friends in their lives. To celebrate this noble feeling it was deemed fit to have a day dedicated to friends and friendship. Accordingly‚ first Sunday of August was declared as a holiday in US in honor of friends by a Proclamation made by US Congress in 1935. Since then‚ World Friendship Day is being celebrated every year on the first Sunday in the month of August. This beautiful idea of celebrating Friendship Day was joyfully accepted by several other countries across the world. And today‚ many countries
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Pride and Prejudice In the novel of Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen‚ the title of the novel itself bears significance to the themes pride and prejudice. Pride is defined as a feeling of honour and self-respect‚ satisfaction or pleasure taken in one ’s own or another ’s success or achievements (Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 2000)‚ while‚ prejudice is defined as the act or state of holding unreasonable inflexible judgments or convictions especially towards other people (Houghton Mifflin Company
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Who: the entire United States What: the bottom fell out of the market‚ and shareholders frantically tried to sell before the prices plunged. 16.4 billion shares were dumped that day. People who bough stocks on credit were stuck with huge debts‚ and others lost most of their savings. Why: because panicked investors unloaded their shares at the same time When: October 29‚ 1929 (by mid November investors lost about $30 billion) Where: the stock market Hawley- Smoot Tariff Who: congress passed
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The Philippine Commonwealth (by law: Commonwealth of the Philippines) was the name of the Philippines from 1935 to 1946 when it was still controlled by the United States. The Philippine Commonwealth was created by the Tydings-McDuffie Act‚ which was approved by the U.S. Congress in 1934. When Manuel L. Quezon became president in 1935‚ he was the first Filipino to head an elected government in the Philippines. The President of Philippine Commonwealth had strong control of the islands and was guided
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State A community of persons more or less numerous‚ permanently occupying a definite portion of territory‚ independent of external control‚ and possessing an organized government to which the great body of its inhabitants render habitual obedience (De Leon‚ 2000). The Philippines is a state. Elements of a State The first element of a state is the people‚ which is known to be the most essential and indispensable element of a state. This is the mass of the population‚ or the number of people
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nations then fought several small conflicts‚ in Shanghai‚ Rehe and Hebei until the Tanggu Truce in 1933. Afterwards Chinese volunteer forces continued the resistance to Japanese aggression in Manchuria‚ and Chahar and Suiyuan. German troops at the 1935 Nuremberg Rally.Adolf Hitler‚ after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government in 1923‚ became the leader of Germany in 1933. He abolished democracy‚ espousing a radical racially motivated revision of the world order‚ and soon began
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and its economic sanctions proved useless‚ while League members also valued its own national interest over the Leagues interest. As seen in war between Russia and Poland in 1920-1921‚ the invasion of the Ruhr in 1923 and the invasion of Abyssinia in 1935. The League was ineffective in preventing conflict and hostilities between these countries and its efforts to stop them were futile. The League of Nations failed on many accounts to maintain peace in Europe‚ the League seemed only to back up countries
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only aspect of his life that he thought was pure and beautiful is spotted. With this‚ he realizes he has lost hope and that hi will never see the good in life again. One of the style that is shown in the story is description. “According to Wolfe (1935)‚ (On the outskirts of a little town upon a rise of land that swept back from the railway there was a tidy little cottage of white boards‚ trimmed vividly with green blinds) (Paragraph 1 ‚ line 1-2)” where start to describe the little town. He also
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government‚ but the President‚ and not a Prime Minister‚ acts as the head of government. Legislative power is exercised by the Assembly of Representatives of the Nation‚ and judicial power is lodge in a Supreme Court. * The 1935 Constitution of the Philippines‚ ratified on May 17‚ 1935‚ establishes the Commonwealth of the Philippines‚ defining its powers‚ composition and organization as it function as the Government of the Philippine Islands. It is based on the principle of separation of powers among
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time become two single people. There are those whose marriage ends up as another way to fight loneliness. And then‚ there are the others; those couples whose marriage is a living fairytale. One of them is the Goosenbergs. An Enduring Marriage In 1935‚ 102-year old Maury Goosenberg and his 100-year old wife‚ Helen‚ fell in love but after the obstacles their families put in their way‚ they had no other solution but to elope. Now‚ the couple that today resides in Carlsbad’s La Costa Glen retirement
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