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Merrimac And Monitor
1,083 wordsIRONCLADS OF THE CIVIL WAR The book I read is called IRONCLADS OF THE CIVIL WAR. When you think of the Civil War you think of on land battles, but there were also many battles in the water. The Civil War introduced the Ironclads, which are huge ships made of iron with no sails and very destructive. The first built and launched ironclad was in 1855 and it was named the Merrimac. Europe just starting building ironclads and sent her to Norfolk. The Merrimac was still there when Virginia seceded fro...
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Then The Ephraimites
884 wordsThroughout history there has been a strong need to express words clearly. Time has shown that even the simplest mistake in pronunciation has led to the loss of life as well as great confusion. If we are to be effective in this world, we must speak clearly and precisely. In chapter 12 of Judges, we see that this was no different for the Ephraimites. This passage of scripture states that 42,000 men of this tribe were put to death by the mispronunciation of the word "shibboleth". There were a few f...
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Soldiers Ten Dollars A Month
1,450 wordsLife during the Civil War was not a pleasant time. There was basically utter chaos going on the South. Soldiers had to deal with the harsh conditions and the thought of death. Plantation owners had to worry about who was going to work their fields. Business owners had to worry about who was going to buy their products. Citizens had to worry about soldiers destroying their property. And the government had to worry about how to pay the soldiers and how to end the war. This was a very rough time to...
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Pelagia And Corelli
916 words'Captain Corelli's Mandolin's U M M A R Y It is 1941, and a young Italian officer, Captain Antonio Corelli, arrives on the beautiful Greek island of Cephalonia as part of an occupying force. He is billeted in the house of the local doctor, I annis and his daughter Pelagia. He quickly wins the heart of Pelagia through his humour and his sensitivity, not to mention his stunning ability on the mandolin. But Pelagia is engaged to Mandras, a local fisherman who is away fighting with the Greek army. D...
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Casual Peruser Of Civil War Medicine
1,055 wordsThe Civil War started as a picnic and ended in compassion, but in between were four hideous years of twisted flesh, burning fevers, rampant pus, and oozing raw stumps. Never before had America faced even a hint of such agony and the way it responded to the occasion is fascinating history. In a very real sense the War Between the States brought forth a medical revolution and, perhaps above all, an awareness of public health. The terrible, swift scalpel became less terrible: and the dank, dirty, d...
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Congo's Civil War
1,681 wordsThe recent Civil War in Congo has been a bloody flight, causing more then 3.3 million deaths in just 4 short years. 1 Various rebel and ethnic groups have have been involved in the violence, fighting over Congo's rich natural resources or engaged in a bitter ethnic war. With so many opposing factions, it has made reaching a solution difficult. While a rough peace treaty has been established, sporadic fighting pops up in the country everyday. The people of Congo are being pushed farther into pove...
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Help Of Brother Francis Civilization
534 wordsA Canticle for Lebowitz Walter M. Miller, Jr. Copyright date: 1959 In A Canticle for Lebowitz, the character that starts everything off is Brother Francis. Brother Francis was just a young novice looking for a place of refuge, in the time were mutants roamed the deserts and barbarians ruled the plains. Brother Francis is a well-mannered man, who believes in himself greatly. When the Abbot kept on questioning his thoughts, Brother Francis always stood his ground and never changed his mind. Even a...
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City Level And The County Level
328 wordsThe first gangs appeared in the mid 19th century in big cities, in ethnic districts. These gangs were born out of one major contradiction in the United States: opportunity for all and equality for all - and real practice of this combination (the discrimination against foreigners: Jews, Catholics, Russians, Polish... ) The West was usually not an option in 1890 for it was closed. Eastern cities like Chicago were cities where ghettos had formed. There was a regulated competition in poor ghettos an...
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Sarah Spied For The Union
1,672 wordsBehind the Lines: Spies in the Civil War The Civil War was the bloodiest, most devastating war that has ever been fought on American soil. It began on April 12, 1861, at 4: 30 in the morning. The main reason that the war was fought was because Southern states believed that they should have the right to use African-Americans as slaves, and the Northern States opposed that belief. Millions of American men and women fought against each other in this war, and more than half a million died. Yes, that...
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Main Reasons For The Failure Of Reconstruction
544 wordsEnglish 102 Jeff Stayton Section 39 February 15, 2000 Why Reconstruction failed The reconstruction of the south was the period during and after the Civil War where several different groups in the government tried to solve the economic, political, and social problems that arose as a result of the Civil War. It was a time of disorder and chaos. Southern whites rejected all forms of equality and blacks wanted nothing but full freedom and land of their own. This led to frequent and inevitable riots....
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Five Million People
381 words"There's no security in this area, people are always fighting, and that's why they do this. This war has turned everyone into an outlaw - Agawai Akot, a former slave, commenting on the revival of the trade in southern Sudan in 1995 "If there is no general and massive distribution of food, we are going to have a major crisis in the Sudan in the coming weeks, months, and it is going to last for years - Marc Hermant, head of mission for the humanitarian group Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) in south...
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Start Of The Civil War
1,088 wordsLove and death on the front line Doves of War: Four Women of Spain Paul Preston 471 pp, HarperCollins Little has been written about the role of women in the Spanish civil war. If quizzed about it, most of us would probably have exhausted our knowledge after invoking the name of La Pasionaria, Dolores Ibrruri. Certainly she eclipsed her sisters, whether as the Republic's Joan of Arc or as the Amazon who, according to nationalist mythology, bit a monk to death in a Madrid street. But in any case, ...
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Students To The European Revolution
3,216 wordsCourse Outline Description of the course This course introduces students to the events that shaped the Civilization of Western countries, their causes and their consequences. It also describes the age of Enlightenment, what led to it and the key events that were marked in that period. The French revolution, its causes, key players and consequences have been described in detail. The last topic to be covered in this course is the first major war the world ever experienced, World War One, its cause...
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General George Custer
1,071 wordsGeneral George A. Custer Few nineteenth century military leaders gained as much fame and publicity as General George Armstrong Custer of the seventh cavalry. From West Point, to the battlefields of the Civil War, and then on to the Great Plains to fight the Lakota Indians, he had his hand in many of the most important and influential battles of the late 1800's. Although, it was his tragic demise at the Battle of Little Bighorn that put him into history books everywhere. George A. Custer was born...
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Forward Progress Of Society
897 wordsThe ground shakes like distant thunder on the eve of a great storm as heavy machines carve the earth to do their unnatural bidding. It is called Progress. Destruction of something old, to be replaced by something new, whatever society deems invaluable... is destroyed. In Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead", a gaudy new construction leaves behind the memories of an old aquarium and Colonel Shaw's Civil war relief to be forgotten. Should progress be allowed to destroy tradition? No, we should lea...
