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People In The Government
<view this essay>.... without debate, and shall not be subject to a motion to reconsider.
Preservation of order
2. The Speaker shall preserve order and decorum and, in case of disturbance or disorderly conduct in the galleries or in the lobby, may cause the same to be cleared.
Control of Capitol facilities
3. Except as otherwise provided by rule or law, the Speaker shall have general control of the Hall of the House, the corridors and passages in the part of the Capitol assigned to the use of the House, and the disposal of unappropriated rooms in that part of the Capitol.
Signature of documents
4. The Speaker shall sign all acts and joint resolutions passed by the two Houses and .....
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Bolshevik Revolution
<view this essay>.... control by 1930.
When examining the period between 1917 and 1924, an important theme question is developed by Russell Cowie, he asks, "how were the Bolsheviks, a subdivision of the Russian Social Democrat Party, able to impose their will upon the whole of the former Russian Empire by 1923? " Certainly, the Bolsheviks were an obscure and radical political party before the revolution of March 1917, and played little part in the overthrow of the Tsar. They did however see it as a step towards the dictatorship of the proletariat. "The Marxists found themselves in the paradoxical position of welcoming the revolution as bourgeois, liberal and capitalist and defe .....
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Iran-contra Affair
<view this essay>.... history behind it. Draper explains to us that the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 brought the fall of the tyrant Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and gave rise to Ayatollah Khomeini. Khomeini led the Shiite clerics, whose goal was to establish an Islamic state. In July 1979, the Nicaraguan Revolution overthrew the dictator Somoza and replaced the dynasty with the Sandinistas. The Sandinistas were a communist regime that sought allies with Castro and the Soviet Union. Khomeini and Sandinista had different views, both had one important thing in common; they came to power by defeating United States’ resistance, thus they were regarded with hostility. The United States .....
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Operation Desert Storm
<view this essay>.... Saudi Arabia.This is when the United States entered the war after a call for protection and
help by the Arabs. They set a deadline on January 15th , 1991 for all Iraq forces to be out of Kuwait, but Saddam and his army ignored the deadline. That triggered Desert Shield, or the build up of troops in the region and eventually led to , an all-out attack to free Kuwait.It can be clearly said that due to the extreme power and sophistication of the United States and its allies that Saddam Hussein and his small nation of 18 million
people stood no chance what so ever against the mighty military of the United
States and its allies.On the final night of the war, with .....
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Assination Of JFK
<view this essay>.... I believe it would have been impossible for Oswald to have killed the president, for a number of reasons. Oswald was right handed the Italian Rifle he was said to have used was set up for someone that was left handed. From the window he was supposedly perched at their was a huge tree blocking his vision. Oswald was also said to be a very poor shot when he was in the Marines. Whoever the gunmen were, they fired their five to six shots very accurately. The fatal head wound shown the presidents head to have moved back and to left indicating that the shot came from the front. Oswald was behind the president and could not have inflicted that wound. Moments prior to .....
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A Discussion On The Myth And Failure Of Reconstruction Following The Civil War, And How This Failure Impacted And Changed America
<view this essay>.... were lost and approximately four million slaves were set free.(Tindall 451) "American nationalism emerged triumphant . . . but peace had come only on the battlefields. 'Cannon conquer,' recognized a northern editor, 'but they do not necessarily convert.'"(Tindall 451) Now the difficult questions of Reconstruction began to appear. "How were new governments to be formed? How and at whose expense was the South's economy to be rebuilt? What was to be done with the freed slaves?"(Tindall 451)
"Reconstruction was intended as a device by which the defeated states of the Southern Confederacy would be joined again to the Union, the more than four million black freed .....
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China 4
<view this essay>.... wall's length has shortened down to 1,500 miles.
In about 214 BC, the emperor Shih Huang Ti ordered the different parts of the wall to be
connected. The emperor Shi Huang united the different parts of China into one country and ordered the existing sections of the wall to be connected to form one long wall as a protection against invading nomads, or wandering tribes, from the north. The nomads he was especially concerned about were the Hsiung-nu, sometimes thought to be forebears of the Huns. One reason the Great Wall was built was to keep Chinese farmers from leaving their farms,and the second reason was for protection. The wall helped in wars because it .....
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The Ottoman Empire: Focus On Society
<view this essay>.... politics
and state wealth (for the purposes of serving the state's interests). A
step below the Sultan were a small group of wealthy, esteemed leaders, who
were ascribed special status because they were essentially the Sultan's
"slaves". The main duties of this select little group were to protect and
enlarge the financial assets of the state for the benefit of the Sultan
and the Empire. These leaders also ruled and defended the far-flung
Ottoman Empire.
While the Sultan invested wealth and the leaders protected it, the
majority of commoners, the rayyahs, had the task of actually producing the
wealth. The rayyahs had to pay part of their profits from i .....
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