Depression of the 1930s was a result of World War I. Germany had to pay off war debts to France and Britain‚ but in the meantime‚ they borrowed money from the U.S. There was a chain connecting everyone‚ and when Germany finally failed to pay France and Britain‚ the chain of money stopped. France and Britain could not pay the U.S. back‚ and the stock market crash ensued shortly afterwards. Its severity was due to the chain reactions and interlocking of the different countries. Germany was suffering major
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DOWNFALL OF ZIMBABWE ECONOMY F.Y B.com (Accounting & Finance) COMMERCE PROJECT BY - KEDAR BHOIR (07) VIKAS KHADE (23) MEET GALA (56) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to express our greatest gratitude to the people who have helped and supported us throughout the project. We are grateful to our Prof. Oberoi for his continuous support for the project‚ from
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LaTour’s death was a murder committed by her maid‚ Celeste. All signs and clues lead up to prove Celeste was the murderer of Amy LaTour. The murder was committed due to jealousy of Amy being wealthy and pretty while Celeste is only a maid. Her boyfriends’‚ Henry Willy and Joe Wonty as well as the burglar‚ Louis Spanker have nothing to do with this crime. Amy LaTour was sitting at her vanity before her death and that is how she ended up facing the ceiling when she died. That means she was able to see
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Oedipus; the blame for his downfall The prophecy given to King Laius and Jocasta stated that their new born child Oedipus will eventually kill his father and marry his mother. To prevent the prophecy from coming true‚ King Laius and Jocasta ordered Oedipus to be abandoned in the mountains alone to die. Oedipus‚ escaping death unknowingly with the help of the Shepherd‚ continued on living life with the King and queen of Corinth‚ before his journey to Thebes‚ where the prophecies came true. Oedipus’s
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Eventually‚ St. Nicholas came to the New World‚ or the United States. This had a great deal to do with the Dutch settlers who came to this country in the 17th century. When the Dutch came to the New World‚ their lead ship had a figure head‚ or statue‚ on its bow of St. Nicholas‚ or as the Dutch called him‚ Sinter Klaas‚ the patron saint of sailors. This was to guarantee the ship safe passage. When the Dutch arrived in the New World‚ they gave thanks to the Patron Saint of Sailors for their safe
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main character‚ Oedipus Rex‚ killed his father and married his mother. Approaching the end of the play‚ Creon‚ now the King of Thebes‚ said to Oedipus‚ "Think no longer/That you are in command here‚ but rather think/How‚ when you were‚ you served your own destruction." Creon is correct in this pronouncement. Three times throughout the play‚ Oedipus failed to take the advice of significant people in his life. His father‚ Polybus‚ the prophet‚ Teiresias‚ and his wife‚ Jocasta‚ all tried to advise him
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The Great Depression was an economic downfall that was during the 1930’s. In the previous decade people lived in prosperity and believed it would continue. Many thing accounted for the overall cause of the Great Depression‚ like over optimism and buying on margin‚ but the main cause was speculation. Speculation is investment in stocks in the hope to gain‚ but with the risk of loss. In the 1920’s the stock market was booming.The way of buying a portion of a company became a way to make easy money
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contributed to their failure. Answers may consider the four main strands of opposition‚ their internal divisions and their intolerance of each other. A tradition of revolutionary activity was established by the Populists and their appeal to the peasants‚ though they were weakened by the assassination of Alexander II and the repression established by Alexander III. The Social Revolutionaries tried to gain support among both peasants and townspeople‚ but were divided between anarchists and revolutionaries
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to seize power in October 1917 because of the leadership and determination of Lenin’ How far do you agree with this statement. It took three days for the Bolsheviks‚ specifically Trotsky’s Red Guard‚ to take control of Petrograd from 25-27 October‚ on the third day the power of the country had practically fell into their hands. The revolution was a pivotal event for world history with effects that reverberated through the 20th century. The nature of the revolution was not a spontaneous people’s
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he thought the tragic plots of his time were lacking artistic purpose and form. His work was extraordinary in that it was not of the norm for the time. His tragedies focused on the fall of a notable person‚ with suspense and climax thrown in to capture the attention of the audience. In the plays of Shakespeare‚ the tragic hero is always a noble man who enjoys some status and prosperity in society but possesses some moral weakness or flaw which leads to his downfall. External circumstances such as
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