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Papers on History
Buffalo Soldiers
Number of words: 242 | Number of pages: 1.... trained by its white commander, Col. Robert G. Shaw, suffered
heavy casualties in a heroic, though unsuccessful attempt to capture Fort Wagner
at Charleston (S.C.) harbor in July 1863. In all, about 209,000 ex-slaves and
free blacks served in the Union Army, and more than 68,000 of them died in
battle or from wounds or disease. After the Civil War, Congress authorized two
cavalry regiments and four infantry regiments of black troops, who were led by
white officers. The 9th and 10th cavalry regiments were formed in 1866 and were
used to control "hostile" Indian tribes in the West for the next 25 years.
Despite prejudicial treatmen .....
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A Study Of Catholicism
Number of words: 584 | Number of pages: 3.... became pregnant. The girl went to her church and told her priest. The priest then referred the girl to the Cardinal of that area. The twelve-year-old girl comes from a family that can barely afford food and clothes, let alone support a new child. Abortion was obviously not even an issue in this case. The clergy decided it would be best to use church money and support this girl in her pregnancy. This shows openness on the part of the Catholic Church because they could have shunned this twelve year old girl, and ignored her pleas for help. However, they decided to take a risk and help her.
An instance in which the church is not so o .....
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Domus Aurea, Golden House Of N
Number of words: 1869 | Number of pages: 7.... begun on Nero’s Golden House. It would continue until AD 68 (Wheeler 142). In fact the Domus Transitoria would soon become part of the new Domus Aurea.
The architects of this great project were more engineers than they were architects. Their names were Severus and Celer (Picard 116). They were more like Italian bosses heading up a team of technicians who came to Rome in hordes due to their recent fire. However, these engineers main goal was to make the estate look bigger and be bigger without actually expanding. They accomplished by working on it from the inside out, utilizing paintings on walls that gave the impression .....
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Cold War 4
Number of words: 2379 | Number of pages: 9.... prime minister, immediately provided help to Stalin. The United States joined the Allies and the impossible had become reality: capitalism and communism working hand in hand. The "Lend Lease" arrangement was extended to Russia and all in all ten million tons of war materials were sent by the US to Russia. It seems rather far-reaching to propose that circumstances were all that well until Yalta, and that the agreements reached there actually led to the Cold War. Already during the Second World War there was a growth of distrust between the USSR and the two western powers, Britain and the USA. Since late 1941 Stalin urged Churchill .....
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The New Deal
Number of words: 1967 | Number of pages: 8.... bad income distribution, bad banking, bad foreign trade, and over-expansion of credit the stock market crashed and the U.S. was heading to a depression. One of the first Acts to affect the economy was the Emergency Banking Relief Act. This act authorized the Federal Reserve Board to issue more currency. It prohibited a private hoarding of gold and exporting of gold. In Roosevelt’s second day of term he issued a four-day holiday for the banks. The Treasury Department was directed to reopen the banks if they were relatively sound. It took Congress seven hours to pass the Emergency Banking Relief Act. By closing the banks .....
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Atomic Bomb 3
Number of words: 817 | Number of pages: 3.... in Oak ridge, Tennessee. H.C. Urey and other associates at Columbia University devised a system that separated the Uranium using the principle of gaseous diffusion. Ernest Lawrence shortly following this invention came up with a process using magnetic separation. This process was quicker then the first. After the Uranium metal was separated form the Uranium ore it is put into a gas centrifuge to separate the U-235 and U-238. The first step of building an atomic bomb was completed. They now had the U-235 to build a bomb.
Over the course of six years, 1939-1945, scientist worked on equations to make the U-235 into a bomb. .....
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Causes Of The Holocaust
Number of words: 1032 | Number of pages: 4.... 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. The Treaty also solely held Germany responsible for the War in a "war guilt" cause, which greatly upset the Germans. When the German government saw the treaty, they heavily opposed it!, 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. Germany had lost everything, the economy was i .....
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Did Napoleon Betray The Revolu
Number of words: 1333 | Number of pages: 5.... expected Napoleon to bring back peace, order and to consolidate the political and social conquests of the Revolution. Napoleon considered these conquests to be “the sacred rights of property, equality and liberty.” If Napoleon gained power with the promise of upholding the principals of the French Revolution how did he betray the revolution? Many historians argue that Napoleon was an effective but ambitious leader. This ambition led to a dictatorship, which they consider Napoleons ultimate betrayal. However other Historians such as Tombs and Furet see Napoleon’s regime as “the most convincing though temporary solu .....
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Julius Ceasar
Number of words: 2036 | Number of pages: 8.... attack upon the city was carried our by
Marius’ enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter’s
return from the East. On each occasion the massacre of political
opponents was followed by the confiscation of their property. The
proscriptions of Sulla, which preceded the reactionary political
legislation enacted during his dictatorship left a particularly bitter
memory that long survived. (2),(3)
Caesar left Rome for the province of Asia on the condition that he
divorce his wife because Sulla would only allow him to leave on that
condition. When he heard the news that Sulla had been killed he
retu .....
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Power Of The Few Over The Many
Number of words: 1136 | Number of pages: 5.... manipulate others. "'You ass'... said the
Director,... 'Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo
must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon
heredity'"(Huxley 23). Through a hierarchy of Alaphas and Betas
down to the lower cast Epsilon, everyone was suited for their
job. The Director however, through his position of authority,
was able to "... condition the masses to hate the
country,"(Huxley 30). In doing so, the Director succeeds in
creating an obedient society, which obeys and bows to every whim
of his commands. The Resident Controller and Director were two
authoritative figures that were able to contro .....
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