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The New Deal
Words: 1967 - Pages: 8.... That is why the economy did not fall to pieces, although the main reason for the United States getting out of the depression was WWII.
The economy was doing great prior to the stock market crash. People were investing and the country was on the rise. But with such problems as bad investments, bad income distribution, bad banking, bad foreign trade, and over-expansion of credit the stock market crashed and the U.S. was heading to a depression. One of the first Acts to affect the economy was the Emergency Banking Relief Act. This act authorized the Federal Reserve Board to issue more currency. It prohibited a rivate hoarding of go .....
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Compare And Contrast Essay Of
Words: 3103 - Pages: 12.... a study of ideal states in some abstract form, but rather as an examination of the way in which ideals, laws, customs, and property interrelate in actual cases. He thus approved the contemporary institution of slavery but tempered his acceptance by insisting that masters should not abuse their authority, since the interests of master and slave are the same. It seemed to Aristotle that the individual's freedom of choice made an absolutely accurate analysis of human affairs impossible. "Practical science," then, such as politics or ethics, was called science only by courtesy and analogy. The inherent limitations on practical science are made .....
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Bosnia-Hercegovina
Words: 1273 - Pages: 5.... tions. What follows is a historical/heraldic account,
pieced together from these sources, and a few encyclopedias. Bosnia was
dominated alternatively by Serbia and, from the 12th c. onward, by Croatia
(in personal union with Hungary) until the early 14th c. Typically, the
king of Hungary and Croatia appointed bans, or local governors; and, in
typical medieval fashion, these bans took advantage of any weakness of the
central monarchy to carve out territories for themselves.
In the early 14th c., the ban of Croatia was Pavao (Paul) Subic of
Brebir or Breberio (a town in Dalmatia which was given to the family in
1222): his father and g .....
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Alfred Stieglitz
Words: 1895 - Pages: 7.... later meet Hedwig Warner and they would have their first son, Alfred. Alfred was the first of six born to his dad Edward and mom Hedwig. As a child Alfred was remembered as a boy with thick black hair, large dark eyes, pale fine skin, a delicately modeled mouth with a strong chin (Peterson 34). In 1871 the Stieglitz family lived at 14 East 60th street in Manhattan. No buildings stood between Central Park and the Stieglitz family home. As Stieglitz got older he started to show interest in photography, posting every photo he could find on his bedroom wall. It wasn't until he got older that his photography curiosity begin to take charge of his .....
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Industrial Revolution 3
Words: 3927 - Pages: 15.... first two of these coal and iron provided the capital infrastructure and options for future development, whilst textiles supported and encouraged developments. Coal was originally mined by small group’s even families, using the long wall system. * SEE DIA 1. This technique was changed dramatically with the invention of the Commen engine. * SEE DIA 2. (named after its inventor THOMAS NEWCOMMEN) This was a pump that pumped the water out of coalmines allowing deeper more productive mines to be worked by more people. [This in turn had effects on the production of iron]
In the early 1700s iron was produced by burning vast quantities of wood. .....
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Ancient Babylon
Words: 1287 - Pages: 5.... interest rates. There was a political economy based on economic status. The wealthy classes were the creditors and the poorer class was the debtors.
After the Commercial Law came the Penal Law. This had to do with the issue of crime. The laws were unusually harsh do to their ineducation. Despite this the wealthy class usually enjoyed more freedom from the law than the lower classes. There was no jury in the court back in the times of Babylon. The code of Hammurabi was like an eye for an eye punishment. If you killed someone than you would be killed.
The last law was the Law of Procedures. This dealt with the way all of the other laws were ca .....
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The Aztecs
Words: 1399 - Pages: 6.... today a collective name applied to all the peoples linked by trade, custom, religion, and language to these founders.
Fearless warriors and pragmatic builders, ruthlessly created an empire during the 15th century that was surpassed in size in the Americas only by that of the Inca in Peru. As early texts and modern archaeology continue to reveal, beyond the violence of their conquests and many of their religious practices, there were more positive achievements: the formation of a highly specialized and stratified society and an imperial administration; the expansion of a trading network as well as a tribute system; the development and mainte .....
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Dazed And Confused
Words: 862 - Pages: 4.... hard rock classics to a pair of statues painted to look like members of KISS. The drug and alcohol use is matter-of-fact. The production design had to be perfect, and it is. Anyone who can't quite recall a time when sex was safe and far fewer kids "just said no" should take a look just for the sake of historical accuracy.
It is directed by Richard Linklater and stars a cast of complete unknowns. This 1993 sleeper leads us through a day in the life of a loosely-aligned group of seniors and freshmen at a high school in suburban Texas. What happens?
It's 1976, school's out for the summer, and kids in pickup trucks and convertibles are cruisin .....
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Reform Judaism In The 19th Cen
Words: 967 - Pages: 4.... different belief in Judaism which differed significantly from previous
tenents. It started during the time of the French revolution, a time
when European Jews were (for the first time) recognized as citizens of
the countries in which they lived in. Ghettos were being abolished,
special badges were no longer required and Jews could dress the way
they wanted, settle were they pleased and work the occupations they
desired.
Many Jews settled outside of Jewish districts, and began to
live like their neighbors and speak the language of the land. They
went to public schools and began to neglect Jewish Studie .....
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The Civil War And Its Ending Of Slavery
Words: 1582 - Pages: 6.... temporarily settled the issue by establishing
the 36° 30' parallel as the line separating free and slave territory in the
Louisiana Purchase. Conflict resumed, however, when the United States boundaries
were extended westward to the Pacific. The Compromise Measures of 1850 provided
for the admission of California as a free state and the organization of two new
territories—Utah and New Mexico—from the balance of the land acquired in the
Mexican War. The principle of popular sovereignty would be applied there,
permitting the territorial legislatures to decide the status of slavery when
they applied for statehood.
Despite the Comp .....
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