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Rock Music
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1238.... is Rock n' Roll of the 1950's, when Rock n'
Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, a music similar to jazz
played by blacks. This kind of music started to attract white teenagers.
Disc jockey Alan Freed was the one who introduced this music and later gave
it the name of Rock n' Roll. Record companies distributed records played by
whites but composed by blacks. Whites were frustrated because there weren't
any white artists and they didn't want the blacks to be the stars until
Bill Haley appeared with his "Rock Around the Clock". In this decade, Elvis
Presley introd .....
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Reasons, Causes And Details Of Plantation Slavery
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1756.... the indentured servants, colonist could not make as much money since they relied on them to do their work. With the idea of slaves, the colonists knew that slaves could be the next source of labor on their plantations.
Before slaves came into the picture, indentured servants were the only source of labor colonists had. The population of indentured servants was decreasing because of many factors. They were running away from the masters, dying from diseases. When word of the treatment of indentured servants was heard in England less people wanted to become indentured servant .....
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The Colonial Economy
Number of pages: 12 | Number of words: 3290.... were initially imported from Europe. They dressed like Europeans. Their religions were from the Old World. The governments they created were patterned after those in Europe; ultimately all were based on England's. In New England they followed the English pattern established in the Feudal period of farmers living in villages. Most of their trade was with England and other European countries, although they also traded with Asia and Africa.
For several decades their survival depended on imported goods, and they were unable to export enough to pay for them.. A century after coloni .....
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Government Lies From Vietnam
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2129.... themselves became targets of FBI and CIA investigations. There was no way that African-Americans were going to support a war that not only needlessly harmed citizens, but also put a damper on there own fight for justice. Just a few years before the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the CIA had failed miserably with their attempted invasion of the Bay of Pigs.
The government’s need to lie can be summed up by Victor Zorza in his Washington Post Article of November 1965: “In psychological warfare… the intelligence agencies of the democratic countries suffer from the grave disadvantage tha .....
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WWII: Why Did The U.S. Get Involved In The War?
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democracy, but to civilization itself. Other believed that Europe's wars were
no affairs of the U.S.
As the war progressed, the U.S. found itself getting involved. They
felt sympathy for the British after what happened at Dunkirk. They started
helping G.B. with weapons and food. 50 old American naval destroyers were sent
to Britain. Now it was clear the U.S. were on the Allies side but they still
weren't physically involved in the big war.
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the
American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Their aim was .....
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The Civil War
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1174.... "Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude . . . shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to
their jurisdiction." It seemed democracy had triumphed by giving freedom to
slaves, but the amendment was not complete. It only stopped slavery, and made
no provisions for citizenship; therefore, blacks were still not considered
United States citizens. The fourteenth amendment was the democratic expansion
that fixed that problem. Originally passed to "put a number of matters beyond
the control or discretion of the president," the amendment also made "All
persons b .....
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Noh Play Tsunemasa And Youchi Soga
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 675.... action of the assassination, Juro was killed by the Shogun’s soldiers and later Goro was also bound the soldiers.
In these two Noh plays, both protagonists also deal with the lives and sufferings of warriors. For example, according to the story of "Tsunemasa", Tsunemasa had been killed in the battle, so he was still suffering the woes that consuming him. Therefore, the priest performed a liturgy for the salvation of his soul. In the “Youchi Soga” play, the Soga brothers were also suffering the woe of losing their father. That woe forced them to take revenge on their father’ .....
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La Amistad
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1521.... the ship and reclaim their freedom. They have one goal: to return to Africa.
Without the navigational skills to guide them home, the Africans are forced to rely on the two surviving members of the crew. But they are tricked. After two months on a ragged course up the eastern seaboard, an American naval ship off the coast of Connecticut captures the Amistad and the Africans were charged with murder and piracy.
In the beginning, the Africans are championed by abolitionists Theodore Joadson (played by Morgan Freeman) and Lewis Tappan (played by Stellan Skarsgard), and a young rea .....
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