“Sir Francis Drake was nothing but a pirate Villain.” How far do you agree with this statement? Sir Francis Drake (1545-1596) was a British explorer‚ slave-trader‚ privateer (a pirate working for a government) in the service of England‚ mayor of Plymouth‚ England‚ and naval officer (he was an Admiral). Drake led the second expedition to sail around the world in a voyage lasting from 1577 to 1580. Queen Elizabeth I commissioned Drake to command the expedition together with John Winter and Thomas
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How far do you agree that Alexander III’s reign deserves the title “The reaction”? The term “reaction” refers to the idea of opposition to the ideals of reform; it refers to the idea of a backwards change‚ usually a change towards more traditional views and in the case of Alexander III it can be argued to whether his reign was completely reactionary or reformist or to whether only some parts where. When Alexander III took the position of Tsar from his father in 1881; his father Alexander II had
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How far do you agree that the most important cause of the February 1917 revolution was the Great War? The February Revolution of 1917 brought the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty to an end. I believe that the immediate cause of the February Revolution of 1917 was the collapse of the Tsarist regime under the gigantic strain of World War I. The underlying cause was the backward economic condition of the country‚ which made it unable to sustain the war effort against powerful‚ industrialized Germany. All
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‘Excavated human remains should always be reburied’. How far do you agree? The topic of human remains has been argued over for many years and has resulted in multiple changes to the laws of reburial in the past sixty years‚ but now the laws are that archaeologists can have up to 3 years to research the remains until they should be reburied unless they need to extend their research. Archaeologists have always been fighting to stop reburial to have more time to research them or display them in museums
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How far do you agree that the consolidation of fascist power in Italy in the years 1922-1929 was mainly due to the use of force and intimidation? Mussolini consolidation of fascist power in Italy in the years 1922-1929 could have been mainly due to the use of force and intimidation. However this was not a straightforward process‚ since fascism was a new thing. In the years 1922 to January 1925 marked the transition from the liberal parliamentary system to the fascist state. Like many political
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consolidation of power‚ as violence was such an important part of Nazism and was never far from the surface. However there were also other factors such as legality‚ tactical alliances and the successful use of propaganda which in effect contributed a vast amount to the Nazi’s consolidation of power‚ the Nazis deployed propaganda effectively as a means of deceiving the political nation of their real intentions and significances of their actions‚ which ultimately led to their consolidation of power. Terror
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How far was the USA intolerant in the 1920’s? The roaring 20’s was a period of economic boom and prosperity‚ but there was a darker underside to this. American society was undergoing vast changes in the early twentieth century. The world was changing and America was not to be left behind. In the past America had been a very intolerant society with slavery being one of its key industries and although it operated a ‘melting pot’ open door policy was the white‚ Anglo Saxon‚ Protestant (W.A.S.P)
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portrayed at two rival societies: Red American and Blue America. However recent studies have suggested that the parties have more differences between that within due to many diffract factions within each party. Firstly the parties have different policy views such as the Republican Party has a more hawkish foreign policy‚ committed to high defence spending and the use of power to defend American Interests e.g. Bush invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the war on Terror whereas the Democratic Party has a more
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had many opponents to their power‚ some who wanted Tsarism back or the Provisional Government or wanted the elections to go through for a Constitutional Assembly‚ so causing the Civil War. Throughout this they had clear leaders who knew what they were doing and how they were going to get there. However it was the use of violence that lead them to be able to suppress the unrest among the people‚ win the Civil War‚ get rid of any threats to power and so keeping them in power. If they had not used violence
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How far do you agree with the view that The Kite Runner is a celebration of the bond of brotherhood? Brotherhood is a strong theme throughout the book and there is evidence supporting that it is a celebration of the bond of brotherhood but also that it isn’t. I think that The Kite Runner could be seen as a celebration of the bond of the brotherhood because of the relationship between Amir and Hassan. Although there are signs of disloyalty by Amir there are also signs of brotherly love between
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