they did; force (war)‚ purchases‚ benefits of resources‚ also the reasoning of God’s will. Differences though were mainly for expanding‚ as well as where they tried to expand. One of the continuations‚ was the idea that God had given us this divine right to expand whether moving west of to other places‚ ideas related to John O’Sullivan’s "Manifest Destiny" and then the New Manifest Destiny‚ as well as the idea of social Darwinism‚ which gave excuse for taking lands from the Filipinos or Native Americans
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To what extent was the NAACP responsible for the successes of the civil rights campaign? (1945-57) The NAACP was a major civil rights groups and had many successes‚ especially in the period 1945-57. They mainly did this through legal cases‚ supporting individuals and groups gain their rights‚ and supporting the use of economic means to beat segregation. On the other hand‚ it could be argued that there were many other bodies responsible for the successes of the civil rights movement‚ such as the
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Cold War Essay What do you think the Cold War is/was? Was it a war between communism and democracy? Well the Cold War was a war between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ the Soviet Union wanted to spread communism while the United States wanted to spread democracy. The Cold War was called Cold because there was not direct fighting between the two countries the Soviet Union and the United States. The two countries only fought proxy wars against each other‚ the definition for a proxy war
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America was not prosperous or united during the 1920’s. Although there were reasons to show that The United States were prosperous during this time‚ there are stronger arguments and ‘harder’ evidence to show that most of population were neither prosperous nor united. These arguments are‚ the collapse of the American economy in the late 1920’s and the countries economical situation‚ prohibition and the truth in society a large part of this being racism. There are signs of prosperity and unity in
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TO WHAT EXTENT IS UTILITARIANISM COMPATIBLE WITH CHRISTIANITY The main idea of utilitarianism (U) is to create ‘the greatest pleasure for the greatest number of people’. This is similar to Christianity and the golden rule ‘love your neighbour as yourself’. With situation ethics‚ in a dilemma you should always do the most loving and compassionate thing. However in contrast to the utilitarian idea that you should try and greatest happiness for the most people‚ Christian ethics would look at everyone
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To what extent is Britain a liberal democracy? The balance of evidence would suggest that Britain conforms very well to the principles of a liberal democracy. Whilst there are always points of evidence that could be used against this view‚ it is my view that these are outweighed by the positive evidence and examples. When determining whether the country is a liberal democracy‚ one has to begin by discussing and defining the features of a liberal democracy. A liberal democracy is defined as one
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time people rebel. Rebellion can be morally acceptable or unacceptable depending on the circumstance. Rebellion is acceptable when government is running unjust laws or the people are not treated equally. In the mid 18th century‚ the United States was still a colony of Great Britain. Under the control of the British government‚ people suffered from unjust laws. The Stamp Act‚ passed by Parliament‚ required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for every legal product. People soon gathered to
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April 1898 through to August 1898 was fought over the issue of the liberation of Cuba‚ a Spanish colony that was suffering under the brutality of Spain’s authority. “The war essentially grew out of Cuba’s struggle for independence. Since the early 19th century‚ many Americans had watched with sympathy the series of revolutions that ended Spanish authority throughout the Americas” ‚ yet it was in Cuba where Spain kept their autocracy alive. “The reason surrounding this was Spain’s quest of re-imagining
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YOU WILL TYPE THE ROUGH DRAFT OF YOUR ESSAY IN THIS DOCUMENT! Baseball was invented in the late 1840’s. “Popularity was spread during the Civil War and baseball was played in Union Camps all over America” (Stewart 4). Baseball first gained popularity all over America‚ in about 1880 when people learned the full game and started playing it for the first time. Baseball has changed greatly over time in many positive ways because of changes in rules‚ popularity‚ and strategies. Changes in rules overtime
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To what extent are democracy and dictatorship different? In order to answer this question we must first examine the generic basis of both democracy and dictatorship separately. The term democracy originates from the Greeks‚ and is defined as “rule of the people” coming from the words “demos” (people) and “kratos” (power). It was coined around 400 BCE‚ to denote the political systems then existing in Greek city-states‚ notably Athens. Commonly‚ two forms of democracy are recognised‚ these being
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