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    The Spanish Armada

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    The Spanish Armada set sail from Spain in 1588. King Phillip II wished to invade England for both political and religious reasons. Spain put a tremendous amount of money into the Armada and planned for years‚ but in the end the fleet was defeated. The defeat of the Spanish Armada was caused by a series of unexpected events‚ and led to Spain’s downfall as a world power‚ and England’s subsequent rise in power.  King Phillip II had many political and religious reasons to invade England. Because Phillip

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    country was at “war” claiming land and trying to colonize. A numbering amount of men died and neglected their expedition by living with other tribes and taking some for wives. Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513 discovered Florida and was later met by a southern Indian tribe that would cut Leon’s triumphant moment short. A second attempt to colonize in America was led unsuccessful by Panfilo de Norvaez in 1528. Many men were lost at sea and others were among the Indian people. The first Spanish expedition in

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    William Howard Taft

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    William Howard Taft By: Joshua Cheru‚ Mick Linton‚ Sean Martin‚ and Jordan Mullens Facts about William Howard Taft  Taft was the 27th President of the United States. He served as President after Theodore Roosevelt.  Taft only served one term from 1908-1912  He was born in 1857 and died in 1930. Taft went to Yale like his father‚ and graduated second of his class.  Taft had 5 other siblings‚ and his parents and ancestors were all in the business of law. More Facts about Taft  Taft

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    History 17A Zinn Article

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    sufficient to Support themselves and Familys....” As I was reading this quote‚ I think this quote represents how racist people in the old days were. Indians that were friends to the English might not be permitted to Live and Trade. It was because of the war with the British. Racism is generally understood as either belief that different racial groups are characterized by intrinsic characteristics or abilities and that some such groups are therefore naturally superior to others‚ or as practices that discriminate

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    Howard S Becker

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    Howard Becker SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology Professor Smith March 4‚ 2012 Howard S. Becker Howard Becker was a famous American sociologist. He made several contributions in the fields of occupations‚ education‚ deviance and art and made several studies in those fields. He particularly made several studies in the field of social deviance and occupations. Most of studies went into the interactions between criminal people and regular people. Many of these studies included the criminal

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    Philippine–American War The Philippine–American War‚ also known as the Philippine War of Independence or the Philippine Insurrection (1899–1902)‚ was an armed conflict between a group of Filipino revolutionaries and the United States which arose from the struggle of the First Philippine Republic to gain independence following annexation by the United States.The war was part of a series of conflicts in the Philippine struggle for independence‚ preceded by the Philippine Revolution and the Spanish-American

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    Spanish Colonization

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    western Europeans in the archipelago was the Spanish expedition led by Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan‚ which first sighted the mountains of Samar at dawn on 16 March 1521 (Spanish calendar)‚ making landfall the following day at the small‚ uninhabited island of Homonhon at the mouth of the Leyte Gulf.[1] Magellan had abandoned his Portuguese citizenship and became a Spanish subject prior to his contract with Spain. On Easter Sunday‚ 31 March 1521 (Spanish calendar)‚ at Masao‚ Butuan‚ (now in Agusan

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    The Spanish were the first to settle in central and South America. They established their empire by defeating the Aztecs people. While the Aztecs lived in Mexico‚ they structured a wealthy empire by means of warfare. However‚ the Spanish took their empire by exploiting the resentment‚ the subjects had. Francisco Pizarro arrived with a small force of men in Peru. They conquered the Incas‚ who also had a large empire. Even though they had a large empire‚ it suffered large a chaotic royal succession

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    Mexican American War Timeline Victor Rivera 1). April 25‚ 1846: The Mexican-American War begins when Mexican troops cross north of the Rio Grande River and opened fire on U.S. troops at Fort Texas. 2). May 8‚ 1846: Battle of Palo Alto- The first official battle of the war. After Mexican troops retreat‚ Taylor declares his army victorious. 3). May 9‚ 1846: Battle at Resaca de la Palma- The day after the Battle at Palo Alto‚ Taylor’s troops follow Mexico’s retreating men to Resaca de la Palma (resaca

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    Howard Street Jewelers‚ Inc. 1.) The Levis overlooked both Administrative control and Accounting control objectives. By allowing Betty to execute transactions without Management’s approval they did not satisfy Administrative controls. It is also unclear whether there was any formal official procedure established which Betty was required to follow. Concerning Accounting control‚ the Levis first and foremost did not ensure that transactions were recorded as necessary. Betty was apparently given

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