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    Ahmed Syed Professor Ravy Eng 112-536 04/27/2010 Civil Disobedience in an Unjust America According to the infamous essay by Henry David Thoreau‚ civil disobedience is the conscious and intentional disobeying of a law to advance a moral principle or change government policy. Throughout the essay‚ Thoreau urges the need for individuals to put their personal and social consciousness before their allegiance to their government and its range of policies. Thoreau believed that if a government is unjust

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    The growth of industry pre and post liberalization LIBERALIZATION Liberalization can be defined as a easing of previous government restrictions in social and economic policy. Liberalization is basically deregulating the government control over the economy & make the market free for everyone to trade. Measures undertaken by the

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    Weather In The Civil War

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    Weathers effect of the Civil War Weather had a great impact on every aspect of the Civil War. People‚ soldiers and civilians alike‚ wrote about the weird weather. The Civil War occurred not too long after the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age was a period of time‚ 1310-1850‚ that had intensely cold winter with easterly winds‚ then heavy rains with raging heat. Weather was probably the greatest impact in the Civil War by far. It directly and indirectly determine the outcomes of everything. One

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    the leading entrepreneurs in an industry. This report focuses on Captain GR Gopinath‚ the person who revolutionized the Indian aviation industry by providing it with low cost carriers. 1.1INDUSTRY The Indian aviation industry is a niche market and is one of the fastest growing in the world frontier; becoming an integral part of the Indian economy. The influence of liberalization on Indian aviation had drastic consequences‚ which reflected in the shift of industry from being a government owned

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    American Civil War

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    American Civil War For the four years between 1861 and 1865 American fought the civil war. Meaning our own war. The North against the South. The free States against the slave states. The war had to solved two questions left unresolved by the revolution. The first being‚ Could the United States be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states? Or‚ could the United States be an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government? The Second question would be‚ whether this nation which had adopted

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    Of Syria and Civil Wars

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    Virinder Kaur POLS 202-01: International Relations Reaction Paper #1: Of Syrian Wars and US Foreign Policies Due: October 4‚ 2012 Modern Syria first gained its independence in 1946‚ following many years of violent strife. Before this‚ the state had been under a French Mandate and had suffered under a conditional (or more aptly‚ false) independence‚ wherein the French State held veto power over any potential laws introduced by the Syrian people (US Dept. of State). In 1970‚ the Baath party came

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    Civil War Notes

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    1. Examine the social‚ political‚ and economic impact of civil war on the South‚ its values‚ and its people.  Social: * Increased urban growth * Cities grew because of the shift towards manufacturing‚ growth of bureaucratic agencies to oversee manufacturing‚ RR‚ shipping‚ tax collection. * Urban growth resulted in the expansion of construction jobs‚ transportation developments * Changed roles for women * Headed households and performed men’s work *

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    Causes of the Civil War

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    Causes of the Civil War The bloodiest war America has ever fought was the Civil War. The Civil War was fought between North and South America. This war was many years in the making. With every new tax‚ tariff‚ law‚ or new state entry the North and South disagreed. The Missouri Compromise‚ Manifest Destiny‚ Popular Sovereignty‚ Bleeding Kansas‚ the entry of new states‚ newspapers and books‚ the Dred Scott Case‚ Immigration‚ and the Compromise of 1850 were just a few of the reasons that caused

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    Roots of the Civil War

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    Trace the roots of the Civil War. Why did sectionalism ultimately result in violence in the United States? Was the conflict inevitable or could it have been avoided? Explain. I believe that the Civil War began with the debate over the future of slavery. That very issue led to secession‚ and secession caused a war where the Northern states fought for the ground of the Union‚ and the South for their independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. It seems to me that

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    Spanish Civil War? (10) The Spanish Civil war was a very important event that happened in 1936 between the Republicans and the Nationalists‚led by General Francisco Franco. Although it did not make World War II inevitable‚ it increased the likelihood of a general war a great deal. The war had a tremendous impact on Spain itself‚ leaving much of the state’s economic and social infrastructure in ruins and leaving thousands dead. There were varies foreign interventions in the Spanish Civil War by different

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