
followers were sentenced to three years of imprisonment. Batista, in order
to gain some popular support, released them after a few months.
Castro’s rebellion failed, it sparked hopes of revolution everywhere in
Cuba. After a few years of exile in Mexico, Castro and a small band of about
eighty-five men returned to Cuba in December of 1956. Many of the men
perished during the initial landing, but a small group including Fidel
Castro and an Argentinian Marxist Ernesto "Che" Guevara, survived and went
into the mountains. During the next two years, Castro an .....
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Hitler - The Life Story
<view this essay>.... a total of 10 years in school. From childhood one it was his dream to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show but he never showed any originality or creative imagination. To fullfil his dream he had moved to Vienna the capital of Austria where the Academy of arts was located. He failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection rea .....
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French Revolution
<view this essay>.... were rooted in the
rigidities of French society in the 18th century. Lines of distinction
between classes were tightly drawn, and opportunites for social
advancement were very few. The economy was not growing as fast as it
should have been. Then needs of an increasing population were not being
met. Governmet was inefficient and unrepresentative. Economic problems
made the heavy tax exempt but neary so, while the peasents and middle
classes were subjected to greater and greater burdens. Crops falied, and
trade was stagnant. The people could no longer be taxed, but the
government faced bankruptcy unless new revenues were found. The only
soulution was to .....
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Atomic Bomb
<view this essay>.... of many more to this day are left unanswered. The horrific display of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still haunts and sickens people to this very day. Nonetheless, Hiroshima affected both United States and world history forever, and has made the change in military warfare uncanny.
No doubt, August 6, 1945 began as any other day. Before it had ended, something dramatic occurred that would change the way nations dealt with each other- perhaps for all time. On this day at 8:15 A.M, the Enola gay- a B-29 superfortress opened its bomb bay doors over Hiroshima, at the time, a military center and the seventh largest city in Japan, and dropped a single weapon with a des .....
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Hamilton Vs. Jefferson
<view this essay>.... their overall political philosophies. Hamilton, an fiancial genius, focused a great deal of his time on the economic success of America believing that this would spawn success to all other areas of the society. Jefferson did not ignore the economy, but rather was greatly focused on the individual rightsof citizens. In short Hamilton supported a loose and broad interpretation of the Constitution, while Jefferson promoted a strict view. In addition, the powerful central government supported by Hamilton, could be checked only by the informed masses provided for under Jeffersons plan. On a broader aspect, Hamilton wanted to expand the beuracracy, as well as .....
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