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Papers on History
Referring To The Spanish Civil War
Number of words: 956 | Number of pages: 4.... on (1926) he decided a systematic government
would be more efficient. So he introduced the `National Assembly' intended
to represent different classes and groups, probably to soften the
opposition; as well as the Union Patriotica, created to mobilize popular
support for his regime.
Rivera also managed to strengthen the Spanish infra-structure, but
the funding had to come from loans from other nations, because the upper
classes would not accept a overhaul in the taxation system. He also
managed to encourage industrial growth, which did work to a certain extent
because of many internal problems, and the big depression.
T .....
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Thailand
Number of words: 594 | Number of pages: 3.... mackerel, anchovies, other fish and shellfish.
- Mining; natural gases, lignite, gemstones, zinc, lead, tin, gypsum, iron ore, and manganese.
- Manufacturing; textiles and garments, electronics, cement, refined sugar, refined petroleum, motor vehicles and cigarettes.
The employment division is 50 % agriculture, 30 % services, and 20 % industry.
Thailand’s major imports are petroleum and petroleum products, machinery, chemicals, iron and steel.
Thailand’s major trading partners are the USA, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, Taiwan and Germany.
Thailand’s currency is called the baht and it is wo .....
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Christianity 2
Number of words: 626 | Number of pages: 3.... to hell. When god sacraficed his son, his son died for our sins, now when we sin all we have to do is asked to be forgiven by God. When we become christians we create our own path to heaven, and when we die we go to heaven and live happily and eternally with god. So you see God is good, without him everyone would go to hell. Other people wonder how we can be so sure our god exists. Nothing, no religion can be totally and completey proved, anything is debatable. To Christains we see, and feel god every day working in our lives. When one askes Jesus into their heart, God comes to be with them forever. He lives within you from that .....
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Assassination Of JFK
Number of words: 3409 | Number of pages: 13.... evidence that may hereafter come to light
... to make such
further investigation, as the Commission finds desirable.
In less than one
week they found that a 'lone nut' killed JKF.
At no time did the Warren Commission seem to consider the
basic legal
rights of Oswald - innocence until proven guilty, the right
to legal
representation, or the right to cross-examine witnesses and
evidence
against him. There is no way that Lee Harvey Oswald was the
lone assassin.
Firstly the paraffin test of Oswald's hands and his right
cheek conducted
on November 23, 1963, has been positive for his hands but
neg .....
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Ending Of Apartheid In South A
Number of words: 642 | Number of pages: 3.... in Cape Town at the time wondered if De Klerk fully realised what he was doing. Perhaps De Klerk thoguht he could remain in power by sharing it with the ANC. There were also economic pressures; business men were meeting with the ANC and liking them. De Klerk was practical as he was trained as a lawyer, and also religious. Apparently his brother had said he thought God had chosen him to lead South Africa ‘at a crossroads’.
However, the most probable reason was that apartheid was no longer practical or possible to maintain in the country. This underlying fact had been brought about by several events.
Fourteen years prior .....
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Descartes 2
Number of words: 737 | Number of pages: 3.... come to a true belief..
Descartes slowly moves on to set the stage on another argument which I shall call the dreaming argument. The dreaming argument is centered around differentiating our awakened mind from sleep. Descartes uses this technique and builds upon it to show that an external world doesn’t exist. Descartes makes a good argument by using scenarios which happen to everyone whilst having a dream. Descartes believes that our dreams usually represent unclear settings of ourselves and while not in a dreamy moment ourselves we can'’ be very clear if what we experience while awake really are occurring. Simply put, reality .....
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Organized Crime Wthin The Unit
Number of words: 1440 | Number of pages: 6.... case, they “want what American society offers and expects of all – success – yet they are prevented from legitimately achieving this goal because of opportunity blockage, that is poverty and discrimination” (O’Kane 27). In turn, the immigrants turned to a criminal subculture as means to attain their goals. They began violating an extreme amount of criminal statutes such as extortion, murder, bribery, fraud, narcotics, and labor racketeering.
Thus far, the focus of this topic has been on early groups of organized criminals within the United States. The face of organized crime has changed within the past few decades, howe .....
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The Compromise Of 1850
Number of words: 475 | Number of pages: 2.... favored admission of California as a free state and encouragement of New Mexico to enter as a free state. These sentiments were voiced in Congress by William H. Seward. John C. Calhoun and other Southerners, particularly Jefferson Davis, maintained that the South should be given guarantees of equal position in the territories, of the execution of fugitive slave laws, and of protection against the abolitionists. Clay proposed that a series of measures be passed as an omnibus compromise bill. Support for this plan was largely organized by Stephen A. Douglas. The measures were the admission of California as a free state; the organiz .....
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The Matrix-critique And Review
Number of words: 2160 | Number of pages: 8.... being directed to his desk.
Following intricate instructions from Morpheus (who appears to be able to see
the entire layout of Thomas's world as if he is looking at a map, or like a
god looking down
from on high), Thomas sneaks past the agents into an empty office. There
Morpheus tells to make an improbable leap to safety. He fails to make the
leap, does not even try in fact, and allows himself to be captured by the
government agents instead.
He is taken into custody and while there is offered a deal which demands
him to cooperate in the tracking of Morpheus, in return he will get a clean
slate. When he re .....
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Watergate Scandal
Number of words: 861 | Number of pages: 4.... and officers John Barret and Carl Shoffler intercepted the call while on patrol. Flashlights were noticed by a former F.B.I. agent. The F.B.I. agent named Alfred Baldwin calls and tells the police that there are lights on in the entire 8th floor of Watergate. So the three officers entered the building, surrounded the 8th floor partition, and in a few moments one intruder "Don't shoot-You've got us"! The intruders were then ordered up against a wall and the police notice that they had $1,300 of new money, each were consecutively marked $100 dollar bills. Yet the Democratic National Committee safe was not tampered with. The p .....
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