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La Amistad 2
Words: 579 / Pages: 3 .... the slaves and sailed instead to the coast of America. The slaves had no knowledge of navigation, and since they could not speak or understand Spanish, they had no real way of communicating with the crew except for gestures, which were normally violent. Not knowing that they had been tricked, the ringleader of the slaves, Cinque, took a boatload of slaves ashore and unloaded. They refilled their water buckets, which had recently been emptied. One of the men on the ship catches their attention and they see another ship coming up along side of theirs. They jump in their boat and row back to their ship. They are captured and taken to shore. They are thro .....
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Slavery
Words: 511 / Pages: 2 .... although Aristotle went so far as to suggest that faithful slaves might be freed in reward for loyal service. With few acceptions, slaves in ancient Greece were humanely treated. More typically, slaves were employed in domestic serves, in trades, as laborers on country estates, and as seamen and oarsmen. Where they were employed in private domestic service, it was not uncommon to find them on friendly terms with their masters.
Roman was differed in several important aspects from that of ancient Greece. Roman masters had more power over their slaves, including, by law, the power of life and death. was also far more necessary to the economy .....
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Roosevelt
Words: 599 / Pages: 3 .... prophets shine as brightly
through the shroud of mythology and time as the ones of old?
In 500 years - providing anyone is still alive to care - a few men and
women will stand out against the haze of time and represent the twentieth
century. If there is a group, among them will be at least man involved in
World War II. Roosevelt, Churchill, Tojo and Hitler -especially Hitler -
are all candidates for the group because of their involvements in the
bloodiest wars of the twentieth century. In this world,blood is a hard
thing to forget about. Which ones, and in what light they'll be remembered
in depends entirely on the biases of historians and .....
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The Sedition Act Of 1798
Words: 2337 / Pages: 9 .... that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival
parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the
rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior
force of an interested and overbearing majority_" Public perception of
factions were related to British excesses and thought to be "the mortal
diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished." James
Madison wrote in Federalist Papers #10, "By a faction, I understand a
number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the
whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of
interest, a .....
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Prelude To Revolution
Words: 351 / Pages: 2 .... act was repealed by the British Parliament on
March 4, 1766, after the members of the House of Commons heard the
arguments of Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania’s representative in London.
The conflict between the colonists and British government over the Stamp
Act is often considered one of the chief immediate causes of the American
Revolution.
The Boston Tea Party was a famous event that took place on December
16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party was when a group of Bostonians led by Samuel
Adams, dressed up as Native Americans boarded the vessel carrying 342
chests of tea and them all overboard. The Boston Tea Party had many
consequences. It led the w .....
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Masters Of The Vineese School
Words: 711 / Pages: 3 .... system. He stayed with the family for almost thirty years. After leaving the Esterhazy family in1791 he visited England twice with great success. Franz Joseph Haydn died in Vienna in 1809.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 in Austria. Mozart was a child prodigy. At the age of 5 he composed his first minuets and at age six he performed before the Empress Maria Therese. In 1763, led by his father Leopold, Mozart went on tour to Paris and London, visiting many courts and also played for the French and English royal families. He composed his first symphony in 1765 and three years later his first opera. Although his career had much p .....
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Earthquake San Francisco- 1906
Words: 400 / Pages: 2 .... but the waves flew the boats around like toys.
The buildings were made out of unreined forced brick or wood which
couldn't withstand a earthquake of that magnitude.
After the earthquake, they noticed that the San Andreas Fault
shifted a 250-mile long section witch tore roads and fences. Rivers,
roads and power lines were severed and not aligned with its surroundings.
A road across the fault ended up 21 feet north of the road to the east
same with the rivers and creeks.
The earthquake's most damage were in Los Bonas 30km east of the
fault yet there was little damage along towns to the east side of San
Francisco Bay such as Berkely, 25km eas .....
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Quest For Fire
Words: 415 / Pages: 2 .... are captured by another more advanced tribe (everyone in the area seems to be evolving at a different rate). In the tribe, they meet the girl who they saved earlier and one of them fell in love with the girl. They also learn how to make fire on their own. The three men and the girl flee one day and return to the small island where their tribe is. The people of their tribe are very excited about their return and they are even more exciting when they learn that they can make fire by themselves. From now on, human¡¦s life is no more depends on God¡¦s favor. They can manage their own life.
In spite of causing me nearly to vomit, this movie has some go .....
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British Rule Of The American Colonies
Words: 1495 / Pages: 6 .... the colonies commerce to internal trade only(Miller 9). The English were exploiting the colonies by demanding that the colonies import more from England then they exported to the colonies. They were importing raw materials from the colonies and making them into exportable goods in England. They would then ship these goods to foreign markets all around the world including the colonies(America Online ). Throughout the seventeenth century the English saw America as a place to get materials they didn’t have at home and a market to sell finished products at after the goods had been manufactured. This was detrimental to the colonies because it pr .....
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Nixon Vs. Kennedy Election 1960
Words: 708 / Pages: 3 .... Nixon their full support throughout the election, however Nixon refused their help and chose to go out on his own. Nixon was a suspicious man who trusted no one, this suspicion caused him to appear older than he really was and cost him votes from the TV. audience. Running for Vice President along with Nixon was Henery Cabot Lodge. Lodge was a politician fro Massachusetts who opposed John F. Kennedy in the 1952 Massachusetts senatorial election. John F. Kennedy, was a Democrat from the south. He came from a very wealthy family and in 1952 became a Massachusetts Senator. Kennedy was young, good looking and inexperienced compared to the Vice Presi .....
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