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Darwins Sea Change
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 583.... historian", or more importantly someone to keep him company.
It turned out that Charles Darwin was asked to join, and he accepted. He barely knew the captain but said "yes" anyhow. Darwin only lasted a year or so as the "natural historian", before he took over Robert McKormick's job. McKormick was the ship's naturalist, and did not get along with Darwin at all. When Darwin did take over (which did not take long), McKormick actually left the ship and went back to Britain. Even before Darwin became the naturalist, he did more then just eat dinner with the captain to keep him .....
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Holocaust 9
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1980.... witnessed death, and has himself of herself remained alive. The symptoms affected not only survivors, but their families as well. The symptoms included an inability to work, and even at times to talk. The Jewish people fear that it may happen again. Also a fear of uniformed police officers because of their position of power became very common. There were also many feelings
of guilt for having survived when others had not. "Why am I alive?" Why not
my sister and brother...my whole family?" The survivors had thoughts of
death, nightmares, panic attacks, and various other sym .....
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Aztec 2
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1395.... the Lady of the Skirt of Snakes. She was formed in the image of the unknown. Decorated with skulls, snakes, and mangled hands there were no cracks or openings in her body.Coatlique was first impregnated by a black knife and gave birth to Coyolxanuhqui, goddess of the moon, and to a group of male offspring, who became the stars. Then one day Coatlique found a ball of feathers, which she tucked into her chest. When she looked for it later, it was gone, at which time she realized that she was again pregnant. The moon and stars, her children did not believe her story .....
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Africa
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 573.... President, Bill Clinton, visited on April 3, 1998, to give spotlight to the efforts of this continent to reform their democracies, to give praise on their efforts in social and economic growth, and to ultimately promote a new relationship with . The residents of are hoping that with the President visiting, a new world of opportunities will be opened to them and that they will be partners insead of patros with the U.S.
Although the residents of Mozambique, Eritrea, Mali, and Ghana are nations with high poverty rates, much illiteracy, much mortality, few jobs, few s .....
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Mission Days Report
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1229.... California was to be a great journey and took much preparation. A man by the name of Jose Galvez was appointed inspector general of New Spain. Galvez carefully chose two men to lead the expedition. The first, Gaspar de Portola was to lead the soldiers. The second, Friar Junipero Serra, was to lead the Franciscan priests and teach the Indians about God. Many supplies were needed for the trip and for the future missions, such as horses, cattle, seeds to plant and tools to work with the land. The considerable amount of planning for the expedition was completed.
The trip .....
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Aquinas And Hobbes
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1049.... would be the existence of heaven and hell. Human's could not possibly reason the existence of heaven and hell, so they can only learn of it through God's revelations in the Bible.
Vernon Bourke analyzes Aquinas' moral psychology because he believes that it is an important basis for the Aquinas' entire philosophy and that it was an essential component of Aquinas' bringing Aristotelian ideas to the Christian world view. Bourke states that Aquinas' moral psychology can be broken down to three distinct human functions. The first function is intelligence. Bourke defines Aquinas' .....
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Civil War - Causes
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1949.... powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected the Northern manufacturer. It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods.
The North also wanted a good banking and currency system and federal subsidies for shipping and internal improvements. The South felt thes .....
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Industrial Revolution
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 951.... the same for thousands of years. By 1800 a host of new and faster processes were in use in both manufacture and transportation. Several systems of making goods had grown up by the time of the . In country districts families produced most of the supplies that they used, while in the cities merchandise was made in shops, and manufacturing was strictly regulated by the guilds and by the government. The goods made in these shops were limited and costly. The merchants needed cheaper items, as well as larger quantities, for their growing trade. They had to establish another system .....
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