Lini Wall Essay I believe that it is better to die for what you believe rather than to lie to save your own life. Many people have died for their beliefs. There are martyrs from all over the world‚ and they were not afraid to stand up for what they believed in‚ even if it meant losing their lives. Those people have gone down in history‚ and are respected by many. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake at the age of 19 for believing that her visions
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At the end of World War II in 1945‚ Australia was recovering from major loss of manpower‚ due to the death toll from the war. The Australian Government needed a way to repopulate the country so they formulated the plan “Populate or Perish”. This was a plan to get British and other European migrants into the country to help repopulate. Both the Australian and British governments started to assist the British in migrating to Australia to strength the economy. Migrants from Britain were preferable to
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Topic: Why Did Dinosaurs Go Extinct? A Gradual and Sudden End to Their Reign Introduction: About 65 mya almost three quarters of the animal and plant species on earth went extinct. This mass extinction is known as the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event. The Cretaceous was the last period of the Mesozoic Era which is when dinosaurs lived from about 250 to 65 mya and the Paleogene is the first period of the Cenozoic Era that started about 65 mya which is the Era that we are currently living
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Stalin came to power that had control throughout World War II until his death in 1953. After the war the Soviet Union became a global power and seemingly stayed strong until its fall on December 25th‚ 1991. There have been many different opinions on why the once powerful Soviet Union fell including a stagnant economy‚ new reform policies‚ or general dismissal of communist ideology. Many of the issues that were either unresolved or worsened stem from Mikhail Gorbachev reign as General Secretary from
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The event of Cold War was shocking and controversial event which is still being discussed today. It is necessary to examine the many reasons why it started and how. While the why of what happened is still being argued‚ the what is fairly clear. The beginning of the Cold War was a basis of deep ideological differences as well as a series of misunderstandings or actions taken during WWII. The two immense powers USA and the USSR were showing some extreme behavior against each other. The conflict of
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presentation of his characters was probably one of my favorite things about his style. The fact that the characters really seem to respond the way people I know might with all their oddities and sometimes crudities intact is in a way refreshing if you are used to more idealized characters. At the time‚ and as others in the post below mentioned‚ audiences were at certain times offended by the very realistic and somewhat explicit way that the characters responded to things. So it isn’t always for
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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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Imagine living a normal life doing nothing severely bad. now imagine being kicked out of your own home because the government said so. does that seem fair. the Indians lived in Georgia‚ they had a pretty normal life. Then the Americans kicks them out. It was unfair for the Indians to move because moved Indians were treated badly‚ americans broke deals with the Indians‚ and the treaty was not as effective as everyone thinks. The Americans treated the Indians badly. The Americans gave some of their
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The European allies were more interested in punishing Germany then creating a lasting peace. I Believe they did this for many reasons. Even though they might have known it wasn’t fair they did it anyway. One reason I believe this is because Europe had suffered so many casualties and deaths they had also lost a lot of land. Germany on the other hand didn’t have as much as Europe. But they had to live right next to each other. So Europe probably didn’t want to have to live next to Germany knowing
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Three reasons why the Industrial Revolution began in England were the geography‚ the economic freedom‚ and innovation in England. First of all‚ England was very lucky to have many accessible waterways that were close to each other to be able to travel to get or receive supplies from factories or any other places for that matter. Its geography was important at the time‚ since that before these boats‚ they had wooden ships‚ where it wouldn’t hold much weight‚ which make it harder to get the supplies
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