The Civil War was a time of great social and political upheaval. It was also a time of great technological change. Inventors and military men devised new types of weapons‚ such as the repeating rifle and the submarine‚ that forever changed the way that wars were fought. Even more important were the technologies that did not specifically have to do with the war‚ like the railroad and the telegraph. Innovations like these did not just change the way people fought wars--they also changed the way people
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The Spanish-American War was a four-month conflict between Spain and the United States‚ provoked by word of Spanish colonial brutality in Cuba. Although the war was largely brought about by the efforts of U.S. expansionists‚ many Americans supported the idea of freeing an oppressed people controlled by the Spanish. At war’s end‚ America emerged victorious with newly acknowledged respect as a world power. Reasoning for war Until the 1890s‚ ambivalence about overseas possessions had restrained
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THEME OF ISOLATION IN AMERICAN LITERATURE--COLLECTED ESSAYS AND NOTES ; TONI MORRISON Toni Morrison and bell hooks Represent Blacks in American Literature Two widely known and influential authors‚ bell hooks and Toni Morrison‚ share similar beliefs and themes with regards to the black community. One theme in particular that the two writers emphasize is the representation of blacks in American literature today. hooks feels that African Americans are misrepresented‚ where Morrison believes
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WHY 1) He had begun to approve of the idea of home rule‚ but he had no interest in exchanging government by British elite for rule by an Anglicized Indian elite. If swaraj was to come to India‚ he argued‚ it must come as part of a wholesale social transformation that stripped away the old burdens of caste and crippling poverty. 2) Gandhi had said – “I felt then that it was more the fault of individual officials than of the British system‚ and that we could convert them by love. If we would improve
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The First World War was a global war centred in Europe that began from 1914 and lasted until 1918. It probably involved most of nations in the world‚ which were divided into two opposing alliances: the Allies and the Central Powers (Willmott‚ 2003:10-11). Eventually‚ on 11 November 1918‚ Germany signed an armistice‚ and Allies won the war. As a consequence‚ the First World War not only transformed the world force pattern‚ but also generated many problems that affected nations’ development all over
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From 1864 to 1914 and the beginning of World War 1 many long term factors arose. These factors included the rivalry between Germany and Great Britain‚ the alliance system which developed due to these rivalries and Militarism. Over the course of fifty years these factors developed and lead to the creation of conflict between the great powers and in turn lead to the beginning of World war 1. In 1870 Britain and Germany were on good terms due to their previous alliance against France in the early 1800’s
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Spanish American War The Spanish American war of 1898 was as the turning point for the United States becoming a world power. This war was caused by the conflict between Spain and the United States over Cuba. The United States first began its interest in purchasing Cuba before the start of the war. Because of this‚ the Americans bought some sugar lands in Cuba and invested in other products for trade. Conflict grew between Spain and the United States when General Valeriano Weyler began the policy
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Critical analysis of Hansen’s ‘Reading Sonic Culture In Emerson’s Self Reliance’ in context to Emerson’s essay ‘Self-Reliance’. “These are the voices which we hear in solitude‚ but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world”1 The essential message of Andrew Hansen’s essay‚ Reading Sonic Culture in Emerson’s ‘Self-Reliance’ is that our own voices are the most powerful tool we possess‚ and though the discovery of our self-reliance we speak out our ideas in a non-conformist
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Syntax H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is a novel written in the first person perspective with quite a variety of sentence structures but is predominantly composed of compound‚ complex‚ and compound-complex sentences. One of the few straight to the point‚ simple sentences in the text is‚ “I felt foolish and angry (44).” This sentence quickly and concisely conveys the emotional state of the narrator at this point in the story. Also contributing to the text are the long sentences that draw the
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Monday 28th of January‚2013 War of the Worlds How does Wells present mankind in the lead up to and the aftermath of the first heat-ray attack? War of the worlds was written by H. G. Wells in 1898. This book shows how naive humankind is in comparison to the martians. It exemplifies how what people thought about martians‚ undeveloped‚ silly and a joke‚ is completely wrong. They are shown as powerful and strongly developed. Wells uses a very wide range of vocabulary in his writing. He uses many words
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