Beginnings How The World Was Made Cheerokee‚ Retold by: James Mooney “The earth is a great island floating in a sea of water” Long time ago when everything was all water and suspended at the each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging down holding the solid rock. When the earth grows old and dulls it’s strings will snap and the earth will sink down just to be water again. The Indians were afriad of that happening. There was all the animals above in the Gälûñ’lätï‚ the sky realm
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designed after the Mughal style. It was the month of February. I was sitting with my friends in my drawing room. We were discussing all the beautiful places we had visited. All of a sudden one of us spoke about the beauty of the Mughal Gardens. We decided to visit the place on Sunday next. On Sunday we went there by bus. There ’was already a great rush of people. Men‚ women and children were moving up and down on gravel paths which encircled the garden. The grass was so soft that it looked like a carpet
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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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even though you have no power and use no violence. He left a legacy as a peaceful protester. When Gandhi was in his early years‚ he was known as a hero (Rau‚51). In his early life‚ he was a hero that was frail on the outside‚ but strong on the inside (Compton’s‚15). Gandhi was born on October 2‚ 1869 in the state of Porbandar (Williams‚ online). His dad was a chief minister and his mom was a very religious woman who gave the idea of religion to Gandhi (Williams‚ online). All
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The Great War Is The Great Lie WWI was spawned in 1914 and lasted until 1918‚ four years. The way people mainly got sucked into doing this crazy war is that the government would print these posters that persuaded people to join the army by it looking nice‚ otherwise known as false advertising if you wish. The main cause of WWI was in 1914 when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. The war started the same year and conflict spread across the world very quickly. On the outbreak of war in
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government. The perfect time to do this was at the next meeting at the houses of parliament. They would destroy parliament with all the people in it. They rented a house next to them and started digging a cellar under the houses of parliament. They stored the gunpowder in barrels under the parliament and waited for the day of the meeting. On the day‚ Guy Fawkes‚ an explosives and gunpowder expert‚ volunteered to light the gunpowder resulting in suicide as well. He was willing to die for his religion and
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on my back‚staring at the ceiling. I got off my bed‚after rubbing my eyes and yawning for like 5 times. I hate morings‚i’m not a morning person and you definetly don’t wanna piss me off when i just woke up. I took a quick look in the mirror and i was‚like always‚looking terrible. My blonde hair looked like some squirrels played with it all night long‚my
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When my wife died‚ she left me with four sons at home. One of our sons is in high school‚ one is in college‚ and the other two are handicapped. My 27-year-old lives on a respirator. My 24-year-old is mentally retarded and has cerebral palsy. My wife was the hero who took care of our children for 27 years‚ but I must take care of them now. Sometimes I must lift one of the them into a wheelchair or back in bed. I often feel overwhelmed‚ trying to be both a mother and a father to them. I have 24-hour
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First Response Paper February 20‚ 2012 Was the Death of Socrates Justified? The life and death of Socrates is a topic that can spark great debates. Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher who was put on trial for two specific reasons. In the Apology‚ we learn that the people of Athens claimed that Socrates did not believe in the gods of their city‚ but in other spiritual things. This was thought to be impious. They also believed that Socrates was corrupting the youth. Socrates did his best
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There was multiple methods that could have been applied to prevent turmoil and chaos from happening‚ this could prevented the American Revolution. However‚ the American Revolution was inevitable‚ the amount of abuse that was inflicted on the people from the king himself took the basic liberties away from their society which soon led to the uprising. Also the ignorance that came from the political figures and parliament fueled the fire that was within the colonists‚ they finally took back what was
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