William Howard Taft Born: 9/15/1857 Birthplace: Cincinnati‚ Ohio William Howard Taft was born in Cincinnati on Sept. 15‚ 1857. A Yale graduate‚ he entered Ohio Republican politics in the 1880s. In 1886 he married Helen Herron. From 1887 to 1890‚ he served on the Ohio Superior Court; 1890–92‚ as solicitor general of the United States; 1892–1900‚ on the federal circuit court. In 1900 McKinley appointed him president of the Philippine Commission and in 1901 governor general. Taft had great success
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Name: John Kindley | Class: GH AP Y (Even) | Date: November 3rd‚ 2012 | Chapter 12‚ Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas‚ 200 - 1500 | Pages 306 - 331 | | Classic-Era Culture and Society in Mesoamerica‚ 200 - 900: | | * Remarkable civilization created | | * Different language + politics‚ but unified by material culture‚ religious beliefs + practices‚ and social structure | Classic Period | * Classic period (built upon Olmec and other civilizations) | | * Social
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AND HUMAN PROGRESS A People’s History of the United States is a book written by Howard Zinn‚ whose purpose is not to introduce someone to American History. He assumes his readers already know the basics. Of course‚ many people do not. It is not a history of the United States but it is a series of contentious corrections to the history traditionally taught in American classrooms. Zinn presents the major historical facts of the first 250 years of American history starting from when Christopher Columbus’s
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What does Zinn say about Columbus? Does he think we should honor him? Howard Zinn gives a very negative first=impression on Christopher Columbus. Although students learn about Christopher Columbus throughout school‚ the whole truth is not told. Schools give students the perception that Christopher Columbus did all good and no evil. However‚ Zinn gives the reader a totally different perspective. Zinn talks about how Columbus murdered mass numbers of Indians without second thought in order to fulfill
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The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow John C. Maxwell Chapter 1: Be a Piece of the Rock “Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.” -Bernard Montgomery- “Never “for the sake of peace and quiet” deny your own experience or convictions.” -Dag Hammarskjold- Putting it all on the Line Bill Lear Inventor‚ aviator‚ and business leader Held more
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Chapter 5 Assessment Vocabulary 1.fresco- watercolor paintings done on wet plaster. 2.strait- narrow water passages. 3.aristocracy- rule by a landholding elite. 4.tyrant- people who gained power by force. 5.alliance- a formal aggreement between two nations or powers. 6.direct democracy- Citizens participate in goverment indirectly through elected representatives. 7.jury- panel of people who have the authority to make the final judgment. 8.logic- rational thinking. 9.tragedy- plays that told stories
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Introduction The purpose of the following paper is to explain California’s Proposition 21. This writer will explain the pros and cons about this proposition; as well as what voters voted for when they chose “yes” for this proposition. Research will be done in order to explain what the reasoning for Proposition 21‚ and the changes that occurred when it enacted in the State of California. The following information will be provided as well; prosecution of juveniles in adult court‚ juvenile incarceration
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interesting to read first chapter of American History‚ about Native American People; West Africa & Europe in fifteenth century; and Spanish conquest of America’s greatest empire. I always wondered why Native Americans are called Indians. Now I know after reading this chapter that Columbus gave them the name ‘Indians’ as he mistakenly believed he sailed westward all the way to Asia. As the first Americans believed to have come from Asia‚ so unknowingly his theory was right too. This chapter focuses on Native
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Fort Sumter - In 1861‚ that spark occurred at Fort Sumter‚ a federal outpost in Charleston‚ South Carolina ‚ that was attacked by Confederate troops‚ beginning the Civil War. Determined to seize the fortress -- which controlled the entrance to Charleston harbor -- the Confederates ringed the harbor with heavy guns. Border States - Wedged between the North and the South were the key border states of Delaware‚ Kentucky‚ Maryland‚ and Missouri -- slave states that did not join the confederacy. Kentucky
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A fragment of Pliny’s Natural History from book XXI Sections XXI. XV. 28 –XVII 31. To Book XXI. XIX . 40—XX.43 In the recent discover I made‚ I found few pages of the Natural History by Pliny the Elder，the very first thing that Pliny the Elder described in the section we found is a plant called baccar or what we called nard. And the scent from baccar is similar to the smell of cinnamon‚ which the scent only comes from the root of baccar. The root has been used to produce a kind of urguent
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