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    for the Confederate until the battle of Gettysburg. This war was the turning point that would lead to a Union victory. I believe this because of the large abundance of Confederate men that were either missing‚ wounded‚ or dead‚ the momentum given to the Union‚ and that this is the key victory that stopped the invasion of the south from spreading into the north. My first reason for why the battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil war is the amount of Confederate that was injured‚ missing

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    supplies were also a factor to the Nazis losing the battle. This great battle is considered one of the turning points of World War II on the Eastern Front and one of the most important battles of World War II. The attacking Germans saw the victory of Stalingrad as very important part of their campaign in southern Russia because they could launch further attacks into Caucasus from a very strategic point on the Volga River. The Russians were focused to defend the city because it was a vital industrial

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    revenge-seeker‚ there are three major turning points that propose the start of Hamlet’s wicked evolution. In dealing with his father’s passing‚ Hamlet’s grief burdens him to be overwrought with emotion and causes him to contemplate the irrational‚ even murder. The Players’ scene‚ Prayer scene and Closet scene all present possible key turning points for this change. Although Hamlet’s sanity remains questionable throughout the play‚ these three scenes suggest possible points in which Hamlet becomes particularly

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    Robert E. Lee had proven to be invincible after his victories at Chancellorsville and Fredricksberg‚ and was finally defeated at Gettysburg. The Battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of the war permanently against the South and became a major turning point in the war. This battle gave the union a greater advantage for winning the war and on July 1‚ 1863 shots were fired outside Gettysburg that marked the beginning of what would become one of the largest and most significant battles in the world.

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    the importance of capitalism in our current planetary crisis. With the Anthropocene‚ scientists also struggle to come to a conclusion on what the major turning point is in history‚ to establish when human activity began to significantly alter the Earth’s natural systems. The idea of the Capitalocene helps to emphasize one particular turning point‚ being capitalism that has shaped the current geological epoch.

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    there have been many important events that are historical. Some that were good and others that were bad. Some of these events are things such as The Great Depression‚ The Civil Rights Movement‚ and the Vietnam war. The Great Depression was a huge turning point in American history. The Great Depression started on October 29‚ 1929 and ended in 1941. It was a time period when our economy had a major stock market crash. This stock market crash later became known as Black Tuesday. Was caused by the over expansion

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    We might come to better understand the personal experience of those participating in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Therefore No more_The children of Birmingham 1963 and the turning point of the civil rights movement is a video that explains what happened to black people in the 60’s. Photographs from the 60’s show how the fireman were spraying black people with water hoses that tore their shirt and hair out of their scalp. 1963 Birmingham civil rights campaign Barbara Sylvia

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    South wished to secede from the Union. Within the four years that the Civil War raged on‚ there were many battles. Such as‚ the Battle of Gettysburg. This was a huge victory for the Union‚ but it was major because it was a turning point in the Civil War. This battle was a turning point because it was the Confederate Army’s best attempt to breach Union Territory (Gettysburgfoundation.org Staff). Strength for the Confederate’s military was never better as when they fought at Gettysburg (Gettysburgfoundation

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    Often in plays‚ the turning point is significant. The turning point usually occurs after the climax and begins the denouement. In William Shakespeare’s play‚ Julius Caesar‚ the funeral orations delivered by Marc Antony and Brutus is the turning point. Marc Antony delivers the more effective funeral oration because he plays with the commoners’ emotions and uses repetition to illustrate sarcasm which wins the crowd over. Funeral orations commonly focus on emotions. Marc Antony’s funeral

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    The Turning Point in The Revolutionary War The Revolutionary war took place in 1775 to 1783. This was a war between the British and the Americans. The colonists were fighting for their freedom‚ they wanted to become their own. Wrote the Declaration of independence to gain their. But they needed to Fight for it. During The Revolutionary war‚ most of it was one sided towards the Britishes favor‚ they were winning all of these small battles against the colonists such as the Boston campaign and

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