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    Was the war against the United States and Mexico necessary? “The war is waged against an unoffending people‚ without just or adequate cause‚ for the purposes of conquest; with the design to extend slavery; in violation of the Constitution‚ against the dictates of justice‚ of humanity‚ the sentiments of age in which we live‚ and the precepts of the religion we profess.” The war between the United States and Mexico had a lot of conflict between each other‚ and their tensions evolved over time. Although

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    Was Hades An Evil God?

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    Raffi Scarpa Was Hades an Evil God? The ancient Greeks believed that the three main gods‚ Zeus‚ Poseidon‚ and Hades‚ overthrew the previously ruling generation of Titans and divided the world between them. The gods agreed that zeus would get the skies‚ Poseidon would get the seas‚ and Hades would get the underworld. Since Hades is the god of underworld‚ it is often assumed that he is an evil god. Although he did do his fair share of bad deeds‚ he is no more evil than any of the other gods. It

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    Why Was Slavery Important

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    slavery Have you ever wonder why there was slavery? Slavery started when the first group of african american came to america in 1619 in virginia jamestown. slavery started when it was a practice in the 17th and 18th colonies centries. african american helped build the economic foundations. In 1793 an invention called the cotton gin it central importance of slavery in the south. In the mid-19th there was a movement in slavery and it tear the nation apart and started american civil war from

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    Was Slavery Right Or Wrong

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    Charles‚ The Marrow of Tradition) The terrible 245 years of slavery and then the aftermath of slavery are one of the world’s toughest times towards the millions that suffered the hardship of being black. Slavery of African Americans was where people that were black were forced into working for a white. This had caused pain and suffering and they didn’t know if they are going to die that day or be sold. Slavery of African Americans was wrong because the way that blacks got captured and transported

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    Why Was Slavery Abolished

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    Slavery was the trade that during the 18th and 19th centuries provided the West Indies and places like it with males and females to do work on the plantations. The slaves were wanted to make the plantation owners work a lot easier. They were split into three groups known as gangs according to their health and physique. The first gang consisted of the strongest and healthiest and they cleared‚ holed and planted the ground before crop time and cut the canes‚ fed the mills and attended to the manufacture

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    The purpose of slavery was to get free labor so that they didn’t need to pay workers.This is why it was often used in the South‚ because of farms and things like that. But‚ the actual % of slave owners around Civil War time was very low.They wanted the slaves to work in tobacco plantations and they did not pay them for their work. These Slaves had no life.The salves were there only to work giving their bosses free labor.The slaves were not treated like normal people they lived in huts.Their bed

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    Was Slavery Good Or Bad

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    The number one argument is was slavery as horrifying as it is made out to be it left people with a long lasting effect. Some may argue no but this will explain to you why it is. There are four reasons for my thinking they are‚ that the people who owned the slaves were cruel and heartless‚ people were treated like they did not matter and like they were different and like they were animals and no one saw anything wrong with this‚ innocent people were being taken and hurt and even born into this‚ when

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    Was Lady Macbeth 'Evil'?

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    trigger to start the events in the play‚ and that Lady Macbeth herself was the driving force behind Macbeth´s actions. It is she who he contacts when he meets the witches‚ and immediately trusts her with the prophecy he is given. The relationship between Macbeth and his wife is paramount to the understanding of a major theme of this play. At first it would appear to be an equal partnership. However‚ I believe Lady Macbeth was the dominant of the two character; she could have persuaded Macbeth

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    Why Was Slavery Important

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    brought overseas to work‚ due to that‚ slavery was the roots of the United States foundation. The next generations of Americans only knew life as it was‚ with slaves. They didn’t see that what they were doing was wrong. In their eyes they were justifying slavery from the Bible. There was a common misinterpretation of the “Curse of Ham.” Due to this they thought themselves to be superior‚ the higher race. They also realized the importance of slavery and how it was benefiting their economy‚ so most Americans

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    In August of 1945 nuclear weapons were exploded upon the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Following these atomic bombings‚ Japan surrendered. But were the atomic bombings necessary to save Allied lives and end Japan’s threat to world peace while avoiding a deadly invasion of the Japanese mainland? The following account summarizes the events that led to Japan’s surrender in World War II and then considers other means of achieving Japan’s surrender. The second half of this article‚ which

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