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    American Indians and European colonists were often characterized as much by collaboration and cooperation as by competition. However by the mid to late seventeenth century‚ brutal wars between Indians and colonists broke out in nearly every colonial region‚ from New England down to New Spain. While nearly all colonial regions endured worsening relations between the Indians and Europeans‚ the disputes occurred due to different reasons depending on the colonial region. In New Spain for instance‚ harsh

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    The Brave New World by Aldous Huxley discusses a utopian society in which everything is "perfect". Huxley believes that a society like this will emerge in the future due to rapid development of science. Members of the society are genetically engineered and assigned a class by their intelligence. The society is truly flawless in the sense that everyone is happy with the freedoms they have. On the other hand‚ people in this society are far from perfect because of their freedoms and the way that they

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    The unjust rules and regulations imposed on the American colonists through the 1760s and 70s inevitably caused the Revolution to occur‚ and Britain to lose one of their most profitable settlements. The question is not if the colonists had a lack of liberties‚ but the fact that the government‚ over 3000 miles away‚ were controlling some of the most important freedoms they came to cherish. When the colonies emerged at first‚ the colonists obeyed the control of Great Britain as they had the mentality

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    Period: 6 Native Americans vs. colonist To begin with‚ colonists were certainly in disagreement with Native Americans. While native‚ the colonists claimed that they achieve real estate fairly; it was absolutely the Native Americans that were ahead of the game‚ Native Americans at the beginning were abused in the midst of the process to selling or buying land. In the meantime‚ colonists made use of the opportunity they were given‚ to give the Native

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    that the Nazi party could restore‚ assure work for all‚ and lead Germany to greatness again. This offer had much appeal to the people of Germany due to the crisis they were facing. After World War I was over‚ all countries in Europe were short on funding and in debt.

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    The colonists were justified in dumping the tea into Boston Harbor. This is because‚ they already had the Stamp Act‚ they didn’t want the tea in the first place‚ and they were just trying to prove a point. If you were forced to do something that you didn’t have a say in‚ would you be angry? If everything you could possibly do to make it stop backfired‚ would you do whatever it takes? This is exactly the kind of frustration the colonists were experiencing. The colonists already had the Stamp Act‚

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    The causes of the world war were 4; the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ Arms Race‚ Alliances and the Empire. I think that the most important cause is the Alliances‚ because if other countries didn’t start coming into Austria-Hungary’s war with Serbia‚ it wouldn’t have turned into a major war. The first link is from Box 3: ‘Countries wanted a big empire because they gave countries more power‚ money and prestige’‚ to Box 1: ‘Countries in Europe were competing over who had the biggest empire’

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    I have mixed emotions about people that have come and have gone in my life…there were those who left because the level of intimacy was based on unbalanced time-sharing and other reasons for not maintaining something that could stick and stay. What bothers me more is when their mannerisms change‚ they become incognito‚ and make themselves scarce once they feel that things are not conducive to their train of thought as opposed to seeing how the friendship can be saved for the long term. Yes‚ people

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    ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- b. What kind of retreat would the colonists have had to make to be acceptable to Britain? * ------------------------------------------------- The “retreat” that the colonists would need to make would be for the

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    technology? Or do you think that all inventions of scientists are worthwhile for humanity? Of course‚ lots of these inventions are helpful and useful. Also‚ some of them have created new periods in past. They played a big role for coming modernity. However‚ there are some inventions that seem very effective but they have brought new problems for humanity and environment. Especially‚ at the beginning of an invention‚ people don’t realize that it will become big problem. Nowadays‚ people are taking notice of

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