Did NUS student get what he deserved for online rant? Debate rages over whether punishment for Sun Xu was adequate Published on Mar 30‚ 2012 FIRST‚ they wanted him punished. But now that the National University of Singapore (NUS) has meted out the punishment to the foreign student who made derogatory comments about Singaporeans‚ the debate has turned to whether justice has been done. Earlier this week‚ Mr Sun Xu was given an official reprimand‚ a $3‚000 fine‚ and an order to do three months
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The British are becoming a threat to the thirteen colonies and they have to fight against it. The colonists have been under the rule of Great Britain since the 1700s. But now the rule has started to collapse between the colonies now that they had been divided into three; Loyalists‚ Patriots and neutrals‚ who had different beliefes about the government. Some believe the Patriots should declare independence; however‚ they should not because they are not being taxed fairly and Great Britain is doing a
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In January 1919 leaders from the Allied countries met in Paris to decide on the peace terms they would offer to the central powers. Twenty- seven victorious Allied powers were present ‚ but the meetings were dominated by the ‘Big Three’ Britain‚ France and USA. Russia was not present because she was not trusted after the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 and had already made peace with Germany.The treaty of Versailles was created to cripple Germany so that they could not start another war. One
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President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head at ford’s theater. The assassination happened because John Wilkes Booth and his supporters did not agree with what freedom Lincoln had planned to give to the African Americans. African Americans during Lincoln’s presidency stood held under slavery in the confederate southern states and free in the union states but did not have equal rights as White people. So Lincoln’s first tasks was to save the union then he would set out to free all slaves . Freed
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Reaction : American colonists resented and opposed not because it meant they had to house British soldiers in their homes but because they were being taxed to pay for provisions and barracks for the army. The Townshend Acts 1767 The Townshend Acts were a number of laws passed
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Before 1763‚ the colonists of America were doing completely fine underneath the rule of the British Empire. Throughout the years many events took place that started an ideological struggle over the concept of government within North American colonies. The Writs of Assistance‚ Proclamation Line of 1763‚ and the British Army were the events that set in motion the resistance. However‚ the events the actually carried out their independence were‚ the Stamp Act‚ the Townshend Crisis‚ the Tea Act‚ Lexington
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Bradley W. McCorkle English 3 Honors Mrs. Colagross 24 May 2013 Formal Speech of “Animal Farm” By: George Orwell Old Major‚ a prize-winning boar‚ gathers the animals of the Manor Farm for a meeting in the big barn. He tells them of a dream he has had in which all animals live together with no human beings to oppress or control them. He tells the animals that they must work toward such a paradise and teaches them a song called “Beasts of England‚” in which his dream vision is lyrically described
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against the French and the Indians. Wars cost money‚ so after the War was over‚ the British King taxed the colonists an outrageous amount of money. On top of this‚ the colonists had no say in the taxation or really any laws referring to them. This was one of the many problems between the colonists and Britain. Eventually the Revolutionary War was formed after the colonists decided to break away from Britain. The colonies won the war‚ resulting in the need of a new government. Their first attempt at a
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BAROTSELAND POSITION ON THE UNITED KINGDOM 1. The United Kingdom was a signatory to the International Treaty known as the Barotseland Agreement 1964‚ and benefitted from that Agreement by being relieved there-under from its responsibilities previously owed to both of the two separate former Protectorates‚ Barotseland and Northern Rhodesia‚ who were the other parties to it. Yet the Zambians have on the one hand repeatedly breached‚ abrogated and in 1969 purportedly expressly repudiated the Treaty
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Did Mary I deserve the title ‘Bloody Mary’? The question of this essay is ‘Did Mary I really deserve the nickname ‘Bloody Mary’? This essay will show the reasons why she does and why she doesn’t deserve the nickname. Mary I was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. She was claimed illegitimate by her father and was forced to sign papers saying that he had never married her mother (Catherine of Aragon). Mary wasn’t allowed to see her mother and was sent away by Henry VIII. She followed
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