The Equal Rights Amendment "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." In 1923‚ this statement was admitted to Congress under the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The ERA was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution granting equality between men and women under the law. If the Era was passed‚ it would have made unconstitutional any laws that grant one sex different rights than the other
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Atlantic. In 1912‚ the RMS Titanic sank for a multitude of reasons and events. The hull malfunction made the Titanic break in two which in return‚ caused many deaths. The cracks‚ the booms‚ are all caused by some critical hull failures. The ship did indeed break in two which was due to a probable hull failure. A hull failure due to the slow sinking of the Titanic‚ a huge stress builds up. This stress concentrates on parts of the ship and that’s called a stress-concentration (Deitz). The stress
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Alfred von Schlieffen‚ the brains behind the Schlieffen Plan‚ wanted to make a war plan that would take into account the factors that it would have in the way. First of all‚ the plan was built around the fact that the war would be a two-front war between France and Russia. Also Austria-Hungary being their only ally that they can depend on. This plan plan was formed in 1905‚ so the plan lacked in industrial issues. For example‚ machine guns and other modern weapons that could create a big hole in
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Influence of freedmen on Claudius The term freedman refers to a former slave who has been liberated from slavery. The empire delegated his authority to senators‚ members of his family and personal staff. In addition to family and friends‚ the emperor also relied on his freedmen. Claudius was not the first princeps to use freedmen in the day to day running of the empire. As a matter of fact he made no attempt to conceal the influence of these freedmen on his ruling of Rome. As the role of princeps
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break down in our system. In brief‚ the campaign was a failure. It was a failure as we did not successfully push through the Turkish lines to Istanbul‚ and then on to attack the Germans on another front to help the Russians who were suffering heavy causualties at the time. So‚ heres why we retreated: * Second thoughts in Parliament: worth the casualties??? * Supply lines were not working. Men did not get enough stuff * No one knew how to do an amphibious assault: we just rowed to
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Mary also allowed 800 Protestants to leave the country when she could have stopped them and killed them and rumours say that Mary had evidence that her half-sister Elizabeth had plotted to kill her but Mary decided to destroy the evidence because she did not want Elizabeth to be killed for treason ‚anyway ‚most of the English population were completely unaffected by Mary’s executions. By Georgia Thorne
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the same rights as men‚ so they wanted to conceive an amendment that would force people to treat them as equally as men and anyone else. This amendment was called the Equal Rights Amendment. On March 22‚ 1972‚ the equal rights amendment‚ E.R.A.‚ was passed by the United States Senate and was sent to the states for ratification. Thirty states ratified the amendment but then a revolutionary turn took place and states were backing out of their ratification left and right. The Equal Rights Amendment
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The South resisted all attempts at Reconstruction at every turn in an attempt to keep slavery and undermine African American social‚ political and economic opportunities. Reconstruction (1865-1877) is the time in which former confederate states were re-entered into the Union. During this time‚ the South was divided into military districts‚ and occupied by Union soldiers. It was a period in which opportunities for former slaves were expanded‚ as well as a period of unrest and resistance from the South
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government could collectively pass was the Reconstruction Plan. The Reconstruction Plan focused on punishing the south by helping freedmen and establishing their (limited) rights‚ preventing confederate soldiers from voting‚ and having almost total reign over former confederate state government. However‚ the plan of reconstruction would be so degraded over time that most of the progress made for arican americans would be reversed. Overall the reconstruction plan failed‚ the reasons behind these failures
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The Ottoman Empire joined World War I in search to save themselves and avoid risk of destruction‚ but the exact opposite happened to them causing their ultimate downfall. The Ottoman Empire began in the year 1299. The empire stood for about 600 years and was established by Turkish tribes in Anatolia‚ Turkey. The name “Ottoman” came from the founding Turkman chief‚ Osman the first. Osman founded the dynasty and the empire around the year 1300. Overtime‚ the Ottoman Empire would continue to progress
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