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Papers on History
Life In 18th Century Europe
Number of words: 1006 | Number of pages: 4.... if she wants to survive, “Don’t get pregnant and don’t catch smallpox.” (5) Disease was so rampant during the 18th century that even the rich and powerful could not avoid infection.
One might think that the royalty of the 18th century would rarely catch such deadly diseases, but they did. Disease was a major influence on the aristocracy. During the eighty years between 1695 and 1775 disease killed a tsar of Russia, a king of France, a king of Austria, a queen of England, and a queen of Sweden. Disease many times ended dynasties by killing heirs. In 1700 the Duke of Gloucester died of disease and thus ended England’s .....
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FDR And The Great Depression
Number of words: 395 | Number of pages: 2.... institutions in the long-run. The FHA was incorporated into the new Deapartment of Housing and Urban Development also known as HUD. The Office continued its role as mortgage guarantor and widened it area of responsibilty to include mortgages lent to the owners of multifamily dwellings and to public housing authorities as well as individual homeowners.
Focusing now on another program called the SSA also called the Social Security Administration. This program is the most known program from the New Deal program today. And we know that is was without question successfull. It secured people's earned money so when they retire they s .....
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Fascism Compared To Communism
Number of words: 1007 | Number of pages: 4.... in a
civil war in a quest for power. You now have two men of equal
aspirations soon to be in control of two very similar governments.
In any rise of power, there needs to be a period of careful
planning requiring much thought. These two men had very little history
with which to work with which to model their revolutions. Times had
been changing rapidly, technological improvements in the fields of
manufacturing, transportation, and communication made this period of
time very different from any other. Hitler spent his time imprison
writing his book, Mein Kampf, filling it full of warped ideas of .....
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Film Review (The Money Pit)
Number of words: 268 | Number of pages: 1.... just married. They spend most of their time dealing with managing their new house. The performed the unstable love of the couple clearly.
Alexander Godunov plays Mac, the antagonist who interests in Anna and created conflict between the young couple by lying or saying that Anna slept with him when she was drunk.
The plot of the story is not very special, but the actors use funny expressions and skill to deal with the unstable house to make the movie more interesting. Sometimes Tom Hanks is over acting and they exaggerate to make the house look very unstable. For example, the house when the main character Walter runs through the .....
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World War II
Number of words: 781 | Number of pages: 3.... attitude toward women in the work force changed dramatically at the end of the war. The propaganda promoting "Rosie the Riviter", suddenly changed, focusing on
the duties of women as a homemaker and a mother. Even with these efforts and those of the G.I. bills passed after the war, returning soldiers had a difficult time finding jobs in post war America. This independence given to women during the war and its removal with the advent of the returning men, had a definitive effect on gender relations in American society and which one of the seeds of the womens rights movements in later decades.
Another hardship encountered by retu .....
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Christianity And Buddhism
Number of words: 548 | Number of pages: 2.... law of cause and effect at work. In this way, the effect of one's past karma determine the nature of one's present situation in life.
The Buddha said,
"According to the seed that is sown,
So is the fruit you reap
The door of good of will gather good result
The door of evil reaps evil result.
If you plant a good seed well,
Then you will enjoyed the good fruits."
The theory of karma has a definite appeal as it proposes that we really will be rewarded or punished for our good and bad actions. In fact, in this area the theory of karma has an
advantage even over Western religious ideas of an eternal Heaven and e .....
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Effects Of World War II On Japan
Number of words: 2108 | Number of pages: 8.... adapted to the new Japan and tried to make it a better place by
being very strict and competitive. After the changes in Japan the Japanese
people have shown that they are capable of a lot of things specially having
an enormous change in their life such as culture, economics, technology and
politics. This kind of change in any society is a very difficult task to
undertake and not too many countries are able to do it. The effects of
World War II, including the destruction of Japan, was the task for the
Japanese and they were very strong and worked themselves out of the
problems and succeeded in the modern world and now Japan .....
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History Of The French New Wave
Number of words: 1635 | Number of pages: 6.... people had died and most European countries were hugely in debt. 1947s Marshall plan saw billions of American dollars poured into Europe in the form of aid to help Europe rebuild. Along with this vast amount of aid came American expectations of political allegiance. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was born, a military alliance which committed members to oppose the USSR and Communism. This American influence extended into many aspects of society, including the Film industry. During the war years the flow of films from Hollywood into Europe had been drastically reduced. After the war the Americans were keen to .....
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Schindler’s List 2
Number of words: 1497 | Number of pages: 6.... scene has Schindler in a cell with another person, Schindler says that he is incarcerated because he kissed this Jewish girl. His cellmate makes the remark “ Did your prick fall off”, the cellmate begins to laugh, and Schindler joins him in the laughter. Suddenly the camera pans up to Oskar Schindler’s face. His face shows a man that is no longer laughing but, without words, you can see in his face that he doesn’t find the remark humorous. Further, the close up on his expression reveals a man that has a revelation. The revelation is that he is horrified that Jewish people are thought of in this way.
The close ups of Amon G .....
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FDR
Number of words: 866 | Number of pages: 4.... if only someone would tell them what to do,” said wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, about the throngs of Americans crowded around their radios listening to President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s inauguration on March 4th, 1933. He would be the 32nd President.
He had promised a recipe for recovery to the very same millions who’s’ president had abandoned them, and it made him an over-night sensation.
Charm and persuasion was what the citizens needed, not someone telling then that all hope was lost. “There is a duty on the part of the government to do something about this,” said F.D.R. He was in great opposition to Hoover’s .....
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