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  • The History of the Holocaust

    The History of the Holocaust

    The word Holocaust sounds familiar to all of us, but do we know the real meaning? Holocaust comes from the Greek words “holos”(whole) “kaustos”(burned). When we hear the word “Holocaust” it brings tragic thoughts to our mind, from what we have learned or if you’re a Holocaust survivor it’s what you have experienced. The History of the Holocaust: The Holocaust began in 1933,after a defeat in World War I, Germany was humiliated by the

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    Essay Length: 1,236 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2016
  • History of Lim Goh Tong

    History of Lim Goh Tong

    MGMT 351- Responsible Leadership Research on Lim Goh Tong Chiew Heng Jun 4550249 Tan Sri Dato Seri Lim Goh Tong ( 28 february 1918 - 23 october 2007 ) was well known for his vision and courage in developing an unexplored hilltop into the world class casino resorts- Genting Highlands. ( Genting Group, 2015 ) In the early years, Lim Goh Tong went through all kind of hardship. He was born in Fujian, China and

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    Essay Length: 978 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 1, 2016
  • Dbq for Ap Us History: Entry into Wwi

    Dbq for Ap Us History: Entry into Wwi

    DBQ: US Entry into WW1 American Politics had drastically shifted going into the twentieth century. Chiefly, matters dealing with domestic issues had been handled in whatever slow and trampled way they could. From the progressive trustbusting to foreign affairs, it was plain to see some alterations had taken place. American business, although still fraught with corruption, had taken off. Aside from numerous labor strikes, American sentiment was relatively high. America began their interest in WW1

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    Essay Length: 571 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 11, 2016
  • McDonald’s Corporation History

    McDonald’s Corporation History

    COMPANY OVERVIEW McDonald’s Corporation History The world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald in 1948. They reorganized their business as a hamburger stand using production line principles. Businessman Ray Kroc joined the company as a franchise agent in 1955. He subsequently purchased the chain from

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    Submitted: April 24, 2016
  • History of Bop

    History of Bop

    Courtney Rogers 11416249 History of Bop The first thing that come to my head when the word “bop” comes up is the popular band Kidz Bop. Although kids bop has no correlation to jazz music, it encompasses the same ideal, making music more interesting. As popular bandleader Ray Conniff said, "If you believe in your art & you love what you do, that energy will go out & people will respond." Music was erupting in

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    Essay Length: 841 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2016
  • Latin American History Crash Course

    Latin American History Crash Course

    Crash Course Quiz #1 1. The three institution controlled were the Spanish crown, the church, and patriarchy. The Spanish crown collected taxes on everything called the royal fifth. The church influenced people’s everyday lives. Patriarchy which made men in power and women are largely excluded from it. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was a 16-year-old girl who wrote poetry and books. She disguised herself as a boy that way she attends the university. However,

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    Essay Length: 547 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 15, 2016
  • The Ways in Which History Has Changed

    The Ways in Which History Has Changed

    The development of agriculture dramatically impacted gender roles. In hunter-gatherer societies, women had the important jobs of gathering food, and taking care of the children and the house. As agricultural villages developed, the role of gardening and farming turned into a man’s job, leaving the women to care for the children and the house. Now that families had settled down, women could have more children. The status of women decreased in this transition because they

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    Essay Length: 363 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 28, 2016
  • South Africa History

    South Africa History

    Question 4 Both texts, Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People and District 9 might be depicted as “unpleasant imaginary worlds”. July’s People portray the author’s judgement that the future consequences of Apartheid were not being taken into account. District 9, meanwhile, has this special feature of being a kind of documentary, or better to say, mockumentary, where Blomkamp shows a sci-fi Johannesburg that is having a sort of test period after realizing that District 9 is not

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    Essay Length: 585 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: June 3, 2016
  • The History and Impact of Photography

