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    Throughout the history of the world‚ there have been many failures. The existence of slavery pushed "United States" into a dreadful collision between the Northern abolitionists and the Southern proslavery southerners. With the Civil war being the most horrific war in American history with the most casualties‚ the country was bound to reconstruct. The South was devastated due to abolition of slavery causing the economy to become insubstantial. After the nation faced economic downfall‚ the reconstruction

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    Section I: Essay The Articles of Confederation was‚ in a sense‚ the first United States constitution. It was adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15‚ 1777 and later ratified by all 13 original states on March 1‚ 1781. The Constitution later replaced the Articles when it was ratified by New Hampshire on June 21‚ 1788. The two documents have a lot in common‚ such as being established by the same people‚ both served to maintain a free government‚ both referred to the nation as the United

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    Background: Harold Holt was born in Stanmore‚ New South Wales on 5 August 1908. He was the elder of two children. Holt was enrolled at Wesley College in Melbourne‚ which happens to be where the future Prime Minister Robert Menzies had been a star pupil as well. It is argued that due to a lack of parental love‚ is mothers early death and his parents’ divorce caused many feelings of loneliness and insecurity in Holt. Holt did very well in school‚ winning a scholarship to the University of Melbourne

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    Milton Hershey Milton Hershey was born September 13‚ 1857 to Fannie Snavely and Henry Hershey in the city of Derry Township‚ Pennsylvania. He had one sibling name Serina who was born in 1862. Fannie was the daughter of Bishop Abraham Snavely‚ who was of the Mennonite Church. His father too was a member of the Mennonite Church‚ but unfortunately‚ he always schemed “get rich schemes” that always seemed to fail. This would adversely affect the family‚ as there was not a stable environment for Milton

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    Reasons for Confederation

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    If there wasn’t the Confederation of Canada‚ we would still be a colony of Britain or part of the United States. There were many reasons for the Confederation of Canada. Three of them were the need for railroads‚ the threat of American expansion and the desire to expand settlement west. As I stated before‚ one of the reasons for confederation was a need for railroads. There were many obstacles separating the United Province of Canada from the Atlantic colonies. Some of these obstacles were the

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    anthem for doomed youth

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    would definitely identify with this poem; no one else (i.e. civilians) could understand everything that they went through during the war. They are fighting a war without knowing the real reasons behind it. They were often poorly equipped. They are the doomed youth of their day. Line 1: "passing-bells" is a tolling of a bell to announce a soul is passing‚ or has passed‚ from its body. It is also a tolling during the passing of a funeral procession to the grave‚ or during the actual funeral ceremony.

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    Anthem for Doomed Youth

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    Owen uses a contrast within the title ‚ “Doomed Youth” ‚ he does this deliberately because using “doomed youth” ‚ puts the young people of war and he try’s to discourage them as it is nothing like what the propaganda claim it to be. The first question highlights animal imagery ‚ “dying like cattle” ‚ this shows the soldiers are nameless. There death lacks dignity ‚ dehumanised. Personification is used to mirror the guns ‚ “anger of the guns” ‚ in the noun phrase it makes the guns sound real. Owen

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    Illuminating Company‚ and was promoted to chief engineer rather quickly (Staff‚ 2009). In 1896 while employed at (EIC) Mr. Ford built his first

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    Introduction The Swiss Confederation was founded in 1291 as a defensive alliance among three cantons. In succeeding years‚ other localities joined the original three. The Swiss Confederation secured its independence from the Holy Roman Empire in 1499. A constitution of 1848‚ subsequently modified in 1874‚ replaced the confederation with a centralized federal government. Switzerland’s sovereignty and neutrality have long been

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    The Articles of Confederation were meant to give the United States a loose‚ weak central government‚ making the Articles ineffective. With the Articles of Confederation‚ the United States was unable to support soldiers due to the inabilities of Congress. The United States was also unable to remove British trading posts from their home soil. The weakest states‚ who were not influential and least populous‚ had power over those that were strong and heavily populated. Also‚ the United States did not

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