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History Term Papers and Reports
Jane Addams And The Hull House
913 Words - 4 Pages

.... did not have to work to survive or earn a living. Also she had a college education, which gave her more insight on the many social problems at that time. During her travels to Europe, it was there where she first encountered the idea of a settlement house. Addams invented the Hull House as a center for a higher civic and social life that would improve the many social problems. She and many others with the same interests as her, worked among the poor, established art classes, discussion groups, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a library, and a gymnasium. She tried to invent a place free of ethnic racism and stereotyping. In a time when Americans were beginning to feel ....


State Constitutions In Colonial America
1033 Words - 4 Pages

.... themselves. In most cases, each colony would have a governor and an assembly of legislators and advisers. (Library, 23) By the 1700s the colonists had grown accustom to this freedom of governing themselves and got really angry when Britain stated trying to limit their power. (Alderman, 103) Finally, after a long series of events, the Americans con their independence from Britain in October 1781.(Hakim, 71) The United States constitution was written shortly after the United states switched to a bicameral system of government, and it expressed the powers of the central government. As a result of this Each of the states also needed to write constitutions of their ow ....


Human Rights In Kuwait
2101 Words - 8 Pages

.... develop, a nation must first address its inner issues of which human rights is a part of, for the human factor is prime in the globalization age that is based mainly on human-brain based industries. The Director of the Kuwait Information Office in Washington, in a lecture at Georgetown University, said, "The democratic process taking place in Kuwait is compatible with the Western definition of democracy, and it is clear when tracing country’s modern history that there is in fact a true democratic process presently sweeping the country." In 1948, the United Nations adopted the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" which included the minimum requirements that nations ar ....


How Social Tensions Led To Wit
929 Words - 4 Pages

.... these occurrences. In New England, the term “witch” in New England served as identification used for punishment, revenge, or both. For the most part, townspeople used this term to belligerent or “troublesome” people. These “witches” were accused for making children sick, causing animal deaths, and inducing pain and suffering. Or they could have been accused due to evidence of strange events, or their mysterious character. Perfect models of this characteristic would be Hugh and Mary Parsons. Mary and Hugh Parsons lived in Springfield, Massachusetts. In chapter 2 of Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth Century New England, the introduction clearly conveys that relationship ....


Indus Valley Civilization
923 Words - 4 Pages

.... at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro produced inscribed seals, painted pottery and other artifacts that matched nothing previously known from India. The Indus civilization received intense investigation over the next twenty years. This first generation of work revealed the nature of the mature Indus civilization in a way that emphasized its cultural uniformity: notably burnt brick architecture and town layouts composed of distinct and physically separated citadel and residential quarters. At Harappa, exposed an impressive defensive wall, some 9 meters (30 feet) high and 14 meters (46 feet) wide at the base. The great walls of the citadel emerged for the first time in their majes ....


Real Heroes
492 Words - 2 Pages

.... desire i.e. get the gasoline for his car. I think are those people who try to avoid injury and death. Generally speaking, almost all the heroes in the history are combatants. I think only those who protected their country or fought for peace are . But sometimes, some of them wished they could earn the fame after their sacrifice. As I said hero should not have personal desire. So they cannot be considered as heroes. How about the brave soldiers fight for wealth and land for the King, are they heroes? Absolutely, they are not heroes. They are the puppets of the King. In the Road Warrior, the result of the battle is the increase of deaths. Max has not put any afford on av ....


Teddy Roosevelt
4332 Words - 16 Pages

.... line. Roosevelt had no intentions of being Platt's puppet, and as soon as he got in office the two would begin to battle. Roosevelt had to be careful, because to totally alienate Platt would cripple his chances to go any further politically or even threaten his chances to be reelected governor. Roosevelt made his point by declining to appoint Platt's first suggested appointee. After making his point, however, Roosevelt tried to work with the Republican boss to the extent of not abandoning his own principals. Platt for his part could not toss the war hero out on his ear in 1900, but at the same time, he wanted to find a way to gracefully get Roosevelt out of his hair. P ....


American Parties From The Civi
1729 Words - 7 Pages

.... of national consequence began to form. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton was the master politician of the Federalist Party. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, with help from his fellow Virginian, Representative James Madison, began the first respectable opposition in national affairs. They were called the Democratic-Republican Party, also known as the Jeffersonians. Jefferson spoke about the interests of farmers, veterans, and urban immigrants and was in favor of minimum government, maximum liberty, alliance with France, and easy credit for debtors. In 1792 he and Madison allied with New York's Governor George Clinton, creating the first political coalitio ....



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