Haiti - and the island of Hispaniola as a whole - lies on the boundary between two major tectonic plates‚ Caribbean and North America‚ which slide past each other at a speed of about 2 cm/year (Figure D). This relative motion causes the build up of pressure on several faults lines across the island. When the pressure exceeds the mechanical resistance of a fault section‚ the rock yields‚ resulting in a sudden break of the fault and the radiation of seismic waves away from this
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down‚ by 1933 over 4‚000 banks closed. At this time they had President Franklin Roosevelt‚ who served four terms during the Great Depression‚ to look up to. Roosevelt took action to try to turn the country around and make it better for the citizens. What Roosevelt thought the Great Depression revealed was deep deficits among the society. He declared a bank holiday on March 6‚7‚8‚ and 9th of 1933‚ so the government could access the banks and declare which were worth saving. In 1933 the FDIC was created
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The main reason‚ most Americans moved to the west was to gain wealth‚ freedom‚ and to worship what they believed (Schultz‚ 2013). There were two periods of Americans moving west the first period transpired from 1820 and 1844 and took place regardless of the governments consent. At the beginning of the settling of the west Mountain Men were responsible for the exploration and finding the safest trails and paths to traverse. These Mountain Men paved the way for the new settlers into the western region
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U.S planes and ships. Pearl Harbor will always be remembered. Pearl Harbor was a devastating attack which showed how tactical and dangerous Japan can be.. Japan spent lots of time practicing the attack at a island like Hawaii so that they knew what weapons to use and how to attack in the most effective way. “Japanese planes came in two waves. They first bombed battleships in the harbor. Then the supporting cruisers and destroyers were bombed. Finally‚ the military airfields near the shore were
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that can be discovered through analysis of content of the argument A. Linguistic Fallacy 1. Equitation(ambiguous lang) reading bk is better than nth; the more u study‚ the less u know 2. Fallacy of composition-assume characteristic of part will cause the same chracteristic to the whole e.g. Messi and football team; Tong Leung and film 3. Fallacy of division-characteristic of wholepart e.g. Real Madrid; Ferrari; ppl from London(freedom) 4. Weak Analogy e.g.renting a flat rather than buying is like
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The Cold War was a time of political and military tension between United States and the Soviet Union. The cold war wasn’t any normal war‚ there was no mass killings‚ no tanks or fighter jets‚ there wasn’t even any ground units. What there was though was a lot of nuclear weapons and money being spent on propaganda such as; newspapers‚ magazines and radio. They were spending money as if an actual war was going on. And even though there wasn’t any real physical war going on there were two great superpowers
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During the following period protests by colonists also known as Patriots continued to increase rapidly. With the Boston Tea Party in 1773 Patriots demolished a load of taxed tea from the East India Company. The British returned what they believed to be the belligerence of the colonists by decreeing laws known as The Coercive Acts on Massachusetts in 1774 until the tea had been paid for. In 1774 the Patriots set up their own form of government to better their independence effort
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Great Depression The early 1920’s was first known as the roaring twenties. Everything in America seemed to be going great. There was new inventions‚ more factories and industrialization! People were using credit‚ stock prices were rising it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. That was until the late 1920’s and everything started to slowly fall apart and then the economy all fell all at once. Americans all had smiles on their faces except for farmers. Farmers had purchased land when the war was
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Resolve: A national standardized test is a good measurement of high school student ability and school quality. Introduction: Academic tests can’t provide valueable measurements of students’ and schools’ comprehensive abilities. Outline I. Temperory Skills vs. Life Skills A. Most of the skills are temperory skills‚ a lot of people don’t need these skills for lifelong. B. Some teachers hold the idea “ teach to the test”‚ just care about students’ grades rather than teaching them some learning
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