Why did Shakespeare Write Hamlet? Shakespeare wrote Hamlet because his only son had died of an unknown illness at the age of just 11. Dating all the way back to the spring/summer of 1596 Shakespeare had received word that his only son Hamnet was ill at the age of 11. Shakespeare being on the road with his company he would only be able to receive news from his family as he was very busy with his tour. In the summer of 1596 Shakespeare had just heard that his only son Hamnet had gotten much sicker
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was on its way. Instead‚ forces from British Special Operations landed and used phonographs (a recording device) to play the sounds of soldiers’ voices and to simulate combat fire. In spite of the success of the initial landing‚ Operation Bodyguard did not end on June 6‚ 1944. The use of double agents allowed the Allies to keep feeding false information to the Germans‚ and it also allowed them to keep putting more and more
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Soviet Union. Khrushchev’s plan was to convert unused land in Serbia and Kazakhstan into farming land. Yet‚ there were 3 main reasons why this project failed. Khrushchev had discouraged the use of the highly popular and efficient crop cycle and fallow land techniques. Furthermore‚ he did not provide these farms with the basic tools and materials to grow crops. He did not even provide them with fertilizer. This caused much of the farmland to be ruined and in 1960 half of all the farmland designated
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depended on slavery was the number one reason why they didn’t want slavery to be abolished. The Southern economy would go down the drain because they depended on slave labor. Without the slaves there would be no one to work the fields. The cotton economy would collapse‚ the tobacco crop would dry‚ and the rice would be profitable. They also said that slavery existed throughout history and that it was part of the natural being of mankind. Not only did Americans have slavery but also Greeks‚ Roman
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Scott Fitzgerald of “The Great Gatsby”‚ gives his readers signs on why Gatsby will not reach fail and lost his mind in a fantasy world‚ insisting himself to relive the past life with his former love Daisy. Even though Gatsby is blinded by his past‚ he is able to gain the American Dream‚ to obtain the wealth and power to win Daisy’s heart back. Although he has forgotten‚ it has been five years since he has reunited with Daisy. When time passes‚ memories are made and decisions are formed to each
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anger all across the colonies he even made a picture of the even and called it the Bloody Massacre. This anger and resentment of the British led to the next event that would later lead on to the war. The Boston tea party was another humongous reason why America went to war with Britain. On December 16‚ 1773 the colonists and the Sons of Liberty stormed 3 British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor disguised as native americans because of the tea tax that Britain had started. In current
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JROTC essay LetII Why Did I Join Army JROTC? I joined Army JROTC for many reasons. Ever since I was little‚ I’ve been interested in joining the army. Playing with toy soldiers as a kid‚ watching movies playing‚ and video games showed me what army life was like. You wake up really early in the morning‚ shoot guns‚ throw grenades‚ and going to war were some of the things that interested me for some reason. Right before high school I started getting more informed about the JROTC program. I learned
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1920’s- Did it truly roar? The roaring twenties were a period of excitement and wealth which also served as a façade that covered all the negatives which are often ignored. These negatives included a growing loss of civil liberties‚ massive amounts of xenophobia and racism‚ crime as a result of religious fundamentalism‚ and the abandonment of progressivism and a movement towards isolationism. The 1920’s were a period of economic boom‚ new culture and emerging technologies. New ideas surfaced
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- Why did Japan turn to militarism and drift away from democracy in the 1930s and the 1940s? How did US occupation authorities seek to prevent Japan from relapsing into the past system of military expansion? The root of Japan’s militarism started out from the developments of the Meiji era that was established by imperial restoration after Edo period. The idea of the Meiji Revolution‚ to boost morale and to extricate Japan from the idea of Tokugawa feudalism‚ had been carried over to turn Japan
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Why Did The Spanish Armada’s Plan To Overthrow Protestant England In 1588 Fail? It was believed the Spanish Armada were a formidable force and could not be beaten; their weapons and tactics were far superior to any other countries. However‚ the inevitable happened‚ they were beaten and in this enquiry I will talk about the reasons and factors to why the Spanish Armada ended up getting beat trying to overthrow protestant England in 1588. The conflict between England and Spain had been going
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