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Papers on History
Indian Affairs
Number of words: 1624 | Number of pages: 6.... catastrophic changes to these tribes. The native people were free nomadic people who were largely dependant on the buffalo. As the settlers came in the buffalo was killed for food and sport. Between 1872 and 1874, close to nine million buffalos were killed and without the buffalo many tribes could no longer roam, be self sufficient and were confined to reservations. Along with the disappearing of the buffalo population, Indians were soon taken off their land into reservations by the united States government. In addition cruelty in the treatment of the Indians was not unusual. In November 1864 a band of friendly Indians were at .....
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Effects Of The WWII Atomic Bombs
Number of words: 1508 | Number of pages: 6.... devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door." The decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japanese citizens in August, 1945, as a means to bring the long Pacific war to an end was justified-militarily, politically and morally.
The goal of waging war is victory with minimum losses on one's own side and, if possible, on the enemy's side. No one disputes the fact that the Japanese military was prepared to fight to the last man to defend the home islands, and indeed had already demonstrated this determination in previous Pacific island campaigns. A weapon originally developed to contain a Nazi .....
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Differences Between North And
Number of words: 579 | Number of pages: 3.... to meet more frequently and regularly. In the 1650’s, the assembly council ended up splitting up into two chambers, the House of Burgesses and the Governor’s Council.
There were two main products that made up the Southern colony's economy. One of them being tobacco and the other product being rice. Tobacco was the most domineering product in the South. Almost everything depended on the sale and price of the tobacco market. The major tobacco period was the time from 1618 to 1629 while the crop was still new. With the huge demand, labor was always an issue. Due to this many servants were imported. The negative aspect of .....
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The Civil War Campaign Of 1862
Number of words: 354 | Number of pages: 2.... of the army and began shuffling troops around in front of McClellan to convince him that he was faced with an enormous force. Lee then moved across the river and attacked the Union forces there; these fell back so that Lee could attack the southern half on its flank, and this, in turn, fell back. Lee continued in this manner, pushing one flank and then the other, McClellan backing away before him, and only the relative inexperience of Lee's staff and army allowed McClellan to escape without total loss. Fighting a series of sound rearguard actions through Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Savage's Station, White Oak Swamp, and finally .....
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Babe Ruth 2
Number of words: 1042 | Number of pages: 4.... met the man who Babe claimed to be the greatest man who ever lived, Brother Mathias. Brother Mathias was the one who handed Babe his punishments, and it was Babe who always touted his strong, yet caring hand that led him to baseball. It was also at St. Mary's that Babe started his life of giving. He would save up his money from his job in the Tailor shop and often spend it on large amounts of candy to give away to the little boys at St. Mary who were poor, or orphans.
Brother Mathias was the one who introduced Babe to baseball, as a recreational game to play during the spring. It wasn't long until Babe was the only 13 year o .....
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Black Death (the Plague)
Number of words: 596 | Number of pages: 3.... plague was also transmitted by air and if a person was infected that way he would cough up blood and then die within 3 days. By the end of the plague around two-thirds of Europe’s population was dead, and the people that did survive had a very hard time living in the conditions that Europe was in.
With most of Europe’s population dying or already dead the country it self was in a mess. One of its biggest problems was its sanitation, the living conditions were horrible due to numerous dead people just lying around. So many people died that they had to dig up a hole and just fit as many dead people in it till the hole wa .....
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American Values From Jamestown
Number of words: 335 | Number of pages: 2.... Nobles were tied to fix lands. The nobles decided to do something.
The nobles closed all their land and this was called. The inclosure movement. The nobles then fenced in all their land. There fore peasants were forced to seek new work an a new life. The middle class had a investment to the new world. One promblem was the spanish controlled the seas.
England competed with Spain for the seas. Power hungry Prince Phillip II of Spain wanted more. In a hope to increase power he proposed to Queen Elizabeth. Once again the Queen said "no." Outraged King Phillip sent his fleet the Armada to attack England. However the smaller shi .....
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History Of Philippine Cinema
Number of words: 4367 | Number of pages: 16.... insights on how the Philippine film has influenced Philippine culture and vice-versa. This is done by documenting the important events and important films in the area of film for the past ninety years. Second, it intends to explain the different trends and styles common in the Philippine film. And finally, it concludes with an analysis on how two important events in history, namely World War II and Martial Law altered the course of contemporary Philippine film.
However, this paper is limited to films only from the particular time period of the 1930s to the 1990s. It fails to give a picture of how films were like ever since it .....
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Hiroshima 2
Number of words: 332 | Number of pages: 2.... the Japanese government surrendered and withdrew from the war. Ever since the bombing on every August 6 people meet to participate in interfaith services in the Peace Memorial Park. In 1949 the Japanese government declared Hiroshima an international shrine of peace. After the war Hiroshima was rebuilt and commercial activity resumed. Even though it was a tragedy that the bomb was dropped it would serve as a reminder of the power that mass destruction weapons were capable of. The reminder would come later on as the Cold War took place. This would remind the nation involve as they were thinking of using
nuclear weapons against each .....
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Blackness
Number of words: 1209 | Number of pages: 5.... Army
commander, had ordered Grant to stay put and wait for reinforcements.
Grant had given command of the Pittsburg Landing encampment to General
William T. Sherman while he waited at his camp in Savannah, Tennessee. (1)
At Corinth, Confederate Generals Albert Sydney Johnston and P.G.T.
Beauregard worked feverishly to ready the 40,000 plus troops there for an
attack on the Union Army at Pittsburg Landing before U.S. Army General
Buell and reinforcements could arrive from Nashville. The officers appo .....
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