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Who Was The Bard
<view this essay>.... can be deciphered into messages that point to Bacon being the author. Shakespeare was from a shabby, highly illiterate back settlement where thirteen out of nineteen politicians couldn't sign their own names(Twain, Chpt 3). His parents were both farmer class and illiterate. His early schooling cannot be proven, and it is known that he did not attend a university. A popular candidate for authorship is de Vere, Earl of Oxford. There are many verbal parallels between the plays and letters written by Oxford. William Plumer Fowler gave numerous examples in his book, Shakespeare Revealed in Oxford's Poetry. The plays also reflect Oxford's background and eve .....
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Industrial Revolution 2
<view this essay>.... agricultural revolution was crop rotation. Crop rotation was
switching the crops into different fields each year which
allowed farmers to produce 25 % more crops and more
food means more population up.
During the agricultural revolution population went
up and less people were needed to work on the farms.
There were a lot of people that needed jobs but there were
not a lot of jobs for people on farms so the people turned to
the cities. The time when people went into the cities looking
for jobs which caused the populations of the cities to at
least double was called urbanization. During urbanization
the city of Manchester in the United king .....
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The War In Vietnam
<view this essay>.... but after April 1975, the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) ruled the entire nation.
The initial reasons for U.S. involvement in Vietnam seemed logical and compelling to American leaders. Following its success in World War II, the United States faced the future with a sense of moral rectitude and material confidence. From Washington's perspective, the principal threat to U.S. security and world peace was monolithic, dictatorial communism emanating from he Soviet Union. Any communist anywhere, at home or abroad, was, by definition, and enemy of the United States. Drawing an analogy with the unsuccessful appeasement of fascist dictators before Wor .....
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American Prohibition In The 1920s
<view this essay>.... purpose was to solve, this was Prohibition.
On Midnight of January 16, 1920, one of the personal habits and customs of most Americans suddenly came to a halt. The Eighteenth Amendment was put into effect and all importing, exporting, transporting, selling, and manufacturing of intoxicating liquor was put to an end. Shortly following the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment, the National Prohibition Act, or the Volstead Act, as it was called because of its author, Andrew J. Volstead, was put into effect. This determined intoxicating liquor as anything having an alcoholic content of anything more than 0.5 percent, omitting alcohol used for medicinal and sacra .....
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D-Day
<view this essay>.... a puissant counterattack north of the Seine River. This is believed by some as his most fatal mistake. Today we know this colossal invasion as .
Midsummer 1943, Nazi Germany was at its zenith. Their Blitzkrieg or “lightning war” tactics had given the control of all of the mainland Europe except for neutral Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden. At this time Soviet leader Joseph Stalin pushed US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to mount a force against the powerful Germans. Plans though always fell through due to lack of numbers and insufficient military craft. Britain however, began to conjure theoretical plans .....
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Holocaust Rememberance Day
<view this essay>.... 1945; its victims range from Jews to physically disabled. Singled out as the primary target,
the Jewish people suffered around 6 million deaths during the Holocaust, that being nearly 65%
of European Jewry. However, they were not the only ones.
Germans sought to really “cleanse” the human race. They targeted all the people who were
somehow different from their “norms”. 5 million people other than Jews were killed during the
Holocaust; these included homosexuals, gypsies, disabled, Jehova’s witnesses and Polish people,
the list goes on and on. Asides from all the deaths, Nazis are famous for notorious experiments
that they performed on “lower” r .....
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Effects Of The Atomic Bomb
<view this essay>.... weapon that gets its destructive power from an atom. This power comes when the matter inside of the atoms is transformed into energy. The process by which this is done is known as fission. The only two atoms suitable for fissioning are the uranium isotope U-235 and the plutonium isotope Pu-239 (Outlaw Labs). Fission occurs when a neutron, a subatomic particle with no electrical charge, strikes the nucleus of one of these isotopes and causes it to split apart. When the nucleus is split, a large amount of energy is produced, and more free neutrons are also released. These neutrons then in turn strike other atoms, which causes more energy to be released. If this p .....
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International Charter Of Human
<view this essay>.... in many areas pertaining to those rights. For example, it says that all people have the right to liberty, religious and political freedom, education, and economic well-being. It bans torture and states that all people have the right to participate in their governments.
The declaration is not a law, unfortunately, and in some cases has had little actual effect on the member countries of the UN. Governments with poor human rights records, such as China, do not agree with the UN’s attempts to promote human rights, saying that such actions interfere with their internal affairs.
The UN has a Commission on Human Rights. Its job is to monitor abuses of the .....
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