History Day ideas Colonial Era • Salem Witch trials • The Stamp Act • “No taxation without representation” Revolutionary War Era • Thomas Paine • Thomas Jefferson • John Locke: right to rebellion • Adam Smith and Free Trade • Bill of Rights • Redcoats and patriots • John and Abigail Adams US to Civil War • Nat Turner’s Rebellion • Louisiana Purchase US Civil War • John Brown • Frederick Douglas
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efforts throughout the country‚ but most of the time the conspiracies were falsified as the accused were tortured until confessing to the crime they were told they had committed. Many people were killed during the Great Purges and many were sent to the gulags to complete works for the industrialization of the
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The Chinese Intelligentsia during the Hundred Flowers and Anti-rightist Movement After the coming to power of the CCP and the formation of the People ’s Republic of China‚ thorough and drastic changes began to take place in China. A country which had been founded on a mixture of Confucianism and a very spiritual lifestyle‚ with ancestor worship and even praying to the god of a particular object‚ which had went through various revolutions and changings of the guard‚ began to follow the influence
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How far do you agree that the Bolsheviks consolidated their hold on power in the years after the October/November revolution mainly through the use of violence against their opponents? The Bolsheviks consolidated their power after October 1917 however they faced many severe problems which made keeping their power complex. For Lenin and the Bolsheviks winning political power was relatively easy compared with retaining it. The Bolsheviks may have had a temporary majority in the All-Russia soviet in
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A Yurodivy‚ or holy fool‚ is a person who purposefully “appears unintelligent and unsophisticated” in order to portray injustices going on around them‚ according to Oxford Dictionary Online. This word comes from Soviet Russia‚ and represents Shostakovich well. When Shostakovich lived‚ he seemed to represent the communist party and everything it stood for. After he died‚ his official obituary in Soviet newspapers showed him as a “faithful son of the Communist Party” (Pravda‚ 1975). However‚ his
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The people of Soviet population encountered very many hardships during the 1930’s and this can be attributed to Stalin’s poor leadership compared to the leaders before him Lenin. He took initiatives to replace the systems employed by Lenin and in introduce communism that was expected to favor the adverse industrialization advocated for by Stalin. To achieve this industrialization‚ Stalin used harsh and ruthless measures that saw extreme suffering and death of thousands of Soviet population. The first
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AP English Language and Composition Reading List GENERAL NONFICTION Ambrose‚ Stephen. Undaunted Courage. Follows the Lewis and Clark expedition from Thomas Jefferson‘s hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific‚ through the heart- stopping moments of the actual trip‚ to Lewis‘s lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. For readers who love detailed history. Barry‚ John M. The Great Influenza. A detailed description of the scourge of the "Spanish flu" of 1918 with interesting elements of the practice
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The Poles who were West Slavic people established Poland in the late 5th century. History was first written in the 10th century about Poland when the Polish nation changed into Christianity in 966. Prince Mieszko I was the first ruler and his son‚ Boleslaw I‚ was the first king of Poland. This established the Piast dynasty that lasted from 966 to 1370. During the Piast dynasty there where Piast kings with a lot of rivalries from nobility and Bohemian and Germanic invasions that made Poland a
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had fallen into conversation with the affinity marketer (beard‚ plaid flannel shirt‚ vintage work boots) in the lobby of the Wythe hotel in Williamsburg‚ a beehive of instrument-bearing musicians‚ nose-pierced locals and twentysomethings who use the word “ridiculous” in nonpejorative contexts. I guessed aloud‚ “So‚ like‚ if I buy a pair of shoes‚ then you’ll try to sell me socks?” The affinity marketer smiled and said: “Or maybe something bigger‚ like flooring. You buy a pair of shoes‚ I sell you
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The Intrusive Author in Milan Kundera ’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being In an interview he gave after the reprinting of one of his later novels‚ Milan Kundera said‚ most eloquently‚ that "the stupidity of the world comes from having an answer for everything the wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything" (qtd. in O ’Brien 4). This statement is one most indicative of the unique authorial style found in all of Kundera ’s works‚ particularly his most famous novel The Unbearable
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