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    Sierra McCoy The Great Depression Introduction: The Great depression started in 1929 and lasted until 1939. Not only did it affect the United States‚ but it also affected Europe‚ and other areas in the world. This was the worst and longest-lasting industrialized experience ever. It was said that the depression started six months earlier in the US than in Europe. The biggest cause of the depression was the crash of the stock markets. The New York Stock Exchange was one of the markets

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    1865‚ Abraham Lincoln went to Laura Keene’s light comedy‚ "Our American Cousin"‚ at Ford’s Theater in Washington‚ D.C.‚ but then a man called John Wilkes Booth shot him in the head because he wanted to avenge for the South. If I could change history‚ I would change the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. If he wasn’t assassinated‚ he could have help the economic integration‚ western development‚ and cleaning the Confederate slate Abraham Lincoln could have help even more with the economic integration

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    Christopher Columbus Essay Although Christopher Columbus was a huge impacted on US history. He did more harm then good‚ he started slave trade‚ he forced religion on the Indiana and he a was a mass murder. Christopher Columbus destroyed cultural tradition and killing multiply people for what reason? Christopher Columbus started the slave trade. He demanded the Lucayan’s to give his men food‚ gold and sex. He didn’t get the gold he wanted so he didn’t have to come home empty handed he sold five

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    dishonesty of the ’precious’ girls. Reverend Hale "denounced the proceedings‚ and quit the court." He knew he was wrong and that he signed innocent people’s death warrants. He tries to save the accused by urging them to confess‚ but it is too late. His change might have been lucrative if he would have been swifter. <br> <br>The protagonist‚ some what of a tragic hero‚ is John Proctor. Proctor is "a farmer in his middle thirties" who is " powerful of body‚ even-tempered‚ and not easily led." Although he

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    Bag of popcorn? Check! The Mindy Project (my favorite TV show at the moment) streaming on Hulu? Check! Tumblr‚ Twitter‚ Instagram‚ and Facebook all being intermittently checked on my phone? Check! I’m ready for a few hours of what I like to call “downtime.” This notion has without a doubt changed many times throughout American history and culture. It’s even changed in my lifetime with new technologies (I used to spend all my free time in grade school reading mystery novels). Cultures and people are

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    and was tutored by Aristotle throughout his teenage years. He later went on to become King of Macedonia after his father’s death at eighteen. He led military campaigns across the middle east and south Asia‚ but why was Alexander so important? How did he change the world? Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia in 356 BC to King Philip and Queen Olympia. King Philip was absent most of his life and the prince grew to resent him‚ and at age 13 the King assigned the famous philosopher

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    George Washington Rough Draft Throughout history there have been many influential individuals that have helped shape society. These many individuals range from politicians to space explorers. One of the most impactful people of American history is the first president of the United States‚ George Washington. George washington was in the Revolutionary War and he had a very strong political career. Even though all of his family died‚ with little support he still achieved greatness. EARLY LIFE

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    Not only did people die because of starvation‚ but some were hanged as well. The hanging that affected Elie the most was when a young boy dangled on life for everyone to witness. Elie did not understand the actions of God and neither did many around him‚ many wondered where God was and Elie responded‚ “Where He is? This is where-hanging here from this gallows…” (65). Elie

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    Thutmose III was the 6th Pharoah of the 18th Dynasty in Egypt. During his reign‚ he created a new model for a larger army; reformed the administration‚ weapons‚ chariots; and developed a way for the army to support itself away from Egypt (Gabriel 21). Most relevantly‚ he changed Egypt’s originally more defensive policies into an offensive strategy‚ which required the control of city-states in Canaan and Syria. The new policies focused on finding ways to travel faster during campaigns‚ and required

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    STALIN Joseph Stalin was the prime minister of the soviet union He was basically a Russian .He was the prime minister from 6may 1941 until his death .   EARLY LIFE: Stalin was born  on 18 December 1878[1] to Ketevan Geladze and Besarion Jughashvili‚his father was a clobber in gori‚ Russian empire‚ now Georgia. He was their fourth child; their three previous sons died in infancy. At the age of seven‚ he contracted smallpox.  At ten‚ he began attending church school where the Georgian children

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