The Treaty of Versailles was signed in Paris‚ at the Palace of Versailles. The three main representatives were Clemenceau‚ Lloyd-George and Wilson‚ and these became known as ‘the Big Three’. Clemenceau represented France‚ and‚ voted for by the public‚ had to please those who supported him. So in a country that had lost so much‚ he wanted to get all he could from Germany to satisfy the angry nation and make them as weak as possible to protect France in the future. Lloyd-George was Great Britain’s
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People don’t always reach their goals‚ the result sometimes ends up being drastically different then what was originally planned. That situation has happened many times in transoceanic expeditions in the Early Modern Era. The following either reached their expected goal or resulted in something different then what was expected to happen. The first is voyages of Ming Admiral Zheng He. Zheng He led seven expeditions to the Indian Ocean. The expeditions established the Ming dynasty’s Indian Ocean
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As I read pages 77-78‚ even though I didn’t like it‚ I found out why Amir didn’t do anything to help Hassan. All his life‚ he wanted to make his father proud‚ and he knew with the blue kite he would accomplish that. This part of the book is similar to a window. I was looking into Amir’s hardest decision in life and why he did what he did. Through Amir’s eyes‚ Baba’s praise was more important than Hassan’s safety. It gave me a view of hardships I never (and hope to never) experience. Hassan was put
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SUBMISSION DATE: 26th October 2010 STUDENT NAME: JAMES WHEELER STUDENT NUMBER: s957707 COURSE: TERTIARY ENABLING PROGRAM LECTURER: ANDREW STENCHMANN SUBJECT: 026 “HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES” ASSIGNMENT: ASSIGNMENT THREE – ESSAY (Due 24th October 2010) TITLE: ‘SIMILARLY DIFFERENT’ TEP026 Historical and Contemporary Issues Due: 24th October 2010 Assignment 3 – Essay ‘SIMILARLY DIFFERENT’ In considering the increasing cultural similarities between Australian
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The concentration camps was a place where people were detained and confined. The concentration camps are where they held jewish people against their own will. The concentration camps was where the Germans placed the Jews to hostage before killing them. There are three specific concentration camps that the Jews were sent too. The three concentration camps were the transit camps‚ forced labour or work camps‚ and extermination camps. Adolf Hitler just wanted to prove his power to everyone. The
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Greek mythology is compose of many myths‚ and some of them have many similar characteristics‚ events‚ and lessons. After reading various of the myths‚ it is safe to say that many common themes are power‚ incest‚ infidelity‚ and punishment‚ which provides the readers with lessons‚ like being brave‚ to take on challenges/risks‚ and good always defeats evil. Two myths that show many common resemblances are the myths about Perseus and Theseus. In Perseus myth‚ he attended a banquet where he had to
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Similar Triangles Project February 12‚ 2013 Introduction: In this project‚ I found the height of an object I chose based on how tall one of my partners is‚ how far away she is from the mirror‚ and how far the mirror was from the base of one of the objects. From there I set up a proportion and solved for X. X represented the unknown height of the chosen object. Once I figured this out I then converted to feet and compared that to my partners height to see if it
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for Muslim society and‚ in application‚ constitutes a system of duties that are incumbent upon a Muslim by virtue of his religious belief. Known as the Shari’a (literally‚ “the path leading to the watering place”)‚ the law constitutes a divinely ordained path of conduct that guides the Muslim toward a practical expression of his religious conviction in this world and the goal of divine favour in the world to come. Muslim Family Law (MFL)‚ which includes all matters of inheritance for Muslims‚ is
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Mussolini vs. Hitler The rise of fascism in Italy was fueled by the bitter disappointed of the people over the failure to win large territorial gains at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. To more and more Italians‚ their current government‚ which was democratic at the time‚ seemed to be doing little to nothing to help the country’s problems‚ which included rising inflation and unemployment. In Germany‚ America stopped loans in 1924 and the German economy collapsed. Not knowing what to do‚ Germans
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Cultural Assessment of the Muslim Population in the United States Jordan Wooten The University of Northwestern State in Shreveport Abstract The Muslim American culture varies slightly from the rest of the Muslim population around the world. Muslim Americans view religion as less important than other Muslim groups‚ along with becoming more independent of the family as a whole. The majority of the Muslim American culture can be defined in several categories such as Bio-cultural variations and
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