metal technology. European soldiers’ demands led to the production of stronger‚ longer‚ and sharper swords. The rapier‚ with its extra long blade‚ represented a very high point in metalworking technology and became fashionable in Renaissance Europe. Francisco Pizarro‚ a Spanish conquistador‚ and his most trusted officers debated their options for how to deal with Atahualpa‚ the last Inca emperor.
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Japanese-American farmers. These individuals saw internment as a positive means of uprooting their Japanese-American competitors. California experienced a wave of anti-Japanese prejudice‚ in part because of the concentration of new immigrants. The San Francisco Board of Education separated Japanese students from Caucasian students. The Board ordered 93 Japanese students in the district to attend a segregated school in Chinatown. Japanese Americans weren’t the only people to be interned during WWII‚ Italian
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The way to hope and success was not not what every individual expected. Gold fever floated people oversea mouth to mouth and walking 3000 miles. Hundreds of large to small towns sprang out. Especially San Francisco‚ the boom town. Every single man had their own skill. Some left their job for hope and could use their skill to make a profit around the gold mine area. Surprisingly entrepreneurs popped up and a new technology got invented. Decades after decades
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The artwork that is titled “Clouds Over San Francisco No.2”was created by Dina Budginas. She was born in Lithuania and soon migrated to Germany‚that is where she discovered her love for art. Dina is a self taught artist who picked up great nurturing skills along the way while attending art schools. She attended three art schools‚one that was located in Boston and the other two in Los Angeles by the names of Otis Art Institute and El Camino College. Her art life was put on hold due to raising four
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Chapter 25 and 26 Context: Mayas feelings when returning to mother starts to appreciate San Francisco transitions between the two cultures Characters: Momma: Always reaches to religion Maya: admires the way momma adjusts to the culture sorrow was confirmed to gloom at separating from bailey for a month (214) Naive to the new culture The fact her mother is human is important cause humans make mistakes too Bailey: Traumatised from the experience of carrying a dead body “Bailey was talking so fast
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One early morning in 1962‚ Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin broke out of Alcatraz prison. Using nothing but a raft fashioned out of raincoats‚ the three men traveled out into the foggy San Francisco Bay‚ never to be seen again. This was over 50 years ago‚ but the escape is still significant today. Society today still cares about the escape from Alcatraz because of its presence in the media‚ Alcatraz’s reputation as “escape-proof”‚ and natural human curiosity. First of all‚ the
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citizens of Paris declined the authority of the French government. The working class people were able to replace the state government with their own branch of government and held power until their decline. Causes of the Communes origins lie in the Franco-Prussian War as well as the siege of Paris. During this time‚ people were experiencing intense isolation from France and uproar of patriotism which caused socialist aspects to come about among the lower class Parisians. With the defeat of France and
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To what extend does Otto Von Bismarck deserve his reputation as the man who united Germany? On the 18th of January‚ 1871‚ Bismarck proclaimed the German Empire in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. Germany had been unified be Prussia‚ under its prime minister Otto von Bismarck. The unification involved three wars and‚ it has been claimed‚ was not created by a desire for nationalism but a struggle to determine Prussian dominance within the German states. Up until World War II‚ it
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Columbus’s "discovery" of Caribbean islands densely populated by Native Americans. The most dramatic moment in subsequent European-Native American relations was the first encounter between the Inca emperor Atahuallpa and the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro at the Peruvian highland town of Cajamarca on November 16‚ 1532. Atahuallpa was absolute monarch of the largest and most advanced state in the New World‚ while Pizarro represented the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (also known as King Charles
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"Napoleon’s tragedy was that his ambitions surpassed his capacities; Bismarck’s tragedy was that his capacities exceeded his society’s ability to absorb them. The legacy Napoleon left for France was strategic paralysis; the legacy the Bismarck left for Germany was unassimilable greatness"(statement made by Henry Kissinger) is in my opinion a correct statement. This statement can actually be separated into two parts. The first parts relates with the capacities‚ ambitions and successes of Bismarck
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