Penang’s Changing Role in the Straits Settlementsi‚ 1826-1946 C.M. Turnbull Email maryturnbull@beeb.net ABSTRACT When the East India Company created the Straits Settlements (comprising Penang & Province Wellesley‚ Melaka and Singapore) as the Fourth Presidency of India in 1826‚ Penang was the capital‚ the most important of the settlements. While it remained the headquarters of the judiciary until 1855‚ Penang soon gave way to Singapore as the administrative and commercial capital in
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The Treaty of Versailles By Alex Cox Block 1/A October 28/13 The Treaty of Versailles is one of the most important documents to ever be signed by world leaders. The document was signed June 28th at the Palace of Versailles near Paris‚ France after the end of WW1. It was an agreement made between the Allied forces after many long months of negotiations as to what should happen to Germany after the Great War. Woodrow Wilson of America‚ David Lloyd George of Britain‚ Clemenceau of France
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RESISTANCE TO THE BROKEN PROMISES OF THE TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO Katie Menante Anderson INTRODUCTION Human beings‚ no matter what race or ethnicity or place or time‚ will not tolerate injustice forever. Webster’s defines injustice as a “violation of the right or of the rights of another” (Merriam-Webster‚ 1990). The history of the United States is filled with such violations. From the early challenges to religious freedom in Massachusetts to the broken treaties and systematic removal of Native
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The Impact of the Treaty of Versailles Germany had to sign a war guilt clause stating that they had started the First World War. This made Germany look weak as they gave in easily. The German public didn’t support the government from the start and found that their surrender was a stab in the back. However as the Treaty of Versailles was signed on the 28th June 1919 accepting full responsibility the citizens of Germany felt that the government stabbed the army in the back even more. They did not
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INTRODUCTION: Euthanasia: a Greek name which means "Good Death". N.M. Harris provides with a definition of the term which says that euthanasia is a deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending life‚ to relieve intractable suffering.1 Euthanasia has been classified as voluntary‚ non‐voluntary and involuntary. These three types can be further divided into active and passive euthanasia. Active euthanasia entails the administration of lethal substances to kill while Passive
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In the year 1914 there was a great war which was centered in Europe. This war was World War One; it lasted for four years and involved all the major powers of the world during that period. According to Britannica ready reference (2003) the first world last from 1914 to 1918 and it was an International conflict between the Central Powers-Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ and Turkey and the Allied Powers mainly France‚ Britain‚ Russia‚ Italy‚ and from 1917 the U.S. The U.S kept out of the war at the begin
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I. The Treaty of Paris A. The battle of Yorktown ended in October 1781‚ not actually the end of the revolution. Significant fighting continued well on into 1783 B. Not a sure thing- lots of uncertainty! The victory at Yorktown was a very important step‚ though C. America sent several diplomats to France to negotiate. One of the conditions under which France agreed to help out the United States was that America had to give them some of their territory back. D. FRANCE BROUGHT SPAIN TO THE WAR
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Canadian Treaties In modern society the question of why the aboriginal population receives benefits often arises. Much of today’s youth does not understand that the Native American people were often stripped of their rights in the past in order to gain these advantages. Two main incidents were established in the Aboriginal history‚ the first was the treaties that spread across Canada and the second incident was the Indian Act of 1876. The main difference between the Indian Act and treaties were
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jhfjehfsjhfjshdjshfjshfjsfhjsfhjsfhsjfhThe main cause for the Second World War is the Treaty of Versailles‚ which was written on June 28‚ 1919. This treaty‚ drafted by Woodrow Wilson‚ caused many economic‚ social‚ and political issues that eventually led to World War II. Without this treaty‚ Germany would not have had to assume the war debt‚ the people of Germany would not have become angry‚ and the rise of dictators would not have been an issue. Thanks to the Treaty of Versailles‚ many terrible events are a part of the twentieth
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo‚ which came into effect on 2 February 1848‚ ended the Mexican-American war and formally resolved territorial disputes resulting from that conflict. The treaty required the U.S. government to pay the Mexican government $15 million dollars‚ this in return for an expanse of territory that later became the states of Arizona‚ New Mexico‚ and parts of Utah‚ Nevada‚ and Colorado. I intend to argue that the treaty benefitted the people who inhabited‚ and later came to inhabit
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