The Spanish Influenza The Spanish Influenza was a disaster in the year 1918 because many people began to get the cold or as the Spanish call it “La Grippe”. The Spanish influenza was caused by people having the H5N1 virus. The virus in the year 1918 killed about five-hundred million people and only about fifty-million were victims of the Spanish influenza. The Spanish Influenza came spreading from China and it came a huge disaster because nobody knew how it all began. The Spanish Influenza began
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Gallaudet University was the starting grounds for a protest now known as Deaf President Now (D.P.N.) in 1988. DPN was a gathering of deaf people and their beliefs to make a clear goal and protest it. DPN wanted a deaf president to run the only school for deaf people. The protest was the response to the single hearing abled person who ran‚ being elected. The rights of deaf people were made more prominent to america due to this movement. As deaf people knew they could achieve as much as they wanted
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Case summary: ‘GE’s Growth Strategy: The Immelt Initiative’ The General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in New York. The Company operates through five segments: Energy Infrastructure‚ Technology Infrastructure‚ Capital Finance and Consumer & Industrial. The company has 287‚000 employees around the world. Products are Appliances‚ Aviation‚ Consumer‚ Electrical‚ Energy‚ Entertainment‚ Finance‚ Gas‚ Healthcare‚ Lighting‚ Locomotives‚ Oil‚ Software
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Propaganda in Germany During WWII Prior to WWII‚ the Nazi Party was not a favourable one of the people residing in Germany. It was not until 1933‚ when Hitler came into power‚ that the Nazi Party was elected into the government. Many historians question how it was possible for such a violent and discriminatory party to have taken power. The reason is simple. Propaganda had a significant role in the entire Nazi Party campaign. Propaganda is how Hitler managed to keep his people loyal and his party
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the nature of warfare would dramatically change on both upon the battlefield but more importantly how it affected society. Continental Europe was engulfed in war from 1792 following the establishment of the French Republic and continued with the rise of Napoleon until his eventual defeat in 1815. Between 1792 and 1809 the French army seemed to grow from strength to strength turning from a “métier of the aristocrat” small‚ professional army to the first mass
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world-class naval fleet‚ and the continued threat of military power in Germany throughout Europe. By this time‚ Wilhelm II was able to act as a more aggressive political figure in the quest to gain territorial expansion into Hungary and Belgium. This type of political hostility defined the underlying fears of British and France concerns about an invasion. The military might of Germany was not a major part of the political tensions surrounding the assassination
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national liquor abstinence. Several states outlawed the manufacture or sale of alcohol within their own borders. In December 1917‚ the 18th Amendment‚ prohibiting the “manufacture‚ sale‚ or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes‚” was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. On January 29‚ 1919‚ the 18th Amendment achieved the necessary three-fourths majority of state ratification. Prohibition essentially began in June of that year‚ but the amendment did not officially
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Plan Asia Regional Office Plan / Bernice Wong Asia Child Marriage Initiative: Summary of Research in Bangladesh‚ India and Nepal 1 Table of contents Table of contents................................................................................................................................................................2 List of acronyms....................................................................................................................................................
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including differences believe about slavery between northern and southern states. During the civil war Union and Confederacy have their own advantages and strategy. The Union has almost all the naval power and shipyards belonged to the North. President Abe was a great leader. The had huge advantages in manpower and resources‚ the North had about 22‚000‚000 people. 85% of the nation’s factories were located in the north. The north had double the railroad mileage. They also have the slave to help. President
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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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