On the day of September 11‚ 1857‚ an emigrant party camped at Mountain Meadows was brutally killed by the Mormon militia aided by Indians. This essay examines two viewpoints regarding the massacre found in Sally Denton’s “American Massacre” and in “Massacre at Mountain Meadows” by Ronald W. Walker‚ Richard E. Turley‚ and Glen M. Turley. September 7‚ 1857‚ the emigrants of the Fancher-Baker train were just awakening and preparing for the day when gunshots were sounded. The emigrants were caught
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A brief history of Judo Judo is an exciting unarmed combat sport that originated in the Orient as a means of self-defence which has since grown into an international competitive sport. Judo developed out of ju-juitsu‚ a form of unarmed combat beleived to have been introduced into Japan by a Chinese monk‚ Chen Yuan-ping in the early seventeenth century. Various ju-juitsu schools developed and young samuri were instructed in the art. This was in the days of chivalry among Japanese knights. Samuri
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March 5‚ 2001 at 1:00AM in the morning suddenly‚ I wake up because of the phone in my room was ranging too loudly. Before waking up anyone in my house‚ I ran very first picked up the phone‚ and said "Hello." At first no one was giving me any answer from the other side. I was really mad. Suddenly‚ I heard a woman voices from the other side very politely‚ and she said‚ "Aaron‚ you are matured enough‚ don’t you know what you are doing‚ which is totally wrong‚ you should respect our culture our religions
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1. Material facts The appellant was riding a “wave rider” Jet Ski in the sea off Weymouth‚ when he crashed into another jet ski and it caused the other rider grievous facial injuries. He was placed on a life support system and needed a surgical operation on his cheekbone‚ eye socket and jaw. Thus‚ the appellant was initially charged under section 35 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 for furious driving. However‚ the Court decided that the appellant should be prosecuted under s 58 (2)
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TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS‚ VOL. 20‚ NO. 4‚ APRIL 2012 Variation Trained Drowsy Cache (VTD-Cache): A History Trained Variation Aware Drowsy Cache for Fine Grain Voltage Scaling Avesta Sasan‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ Kiarash Amiri‚ Student Member‚ IEEE‚ Houman Homayoun‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ Ahmed M. Eltawil‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ and Fadi J. Kurdahi‚ Fellow‚ IEEE Abstract—In this paper we present the “Variation Trained Drowsy Cache” (VTD-Cache) architecture. VTD-Cache allows for a significant
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’Nazi consolidation of power in 1933 was primarily due to the use of terror and violence.’ How far do you agree with this judgement? The potential limits to Hitler’s power were considerable. it must be remembered that Hitler was appointed as chancellor of the Weimar republic and as leader of a cross-party cabinet that included only three Nazis: Hitler as chancellor‚ Wilhelm frick as minister for the interior and hermann goring as minister without portfolio. the vice-chancellor was to be
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Might Versus Right Gulliver’s Travels implicitly poses the question of whether physical power or moral righteousness should be the governing factor in social life. Gulliver experiences the advantages of physical might both as one who has it‚ as a giant in Lilliput where he can defeat the Blefuscudian navy by virtue of his immense size‚ and as one who does not have it‚ as a miniature visitor to Brobdingnag where he is harassed by the hugeness of everything from insects to household pets. His first
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Comparative Analyses of Movies (Glory (GL); Gone With the Wind (GW); Birth of a Nation (BN)) and Books on the Civil War (Woe to Live On (WL); Red Badge of Courage (RB)) Introduction The movies GL‚ GW‚ BN and novels WL‚ RB (the works) portray men motivated to fight the Civil War by a complex mixture of ideology and patriotism‚ seeking glory‚ courage‚ honor ‚ and comradery as well as vengeance‚ often holding naive expectations of an easy‚ quick victory‚ with varying emphases. In
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------------------------------------------------- Executive Summary The following report aims to discuss the long-term corrosion process of embedded steel in reinforced concrete. In addition‚ it expands on preventive and remedial methods against corrosion. Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………….3 Chapter 1: The Nature of Corrosion 1.1 | Definition……………………………………………..4 1.2 | Types of Corrosion………………………….…….4 1.2.1| Uniform Corrosion…………………….5 1.2
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occupier. [1] In the evolution of this view‚ there is certain consensus reached by most of the historians; most of the Dutch people tried to adopt “accommodation” tactic during the occupation. The essay focuses rather on the daily aspects of average Dutchman to understand sociology behind it; it examines the specific Dutch attitude of “accommodation” during German occupation‚ the origins and the consequences. 1. Prewar Dutch-German relations Contrary to common belief‚ a far from insignificant rapprochement
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