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Papers on History
Progressivism
Number of words: 401 | Number of pages: 2.... of state senators was also a plus for the progressives for many years the senators had been selected by the vote of the state legislature. The corrupt state legislature would then of course vote for the corrupt official for senate. After a while the senate begun to look like a club for the rich man. In 1913 the seventeenth amendment required all that all U.S senators be elected by the popular vote. By calling for Initiative, referendum, and recall the Progressives allowed by initiative to take part in the process of having a legislature pass a bill, to allow voters to vote on proposed laws on their ballots by way of referen .....
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The Causes Of The Holocaust
Number of words: 1093 | Number of pages: 4.... and Gda sk, now a city in Poland, became a "free city." Poland
gained most of Western Prussia and Germany's Rhineland was demilitarized,
although allied troops occupied it for fifteen years after the war (Shirer
59). The Treaty also solely held Germany responsible for the War in a
"war guilt" clause which greatly upset the Germans. When the German
government saw the treaty, they heavily opposed i! t; however they had to
accept it. Germany's new republican government ratified it in 1919.
Germany's defeat in the war and the provisions in the Treaty of Versailles,
officially ending the war, greatly outraged the German people. Ge .....
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Auschwitz 2
Number of words: 1054 | Number of pages: 4.... camps within Germany. Construction of nearby Birkenau (Brzenzinka), also known as Auschwitz II, began in October 1941 and included a women's section after August 1942. Birkenau had four gas chambers, designed to resemble showers, and four crematoria, used to incinerate bodies.
Approximately 40 more satellite camps were established around Auschwitz. These were forced labor camps and were known collectively as Auschwitz III. The first one was built at Monowitz and held Poles who had been forcibly evacuated from their hometowns by the Nazis. Prisoners were transported from all over Nazi-occupied Europe by rail, arriving at .....
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The 1960s
Number of words: 1951 | Number of pages: 8.... 25 became
a magical age, and young people all over the world were united by this bond"
(Harris 15). This bond was of Non-conformity and it was the "Creed of the
Young" (Harris 15). Most Hippies came from wealthy middle class families.
Some people said that they were spoiled and wasting their lives away. But to
Hippies themselves this was a way of life and no one was going to get in the
way of their dreams and ambitions.
Hippies flocked to a certain area of San Francisco on the corner of Haight
Street and Ashbury Street, where the world got their first view of this
unique group. This place came to be known as the Haight .....
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Caesar 2
Number of words: 2558 | Number of pages: 10.... provided political advantage. (Sahlman). Caesar’s family was part of Rome’s original aristocracy, although they were neither rich nor influential. (Sahlman). Caesar’s father died when Caesar was only 16 years old. It was Caesar’s mother, Aurelia, who proved to influence young Caesar. (Sahlman). With his mother’s blessing, Caesar sought out to gain notoriety for his family name.
To obtain distinction for himself and his family, Caesar sought election to public office. In 86 BC, Caesar was appointed flamen dialis with the help of his uncle by marriage, Gaius Marius. (Sahlman). In 84 BC Caesar marri .....
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New Worlds For All: Indians, Europeans, And The Remaking Of Early America
Number of words: 1115 | Number of pages: 5.... and set out to dominate and suppress the Indian population.
Many Europeans were drawn to the New World because it held promise, something that their homeland lacked. They wanted to create a world that was similar to the one left behind, proof of this is evident in the names that were given to places such as New France, New England, New York, New Sweden, New Spain, Lancaster, Durham and Cumberland. Unfortunately in their zeal to create these new places, they disrupted the lives of the patrons that had already settled on the land for hundreds of years, they disrupted the lives of the Indians. Europeans cut and burnt down the fore .....
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History Of Boot Camp Correctio
Number of words: 2246 | Number of pages: 9.... and curbing future criminal behavior. Opponents caution that more information is needed on a variety of issues including costs and the potential for abuse of power. Research into boot camps began with a 1988 study of Louisiana's boot camp program and continued with a multisite evaluation in 1989. (Cowels, 1995) Fueled primarily by growth in the number of offenders incarcerated during the past decade and changing views of the role of punishment and treatment in the correctional system, shock incarceration programs, or "boot camps" as they have been more recently called, have emerged as an increasingly popular alternative sanctio .....
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Colonies 2
Number of words: 535 | Number of pages: 2.... from time to time. They remarked on how it wasn’t necessary to bare weapons around these people. Although the goal of these settlements was complete religious toleration, it wasn’t totally feasible.
In addition, the colonies in the south were supported economically mainly be large plantations. The aristocratic class owned large plots of land in which they forced their workers to produce a cash crop, tobacco for the most part. Very little land was owned in these areas by anyone but the wealthy. As for the Middle Colonies, privately owned farms were run by their owners and occasionally paid workers. Slaves and even servants wer .....
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A New Generation
Number of words: 935 | Number of pages: 4.... appeared dull and unattractive, while Kennedy performed with maturity and style. He pledged to "get the country moving again" with his New Frontier policy (Kennedy et al 597). Kennedy won by a narrow margin and became the youngest president elected to office, as well as the first Roman Catholic accomplishments was the formation of the Peace Corps, which sent young American volunteers abroad to help less developed nations raise their standard of living. This organization did more than combat the Cold War, it created nations. Although this
was an important organization, many feel that it was created to maintain the support of .....
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The Aborigines
Number of words: 515 | Number of pages: 2.... feet above the surrounding desert. After that the next destination was Ayers Rock which is a large boulder. Then the last destination was Mount Olga. This is a grouping of large round-toped pillars. Most of these pillars were more than five hundred feet high. Some were over 1000 feet high. One morning the scientist awoke and heard noise from behind a small rock formation and when he checked it out he saw a group of young Aborigines boys painting each others bodies with coal, chalk, and red ocher. They were getting ready for the celebration of the mountain devil. This was a ceremony for only young men none of the women or el .....
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