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Kaskaskia George Rogers Clark
2,851 wordsWho was George Rogers Clark This is probably a question most people in America couldn't answer. The reason is very simple, George Rogers Clark was a hero in an age of heroism. He simply could not compare with the legends of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other Revolutionary War heroes. Clark nevertheless is very important, especially to the people of Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana who became apart of the United States of America because of his great leadership and bravery in military c...
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Raid The British Salt Factory
1,249 wordsOutlaws! The word often haunts us, as we sit and ponder over it. Usually it brings with it, a sense of insecurity and fear. Sometimes after watching a movie or after reading a crime story, we are scared about going out alone, or sometimes, even in the house we have a feeling, as if someone is watching us. Why is all this? Why are we scared in our own house? Why are we scared to go out? It is because after watching so many movies, reading the papers and being aware about the crimes happening all ...
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Non Violent Non Cooperation Gandhi
499 words'Nonviolence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering. It does not mean a meek submission to the will of the evil-doer, but it means pitting one's whole soul against the will of the tyrant " Mahatma Gandhi 'An eye for an eye makes everybody blind's ummarizes Gandhi's view of violence. That statement is one of the greatest things ever said, and was borrowed by other world leaders including Martin Luther King Jr. Gandhi did not believe in violence as a technique of achieving his goal of ...
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Major Heywood After Hawkeye
820 wordsThis movie was awful! If ya had ta sit through it, you have my sympathy! Really! The grade on this paper was an A -A. Plot Whilst making their way to a British Fort, Major Heywood and his party are attacked by Indians. Three men come to their rescue, two of them Indians, and another is a white man whom was raised by the eldest Indian. This man, Hawkeye, his brother and father rescue the Major and the two women that are in his party. Then the three men stay with the party and aide them in their j...
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British Rule Over His Native India
789 wordsMohandas Gandhi Leo Peters Section 567-01 Mid-Term Paper This Essay will be about the life and accomplishments of MohandasKaramchand Gandhi. And will also discuss Civil Disobedience. Throughout history most national heroes have been warriors, but Gandhi ended British rule over his native India without striking a single blow. A frail man, he devoted his life to peace and brotherhood in order to achieve social and political progress. Yet less than six months after his nonviolent resistance to Brit...
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General Wayne
451 wordsThe Battle of Fallen Timbers started on Wednesday, August 20, 1794. The battle took place on the lower Maumee River Valley which is the present state of Ohio. Major General Anthony Wayne was encamped with a military force of 3,700 men, 2,000 of whom were part of the regular United States Army. The rest were Kentucky mounted militia. Fighting the Americans were some 2,000 hostile Indians. The Indians were allies of the British and the British had just recently built Fort Miamis. This fort was dee...
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War Party Of Huron Indians
903 words"Last of the Mohicans" History or Hollywood The 1992 movie version of James Fenimore Cooper's 'The Last of the Mohicans' was directed by Michael Mann and starred Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Steven Waddington, Russell Means and Eric Schweiz. As an epic about human conflict, the movie addresses all the necessary elements of social, political and spiritual concern required for such a production; however, the grandiose spectacle of Hollywood film making abilities cannot mask the stereotypical...
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Nation For The Mutiny
2,318 wordsHOW SHOULD THE INDIAN MUTINY BE CHARACTERISED? SHOULD IT BE SEEN AS A POST PACIFICATION REVOLT, A NATIONALIST UPRISING, OR AS A WAR OF INDEPENDENCE? Any discussion on the reasons behind the Indian mutiny needs to be preceded by what the mutiny actually was. While mutinies and revolts were not uncommon in India at this time, they were usually largely uncoordinated. The mutiny of 1857 however, was different. Here was a major convergence of various strands of resistance, and an expansion of scale a...
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Indian National Congress
873 wordsIndian nationalism was not a simple unification of Indians against colonial rule. There were many complexities involved in forming an organization that sought to speak on behalf of the people, and many of these challenges were posed to the Indian National Congress because their leadership consisted of the Hindu elite. In 1885, the Indian National Congress was formed through the initiative of Allen Octavian Hume, and it quickly became the chief organization representing the will of the common peo...
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Perception Of Racial Inequality
1,220 wordsThe issue of racial conflict has caused great controversy for many centuries. Conflict which is incited by racism is often thought to be the most heinous of all conflicts because it is unfounded and based on utterly false beliefs. Racial conflict, in essence, arises when prejudice or discrimination occurs based solely on racial factors between certain races. The severe nature of racial conflict can be clearly seen by examining two distinct areas: the perception of racial inequality, as well as s...
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Gandhi And Many Other Indians
1,007 wordsMOHANDAS KARMCHAND GANDHI All throughout history, the most common way to solve a dispute was with violence. The dispute eventually grew larger with many people joining the different sides. These large disputes eventually grew into wars. Most people believed that wars were the only way to solve problems. Then, a native East Indian, named Gandhi, expressed what he thought, and changed the way the world felt about violence "Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightie...
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India And Many Frightened Muslims From India
1,835 wordsMy parents were born in India during the time it was being ruled by the British. Since the main motive for the control of India was commercial, the British paid close attention to developing the Indian economy. They entered into large irrigation projects to bring new land into cultivation and introduced new crops such as tea and coffee. They revitalized old crops such as cotton, jute, to supply raw materials to British textile mills. In order to distribute their goods, the British built a railro...
