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    Partition: Was it worth it?

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    Partition was it worth it? India‚ in many people’s opinion is a very beautiful‚ culturally rich‚ and traditionally country. It is a place with gorgeous grand architecture‚ fashionable attire‚ and wonderful people. India is a country in South Asia‚ with a population of roughly about 1‚210‚193‚422. This is the place where many religions were born‚ religions such as Hinduism‚ Jainism‚ Buddhism‚ Islam‚ and Sikhism. It is also a place with a very dark history‚ a tragic experience for hundreds

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    Are Drug Abusers a Cause Worth Fighting For? When thinking about the numerous causes to rally for‚ do drug abusers make the list? Most philanthropists would generally focus their attention and resources towards cancer or children‚ rather than drug addicts. There has been a long standing battle between drugs and the people who succumb to them. Many organizations have made it their mission to help drug abusers break the cycle of addiction and help them claim back the lives that drugs

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    Was Dieppe Worth It?

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    Was Dieppe Worth It? On August 19th 1942‚ Allied forces from Britain and Canada tried to capture the port of Dieppe‚ in German controlled France. Over 6000 allied troops took part in the attack‚ and more that half were killed‚ wounded‚ or captured. The battle only lasted nine hours. Even though the raid was a failure‚ it taught the Allies important things about planning and carrying out an attack‚ and helped the Allies succeed on D-Day‚ June 6th 1944‚ with the invasion of Normandy. If Canada had

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    "Slavery was the Cause of the Civil War." Although the North and the South were part of the same Union they were very different in many ways. The Southern states believed in slavery while the northern states were against it. Eventually it would lead to the War Between the States or the Civil War. There other reasons that left to the Civil War as well but slavery was the main cause of the war. The South had always been slave states. They wanted them to include the new states as slave states so

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    Was the American civil war inevitable? The civil war was inevitable‚ only however‚ after one key event; the cotton gin made the civil war inevitable. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 was the key element which enabled the south to have sufficient vested interest in their traditional lifestyle in order to feel the need to defend it at all costs even from their Northern countrymen. The core argument of this essay centres around the evidence which clearly defines their being in existence two

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    The Civil War was utterly devastating. There are more American casualties resulting from that war than any war combined. The effects of the war still resonate today‚ including racism. A question that historians‚ Americans‚ and the President of the United States have pondered is: could the Civil War been avoided? Writer and historian James McGregor Burns argued that with the right leadership‚ the Civil War was avoidable. I am in agreement with Burns‚ with the potential help of better political leaders

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    As tensions continued to build because of the constitution allowing slavery‚ the South felt it was being backed up into a corner. (Schultz‚ 2013) The problem was‚ the South’s entire economy depended on slave labor. The North was already industrially sound‚ however in the South‚ it was the way of life and was based upon an agricultural society rather than an industrial society. The civil war was inevitable because the North and the South would not compromise on issues of slavery‚ sectionalism‚ and

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    military historians have written about the American Civil war as been the first total war ‚ however it is not enough for one to just agree with this view without understanding in details what total war is all about‚ and what are the characteristics of a total war‚ it also imperative to know whether the American civil war was a total war‚ before proceeding to see if it was the first total war by closely examining what Scholars and war historians have said about the topic‚ some Authors

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    Lincoln explains how the house would not stay the way it was‚ which was divided. Half of the United States supported slavery and the other half did not. Lincoln states‚ “A house divided against itself cannot stand”‚ concluding that something needed and was going to happen to change that. When relating this to the question of whether the Civil War was inevitable or not‚ this supports that is was indeed inevitable. The question of slavery was too grand of an issue to not result in some type of event

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    Name __________________________ Civil War Persuasive Essay Question Instructions: Answer the following question in a well-developed‚ five-paragraph persuasive essay: “Was the Civil War inevitable or preventable?” Suggestions and requirements:  Your answer should be equivalent to at least 5 paragraphs of 5-6 average-length sentences each.  Your answer can be “yes‚” “no” or somewhere in between.  Make sure you understand the wording of the question fully before you begin.  It would

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