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    Stonewall Riots

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    was the only place where you could do slow dancing‚ and it was like a real bar. And our peers were all in there.” - Martin Boyce It’s the early hours of June 28‚ 1969 when a routine police raid on The Stonewall Inn‚ a popular underground gay bar in Greenwich Village‚ sparks a full-scale riot. Police raids on gay bars were routine in the 1960s‚ but officers quickly lost control of the situation at the Stonewall Inn. Tensions between police and LGBTQ community members of Greenwich Village erupted

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    John Brown Article

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    Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry. John Brown was a kind invader. Brown also stayed behind in order to be some sort of a martyr. If he were to die with his ideals in mind then he would further fuel the northern thirst for a fight against the south that keeps pointing. 6. What was the view of John Brown after the raid on Harper’s Ferry? (Republican view and Southern view) -Republican- Republicans believed it was uncalled for‚ wild‚ and insane of John Brown to do something as reckless as raid it. -Southern-

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    Dallaire's Fax Analysis

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    It detailed that a large weapons cache was to be flown in to the RDF‚ and that the weapons were to be used to exterminate the Tutsis. The UN did not allow Dallaire to raid the weapons cache‚ which could’ve potentially saved thousands of lives. I do not know why the UN did not allow Dallaire to raid the cache; he had significant information to know that the weapons were to be used in genocide against the Tutsis. Even though Dallaire’s mission was to ensure the implementation of the

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    History Unit 3 Notes

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    Unit 3 Test Study Notes The Rise of Fascism * Italy: Benito Mussolini (Il Duce‚ the leader) first totalitarian dictatorship * 1919 started fascism movement; fascism: revolt against democratic values‚ including equality and individual freedom; to believe in state above all else & complete totalitarianism * Following WWI Italians punished allies Germany; Great Depression very negative * Benito Mussolini founded Italian Fascist Party‚ prime minister 1922; promptly turned Italy dictatorship

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    Civil War Causes

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    Causes of the Civil War John Brown’s Raid vs. Industrial Revolution John Brown’s Raid was a more influential cause to the civil war than the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution caused incompability between the North and the South. The North relied on wage laborers with the new machine age economy while the South relied heavily on slaves. So‚ the North did not need slaves for their economy and fought to free the slaves. The South fought

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    are much safer in an instance of accidental erasures and backup of files would be easier since the network only has to backup the server drive as for all data were already saved in there. The backup method implemented for the NAS would be a RAID 10 (RAID 1 + 0; data is written in stripes across primary disks that have been mirrored to the secondary disks) so as to have redundancy or fault tolerance all over the network ensuring uptime and reliability of the network’s important data and/or services

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    the deadliest places on the frontier‚ and although the threat had dissipated some with the end of the Red River Campaign‚ violent raids from Comanche Indians and outlaw bandits were still a common occurrence. Not all of the Indians had been killed or captured‚ and it was still not uncommon for them to sneak off the reservation and conduct raids. A majority of the raids on the northwestern frontier were believed to be conducted by Comanche and Kiowa from the Fort Sill reservation in the Indian Territory

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    How does Sheriff build tension in Act 2? Jodie Horton Sheriff creates a lot of tension in Act 2 in many different ways. He uses structure as a way to create tension including‚ stage directions‚ setting/staging and characters actions. Tension is initially built in scene 1 by the use of Sheriffs structure‚ the men are waiting in the trenches for six days with nothing to do‚ to the audience the real boredom of the trenches and the men would be exposed. The men talk about everyday

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    action and stop the growing empire of Al Capone . He was readily welcomed by the chief of police of Chicago . He immediately setup a raid on one of Capone ’s warehouse . But since Capone has eyes and ears all over the town ‚ the raid greatly failed . He only found umbrellas from what was supposed to be boxes full of illegal alcohol . Ness was devastated by this failed raid . This made him believe that there is nobody he can trust in the fight against Capone . Then came the Irish American police officer

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    Viking Longships

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    eight to the eleventh century‚ these people originally referred to as Norsemen began to raid places in Europe and other countries they became referred to as Vikings. The name Viking‚ originates from the place Viken in the Oslofjord. The Oslofjord is a bay south-east of Norway. Vikings are known for plundering from other societies. They are usually shown that the whole Viking nation went out to help on these raids but‚ they were done mostly independent by chieftains that obtained men who were willing

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