In 1803‚ President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans‚ and it doubled the size of the United States and there was more to go. Thanks to the Louisiana purchased U.S. has gotten a better geographic‚ economic‚ social‚ and political stable. There was more land for the population to stretch out. More gold to be mine. Better education
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Alone and wishing death upon himself‚ Creon‚ the king of Thebes‚ is left frantic and sorrowful. In the play Antigone by the playwright Sophocles‚ Antigone learns that her brother Polynices has been banned from proper burial rites by the leader Creon‚ who believes Polynices is a traitor. Antigone then defies this law‚ and when caught‚ is punished with being buried alive. Creon is then told by Haemon‚ his son‚ Tiresias‚ and the chorus leader to let Antigone go free‚ but when Creon finally gives in
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During the 1930’s the Soviet Union found itself in a incredibly difficult position. Following Lenin’s death in 1925 Stalin was able to consolidate his power base and break with Kamenev and Zinoviev. And by then end of the decade he emerged as the supreme leader. In 1928 Stalin introduces his first Five-Year Plan‚ the “revolution from above” to help develop the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had fallen behind‚ Stalin remarked‚ “We are fifty to one-hundred years behind the advanced countries.... we
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decided to rise up and fight for their strong cause. In short‚ the American Revolution was an uprising that was brought upon by unfair treatment of the colonists from the British King and Parliament‚ lack of representation in Parliament‚ and unjust actions of British soldiers towards American colonists. Among the most famous causes for the American Revolution lack of representation
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Platteville is quite the change for me I’d say. Our eating habits also have to change up here‚ Platters is a bit different than my kitchen back home and my eyes are a lot bigger than my stomach. Then after all that‚ comes the important part of why we’re here‚ school. My teachers always said to my back in highschool‚ “Jake you’re not going to be able to procrastinate and put things off when you go to college like you do here.” Well I never payed much attention to that until I got here and now
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Christopher’s actions when acting on impulse drives the plot of the story majorly. The first place we see Christopher’s actions drive the plot is when Christopher finds Wellington the poodle belonging to Mrs. Shears‚ his neighbor‚ dead on Mrs. Shear’s lawn with a garden fork through its side. Christopher touches the dog’s muzzle and observes that it is still warm. Automatically‚ he wonders who killed Wellington‚ and why. Acting on impulse‚ Christopher removed the garden fork and picked up Wellington
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(Oxford Dictionary). The policy of appeasement is one in which both Britain and France and many other nations took towards Nazi Germany and its expansionist aims during the late 1930s‚ it is one of the most controversial and criticized foreign policies in history (Gelernter D 2002:22). This paper argues that the appeasement policy was for most nations around the world in the 1930s a less challenging way to deal with the problem of Hitler. Nowadays it is a common view that if Britain and France would have
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Ashley Hicks Hendren ENG 101 Essay 1 A Trip to Italy Vacation and travel is a phenomenon which strikes a chord with nearly every human being on the planet. While true‚ there are many without the means to engage in such activity‚ there is little doubt that the primal urge to escape one ’s everyday surroundings strikes all but the most reclusive of people. There are many different locales to which one may escape‚ as well as a large variety of reasons for traveling. Be it sandy beaches‚ or
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During World War II Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and ruined many of our fleets and military. The decision on what to do to deal with Japan was a tough one. America made the right decision on dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. The atomic bomb was necessary in order to assure the war would end as soon as possible. On August 6th the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ on august 9th a second one was dropped on Nagasaki‚ and on August 10th Japan declared its intention to surrender. This is clear
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What Caused the Mexican American War? The Southern desire to spread slavery caused an outbreak of war between the United States and Mexico in 1846. However‚ other major factors pushed these two countries to war. In the years after the War of 1812‚ the United States went through an industrial and technological revolution. This revolution benefited the north to a large extent and pushed the southern U.S. towards slavery and its expansion. This expansion on slavery could have been the cause of the
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