The Chinese Boxer Rebellion was an extremely significant anti-cultural uprising throughout Imperial China‚ beginning in the Qing Dynasty (1900). The movement initiated after a gradual influence of Western and Japanese culture began to spread throughout China‚ altering religion‚ politics‚ and trade. Once the Chinese invasion had advanced into Peking (Beijing)‚ citizens of China grew defiant toward Western Foreigners and Chinese Christians. Quickly‚ a secret organization named the Society of the Righteous
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He charted a projection of the future population‚ illustrating that although it will continue to increase‚ it is on course to stabilize at eleven billion. The cause of this growth is not‚ as many people assume‚ because of high birth rates in less developed nations. In fact‚ there has been a cultural shift all across the world towards having smaller families due to in part by effective family planning services
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War because‚ well it lasted seven years (nine to be exact but seven years’ war has a better ring to it). The competing claims over ancestral Indian land covering the Ohio River valley‚ known as the “most fertile country of America” was the major cause of this war. The French built forts in parts of Western Pennsylvania to protect their interest in this land. When the Governor of Virginia heard about the French forts‚ he sent a Virginia militia officer to warn the French to leave the area. That
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During the spring of 1692 the salem witch trials was caused because many women and men and children had believed that they were possessed by the devil. Many of the accused were put on trial and later hung. If they could not recite the Lord’s prayer then they were considered a witch. Other women who denied they were not possessed by the devil and many others agreed were forgiven of all there sins. Several different women and kids were caught in the woods dancing naked around a pot of an
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The cause of the great depression was brought on by crash of the stock market in 1929. This sent everyone into panic mode and all the banks crashed along with many other financial institutions. This caused people to lose their jobs‚ personal belongings‚ as well as their piece of mind. The great depression lasted a while and people suffered and worried over it. In 1939 things started to turn around for the best. “National income dropped by 50 percent and unemployment rose to an estimated 25 percent
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market collapsed. The collapse of the U.S stock market had devastating effects in almost every country. It affected the lives of every American rich and poor. There were many reasons that caused the Great Depression. The stock market crash that occurred on Black Tuesday‚ October 29‚ 1929 was one of the major causes that led to the Great Depression but it wasn’t the only reason. America’s entry into War World II
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Youth crime has always been a concern in societies around the world. People try to determine the causes to which these problems stem from. This topic intrigued me‚ so I decided to write an essay on the question relating to this topic‚ "What are the social causes of youth crime?" The theory that I am going to examine and use to answer this question is the labeling theory. This theory is also known as the societal reaction theory. The labeling theory will often examine the offender in the situation
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hypothesis stats that one of the wires snapped and punctured the cloth causing it to split open. The puncture caused hydrogen to leak out of the cell. The static spark supports this statement that a spark caused the explosion and demise of the airship. The puncture would have deflated the ship and caused the ship to be lowered to and ultimately hitting mooring mast and being destroyed. The explosion caused near by zeppelins to explode‚ stating that the fabric hypothesis is a true explanation for the zeppelin’s
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other acts of rebellion to get the king’s attention. The analysis of the documents indicated that many people of the Third Estate wanted a revolution that would make France turn over a new leaf into a better country. The French Revolution was caused by a result of many events. The costs of fighting in the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolutionary War put a toll on the French economy. (Document 5) People in France became outraged by the debt and about the king and queen thought about
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greater conflict than any yet seen on American soil. While many factors were important contributions to the cause of the war‚ there is ongoing dispute on what the most significant cause was. The North and South had many conflicting fundamental ideas such as Northern industrialism versus Southern agrarianism‚ and Federalism versus States Rights‚ however the disagreement on slavery was the ultimate cause of any conflict. Catalysts such as westward expansion and extremists wouldn’t result in conflict standing
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