symmetry of the number eleven‚ the Great War‚ as it was then called‚ came to an end on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. The conclusion of World War One marks‚ quite logically‚ one ’bookend’ for both Canadian and world history. Two very different decades would follow. "The Roaring Twenties" were marked by unprecedented but unequally distributed prosperity. "The Dirty Thirties" witnessed untold suffering and hardship as the Great Depression left millions unemployed‚ destitute
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removed. (September 2007) The absent-minded professor is a stock character of popular fiction‚ usually portrayed as a talented academic whose focus on academic matters leads them to ignore or forget their surroundings. The phrase "absent-minded professor" is also commonly used more generally in English to describe people who are so engrossed in their ’own world ’ that they fail to keep track of their surroundings. It is a common stereotype that professors get so obsessed with their research that they
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“History‚ despite its wrenching pain‚ cannot be unlived. But if faced with courage‚ need not be lived again.” So wrote the American author Maya Angelou. A fellow writer‚ James Baldwin also noted: “Not everything that is faced can be changed‚ but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” These were both reminders that we need to know our history in order to understand perhaps where we are today and how we came to be where we are; that we need to understand reality and to face it in order to progress
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because they do not support the "disinterested investigation" required of the discipline of history.[8][9] Events occurring prior to written record are considered prehistory. Herodotus‚ a 5th-century B.C. Greek historian is considered within the Western tradition to be the "father of history"‚ and‚ along with his contemporary Thucydides‚ helped form the foundations for the modern study of human history. Their work continues to be read today and the divide between the culture-focused Herodotus and
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200 dances by Mozart are still preserved. The modern edition of the dances as published by the Neue Mozart Ausgabe (see External Links below) runs to about 300 total pages in score. For a complete listing of Mozart ’s dances‚ see this list. [edit]History Mozart began writing dances when he was five years old; see Nannerl Notenbuch. In 1768‚ when Mozart was 12‚ his father Leopold reported that Wolfgang had composed "many minuets for all types of instrument".[1] Mozart continued to write dance music
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but our house is the whole of Canada” (Pierre Trudeau‚ pg. 50). Trudeau loves Canada as you can tell. In 1952‚ he returned to Montreal to practice law‚ specializing in labour law and civil liberties cases. In 1961‚ Trudeau was appointed associate professor of law at the University of Montreal until his entry into federal politics in the general election of 1965 and he became minister of justice. Secondly‚ when the FLQ crisis erupted‚ he stood up for it. If he didn’t stand up for it‚ Quebec would
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Sense Wrote The American Crisis Wrote The Age of Reason James Madison 1787-1812 Father of the Constitution-1787 President during the war of 1812 Wrote the Federalist Papers Helped with the Bill of Rights Stamp Act 1765 One of the acts the British Parliament set on the American colonies that taxed all documents‚ paper‚ etc. They used this act to help pay of the debt of the French-Indian War. Articles of Confederation 1781-1787 The representatives of the thirteen
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the living situations and how these women lived in a time where respect and freedom were merely low. Snyder also enlightens us with discreet background information these brave women. These poets have change the whole understanding of the poetry history‚ with the little of their work we get to see a window who and how these woman felt and how they greatly help influence western literature. As we take a closer look‚ Sappho of Lesbos a writer born in the seventh century B.C and birthplace was Lesbos
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When looking at today’s society‚ one must wonder if our society and politics are similar to another time point in the United States history. Between 1865 and the 1920’s‚ two extremely important time periods occurred in the United States of America. The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era vastly impacted the United States as well as influenced politics and culture still around today. However‚ one of these time periods was more influential than the other. The Gilded Age occurred from 1865-1900. This
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Thailand The earliest inhabitants of what is now Thailand were hunter-gatherers. However about 4‚000 BC they began farming. They grew rice. At first the farmers used stone tools but about 3‚000 BC bronze was discovered. From about 500 BC the people of what is now Thailand used iron. At first what is now Thailand was divided into small states called Meuang. By 100 AD they were practicing Theravada Buddhism. However the ancestors of modern Thais are believed to have come from southern China. They
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