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    In 1930 the number of seats held by the Nazis in the Reichstag sky rocketed. In 1928 they only had 12 seats‚ but 4 years later they were by far the biggest party. There were a number of reasons why this surge of popularity took place. One key reason was the state of the economy. After the Wall Street crash of October 1929‚ the country experienced economic collapse. Unemployment doubled as a result of this. Also‚ all the foreign loans were suddenly called in and the Weimar government was forced

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    the biggest religions in the modern world. Islam was created in the 600s and grew quickly over the next few decades. However‚ the question is‚ why did Islam spread so quickly? Islam spread quickly because of flourishing trade routes‚ military conquests out of Mecca‚ and the appeal of its central ideology. One of the biggest reasons that Islam spread so quickly was because of the connecting trade routes. Mecca was a very prosperous and important city‚ that was the crossroads of a caravan trade. The

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    Why Is Childhood Important? Written by Evan Bailyn on 06/20 at 11:43 AM “Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” We know nothing of what happened before our birth‚ and we certainly know nothing of what will happen after we die. Movies‚ slide shows‚ and accounts of what life was like in other times are all fascinating to contemplate‚ but we cannot ever truly know what it is like to exist outside of our lifespan. The only period of time over which we have

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    The purpose of my paper is to answer the question of ‘why did France fall so swiftly in 1940’? Why did this mighty nation succumb to the Germans so quickly? If the Germans had failed in their conquest it is very possible that the war would have ended right there. But their victory in France eventually drew the entire world into war. I will delve into the problems that plagued the nation and come up with an analysis of why France surrendered only six weeks after the invasion of Germany. From the

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    government has always been a suppressing force over the colonists. The colonists have endured many different difficulties and impediments that the British has imposed onto them. Many of which‚ has affected the colonists greatly causing them to lash out at the unsatisfactory British imperial policies. The colonists over the course of history‚ has suffered through many unfair policies that at one point‚ they just couldn’t take it anymore. One of the many policies that the British implemented was the Proclamation

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    1 The ww1 was devastating because of the twentieth-century technology they used all kind of the technology. They had powerful guns and artillery and the mobility of the roads made it stronger so they could defend themselves they even used airplanes on the battlefield. They made all kind of modern weapons but the most destructive weapon was the barbed wire it would sting the soldiers from the other army they would become tangled in the wire easy for the other soldiers to kill the soldiers from the

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    Why Is Poker So Popular

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    and strategy. And even though Poker is a very old game‚ it has increasingly become popular within the last 15 years or so. The actual cards were the beginning and technology has now paved the way for Poker to continue to be played in our homes‚ and even on our smartphones. Now that Poker is being seen as a sport with televised coverage of high stakes games‚ mainly Texas Hold’em‚ many new players and even amateurs are taking to playing poker professionally. With million dollar tournaments being held

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    Why I Hope To Die At 75

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    Why I Hope To Die At 75 When Ezekiel J. Emanuel told his friends and brothers his preference of dying at 75‚ they all thought he was crazy. Life is so fragile‚ as there is so much to see and do in the world. There are myriads out there who out lied the age of 75 and are doing fine. Emanuel hopes to die at 75 with the satisfaction of living a complete life‚ pursued lifes projects‚ and seeing his children as well as grandchildren grow. Although evolution plays a role in how long you live‚ he plans

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    Why is Gatsby so great?

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    A dream is defined as: a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything so lovely‚ transitory‚ etc. as to seem dreamlike. In the beginning pages of Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby"‚ Nick Carraway‚ the narrator of the story gives the audience a glimpse into Gatsby’s idealistic dream which is later disintegrated. "No- Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby‚ what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest

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    Finally‚ another explanation for why Sufism spread so widely in the Mamlūk period‚ is the consolidation of an institutionalised identity from the Sufi brotherhoods‚ most conspicuously the Shādhilīya order. Hoffer argues that the creation of an institutionalised Shādhilī identity was just as one of the many outcomes of the institutionalisation of Sufi philosophy and religious practice. It was these institutionalised creeds and religious activities which gave a sense of allurement to charismatic individuals

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