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    In July 1982 Jose Rizal was exiled as prisoner in Dapitan. When he arrived in Dapitan‚ he found it to be a sleepy little town. He thought of ways and means to make it clean‚ beautiful‚ and modern. With the help of his friend‚ father Sanchez‚ he made a map of Mindanao in front of the church. The map was made up of stones‚ earth‚ and grass and it serves as adornment that makes the town plaza beautiful. He and Father Sanchez‚ together with the citizens‚ had erected a lamp post in every corner of Dapitan

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    To what extent was the contribution of Martin Luther King central to the success of the Civil Rights Movement? The first major event of King’s civil rights career was the Montgomery Bus Boycott.On December 5‚ 1955‚ five days after Montgomery civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to obey the city’s rules mandating segregation on buses‚ black residents launched a bus boycott and elected King as president of the newly-formed Montgomery Improvement Association. As the boycott continued during 1956

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    To what extent cognitive and biological factors interact in emotion. ( /22m) James and Lange proposed that the state our bodies’ are in effects the emotion we experience‚ however there is little difference in autonomic arousal between emotions so opposite as fear and joy. It is clear that an additional factor is needed to transform an ambiguous physiological state into a specific emotion. Schater and Singer theorize that this factor is cognition and that it works in conjunction with biological

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    The Mexican revolution (1910-1917) was the overthrow of Porfirio Diaz. Diaz was a dictator who had been in office for over 35 years from 1876-1911. He was extremely persuasive and used those traits to earn him a great amount of time in office. While Diaz was in power‚ Mexico’s economy was divine. He skillfully used threats‚ persuasion‚ and power to keep him in office. However‚ with such an economic boom‚ many of Mexico’s citizens felt the brunt of it all. There was many taxes being issued on the country

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    skills and knowledge. Women were greatly affected economic wise because of the Renaissance. Before the Renaissance women had more responsibilities to make things such as cloths from scratch and food production. But after the 13th century many of these tasks as well as some of their jobs were replaced due to the fact of merchants obtaining the goods through trade. Also‚ the little amount of women which were able to keep their jobs started getting paid a lot less. The advantage to this was that the

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    What was the War of Jutland? Introduction The War of Jutland was fought by the British Royal Navy’s Grand fleet against the Imperial German Navy’s High seas fleet. This naval battle took place from May 31 to June 1‚ 1916. It unfolded during the First World War and was the largest naval battle in that war. The German fleet purposed to destroy the British fleet with the intention to have access to it’s naval vessels to the Atlantic. On the other hand‚ the British Navy strategized on means to keep the

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    Access to H.E. English Literature To What Extent is Mrs Dalloway a Modernist Novel? During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries‚ the world of literature was undergoing some changes in style and perspective. Just after the turn of the century – the previous having seen massive changes in the industrial world – the literary community was presented with one of greatest tragedies in human history: the First World War. This international conflict‚ mixed with the changes in industry and

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    The Middle Passage was the name for the route across the Atlantic Ocean‚ where African people had been captured and were taken as slaves to the Americas in the 1500s. It lasted for more than 400 years. The slaves were taken to work in sugar‚ coffee and cotton plantations. This essay is about the living conditions that the slaves suffered on the journey‚ the food they were given‚ the punishments that were used to control them‚ and the death and diseases on the boats. There were two types of ways

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    in the Greek meaning of Democracy. Lincoln was a lifelong Whig‚ anti-Jacksonian‚ and anti-proslavery democratic party. To Lincoln there was a difference in definitions. This would explains why Lincoln used the word fairly seldom. Wilentz clarifies Lincoln’s usage expounding‚ “Democracy and not democracy . . . ‘Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government’. . . “And that‚ and that only‚ is self-government’” (Wilentz 53). Here we see Lincoln using terms such as “self-government‚ and later

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    The actions and decisions Napoleon made during his rule over France give evidence that he was a tyrant. A tyrant is defined as a ruler who uses power unjustly or oppressively. Napoleon used his power in both of those ways. He not only limited who had power in society‚ but also controlled the church. By trying to monopolize all of Europe‚ it is shown how harsh Napoleon’s rule was and how tyrannical he really was. Napoleon limited who had power and rights in society in a few ways. Napoleon created

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