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Utopian Communes
<view this essay>.... wrongly, would brand as ‘utopian,’ suggesting that it was idealistic and impractical. Rather than seeking to create an ideal government or reform the world, the members of these communal groups withdrew form the sinful, corrupt world to work their miracles in microcosm, actually hoping to imitate the elect state of affairs that existed among the Apostles, who were said to hold all things in common. The most interesting point of these communal groups to me might be the overall backing of their desire to create a community. It seems some of the communal groups, such as the Amana, were only created out of feelings of guilt and hope for redemption. From Oveds book .....
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Kansas & Nebraska Act Resolved: The Kansas-Nebraska Act Was Fair
<view this essay>.... keep their slaves and not
have to sell them. It would be good because the people who have the choice
of it being a slave or free state could debate the situation and work out a
decision that they all agreed on. Even though this would take a long period
of time all the population would be happy with the decision.
The 36-30 degree parallel was unfair because that was the only land up for
slavery. What if someone wanted to move above the 36-30 degree parallel?
Would they have to leave their slaves behind and hire workers?
Also the federal government just marked off land that slaves could be in.
Slaves are considered property and you can take property anywhe .....
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Babe Ruth Changed The Game Of Baseball
<view this essay>.... his career as a pitcher but his hitting would make him famous. Ruth hit 29 home runs in 1919 with the Boston Red Sox. At the time it was the Major League record (Babe Ruth Museum 2). The next year (1920), as a member of the New York Yankees, he outdid himself as he hit an astonishing 54 home runs (Creamer 219). The pattern continued as he hit 59 home runs in 1921 (Creamer 239). His pace slowed down a little for the next few years, but his pace picked up again. In 1927 he would hit his famous 60 home runs which was a record at the time and would last until 1961 when it was broken by fellow Yankee Roger Maris. He also made the first Major League Baseball .....
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Columbian Voyages- Their Effec
<view this essay>.... the introduction of new and lethal micro-organisms into the ecosystem. More commonly known as viruses, these organisms wreaked havoc with
a population that had never been exposed to them previously. Crosby chalks this up as another way the Europeans decimated the population of the Amerindians, but neglected to mention that although the introduction of new viruses and diseases into a culture is devastating, it is an integral part of nature and cannot be avoided.
There are many reasons that disease is a necessary part of an ecosystem. First, and most obvious, is the fact that it is one of nature’s natural checks. This means that nature, in an attempt to contro .....
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Immigrants And The United
<view this essay>.... his idea successfully by using historical evidences from history of immigration and evidences from recent studies.
In the introductory of his article Kennedy writes about a new source of immigrants that comes to the America in the nineteenth century. Those immigrants come from the nine none European countries called “the third world or less developed countries.” He then compares the America’s population growth with the Latin America’s population growth, and he says that our population growth still 4 times less than the Latin America’s population growth. He also says that the America now still has a very small number of immigrant, he says: “I mentioned their r .....
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Quebec's Quiet Revolution: What Is It? How Has It Changed Quebec's Society? How Has It Affected Confederation?
<view this essay>.... Quebec, and
the other was to win greater respect and recognition for all the French people
of Canada. The Liberals started a program to take control of hydro-electric
power companies. French-Canadian engineers from all over Canada returned to
Quebec to work on the project. Slogans during these times were "we can do it"
and "masters in our own homes". The government also started to replace programs
the Church previously ran, which included hospital insurance, pension schemes
and the beginning of Medi-Care. For these programs, the Quebec Liberals had to
struggle with Ottawa for a larger share of the tax dollars.
One of the greatest reforms was the moderniz .....
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Medea And The Chorus
<view this essay>.... the chorus still plays
a prominent part and fills the traditional functions of a chorus in Greek
tragedy. Many of these functions were merely technical. For example, the
chorus often announced the entrances and exits of characters or
foreshadowed events in the action. It also recounted or interpreted past
events for the purpose of clarifying the plot. These functions aided the
movement of the story.
First off, when the chorus was introduced into a play, one of its functions
was to announce the entrances and exits of characters. This happened in many
places of the story. The characters that the chorus took on were the first
woman, second and third .....
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Nuclear Warfare
<view this essay>.... death to those who come into contact with them. Additionally, the vegetation threat we rely on for survival is severely affected when radioactive elements are released into the air and water supply during a nuclear accident. Most alarming, however, is the fact that the general public is vastly unaware of its governments’ use of nuclear waste in the development of nuclear weapon. Most of us can remember the bombing of Iwo Jima and the effects the bomb had on the lives of the millions of Japanese that lived within a twenty mile radius of the city. We can see what happened to the second generation: children born with severe informities such as sixteen fingers .....
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