    The History and Impact of Photography

    SURNAME Rachel Hullender Kyle Hays English 24 March 2016 The History and Impact of Photography It's next to impossible to imagine a technology that impacted the twentieth century more than photography. The airplanes, nuclear power, automobiles were more prominent than photography, yet on a day-to-day term, photography was the most spread out. Photography is an art form that was developed in the 1830s but was publicly recognized a decade later. Before being considered an art

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    Essay Length: 1,434 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: July 24, 2016
  • Islam History

    Islam History

    Spread of Islam: Muhammad kicked from Mecca → 622 (hijra..pilgrimage), conquers Mecca, Kaaba (630), Five Pillars, Mansa Musa (Mali, goes to Mecca, brings Islamic learning to Mali), Ibn Battuta (hijra), universalizing religion like Buddhism, Christianity, Islam in North Africa, Dar al Islam (house of islam, spread of islam, by 711 Islam spread into India, Umayyad Dynasty: Territorial expansion, Dar al Islam, capital at Damascus, Arabic language, caliphates tolerate..tax on non muslims (jizya) Charles Martel: stops

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    Submitted: September 5, 2016
  • The New History Wars

    The New History Wars

    Diagnostic Essay: The new history wars The history wars are an ongoing public debate over the interpretation of the history.Multiple people think history is not being taught like it should be. Studying history allow us to understand everything that happened in the past and expand our knowledge. In this article the author talks about how history teachers don't teach the important facts of history and emphasize the negative aspects of the nation's history. However learning

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    Essay Length: 283 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: September 21, 2016
  • The Lego Group History

    The Lego Group History

    Lego is a line of plastic building blocks that are manufactured by The Lego Group. The company's main product, Lego, consists of colourful interlocking plastic bricks and a wide array of other parts, including gears, figurines and even programmable computer bricks. Lego pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct objects; vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make other objects.

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    Essay Length: 533 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: September 29, 2016
  • History of Native American

    History of Native American

    The document I select to annotate on is ‘An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States’ written by Angelina Grimke in 1837. This article was written to assert women’s right to fight for the emancipation of slaves oppressed in the free states and it also emphasised on the importance of equal rights for women to put their thoughts and beliefs into actions politically, domestically or socially. The article was directed to the Women

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    Essay Length: 3,015 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: October 3, 2016
  • The History of Drafting and the Equipment of the Craft

    The History of Drafting and the Equipment of the Craft

    The History of drafting equipment The History of Drafting and the Equipment of the Craft Jon M. Weinschrott CONT 106 Construction Blueprint Reading ________________ Abstract [The abstract should be one paragraph of between 150 and 250 words. It is not indented. Section titles, such as the word Abstract above, are not considered headings so they don’t use bold heading format. Instead, use the Section Title style. This style automatically starts your section on a new

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    Essay Length: 782 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: October 3, 2016
  • Men and Masculinities in History

    Men and Masculinities in History

    Men and Masculinities in History Introduction: History is the tool that brings past in our knowledge. The study of past events and behavior of human is known as history. But due to the biased nature of human based on sex creates a distinction which is women’s history that came to notion when this oppressed and marginalized group started thinking about their ways of liberation and achieving social, political and economic dignity. Today, women want to

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    Essay Length: 1,973 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: October 17, 2016
  • History of Race

    Dave St. Peter Reaction Paper Sam Boegeman SMGT 1701 The Minnesota Twins President Dave St. Peter visited our Sports Management class as a guest speaker. He came in to talk about the topic of how he landed a job in sports and what we can do to increase our chances. The purpose of this paper is to write about how Dave St. Peter answered my three questions and to summarize what I learned from him.

