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    Emergence of trench warfare - T- T- Trench warfare is a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. Troops are significantly protected from the enemy’s small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. E- Germans forced to retreat because Britain had bigger army- to stop they dug trenches and made huge defence lines –British couldn’t break line so they dug their own trenches. X-The Western Font is an example of a trench and it stretches over 700

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    support a particular political figure‚ to advance a particular policy or a general ideological stand‚ to aid politically certain groups or sections of society‚ or merely to combine for short-term political advantages. From the beginning of the United States‚ groups such as the Tories‚ Whigs‚ Federalists and the Anti-Federalists‚ have been active‚ supporting various ideas or plans. The Tories‚ who were pro-Britaish before the American Revolution‚ and the Whigs‚ those who were Pro-American before the American

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    In the United States of North America ethnic groups are easily found everywhere. As a result‚ the American culture is a combination of many other cultures such as Irish‚ Latin‚ African‚ British‚ etc. However‚ one of the most significant of these is the German culture. German influence over this country is so strong that it goes through science‚ to architecture‚ to music‚ to sports and entertainment. Germans left their homeland for several reasons such as‚ looking for an improved standard of living

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    energy that was late-nineteenth-century European imperialism. Some believe it was primarily cultural: the zeal of missionaries for converts‚ of engineers for new rivers to bridge‚ and of soldiers for glory. Others attribute imperialism to economic drives. They point to French occupation of Tunisia in 1881‚ where French bondholders feared the loss of their assets‚ and to the British occupation of Egypt in 1882‚ where European

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    criterion for me would have to be the criterion of independent attestation. This criterion sets up the idea that if you have multiple individuals writing independent accounts of Jesus‚ then there is an increase in authenticity of certain. The biggest issue with this though is the types of sources we are using and how many we have. It was pointed out in the book that many of the religious texts outside of the New Testament do not really portray what the historical Jesus was like. Even if they do they

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    too. Judges are said to be kept neutral because they lack politically ‘partisan activity’ as they don’t comment on ‘matters of public policy’ and avoid siding with different party governments. Another way the judiciary has been made increasingly independent and neutral is the changed position of the Lord Chancellor following the ‘2005 Constitutional Reform Act as he was previously the ‘head of the judiciary‚ the presiding officers of the House of Lords and a member of the Cabinet’. This Act removed

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    The United States is a country with great opportunities for foreign immigrants from around the world. “The history of the United States is a history of immigration‚ beginning with English colonists landing in Virginia and Massachusetts in the early seventeenth century to avoid religious persecution. Since then‚ there have been several great waves of immigration to the United States” (Jacobs and Walter‚ 6). Many immigrants don’t even want to immigrate they don’t want to leave their families and friends

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    Kennedy’s A Nation of Immigrants at a time when the issue of immigration and immigrants has taken center stage in this country‚ the message of President John F. Kennedy’s classic essay A Nation of Immigrants is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.  That is why the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and publisher Harper Perennial have reissued this landmark essay on the contribution of immigrants to American society. With a new introduction by Senator Edward M. Kennedy‚ A Nation of Immigrants

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    -1 Name: Lab 1: Dependent and Independent Variables Lab Results Table 1: Average Yield for each seed variety at no‚ low‚ and high infestation levels (8 points) Seed Variety Level of ECB Infestation Pot 1 Yield Pot 2 Yield Pot 3 Yield Average Yield BT 123 None 160.1 164.8 164.2 163.03 Low 164.0 162.6 168.3 164.97 High 155.1 163.0 163.9 167.67 BT 456 None 190 183.2 184.8 186 Low 178.8 172.6 179.6 177 High 157.3 157.0 159.0 157

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    African Americans are among many groups that immigrated to the United States. According to The American Journey (2005)‚ conditions were sometimes a problem in Africa and some natives of the area wanted to start a new life in the newly settled world. To pay for passage to the New World‚ they signed agreements to work for a set number of years and to be free individuals afterwards called indentured servitude. Things went smoothly at first. However‚ after a while‚ rulers of Africa began capturing and

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