United States was governed by the Articles of Confederation. Following the rebellion against Great Britain‚ it was an agreement between representatives of the thirteen colonies to establish themselves as sovereign states with their own set of laws. However‚ while it provided a strong base for the constitution‚ without modifications it failed to effectively govern the United States. Since the very beginning of the Articles in 1781‚ Americans had noticed the unusual changes in government immediately
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political leader‚ Attlee was not very effective. After World War II in 1945‚ the Labour Party got elected and as leader‚ Clement Attlee (1945-55) was voted Prime Minister. After the hard times during the war‚ people did not think Winston Churchill was able to run a safe‚ stable and peaceful government. This led to the public voting for Attlee‚ a more peaceful person for a more peaceful time. However‚ this inevitably led everyone to judge his ability as leader and how effective he was at running a country
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Introduction So many forms of government arose in the Greek peninsula that it seems every form imaginable was attempted there at some point. Beyond the forms of government commonly associated with Greece such as monarchy‚ oligarchy and democracy‚ even socialism existed in some forms. In the following material I will look at some of these different forms of government and politico-economic systems and how they compared in the different locations and times that utilized them. Monarchy
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It was not by numbers‚ however‚ but by dynamism that Europeans dominated the world in 1914. They had an educated‚ skilled population‚ a culture that rewarded creative innovation; massive industrial productivity‚ and a near monopoly of military force. Historians disagree sharply about the causes of the gigantic burst of 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
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Joey Smallwood was a politician from Newfoundland who was the main force that brought Newfoundland join in the Canadian Confederation in 1949‚ and became the first Premier of Newfoundland.( Ibiography) Joey Smallwood was born in December 24‚ 1900 at Mint Brook‚ Newfoundland. When he was a teenager‚ he worked in a newspaper and his family moved to New York City in 1920. He also worked for a newspaper which named The Call. He returned to Newfoundland and then got married. At the same year‚ he set up
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What was the effect of photography on painting in the nineteenth century? The photograph was developed in 1839 simultaneously in England and France by Talbot and Daguerre. That is the technique of chemically fixing of an image produced by exposure to rays of sun. William Fox Talbot was an English scholar and scientist who developed the negative and positive process. He used sensitive paper soaked in sodium hyposulphite called calotype. This became the basis for all subsequent photography. Photography
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Corporal Punishment --- Is it an effective means of discipline For years‚ corporal punishment has been a way to punish misbehaving children in schools across the country. This subject has been full of controversy within the child development ans psychological communities. In the article‚ “Is Corporal Punishment an effective means of punishment”‚ published by the American Pyschological Association (apa.org)‚ June 2002. In a large-scale meta-analysis of 88 studies‚ psychologist Elizabeth
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It is beyond doubt that Liberal Italy was deeply in crisis by 1896 and because of Francesco Crispi’s poor economic and social decisions he was to most blame. The most important reason for Italy being in crisis was the economic problems it good into towards the end of the 19th Century. When Crispi came to power when the value of the Lire was rising against other world currencies; this made exporting goods from Italy much more expensive and made importing goods far cheaper. This hit the Italian
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1. The Inca empire spread over a small portion of land to the north in modern-day Ecuador and in parts of Peru. At its height‚ the Inca Empire included Peru and Bolivia‚ most of what is now Ecuador‚ a large portion of what is today Chile north of the Maule River in central Chile.The geography was rugged - Andes mountains‚ the coastline deserts‚ and the Amazon jungle. 2. A part of the Inca is adopted ideas and Institutions that had been pioneered by earlier cultures. two peoples who had especially
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development of Germany over the whole period 1890-1991‚ how far can the treaty of Versailles been seen as a key turning point? Jonathan Sokolov The Treaty of Versailles was a monumental stage in German history‚ helping to shape German history for arguably the best part of thirty years. It can be argued that the Treaty was the most significant event since the unification of Germany in 1890. The short term consequences were also highly prominent as over 300‚000 Germans fled to America in the years 1917-23
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