Papers on History
J.P. Morgan
Words: 4934 - Pages: 18.... yachtsman, and ladies' man. He was king to a handful of millionaire barons who controlled the country's wealth in an era of little government regulation. The wealth of the Morgan family did not begin with Pierpont but with his grandfather Joseph Morgan. Joseph prospered as a hotelkeeper in Hartford, Connecticut. He helped to organize a canal company, steamboat lines and the new railroad that connected Hartford with Springfield. Finally he became one of the founders of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company. Joseph's first son was Junius Spencer Morgan, also destined for the life of a businessman. He spent a number of years as a dry-goods .....
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Charles Darwin
Words: 676 - Pages: 3.... Henslow recommend that Darwin take the position on a British Navy survey ship in 1831. Darwin traveled around the world on the H.M.S. Beagle. His job was to make observation on plants and animals found in the places where the ship docked.
Darwin was fond of the Galapagos Islands, in South America. The Galapagos Islands is where he found that each island had a different kind of marine iguana, tortoise and different kinds of finch. Darwin observed that in each of the different islands that the related species adapted differently to its island.
In 1836 Darwin returned to England. When Darwin returned to England he studied the information .....
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Indian Imperialism
Words: 440 - Pages: 2.... quality of life.
Indian economy was transferred into a colonial economy whose nature and structure was determined by the needs of the British economy. High revenue demands and rigid manners of collection forced peasants into the clutches of the moneylenders. Expanding population put greater pressure on land as there was no corresponding development of industry. India "inherited" from Britian a cheap and easy system of transport was important for the flow of British ready made goods and the export of raw material to Britain on large scale. Roads were improved and steam ships were introduced. But real improvement came with the railways which .....
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Prohibition In The 1920's
Words: 1479 - Pages: 6.... associated with prohibition, the government needs to amend the eighteenth amendment so not to succumb to the values of the religious sects behind the prohibition movement.
Since Congress ratified the eighteenth amendment as least one billion dollars a year is lost to the National Government in excise taxes. Part of this money, once intended for the government to spend on schools and roads, now falls into the hands of bootleggers, who are illegally smuggling alcohol into the U.S. The remainding funds are given in forms of bribes to local officials so they can look the other way as bootleggers smuggle their contraband through state lin .....
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Democracy -- Good Or Bad
Words: 659 - Pages: 3.... This is an example of Aristotle's feared democracy – selfish rule by the poor and needy. Aristotle promoted instead, government by constitution -- rule by many heading to the needs of the state instead of striving for personal gain. The founding fathers of the United States heeded Aristotle's advice realizing the fallibility of the general population, thus starting our country as a Republic. A republic is similar to a mixture of both aristocracy and constitutional government. It uses the good qualities of each and attempts to shirk off the possibility of perversion mentioned by Aristotle.
This situation is not only an example of the pe .....
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Atomic Bomb 4
Words: 834 - Pages: 4.... a direct or indirect effect on almost every man, woman and child on this Earth. The United States of America dropped the atomic bomb in hope of shortening World War Two, saving of thousands of military lives and making the Untied States of America look more powerful then ever.
President Truman had decided to go ahead and test the bomb in New Mexico. After the test went well, Truman Had decided to drop the Bomb on Hiroshima. It was a good idea for dropping the atomic bomb because, that decision saved thousand of military lives. After the bomb was dropped, people did not have to worry about the Japan bombing us any more because we sto .....
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Mining In Canada
Words: 1920 - Pages: 7.... over 70 per cent of the mines are owned by Canadians and approximately 108,000 Canadians are directly employed in the mining industry4. Mining is very important in Canadian life. Not only do the products power the family car and heat the family home, the manufacturing sector, the high tech industries and even the better known resource industries are all dependent, in some way, on the mining industry. The mining industry will continue to be an important support to the economy. Mining is taking full advantage of the quick expansion of computers and microelectronics. These technologies are found in nearly every aspect of mineral development act .....
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Britain And America Revolution
Words: 719 - Pages: 3.... First, the traditional liberties of Britain were considerably different from the political and social origins of America. From the beginning, America developed different character than its Mother Country of Great Britain. In New England, where the seeds of revolution were sown, merchants used their shipping trade to defy English duties on sugar. As a result of this, additional troops were sent to the colonies to enforce British laws. Later, when the Quartering Act was passed, Americans complained against not only the taxation, but also an infringement on their rights of property. Before the conflict between Britain and France ove .....
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Alexander's Empire
Words: 1857 - Pages: 7.... of dour peasants and landowning warriors. The language was Greek, but so
tainted by barbarian strains that Athenians could not understand it. Macedonia
remained an outland. Growth of trade in the early fourth century promoted the
rise of several cities, yet when Perdiccas III, king of Macedonia, fell in 359
B.C. while fighting the Illyrians the seaboard of his state was largely under
Athenian control or in the hands of the Chalcidian league, grouped about
Olynthus.
Philip (382-36), brother of the dead king, was made regent for the infant
heir, soon set aside his nephew, and became outright king.
Once power was his, the young mon .....
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Chernobyl 3
Words: 448 - Pages: 2.... the amount of traditional natural resources (fossil fuels), used to generate power like coal, wood, and oil, nuclear generating plants have become anachronisms. Maintaining them and keeping them safe has become a problem of immense proportion. As the plants age and other technology becomes available, what to do with these “eyesores” is a consuming issue for many government agencies and environmental groups. No one knows what to do about the problem and in many areas of the world, another nuclear meltdown is an accident waiting to happen. Despite a vast array of safety measures, a break in reactor pipe or a leak in a containment vessel, .....
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