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    Essay Length: 939 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: October 17, 2016
  • The History of Newcastle Under Lyme

    The History of Newcastle Under Lyme

    Karina Bartlam “Between 1st and 19th century AD Newcastle under Lyme was more important locally than nationally.” Explain how far you agree with this statement. The romans first invaded Britain in AD43; with them they brought the roman road construction. They constructed a network of main road throughout Britain that ran through all of the major towns and cities for trading and supplies. These roads had forts placed at 10 mile intervals that the army

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    Essay Length: 1,995 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: October 20, 2016
  • Bibliography on Music History

    Bibliography on Music History

    Bibliography: 1. Kelly, Thomas Forrest. Music Then and Now. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. In this book, it tells a full extension introduction of western music which explained the origin of the music, the composer’s life experience, the understanding of the music and so on. Which I reference is one chapter talking about Claudio Monteverdi and his opera. I use this reference when I mention the background of Monteverdi when he

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    Essay Length: 721 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: October 20, 2016
  • 1450-1650 Turning Point in European History

    1450-1650 Turning Point in European History

    The period from 1450 to 1650 can be considered a turning point in European history because of European economic growth, colonization, and greater diversity in religion and culture. If Europe had not had the Age of Discovery, Europe may have perished due to lack of resources. Thanks to Europe’s exploration and colonization of the Americas, Europe was able to gain wealth, desired resources, and they were able to spread their culture and ideas. Economic growth

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    Essay Length: 415 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: October 22, 2016
  • Cadbury's History

    Cadbury's History

    John Cadbury,the Cadbury's owner, came from a family that was regarded as a wealthy Quaker family, and as a Quaker in the 19th century, he was not legally allowed to pursue a traditional career. Because of that, John was left with the option of going into business. In 1824, John opened a small one-man grocery shop in Birmingham and in 1931 started the manufacturing of chocolate and cocoa drinks, partly because as a Quaker he

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    Essay Length: 665 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 7, 2016
  • History of Aesthetics

    History of Aesthetics

    A estética não é um adjectivo mas sim uma disciplina. Nietzsche 1844-1900 séc. XIX : “Estamos sós com tudo aquilo que amamos”, Novales Procura a experiência da estética da vida. Cria a relação entre a arte e a vida. O trágico é o tema central, pois no fenómeno trágico o filosofo percebe a natureza da vida e do pensamento, tornando uma categoria da estética. Ao definirmos a natureza da vida e do pensamento como trágico,

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    Essay Length: 950 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2016
  • A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters by Julian Barnes

    A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters by Julian Barnes

    A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters by Julian Barnes is a novel which consists of 10 chapters. Barnes tries to show us his view and ideas of human history. The book starts with the chapter named “The Stowaway”. It is an alternative interpretation of the biblical story of Noah's Ark. The narrator is a woodworm which was not permitted onboard and was the stowaway during the voyage. I was intrigued by the

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    Essay Length: 516 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2016
  • Idea on the New Sat Framework of Us Ap History

    Idea on the New Sat Framework of Us Ap History

    College Board introduced a new framework for its AP U.S History exam to the public in 2007. Since then, the applicability of this new framework has been controversially and hotly debated. The College Board is convinced that this new AP U.S History exam would not only internationalize the teaching of US history by considering multiple perspectives on a historical issues but also augment teachers’ flexibility by offering them a seven-page “Learning objective”. On the other

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    Essay Length: 908 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2016
  • To Inform About the History and Meaning of the Aztec Calendar

    To Inform About the History and Meaning of the Aztec Calendar

    OUTLINE FORMAT Topic: The Aztec Calendar By: Alisa Vasquez Purpose: To inform about the history and meaning of the Aztec Calendar. Thesis: The Aztec calendar is the calendar system that was used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. Organizational Pattern: Topical pattern 1. Introduction 1. How many of you would like to celebrate your birthday more often? 2. You could if you were a Mixtec man from a thousand

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    Essay Length: 755 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2016
  • History, Ch. 1 Reading & Discussion Questions

    History, Ch. 1 Reading & Discussion Questions

    Name: _____________________________ Doing History, Ch. 1 Reading & Discussion Questions Answer the following questions based on the reading in your own words. Any direct quotes from the reading need to be in quotation marks with the page noted. 1. Responding to the section on “what history is not,” do you think that history repeats itself or that there are constants in history? Have you heard any misconceptions about history from friends or family members or

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    Submitted: January 25, 2017

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