ìback burnerî in favor of raising and supporting the Army and Navy to fight the war. The states were also busy developing and ratifying their own constitutions. Several times during this period‚ the Congress had to evacuate Philadelphia to escape from the British Army. In 1778‚ Congress sent the Articles of Confederation to the states with a three-year limit for ratification. In 1781‚ the Articles were ratified and the first constitution went into effect. The power in the first constitution was clearly
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“The Greek Way” by Edith Hamilton Edith Hamilton. The Greek Way. New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ Inc. 1930‚ 1942. Pp. 7-338. The author of “The Greek Way”‚ Edith Hamilton was a pioneering female educator and writer on mythology. Edith attended college at Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania. In 1895‚ she became the first woman to study at the University of Munich in Germany. Hamilton became the headmistress of Bryn Mawr Preparatory School for Girls in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ in 1896 at the age of twenty-nine
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Were The Achaemenids Zoroastrians? The Biggest Empire‚ which the ancient world has ever seen‚ would be the Achaemenid Persian Empire. This empire protracted from Anatolia‚ Egypt‚ Asia‚ northern India and Central Asia. Making of this empire began in 550 B.C. The Achaemenid is known as the first Persian Empire and the largest. Ancient history basically tells us Zoroastrianism developed somewhere in Iran about 1000 years after Zoroaster. Scholars have said the Achaemenids era had finally began when
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In what way is Hamlet relevant in our world today? In that question‚ the word Hamlet is not underlined because the play itself is not nearly as relevant as a whole as Hamlet the person is. The play is full of allusions‚ jokes‚ and implications that is difficult for a modern audience to pick up on and understand their significance to the overall work. After all‚ Shakespeare wrote this as a performance piece that was to help pay the bills as much as it was to be a work of art. This is in no way
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- 9H January 12‚ 2012 Finding the Milky Way I often gaze into the night sky only to find bright lights and strange shapes I don’t understand. Starting at a young age‚ I enjoyed waiting for shooting stars and searching for the famous Big Dipper consolation as many nights as I could. As I grew older‚ I learned more and more about the universe and all that it contains. Today‚ I am even more intrigued by‚ not just the universe‚ but our very own Milky Way galaxy. I am amazed by its complicated systems
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And were they all for the better?There were many changes during 1750 to 1900‚ the majority of which were industrial and economic and not always for the better of then or the better of now. In this essay I will list two changes that I thought significant then I will list the negative short term effects‚ the negative long term effects‚ the positive short term effects and the positive long term effects. At the end of each change I will decide whether it was an overall positive or negative change.
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wages. However the middle classes‚ the self-appointed leaders of the revolution‚ had more ambitious aims‚ fighting for the unification of Germany and constitutional monarchies. Many of these more ambitious aims were not to be achieved until much later‚ as ultimately the revolution failed‚ but what did they manage to achieve‚ and why did the revolution fail? Across the German states active revolution was fairly minor‚ isolated to Berlin‚ Rhineland‚ Silesia‚ Baden and some small peasant uprisings in the
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and sweaty bodies took their turns pressing against me. It felt like I was in a maze where the only things visible were bobbing heads and scuttling feet of different shapes and sizes below me. I finally escaped the jungle as I stepped out of the train station. I decided to take a walk down to my favourite coffeehouse just two streets away. After trudging in the hot sun for what seemed like an hour‚ I stepped into the doors of the coffeehouse‚ inhaling the aroma of coffee brewing and allowing the
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What were the two greatest successes and two greatest failures of the Wilson government 1964-70? This period of Labour rule is often marked down as a poor performance on behalf of the labour party‚ critically looked upon by many historians. There were many failings under the rule of this government however the circumstances they were placed in caused severe restraints in their options. Wilson had been voted into government with the promise of central planning and “the white heat of new technology”
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I. The Silent Way On the years of 1960s’ the Audiolingual Method was under a strong challenge in the form of the "Cognitive Code" and an educational trend known as "Discovery Learning." These concepts most directly challenged the idea that language learning was all about mimicry and good "habit-formation." An emphasis on human cognition in language learning addressed issues such as learners being more responsible for their own learning - formulating independent hypotheses about the "rules" of
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