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Papers on History
Hitler Youth
Number of words: 824 | Number of pages: 3.... Youth Organization held out for as long as three years.
Schirach soon organized Hitler’s Youth Movement into a precise running machine. He set up age brackets as well as a Hitlers youth for girls called the BDM(Bund Deutcher Madel{League of German Girls}). The age brackets for boys started at ten to fourteen were the boys were in the jungvolk, and the boys from fourteen to eighteen were in the HJ(Hitler Jugend{Youth}). The girls had their age brackets as well the young girls from ten to fourteen were in the Jungmadel, and the girls from fourteen to eighteen were in the actual BDM.
The youth organization was based on compet .....
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Early History Of Judaism
Number of words: 1989 | Number of pages: 8.... mind when reading about all the other situations in
which the religion has found itself. A brief conclusion follows the
discussion.
A Place to Call Home No other religion has ever been so attached
to its birthplace as Judaism. Perhaps this is because Jews have been
exiled and restricted from this place for most of their history.
Jerusalem is not only home to Judaism, but to the Muslim and Christian
religions as well. Historically this has made it quite a busy place
for the various groups.
Jerusalem is where the temple of the Jews once stood; the only
place on the whole Earth where one cou .....
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Expansion Of NATO
Number of words: 677 | Number of pages: 3.... Kingdom, and the United States. (*Members since March 12, 1999) These countries commit themselves to maintaining and developing their defense capabilities, individually, and collectively, providing the basis for collective defense planning. The Treaty also provides the framework for consultation between the member countries whenever they feel that their national security is at risk.
Over the past few years, Russia and Ukraine have developed special independent relationships with the Alliance. This enables them to pursue, in different ways, cooperative programs on a wide range of practical security-related issues of benefit to th .....
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Three Periods Of European History Where Attitudes Towards Women's Education Changed
Number of words: 515 | Number of pages: 2.... of his. Furthermore, in a letter by the poet Louise
Labe`, she states a need for women to "raise their head above their
spindles" and take up studying.
The next age, the Reformation and the catholic Reformation, saw a
dramatic and conservative change toward the attitudes of education for
women. Martin Luther, a leader of the Reformation, was quoted as saying
that God made men with broad shoulders to do all the intelligent, and women
with broad hips to do the "sitting" and housework. Agreeing with Martin
Luther, was Emond Auger, a French Jesuit, who said "there is no need for
women to take time out from their work and rea .....
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Persian Gulf Crisis
Number of words: 1758 | Number of pages: 7.... used chemical
weapons on the Iranian troops and even on their own Iraqi population. This was
seemingly overlooked by the rest of the world because most nations didn't want
to see the Ayatollah's Islamic revolution rise. Iraq often obtained foreign arms
support from other nations because of this. It wasn't until the invasion of
Kuwait that the rest of the world seemed to realize the danger that Iraq posed
to its own people and to the Arab states surrounding it. Through poor planning,
Saddam Hussein made three major mistakes that enabled an easy defeat of the
Iraqis.
The first mistake was that he captured all of Kuwait at the sa .....
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Roots
Number of words: 269 | Number of pages: 1.... that his cargo will be slaves he was scared . In the movie he opened
his eyes very wide.
2.When Mr. Slater give him thumbscrews, then he ask him “ do we need to use this
thumbscrews”. Mr. Slater answered “You never know what dose slaves could do “. Then he
throve them on the floor.
3.Capitain Davies said to wash the slaves , It wasn’t for profit he washed them only
because he felt bed for them .When the slaves were screaming from the salt water ,he went under
deck.
4.When Captain Davies gets to America he doesn’t want to go to the auction of slave and
he tells to people to clean his boat form slaves. He dose that on .....
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The Transcontinental Railroad And Westward Expansion
Number of words: 2619 | Number of pages: 10.... Westward, beyond the Mississippi.
An international route connected New England and Montreal and another one
crossed Southern Ontario between Niagara, New York, and the Detroit River.
During the 1850's, North and South routes were developed both East and West of
the Alleghenies. It was not until after the Civil War, however, that a permanent
railroad bridge was constructed across the Ohio River. After the Civil War, the
pace of railroad building increased. The Pacific railroads, the Union Pacific
building from Omaha, Nebraska, and the Central Pacific building from Sacramento,
California, had started to build a transcontine .....
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Frederick Douglass' Speech For Individual Rights
Number of words: 1218 | Number of pages: 5.... were granted to them by the founding fathers of the United States, and there is no reason for the blacks to be celebrating the nation’s birthday. Frederick Douglass believed that no black man or woman should be satisfied until their whole race was treated like Americans, and not slaves. Until then the Fourth of July was a holiday which is not “theirs.”
Although Douglass’s speech contains the detestable, horrid facts about slavery and other important issues, he saw a silver lining. “There is hope in the thought,” Douglass said, after he explicated how America is a new nation despite it being around the “old age for .....
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France 2
Number of words: 970 | Number of pages: 4.... of the population had no resources at all.
World War I broke out August 1914, setting France, Russia, Britain, Belgiumand Serbia at war with Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Everyone assumed the war would be over in a few months. Instead, the war lasted for four years. Germany finally agreed to sign an armistice on November 11, 1948. (A kind of peace agreement). The death toll had been the largest of any previous wars. France had lost over 1.4 million men and in all of Europe over 8.5 million were killed. People said it was the war to end all wars.
Only twenty years later France was plunged into another war w .....
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The Holocaust
Number of words: 750 | Number of pages: 3.... better understanding. Students will also learn to identify the events leading to a similar tragedy and stop them before it is too late. A recent poll of historians shows that 75% of historical events are repeated. is an event that we do not want repeated so a certain social group will not have to re-live the past. My grandmother lived through World War II and and watched the events leading up to it, we need students to understand these events through the English I class since they do not have the personal experience. By understanding , we will lessen the likelihood of history repeating itself.
was a world shattering event, .....
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