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India 3
<view this essay>.... Approximately 14.5% of the Worlds population live in India. There are more people in India than there are in North and South America together. There is a great diversity in the people of India. Some have great wealth. Others have only a few cents a day to survive on, and a great percentage of the people are homeless. While some attend University and benefit from free education, many more sleep in the streets and have never gone to school.
India has many natural resources. It was once thought of as a very wealthy country. There is farmland and ore. The standard of living is very low, partially because these resources have not been fully developed. Living condit .....
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New Worlds For All: Indians, Europeans, And The Remaking Of Early America
<view this essay>.... they came to create communities like the ones that they had left in Europe, only this time they would have more religious freedom and land. The Indians much like the Europeans had to adapt to a new ways of live, while migrating to the New World the Europeans brought many new things with them that dumbfounded the Indians, some of those thing being a callous behavior towards the land, diseases and religious zeal. Even though both cultures could have probably coexisted quite peacefully the Europeans felt that they were superior to the Indians and set out to dominate and suppress the Indian population.
Many Europeans were drawn to the New World because it held p .....
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Global Stratification
<view this essay>.... technology and makes up close to one-half of the world’s population.
Technology: Almost two-thirds of the population of the low income are farmers but the power of industrial technology is absent. These individuals are greatly limited to the complex machinery needed to produce sufficient crops.
Population Growth: Countries with the least developed economies have the world’s highest birth rates. Populations of poor countries double every twenty-five years.
Cultural patterns: Poor societies are typically traditional. Groups pass folkways from generation to generation.
Social Stratification: unequally distributed wealth is often found in low-inc .....
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The Civil War
<view this essay>.... Francis Spinola had been a vigorous foe of
Republican policies and Lincoln. But now he swore his loyalty with
stirring words, "This is my flag, which I will follow and defend." This
speech gave great assurance that the masses in the great cities were
devoted to the Union and ready to enlist for its defense.
More than 400,000 European immigrants fought for the Union,
including more than 170,00 Germans and more than 150,00 Irish. Many saw
their services as a proud sacrifice. The first officer to die for the
Union was Captain Constatin Blandowski, one of many immigrants who earlier
had fought for freedom in Europe and then joined Lincoln's army. Born .....
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The Vietnam War
<view this essay>.... had at least a meal to look forward to unlike the Communist Vietnamese soldiers who considered a fine cuisine to be cold rice and, if lucky, rat meat. matched the most technically advanced country with one of the least advanced, and the lesser advanced not only beat but humiliated the strongest military in the world (Aaseng, 111). When the war was finally showing signs of end, the Vietnamese returned to a newly unified communist country while the United Stated soldiers returned to be called "baby killers", and were often spat upon. With the complexities of war already long overdrawn because of the length of the war it is no wonder the returning solders ofte .....
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Baseball, History Of
<view this essay>.... into entertainment businesses and instruments of civic boosterism, so grew their need for first-rate players who could attract paying crowds. The remarkable undefeatable season of the national touring Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869 paved the way for baseball’s full-blown professionalization in the 1876 formation of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs. Although distinctions between players and their clubs (now really small businesses) had been hardening for years, the National League formalized the division, which has continued until today. Baseball soon outdistanced other spectator sports in popularity and contributed to the .....
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The Use Of Planes And Tanks In WWI
<view this essay>.... victim was claimed by a machine
gun fired through the propeller. The famous French stunt flier Roland
Garros had a machine gun mounted on the fuselage of his Morane-Saulniern.
In front of the cockpit, the gun that shot forward was mounted. All Roland
had to do was point the plane at his enemy and fire. There was only one
problem, when Garros shot his gun he would hit the propeller. Garros would
shoot his enemy and take the enemy down but he would also take himself down
by shooting off his propeller.
Garros invention was a good idea, but it still needed to be
perfected. Anthony Fokkers was the person who would improve this invention.
Anthony perfect .....
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The Story Of Medusa Ilana Elir
<view this essay>.... in the land around Tritons in Libya. She used to
be a beautiful Maiden and Triton fell in love with her. Medusa, after her encounter with
Triton, Athena, turned into an ugly woman with snakes as hair, and anyone that looked
upon her would turn into stone. Medusa had this spell cast upon her by Athena because,
Medusa and Poseidon where caught sleeping together in one of Athena's temples. Athena
then became very angry and in her rage, turned Medusa into an ugly woman.
Thus, as the story goes Perseus (the son of Andromeda and Zeus), is assigned to
assassinate Medusa. He kills her by coming to her in her sleep, then using a mirror looks
to see her face, carefu .....
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