Galileo Galilei is a man known for greatly improving the telescope‚ discovering Jupiter’s four largest moons‚ and being the man who experimented with falling objects in the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He was an Italian astronomer‚ mathematician‚ and a physicist. He gave important contributions to science‚ especially in the field of astronomy. With his telescope‚ he discovered the moon’s spherical shape and rough texture‚ Venus’ phases‚ and Jupiter’s moons that do not revolve around earth. All which contradicted
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Why Did Stalin Become a Dictator? At the beginning of the 20th century‚ Russia was a very poor country. Most of the people were peasants‚ and there was very little industry. After the First World War‚ things only got worse; the army suffered many huge defeats. The poorest of the people were starving‚ due to a shortage of food. During the war‚ in 1917 the Communists came about by two important revolutions; they were led by Lenin. Communism is a system of government in which the state controls the
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surround whether or not slavery destroyed the Black family. A family is a social unit living together and people descended from a common ancestor. The debate focuses on Wilma A. Dunaway who posits that slavery did destroy the Black family‚ and her opponent‚ Eugene D. Genovese‚ who says that slavery did not destroy the Black family. By analyzing Dunway‚ Genovese‚ and a host of other writers I have gather my own ideas for one side to agree with. As above stated‚ it is Dunaway’s contention that slavery destroyed
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Pericles‚ and His Influence on Athens Pericles became the leader of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War and was responsible for the rebuilding and reconstructing of this city. He became very powerful and well known through out the age of the 5th century‚ so powerful that this became known as the age of Pericles. He was the son of Xanthippus and Agariste. His father‚ Xanthippus was a military leader during the Peloponnesian Wars and was the victor at the Battle of Mycale. He would later
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"Why Did You Kill Me?" On March 1‚ 1932‚ the 20-month-old son of famed aviator Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh was kidnapped from his nursery in the Lindbergh ’s home near Hopewell‚ New Jersey. The kidnapping generated worldwide interest‚ and both the New Jersey State Police and the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations) launched massive investigations. Four years later‚ a 36-year-old German immigrant‚ Richard Bruno Hauptmann‚ would be executed for this
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Any media such newspapers‚ radio‚ cinema and theatre that conveyed anti-Nazi ideas were censored and all books that did not agree with the Nazi point of view were all banned and often publicly burned. This was important in the Nazis maintenance of power as people did not get to see any negative opinions on the Nazi Party’s views. Despite this however‚ it is believed that propaganda did not have much affect on the working class people of Germany with historian Tim Mason claiming‚ “ Nazi Propaganda was
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The prohibition was a important in American history. Most Americans did not want the Prohibition to happen but most people know that In 1919‚ “congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ‚ outlawing the manufacturing and sale of alcohol nationwide” (Benson). This sent people into anger and madness. A majority of Americans were in favor of alcohol and did not want to give it up‚ this made people illegally make‚ receive‚ and transport alcohol so they
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How did the Weimar Republic come about? Why did it face difficulties in its first 6 months? In November 1918‚ Germany had clearly been defeated by their allies; Britain‚ France and the U.S.A. The allies offered Germany a peace offering‚ but under very strict conditions. The armistice that the allies wanted Germany to sign was called Article 231 and it consisted of the Kaiser taking the entire blame for World War 1. The Kaisers confidence had already been crushed because of their defeat so he refused
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wife Hera pretty much every day all day. So this all went on for centuries‚ and Hera didn’t do a single thing about it‚ but she decided to start to cheat on Zeus. So Hera went on and did this hoping that Zeus would start to feel the hurt he had been putting her though. So here too was cheating on her spouse she did this for several centuries with Zeus knowing of the affairs. Zeus for many centuries was not troubled by here are affairs‚ but he knew that‚ for he had cheated too‚ and this made him not
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1. Why did Reconstruction end? Reconstruction is where the government try to reunite the Union states and Confederate states as one and help rebuild the Southern states. Lincoln proposed the ten percent plan where only ten percent of the population in the Southern states only had to take the oath to the Union‚ but the government rejected the plan and went the Congress’s plan. Their plans was over fifty percent of the population to take the oath‚ but Lincoln vetoed it. After Lincoln’s assassination
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