quickly‚ however‚ this meant that the conflict between slave and free states continued to rise as well. Because of this‚ the Mexican American war only escalated the high tensions; the question of what was to be done with the possible acquisition of an extremely large territory was posed‚ in regards to the balance of slave and free states. Abolitionist saw that the war posed an extreme threat to this balance‚ and would only expand slavery to the land that would be acquired. Henry Clay‚ a senator‚ expressed
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Let’s Face it! We are at war with the Nazi Germany. Today‚ we have listened with patience when the King was giving his speech on the radio to millions of listeners in the British Empire. Our country wanted to find a peaceful way out of the conflict with the enemies‚ but it is unbearable. According to the news‚ the Nazi Germany had already invaded Poland. The ambassador of our country had handed a final note to the government of Germany‚ informing them that a state of war would exist between us unless
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In her lecture “War and Photography‚” Susan Sontag discusses the role of photographs in raising awareness about human rights issues while simultaneously looking at the effectiveness of graphic images. She asks her audience to engage with how they respond to images that are a result of “concerned photography‚” and how those images impact their understanding and memory of the human rights event. Sontag also grapples with how shocking images lose their effectiveness over repeated viewings‚ or over the
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Moving on‚ in 1898‚ the Spanish American War came into existence under the leadership of President William McKinley. A few years before McKinley came into office‚ Cuba attempted to overthrow Spanish colonial rule‚ and in return‚ the Spanish rulers started using harsh policies that included concentration camps. The rebels received financial assistance from private U.S. interests and used America as a base of operations from which to attack. McKinley originally tried to avoid an armed conflict with
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Tomorrow When The War Began‚ a novel by John Marsden looks at the ‘what if’ question. What would happen if Australia actually was invaded? In this book Ellie and her friends are made to ‘grow up quickly’ and act maturely like adults. In the book Tomorrow When The War Began‚ by John Marsden‚ Ellie‚ Homer‚ Lee‚ Kevin‚ Corrie‚ Robyn and Fiona Maxwell were forced to go way outside their comfort zones. This was because of the exceptional circumstances that were thrust upon them. At the start of the
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I love history. Let’s just put it there. There is more to history than war and fame. There are the stories of ordinary people and the stories of the countries in their so called “boring times”. History does go on when we aren’t looking‚ that is just one of the rules of time. There also is always something interesting happening in these unseen eras. A great example of this is the pre-Civil War America. Here our country was in a state of unstable unity and it‚ like a radioactive atom‚ wanting to decompose
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Sun Zi’s Art of War is the oldest Chinese military classic in Chinese literature and the most well-known Chinese military treatise in the eastern and western world. It is written by Sun Zi who is also known as Sun Wu around the 400-320 B.C. and thus‚ now‚ the book which consisted of 13 chapters and about 6‚200 words written in classical Chinese is over 2‚400 years old today. The 13 chapters are as follows: 1. Detailed assessment and planning‚ 2. Waging war‚ 3. Strategic attack‚ 4. Disposition of
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In this article‚ “Patterns of Development and Nationalism: Basque and Catalan Nationalism before the Spanish Civil War”‚ Juan Diez Medrano analyses the development and rise of nationalism in both the Basque County and Catalonia. Medrano developed two different hypotheses to support his argument. He first argues that‚ “traditionalist and separatist political nationalism was more intense in the Basque County than in Catalonia because Catalan peasantry and pre-industrial elites were better able to
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“I got hurt in the war‚” I said(24) In this quote‚ the information presented is that Jake got hurt during the war. This quotation means that Jake got hurt in the war and the implication of this quote is that because of the injury that Jake suffered during the war‚ he is unable to have sexual relationships with females. This evokes my sympathy for Jake because he is such a nice and standup guy‚ but he is unable to be in a relationship with the girl he loves because of his physical
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What would you do if a 20 feet tall alien stepped in front of you? Would you fight for the sake of humanity? Or run‚ like the coward so many of us are? In "War of the Worlds" Ray Bradbury talks about martians invading the Earth. While in "Zero Hour" H.G. Wells tell a dynamic story about how aliens manipulate children into invading the Earth. "War of the Worlds‚ and "Zero Hour" are both the same and different in the way of setting‚ characters‚ and events. These two stories have different aged characters
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