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Lynchings In America
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 841.... lynched their own. It is for this reason that Mr. Schwarz believes lynchings cannot be explained only in terms of racism and paranoid "white psyche". To find the true reason, we must consider a different point of view. According to Mr. Schwarz, in the late 19th century, there arose in the South a large proportion of transient black men who, as their labor became expendable in an increasingly industrial and commercial economy, adopted a life of crime. In the article, Mr. Schwarz writes, "There, loosened from the traditional controls of the black family and community, many .....
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The Salem Witch Trials
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1736.... Worship, have undergone the Annoyance of Evil spirits. Go tell the world, What Prays can do beyond all Devils and Witches, and What it is that these Monsters love to do; and through the Demons in the Audience of several standers-by threatned much disgrace to thy Author, if he let thee come abroad, yet venture That, and in this way seek a just Revenge on Them for the Disturbance they have given to such as have called on the Name of God.
Rebecca Nurse
Goody Nurse was a highly regarded, pious pillar of the community who unfortunately could not withstand the power of hysteria. Th .....
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How People Interacted With Eac
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 993.... France, Germany, Spain and England (Renaissance 30).
In the nineteenth-century England and Wales were
divided into fifty-two counties. In this century the
English hunted foxes (Pool 24). The middle of London, known
as “The City”, dropped from one hundred twenty-eight
thousand to fifty thousand, while the rest of London grew
from one million to four and a half million. In London the
fancy area was the West End. The East End was full of
poverty and misery (Pool 28).
The 1950s, which followed World War II, were part of
the Truman Years and Eisenhower Yea .....
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How Did Mao Change The Face Of
Number of pages: 14 | Number of words: 3678.... At the end of the war with Japan in 1945, Soviet troops had dismantled about half the machinery in the major industrial areas of the northeast and shipped it to the Soviet Union. Transportation, communication, and power systems had been destroyed or had deteriorated because of lack of maintenance. Agriculture was disrupted, and food production was some 30 percent below its highest pre-war level. Further, economic deficites were compounded by one of the most virulent inflations in world history.
The main aim the government under the leadership of Mao was to restore the .....
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Irish In America
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1221.... Ireland." The Irish farmers did have other crops and livestock but they were all shipped to England as rent for the landlords. Without the rent money the starving Irish would not even have a home (Considine 50). In the years to come, hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants saved all the money they could to send a family member on the journey across the Atlantic. It was their pain and suffering which powered them and gave them the strength to survive. The ships were overcrowded with immigrants, where disease and hunger followed them and many more died on the journey. Upon a .....
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Atomic Bomb
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1983.... as a weapon to release an awesome burst of power. Szilard knew that this knowledge was now in the wrong hands of the enemy Germans.
On a July day in 1939 Szilard and his associate, Edward Teller, drove to the Long Island home of Albert Einstein to alert him of their findings. Einstein used his political influence by immediately writing a letter to President Roosevelt explaining the consequences of the Germans creating an . His letter read, "I believe, therefore, that is my duty to bring to your attention that it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a larg .....
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Bell Hooks
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 824.... challenge. The transition is also hard on them. They want to fit in and hide their past, but at the same time, they do not want to lose sight of their upbringings. Hooks felt that she was an outsider in college, because she herself came from an underprivileged background, while most of her peers came from privileged backgrounds. Hooks states, “I did not intend to forget my class background or alter my class allegiance”(88), but she felt that in order to succeed, she must change who she was. Society, peers, and educators make assumptions that label the underpri .....
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China Cities' Great Progress' In Manned Space Program By Daniel Southerland
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 408.... June 5 of this year, Sun Jiadong, vice minister of astronautics,
told reporters that China would put a man into space but that such a
program "must be worked out gradually in keeping with our needs and
capabilities." A foreign observer who has followed the Chinese space
program said it could still be a few years before China puts a man into
orbit. The People's Daily report did not say how many astronauts are being
trained or exactly when they might go into space. The Chinese have appeared
to be working for several years on problems associated with building a
space shuttle. A h .....
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