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    Compare and contrast: Oskar’s personality In the novel‚ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer The book’s narrator‚ a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell   whose father (Thomas Schell) dies from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11‚ 2001. Oskar then copes with his father missing from his life by trying to find the owner of a key he found in his father’s closet. Now‚ this story’s protagonist

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    The French and American Revolutions Although the American and French Revolutions were similar in many ways‚ the American Revolution still managed to experience greater success. The American Revolution started in 1776 and was fought by the American colonies and the British. The British heavily taxed the colonies‚ which made the colonists upset. This resulted in a war between the two‚ which the colonists ultimately won. The French Revolution started in 1789 and was a series of riots consisting of

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    Compare and Contrast United States and Canada All countries in the world are unique in different ways. We never take time to compare between two countries unless we have a chance to visit them. United States and Canada are two neighboring countries which shares several amenities and beauty. The two countries have several similarities but are different in many aspects. A comparison between the two countries based on geographical climate‚ language‚ economy and political system make these differences

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    The development of the columbian exchange and the spanish empire created major population changes‚ brought new crops‚ and created wealth and power. Diseases wiped out some populations in the new world‚ while new crops increased other populations in the old world. New crops also became staple foods of some european countries. Wealth and power was exchanged from the new world to create the spanish empire. All of these things combined resulted in extensive changes in the old world and the new world

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    General Assembly. This quote is explaining that people must stop fighting in war or war will kill everybody. This quote relates to the short story‚ The Sniper and the poem‚ The Man He Killed. Through the literary devices of plot‚ irony and theme. The short story “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty and the poem “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy both share similarities and differences throughout the plot. The author stated how the plot was similar by saying‚ “Here and there through the city‚ machine

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    The main Spanish motives for colonization were for Gold‚ God and Glory. Many European nations were beginning to look towards new lands after the catastrophic bubonic plague that killed more than a third of the people on the continent and damaged the already weak economy. The first motive of the Spaniards was to become one of the prominent sea faring nations in order to compete with Portugal then the preeminent maritime most powerful seafaring nation in Europe and claim lands for Spain. When the

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    British views of the Revolution was initially favorable because of the belief that the Revolution would weaken an old enemy and transform France into a constitutional monarchy. The discussion was in the beginning was divided between the Pro group led by the idealistic Thomas Paine and the Anti group whose greatest proponent was Edmund Burke. In the early 1790s a political storm was felt in London‚ as politically marginalized groups sort to ride the wave of revolution. Thomas Paine was the most pro-French

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    Rebellions against the Government‚ and land disputes. Some events were more critical than others. The end of the Anglo-French imperial competition was due to Great Britain winning this war. It was seen as French and Indian war because French and Great Britain were always in competition for territory in North America. Great Britain challenged the French for territory. The 1763 Treaty of Paris gave Britain full control of American Colonies. The colonists were angered about losing control of their

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    How does piracy affect British Imperial ambitions? What is the role of piracy and the British Imperial project in 17c Caribbean? During the the seventeenth century‚ the Caribbean islands were dominated by the power of the Spanish. The Caribbean was in the midst of the constant struggle between Spain’s effort to regain control over the trade of goods in their American empire and the attempt to reduce the sphere of influence from the rising imperial powers of Netherlands‚ France and especially England

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    The British 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

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