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    Animals Should Not Be Kept In Zoos Animals love being in their natural habitat; the wild. Far too many wild animals are kept in zoos being poorly treated and tried to shape into domestic pets. Majority of the enclosures are too small for the animals inside them. So many animals lose their natural instincts and then then if they are returned to the wild for any reason they don’t know how to act or hunt as a wild animal. People say it’s okay to have animals in zoos because it’s educational but it

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    Do you ever think about being a slave? How brutal and harsh being a slave was? Well‚ poor Frederick Douglass knows exactly what it’s like‚ and here’s his story. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey is also known as Frederick Douglass‚ he was born in February 1818. His real birth date is unknown‚ but later in his life‚ they celebrated it on February 14th. Frederick was born in Tuckahoe‚ Maryland. Frederick was born into slavery. When he was just 12 years old‚ he learned to read and write from a

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    ludicrous that most African-Americans were content with their station in life. Although that was how they were portrayed to the white people‚ it was a complete myth. Most slaves were dissatisfied with their stations in life‚ and longed to have the right of freedom. Their owners were acutely conscious of this fact and went to great lengths to prevent slave uprisings from occurring. An example of a drastic measure would be the prohibition of slaves receiving letters. They were also not allowed to converge outside

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    were there three Opium Wars in China during the 19th century? The Opium Wars were a series of three wars between the Chinese and the British; primarily fought in regard to the illegal trade of opium in China during the 19th century. They manifested the conflicting natures of both nations and demonstrated China’s misconceptions of its own superiority. The Opium Wars resulted in the humiliating defeat of the Chinese to a country they considered to be "barbarians". There were many problems with

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    Demerara Slave Revolt

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    The Demerara Slave Revolt The 1823 slave revolt in Demarara‚ Guyana‚ started on a sugar plantation called “Plantation Success”- on the east coast of the colony on August 23. It spread throughout the nearby area to involve slaves from at least fifty-five plantations. In total‚ around ten thousand of the approximately seventy-five thousand slaves who lived in the colony rose in violent rebellion against their oppressors. The revolt would have been even larger‚ however‚ had the slaves succeeded in

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    War‚ was a conflict between England and France‚ was not actually a single war that lasted a hundred years; instead it was a series of wars interspersed with periods of peace that began in May 1337 and ended in October 1453. The three main conflicts were the Edwardian War won by English king Edward III; the Caroline War won by French king Charles V; and the Lancastrian War won by French king Charles VII. The Hundred Years’ War was the outcome of disputes between the ruling families of the two countries

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    Frederick Douglass was a African-American slave‚ and as many slaves didn’t achieve he escaped from slavery. He made progress and became a free man. Freedom for African-American individuals was hard to get in the south. Many slave owners thought that it was better for slaves to be slaves then for them to be a free person in the real world. There are many men that defended slavery. Slavery was a real big thing and the white man who didn’t defend slavery were know as traders and they may have been

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    The journal article‚ ‘The Revolt On The Slave Ship Creole: Popular resistance to slavery in post-emancipation Nassau’ was written by Edward Eden. Dr. Edward Eden is a professor of English at Hanover College‚ Indiana‚ U.S.A. This article was taken from the ‘Journal of the Bahamas Historical Society‚ October 2000‚’ pages 13 through 20.’ As penned by the author the main purpose of this article is to familiarize its Bahamian readers with the revolt on the slave ship Creole in an effort to solicit sources

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    What values did the founding generation believe were important to a successful America? If more Americans pondered this question‚ they would have a more clear understanding of why those brave men who came before us risked their blood‚ treasure and sacred honor to create the greatest nation on Earth. The Founding Fathers were a revolutionary group whose goal was American liberty. They believed in religious freedom in order for a successful America. They understood that the citizens should have a say

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    Slave Monologue

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    grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me like a salt shaker I warned him that if he ever touched me again‚ I’d leave him for good. I should have gone‚ right away‚ but the words‚ "for better‚ for worse" drifted from his mouth. Marriage took effort and we were young. Things would work out. All blame fell on me; I had made him angry. He promised that he’d never physically hurt me again and he didn’t until many years later. However‚ the emotional‚ verbal abuse

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