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Shih Huang Ti
Words: 636 - Pages: 3.... from invading armies. Shih planned to make a great wall by extending and enlarging preexisting walls made by previous rulers. This "great" wall would serve as a barricade to keep out all tribes that wanted to invade China. It also served to separate the civilized acts of the farmers in China to the barbaric acts of the nomadic tribes. What Shih did not know was that the construction would cause many deaths and much suffering to the builders of the wall. The wall which Meng and his men created had watchtowers, forty feet tall, every two hundred yards. The purpose of these towers was to alert the defending soldiers of approaching, attacki .....
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The Salem Witch Trials
Words: 996 - Pages: 4.... and the children were usually very bored. If a little girl was
caught playing with a doll, she was to be sent to the minister for a long
talking-to, since even dolls were considered to play a part in witchery.
Many people believed that witchcraft was the use of magic powers,
generally to harm people or to damage their property. A witch they thought
was a person who believed to have received such powers from evil spirits,
such as the devil. Many people believed in witches because more than half
the people in the world assumed it was true.
People were certain that witches could harm their victims in
various ways. Such as, by giving them .....
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Federal Govt. Vs. States
Words: 473 - Pages: 2.... of the law. During Dartmouth College v. Woodward, he ruled that a state (or any party) could not cancel a contract without the consent of the other side. He struck again, in 1815, this time at the New York ferry monopoly by saying that the state could not regulate commerce on borders. Finally, in 1819, he stated that the bank was constitutional and that the federal law was supreme over the states, who had no right to tax it. In doing this, he sharply defined the rights of the states as subordinate to those of the nation’s. However, Marshall’s rulings did not last long. During the term of Andrew Jackson, the Bank was destroyed by .....
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New Jersey Vs. T.L.O.
Words: 340 - Pages: 2.... plastic bags, a substantial amount of money all in one dollar bills, and two letters that implies that she is a dealer. Mr. Choplick notified her mother and the police and told her mother to take her to the police headquarters. A New Jersey juvenile court admitted the evidence, saying that the search of the purse was reasonable under the standard of enforcing school policy and maintaining school discipline. The court found the student, T.L.O., to be a delinquent and sentenced her to a years probation. The appellate Division affirmed the courts decision that there had been no Fourth Amendment violation, T.L.O. appealed . The supreme court .....
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Kansas & Nebraska Act Resolved: The Kansas-Nebraska Act Was Fair
Words: 358 - Pages: 2.... period
of time all the population would be happy with the decision.
The 36-30 degree parallel was unfair because that was the only land up for
slavery. What if someone wanted to move above the 36-30 degree parallel?
Would they have to leave their slaves behind and hire workers?
Also the federal government just marked off land that slaves could be in.
Slaves are considered property and you can take property anywhere. That is
unfair because then they would have to leaves all their slaves behind.
Lastly people needed slaves to tend their farm. If the government just
marked off land where people owned slaves and said that the state is now
fr .....
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Causes Of Civil War
Words: 1814 - Pages: 7.... slaves from territories that might gbe aquired from Mexico. Kansas- Nebraska Act was the result of Douglas wanting to build railroads from Chicago to San Franciso. Douglas was a big believer in popular sovereignity, where the people have the right to decide if they want to be free of slave state, and he completely ignore the Missoure Compromise. The Compromise of 1850 stated that should be equal number of free and slave states. The Missouri Compromise said that any state above the latitude of 36 30' can not be a slave state. "Bleeding Kansas" was where people were fighting over the issue of slavery and cost many American Lives. The Californi .....
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Trigger Effect (movie Review)
Words: 625 - Pages: 3.... such a way that we have difficulty understanding the gradual rise in hostilities between the two parties, and begin to wonder if they themselves understand the discord.
After this apparent non-event, the couple go home. Matt and Annie (the couple, played by MacLachlan and Shue) awaken having lost operation of all household utilities, including television and radio. Annie discovers that their infant girl has another ear infection, so Matt goes to local pharmacy to get the child’s usual antibiotic. There, Matt is involved in yet another altercation.
He and Annie are soon joined by Joe (Mulroney), an old friend who brings rumor of looting a .....
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The American Civil War
Words: 2337 - Pages: 9.... & Co.,1894) and many wanted to see him removed. But Lincoln stood firm with his General, and the war continued. This paper will follow the happenings and events between the winter of 1864-65 and the surrender of The Confederate States of America. All of this will most certainly illustrate that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end of a tragedy.
CUTTING OFF THE SOUTH
In September of 1864, General William T. Sherman and his army cleared the city of Atlanta of its civilian population then rested ever so briefly. It was from there that General Sherman and his army began its famous "march to the sea". The march covered a distance of 400 miles and .....
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Into The Abyss Marquis De Sade
Words: 2616 - Pages: 10.... eventually evolved to a redefinition of morality in general. Prior, morality and social laws were frigid and prone to the dictums of the Church. Now, they were accountable to general society, and not the individual's demands. Voltaire writes, " Virtue and vice, moral good and evil, is then in any country what is useful or harmful to society…Virtue is the habit of doing those things which please men, and vice the habit of doing those things which displease men." Consequentially, virtue and vice were not set in stone decrees, but rather arbitrary notions assigned to the whims of society. This idea left no universal law of good and .....
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A "Golden Age" For Athens?
Words: 1305 - Pages: 5.... Athens regularly received tribute from the states it
controlled, Pericles, the leader of Athens, began a building project in
Athens that was legendary. Athens had been sacked by the Persians during
the Persian Wars and Pericles set out to rebuild the city. The city's
walls had already been rebuilt right after the end of the second Persian
War so Pericles rebuilt temples, public grounds, and other impressive
structures. One of the most famous structures to result from Pericles'
building project was the Parthenon. The Parthenon and other such
structures re-established Athens's glory and while some Athenians
criticized the projects a .....
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