Causes of World War 1 Vocab Term Definition Significance 1. Kaiser William II He was the emperor of Germany. He became emperor after his father died in March 1880‚ dismissing Bismarck from being chancellor of Germany. Kaiser William II is significant because he played a big role in the causes of WW1. He was very into making Germany powerful and to have Germany in “its rightful place in the sun”. Because of his very pro-Germany actions‚ it caused the other European powers to worry that
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talented mathematicians in the Middle Ages. Few people realize that it was Fibonacci that gave us our decimal point when during fractions or other Math problems. When he Fibonacci was studying mathematics‚ he used the Hindu-Arabic symbols instead of Roman symbols which didn’t have zeros and lacked place value. Fibonacci also created the Roman numeral system. It’s no wonder that such a system caught on so quickly with merchants and other people in professions where day-to-day use of mathematics
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Lather and Nothing Else The central theme in “Lather and Nothing Else” is that when faced with hard decisions people struggle with their morals. In this story the protagonist is faced with the decision to become a murderer or continue being the honorable barber that he is. The first reference to support this theme is when the barber thinks to himself “I would have to shave his beard just like any other‚ carefully‚ neatly‚ just as though he were a good customer...” Showing that his first instinct
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The short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury demonstrates how people can act cruelly to others who are different. This is because there are several examples in the story. One example of this in the story is when the kids stay away from Margot because she is from Earth‚ while they’ve been there for most of their lives. While some readers may think that the story’s theme is that jealousy can cause people to be cruel‚ the story is actually about how people can be callous to those who are different
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chose to enter World War I because of relations with other nations such as France and Britain‚ and warfare issues. Body paragraph #1: The United States abandoned its neutrality and joined World War I because of financial and economic relations with other nations which made it difficult for them to maintain neutrality between alliances. Doc 1 – William Jennings Bryan – Secretary of State – their financial interests were too powerful to ignore Doc 2(according to this graph) – The US exports to
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In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley freedom comes in many different forms. For many in this story‚ freedom is an inconceivable idea. Each moment in their life has been conditioned from birth to the exact specifications made by the rulers to ensure total and complete complacent happiness. This book however shows almost every side to this society. It shows the side of the successful‚ unhappy or not; the abandoned‚ one loving and one hating society; and the people in between. For each character comes
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In “The World is Too Much With Us‚” William Wordsworth utilizes literary devices such as tone‚ personification‚ and allusion to address how the growth of industry has influenced people to become disconnected with nature. Through the traditional structure of a Petrarchan sonnet‚ Wordsworth conveys a negative attitude towards these industrial changes and how the changes are too drastic even for religion to fix. The author uses the volta‚ the traditional shift of a Petrarchan sonnet between the octave
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“All summer in a day” is a short story written by Ray Bradbury. In it the theme of the book is about jealousy and acceptance. In a jist the story is set on Venus where the sun only comes out every seven years. This girl‚ Margot came from earth and has felt the sun and remembered it. The kids born on Venus are jealous of the kid Margot because they want to remember the sun too. So they lock her up in a closet so she can’t go outside when the sun comes out. In the book i read‚ “Ready player one” Ernest
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(Father Sky and Mother Earth) produced all things. Read more: http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Ca-Cr/Creation-Stories.html#ixzz3TvkCGjmK Which world or worlds‚ such as sky‚ earth‚ and underworld‚ are represented in the myths you chose? What are the elements of these worlds? Viracocha: Earth‚ darkness‚ lake Titicaca‚ sun‚ moon and stars‚ men turned to stones‚ created men after flood but kept them inside the earth. Waterfalls‚ caves‚ streams‚ rivers in which people lived in Maori: beginning was emptiness
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of Huckleberry Finn”‚ freedom is the prominent theme. Written over a ten year period‚ and completed in 1884 during post-civil war re-construction‚ the novel focuses on American society in the pre-civil war period (c. 1840)‚ and in particular the issues of race and slavery. The novel’s two central characters‚ Jim a runaway slave and Huck a runaway boy are both seeking freedom. “ It is‚ as Marx so capably argued‚ what the book is about‚ but his own judgment that freedom in Huckleberry Finn "specifically
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