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    Settlement of the West

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    Settlement of the West With the closing of the frontier and the turn of the 20th century‚ the west side of America was becoming heavily populated and settled in. For America this meant many resources were needed in order to accelerate the expansion of the west. The development of the west brought many problems. How would you transport goods‚ to and from the east? Before any settlements were possible‚ a means of easy transportation was essential. In 1862 the Pacific Railway Act was passed‚

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    occurred to those "unassuming‚ long suffering‚ unassertive and submissive" peoples of the Indies that "are with out without malice or guile‚ and are utterly faithful and obedient both to their own native lords and to the Spainards in whose service they now find themselves" (Las Casas‚ 10). As a god-fearing man of the priesthood‚ I utterly deplore the use of my Christian faith as a ruse of the Spaniards in the Indies to justify their agenda of greed and destruction. <br> <br>It is my personal inclination

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    Spanish occupation of the Indies. In A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies‚ Casas provides a scathing commentary on the cruelty exercised by the Spanish colonizers on the natives of Hispaniola—as well as explain the aims that motivated this behavior. The account acts as not only an observation on the practices of the colonizers‚ but is also a reflection of the imperial policies of the Spanish Empire. Through writing A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies‚ Casas aims at bringing

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    While the Old Testament verse Leviticus 25:44-46 was crucial in the biblical slavery debates‚ other verses were equally significant. A notable example being Exodus 21:20 which states “When a slave owner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately‚ the owner shall be punished.” Based on this verse southern proponents of slavery argued that the Bible’s acceptance of slavery was a given. In essence‚ if the Bible provided laws which regulated and allowed for the punishment

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    Slavery in America‚ especially in the South‚ was a very important way to support the United States economy. It was also the subject of a huge controversial debate between separate regions of the US. Not only was this the main way of life for many people‚ but it was also discrimination‚ selling Africans as a profit. Life as a Slave Living as a slave in the south had many harsh factors. They were needed for daily jobs such as farming‚ blacksmithing‚ carpentry and many other difficult ways of labor

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    Islam And The West

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    Islam and the West: Conflict‚ Democracy‚ Identity Akeel Bilgrami‚ Columbia University This short essay analyzes the deception and self-deception in talk of ‘the clash of civilizations’ and proceeds to diagnose what is wrong in the standard understanding of Islam in the Western media today by looking to the abiding history of colonial relations with Islam down to this day and also looking to the relation between ideals of democracy and the formation of religious identities. The essay closes with some

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    Aping the West

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    “APING THE WEST” Of late the trend has been to follow whatever is done in the west and it is becoming a sort of in-thing to be doing it.  Is it due to liberalization of economy that we are also attempting to liberalize our life style. Indians have started aping the west completely and the western influences can be clearly seen in our behavior‚ culture‚ attire and even language. Though to say‚ we are an independent nation but instead of promoting our culture‚ we are aping the west and one would

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    West Ham

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    The club was originally founded as Thames Ironworks F.C. in 1895 and was later reformed‚ in 1900 as West Ham United. They initially competed in the Southern League and Western League before joining the full Football League in 1919 and enjoyed their first top flight season in 1923‚ featuring in the first FA Cup Final to be held at Wembley that year against Bolton Wanderers. The club have won the FA Cup three times: in 1964‚ 1975 and 1980. They have also been runners-up twice‚ in 1923 and 2006. In

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    The Decline of the West

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    A: The Decline of the West af Kristoffer Lindegaard The capitalistic world was doing great‚ everyone was making money‚ and spending it like there was no tomorrow. Banks were lending people money to buy bigger houses‚ faster cars‚ and all other material things that an upper class family might need. Everything seemed perfect‚ until the financial world suddenly discovered that these methods weren’t sustainable and thus firing‚ and making no money available for lending anymore was needed. Mike‚ the

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    between 9 to 11 million people died before the voyages to the Americas (“How Many People Were Taken From Africa?”). The Africans had to endure many hardships throughout their trip to the Americas and some did not make it. The trek to the coast is considered to be more brutal than the voyage across the Middle Passage (“The Abolition of British Slavery”). Many people know about the slavery in America‚ but many do not know about the treatment and after effects of the slave trade at the source.

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