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Age Of Reform In America
<view this essay>.... idea is that of a utopian society. A utopian society, simple put, means a perfect society. There are many examples of experiments at utopian society in the 1800’s.
George Ripley endeavored to create one of the first utopian societies in West Roxberry, Massachusetts. The community was called Brook Farm, and was established in 1841. Everyone in the community shared labor and leisure time equally. Ripley believed that leisure was the most important step to understanding yourself. The problem with Brook Farm was that the residents ended up believing in a form of communism, despite its objective of being a community where the individual would be able to become .....
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Great Powers In The 17th And 1
<view this essay>.... over the entire continent from the inside out. All 3 of these great powers were being opposed from their pursuits, and survival was always the top concern. Also, after 1660, a growing multipolar system of European states made decisions within each state based more on national interest than before, when most conflicts and militaristic decisions were based on religion.
Louis XIV(1661-1715) is responsible for a considerable gain in the power of France. He had huge armies, (at some points reaching up to half a million troops), that were organized with barracks, hospitals, parade grounds, and depots to support them. Along with an organized enormous fleet a .....
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The Atomic Bomb
<view this essay>.... was headed
by six of the worlds best scientists: Neils Bohr, Joseph Carter, Enrico
Fermi, Richard Feyman, and Robert Oppenheimer, each with their own ideas of
what it would take to construct such a weapon.
From left to right: Neils Borh, Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feyman, Enrico
Fermi
The object of the project was to produce a practical military weapon in the
form of a bomb in which the energy would be released by a fast neutron
chain reaction in one or more of the materials known to show nuclear
fission. That goal was to be completed in 1945 after the U.S.A. spent over
6.7 Billion Dollars on the test bomb named the "Trinity". I t was dropped
on Alagormad .....
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The Beginning Of The Civil War
<view this essay>.... after that, slavery came up again. This time, we were questioning whether to turn the territory we seized from the Mexican War into free or slave territory. President Polk suggested stretching the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific. While others stated that Popular Sovereignty should be placed in effect and that the people living in the territory should decide whether they live in a slave or free state. Still, others proclaimed that slavery should be banned completely in the land seized from Mexico. Calhoun said that the ban on slavery was unconstitutional. The constitution stated that slaveholders had the right to own property, which included slave .....
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A Different Mirror
<view this essay>.... America’s envisioned past. Mr. Takaki confronts and disputes the Anglo-centric historical point of view. This dispute and confrontation is started in the within the seventeenth-century arrival of the colonists from England as witnessed by the Powhatan Indians of Virginia and the Wamapanoag Indians from the Massachusetts area. From there, Mr. Takaki turns our attention to several different cultures and how they had been affected by North America. The English colonists had brought the African people with force to the Atlantic coasts of America. The Irish women that sought to facilitate their need to work in factory settings and maids for our towns. The .....
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Imigration And Discrimination In The 20`s
<view this essay>.... man who singlely used America's fear of
immigrants to advance his own political goals it was Attorney General
Palmer. The rise of Communism in Russia created a fear of its spread
across Europe, and to America. Palmer tied this fear to that of
immigration. He denounced labor unions, the Socialist party, and the
Communist party in America, as being infultrated with radicals who sought
to overturn America's political, economic, and social institutions.
Palmer exasperated this fear in Americans and then presented himself as
the country's savior, combatting the evils of Communism. He mainly
centered his attack on Russian immigrants. During the infamous Palmer
raids .....
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The Federal Period
<view this essay>.... changed slowly. A new style might
be introduced in Boston at the same time an old style was still popular in the country.
The architectural designs emphasized high ceilings and large open areas which
allowed for more decorative elements. A federal period parlor would typically have been
decorated with the classically inspired wallpaper and moldings, swag curtains, and a carpet
that resembled a Roman tiled floor. The use of decorative cotton dimity or chintz
slipcovers were to protect the wool upholstery from insects and sun during the summer.
Furniture from this period is characterized by a delicate, geometric look and the
use of classical motifs as urns and .....
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Industrial Revolution 3
<view this essay>.... In the late nineteenth century, the demand for factory labor grew and so did the industrial work force. Immigration was the source of expansion. The new immigrants were coming to America to get away from poverty and oppression in their homelands. With the coming of these new groups of immigrants came constant ethnic tensions. They were also paid very poorly and began to replace higher paid British. Irish, and American workers.
American workers had very little job security. Many of the workers lost their jobs because of technological advances. Very few workers were ever very far from poverty. The American workforce faced many other hardships as well. .....
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