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History Guidelines
1375 Words - 5 Pages.... that if you can control history, if you can decide what’s in people’s history and what is left out, you can order their thinking (Hulot 07). The people who can accomplish this can and will control what you know about the past and your knowledge in your future.
It is true that we can’t sometimes control history, but we have the power to educate youths about the hidden truth so they may become more independent thinkers.
Imagine a child to become an independent thinker. Wow. Imagine how many more Martin Luther King’s, and Thomas Paine’s their would be in the future. After all they did have a distorted picture of America and knew about the hidden facts.
Let ....
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Dead Man Walking
1075 Words - 4 Pages.... film Sister Helen tries to get Poncelet to tell her about his own life. Poncelet
tells her about his life and why he was put on death row. Poncelet was
convicted along with another man in the murder of the youth and a girl after
raping the girl. Sister Helen is very sympathetic and is also looked down
upon for this reason. Though she is repressed she still goes on helping
Poncelet and she digs around in his feelings and soul. Sister Helen eventually
finds a good soul in Matthew Poncelet, a person no one else knows.
Matthew constantly denies to Sister Helen, himself, and to God that he had
committed his horrible crime. Poncelet continues to blame his proble ....
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The Titanic
845 Words - 4 Pages.... first class galley. These items were needed after the maiden voyage of 's sister ship, the Olympic.
sailed from Southampton Ireland with ease. With a cheering crowd that turned up to see the ship off and to see off their loved ones the tugs playfully nudged the bow, and was off! The ship pulled around the corner and was greeted by only a couple of ships, the New York and the Philadelphia. All of a sudden, the moorings for the New York snapped like gun shots and the New York was ripped from the dock from the wake of . Closer and closer the stern of the New York got to the proud and still gleaming hull of the finished Titanic. Everyone watched in horror as the ship's stern c ....
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Megellan's Voyage
1065 Words - 4 Pages.... to find.
The five ships that set sail weren't fit to be sailed, because of perhaps
their age, or just the fact that they were built horribly. They started
from the Guadalquivir River, with plenty of weapons, but not enough food or
water, and a diverse crew from many nations. During their journey, it began
to get colder and colder, for they were moving south. The ships were in
terrible shape, and some attempted mutinies even occured. The Santiago,
which was set out on a different route, sank, and with it the crew and many
provisions. They finally arrived at Puerto San Julian, where, according to
Winchester, they found "patagones" which means big feet. They captured
several "p ....
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Bacons Rebellion
638 Words - 3 Pages.... colony of Virginia was now in a civil war. During this war or revolution the capital city of Virginia, Jamestown, was burned to the ground. A period of burning and looting began by both sides of the ordeal, which did not end until 1676 when Nathaniel Bacon died of dysentery. The attack on the Native Americans might appear to be the only cause of Bacon's rebellion, but there were more.
There were three main causes of Bacon's rebellion, one of which were the poor relations between Native Americans, and colonial tobacco farmers, and their fighting, which I have already mentioned. The others were the heavy trade sanctions of England and the tyrannical actions of Gov ....
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Knights Of The Middle Ages
502 Words - 2 Pages.... a morning
star-a club with a chain attached to a ball with sharp spikes-a
battle ax, and a large shield.
At first knights wore cone-shaped helmets. Later, helmets
had visors that covered the face completely so that they couldn’t
get hit in the face when they were pulled off their horse. To be
recognized, knights wore special symbols, such as lions and
unicorns, on their armor and shields, they were called “coat of
arms.” They identified that knight with its colorful pattern or
picture. These designs became family symbols passed down from
generation to generation. They helped other knights know who to
fight against
The earliest armor was ma ....
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Germany 2
462 Words - 2 Pages.... to the formation of the German Social Democratic Party. It created a state within the state, hostile to the Kaiser's regime and dedicated to its overthrow. Kaiser Wilhelm II had absolute power over the army. He alone presided over the nation's foreign affairs. It was his decision to say if Germany went to war. He felt that since Germany had the best steel mills, were the leaders during the machine age, had the most powerful engineering industry, the best chemists, and the mighty German Army, superior to any other army, that Germany should share in world affairs by expanding abroad, and become more imperialistic. He felt economic power should be reflected in political power. ....
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The Pyramids Of Egypt
991 Words - 4 Pages.... Greeks. It
is here at Memphis that the great pyramids where built.
The pyramids were built to house the dead pharaoh of that time.
Death was seen by the Egyptians as just the beginning of a journey to the
other world. In Egyptian society each individual believed that his eternal
life was dependant on the continued existence of their king, a belief that
made the building of the pyramid a concern of the entire kingdom. Many
people would be called to duty to work on the pyramids and many would go at
will. It was found that the Egyptian people actually liked working on the
pyramids. Many youths would travel down the Nile to work on the pyramids
so that they could see the gr ....
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