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The Great Inflation
2278 Words - 9 Pages.... printing presses. Note
circulation increased rapidly, and by November 1923 had reached almost 92
trillion marks. With less than three per cent of government expenditure
being met from income and with the cost of one dollar at four billion
marks, Germany was in the throes of economic and social chaos. Starvation
became a reality for millions of people, despite a bumper cereal harvest,
as shops reverted to the barter system. Farmers refused to accept the
effectively worthless, banknotes in exchange for grain, and food quickly
began to run short in the cities. Prices rose one trillion-fold from their
pre-war level. More importantly, for the long-term political future of
Germa ....
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Roswell Speech
1547 Words - 6 Pages.... were many eyewitnesses to the strange events that took place in
Roswell in the summer of 1947. This is one of the main reasons why this has
been a lanmark case in the study of UFOs. Barney Barnett, a civil engineer
and an outstanding citizen, said he saw the object while out on assignment.
Credible and respected sources knew Barnett, who was a retired WWI
veteran and past commander of the American Legion Post, and vouched for
his credibility. Barnett told of how he had spotted a bright metallic object in
the distance. His first thought was that it was a plane that had crashed in the
night. He traveled the one mile distance between himself and the object to
disc ....
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Cold War 4
1092 Words - 4 Pages.... had been literally burnt to the ground, and many small nation had suffered economic failure. To the East Russia had suffered many losses from the vain siege of the Nazi’s. But they were in better shape then Europe. They still had a military and a running, somewhat , economy. In the late 40’s through early 50’s the Soviet Union started to spread the Lenin ideological as it started moving in the Westward position. In 47 the US started funding the rebuilding of European infrastructure in a system called the Marshall Plan. Russia in turn brought forth its own funding called the Molotov Plan. Because of that, they were able to spread communism through many countries. Some ....
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The Causes Of The Civil War
1436 Words - 6 Pages.... of the invention of the cotton gin. Cotton production with slaves jumped from 178,000 bales in 1810 to over 3,841,000 bales in 1860. Within that time period of 50 years the number of slaves also rose from about 1,190,000 to over 4,000,000. The plantation owners in the South could not understand why the North wanted slavery abolished that bad. Southerners compared it with the wage-slave system of the North. They said that the slaves were better cared for then the free factory workers in the North. Southerners said that slave owners provided shelter, food, care, and regulation for a race unable to compete in the modern world without proper training. . But after the Ameri ....
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History Of Popular Culture
2670 Words - 10 Pages.... took place all year round. Annuals festivals like
Christmas and Midsummer always took place on the same day every year.
In those days the average village in Western Europe celebrated at least 17
festivals annually, not counting family occasions and saints' days. Some
festivals, such as Carnival, lasted several days or sometimes even several
weeks. In the Netherlands Carnival started every year at the 11th of
November (St. Martin) and culminated in a big festival of 'Dranck,
pleijsier ende vrouwen' (Drink, fun and women) at the end of the Carnival
period, preceding the period of Lent.
Festivals were meant to take the minds of the people off their everyday
life , off ....
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Gallipoli- The Anzac Legend
709 Words - 3 Pages.... Force was formed. The Australians worked hard and were enthusiastic and had all their equipment ready for battle and the troops headed to Egypt for training.
The larrikiness of the Australians was shown by their lack of discipline and disregard for the people of Egypt. We saw this in the movie when Frank Dunn and his mates caused trouble by harassing owners of shops and playing pranks on others and paying for prostitutes.
During this time more steps were taken to develop a legend by giving the troops a form of National Identity and calling them The Anzacs. We know now that it is now a part of Australia’s cultural identity and origin on the battlefield.
The A ....
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HUME Vs KANT Causality
1751 Words - 7 Pages.... the less vivid impressions. For example, the recalling of a memory. From this distinction, Hume decreed that all ideas had origin within impressions.
From the distinction of perceptions, Hume created his ‘microscope’ in order to trace all ideas back to impressions. He did this to search for the limits. If an idea could not be traced back to its impression, it was too abstruse. Hume separated the objects of human reason into two categories. First, the relation of ideas, which represented all that is ‘a priori’. Secondly, he created the category of matters of fact. Matters of fact made up the ‘a posteriori’ piece of the spectrum of reason. Matters ....
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Environmentalism In The Sixtie
578 Words - 3 Pages.... could spread nuclear waste. Alternative energy sources were possible, and what appeared to be the most effective were tidal energy and solar energy. These environmentally safe methods of harnessing energy were just what the environmentalists had aimed for, and a new movement had been started - environmentalism. If you read this circle it. The environmentalists also tried to advocate the conservation of energy, so that the cleaner but less effective ways could be manipulated to produce more energy.
Despite many efforts to keep the environment clean, some 200 million tons of pollutants were filling the air each year, and clean air in many cities had been replaced by smog. Th ....
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