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    Dare You To Move Poem

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    Dare You To Move" Welcome to the planet Welcome to existence Everyone’s here Everyone’s here Everybody’s watching you now Everybody waits for you now What happens next What happens next [Chorus] I dare you to move I dare you to move I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor I dare you to move I dare you to move Like today never happened Today never happened before Welcome to the fallout Welcome to resistance The tension is here Tension is here Between who you are and

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    the Maoris thought that thy were trying to challenge them so the Maoris attacked Tasman’s crew. Tasman and his crew retreated and never came back to New Zealand. James cook was the second man to set sail to the great southern continent that Tasman did not set foot on in 1769. He was successful to interact with the Maoris and his crew were very attracted to Maori women‚ they made children with them and also might have introduced sexual diseases to the Maori. Cook also introduced metal‚ wool‚ guns

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    World War 1 in 1918 in the side of Central Powers. The Ottoman Empire was successful in many battles which gained them a vast amount of land expanding their territory. The Ottoman empire would eventually go through an economical crisis during the 1800s. This crisis was the foundation for failure. Very quickly‚ the Ottoman Empire fell into a humongous amount of debt. The Ottoman Empire got into a number of loan contracts and settlements with European creditors as soon as the Crimean war began. Following

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    Why Did World War 2 Break Out In September 1939? Germany had lost everything after World War 1. But why did they try again and start another war only just 21 years after the massive mistake they had made. There are a number of reasons for this. Germany was being dictated by a powerful dictator who would go to extreme measures. At the time Germany was under The Treaty of Versailles but they still continued to manufacture and design weapons. This really raised tension between the countries but

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    between the English settlers and the Native Americans of the area was usually the same. Native Americans would initially consider the settlers to be allies‚ then as time passed‚ they would be engaged in wars with them in a struggle for control of the land. This process of friendship to enemies seemed to be the basic pattern in the majority of the colonies. When the English landed in Jamestown in 1607‚ the dominant tribe of the area was the Powhatan (which the English settlers named after the leader

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    of Chinese immigrants …became a source of cheap labor to work the railroads‚ mines‚ fisheries‚ farms‚ orchards‚ canneries‚ garment industries‚ manufacturing of cigars‚ boots‚ etc.” (Asian and Pacific American Federal Employees Council 1984‚ p.1). Westward expansion was deeply rooted by the competition of the transcontinental railroad. Chinese labor forces represented a significant number of those who contributed to the establishment of the transcontinental

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    Why Did The Civil War Happen? Bang! Why did the Civil War start? The main reason of the Civil War was John Brown‚Bleeding Kansas and Abraham Lincoln they all have a lot to do with the Civil War and how it started. It was about freeing slaves and making all states free states for slaves. It was a Civil War because the South was fighting The North because they wanted too free states and other people wanted to keep slaves because they didn’t have to pay them. John Brown was a crazy man basically he

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    Spanish Empire because at the time European nations were great rivals (there were constant wars opposing the British to the French and to the Spaniards‚ it was a context of constant competition). Then the 2nd reason was to find gold as Spain and Portugal did in South America. But the 1st settlement was in Virginia and they quickly realized that there were no gold but they persisted because there were other things that were valuable (tobacco‚ cotton‚ sugar‚ fur…). Tobacco was cultivated in Virginia and Sugar

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    importantly the Roman Empire. Why do they fall‚ and how did they collapse? An empire can collapse in various of ways. For example‚ poor militaries‚ politics‚ a weak economy‚ or even because of the religion. For instance‚ militaries can cause a huge roll in why a union is dying. They can be inexperienced‚ or simply they do not have the loyalty to the empire they are fighting for. They can get sick from illnesses‚ like the plague. The emperors can also play a big role in why an empire is receding.They

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    From the years 1800-1850 the nation was full of battles and prosperity. Territorial expansion was a cause in most of the battles‚ but also gained prosperity for the nation. There were many impacts on national unity between those time periods‚ but the main impact was territorial expansion. This is true because of the Louisiana Purchase‚ the purchase of Oregon territory‚ and the Mexican War. The Louisiana Purchase was the most important event of President Thomas Jefferson ’s first Administration

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