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There are many similarities and differences between the fictional plot and the historical context that inspired the film Chinatown. In the film, A private detective Jake Gittes was hired to expose a womanizer and found himself running in circles of lies, corruption, and murder. Even...
Chinatown
860 words | 2 Pages
The antebellum market revolution and the Second Great Awakening marked a turning point for women’s roles in the family, workplace, and society in the years of 1815-1860. This was a result of women achieving more of an importance in the churches, and being honored for...
Second Great Awakening
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The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement that held back to 1790 and moved faster by 1800. It was after 1820 when membership rapidly escalated amongst Methodist and Baptism congregations led by their respective preachers. By 1870, the Second Great Awakening started to...
American History
Second Great Awakening
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Throughout the history of the United States, numerous foreign policies were established resulting in controversy among the American people. Following America’s development as an independent nation, policies were enforced to obtain opportunities that would influence the United States in a positive light. America’s neutrality in...
American History
Manifest Destiny
Red Scare
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The Industrial Revolutions were an important part of our history that had changed our world as we know it. During the first Industrial Revolution, multiple inventions and ideas had brought many changes. Such as the inventions and ideas of James Watt, improving the steam engine,...
Eli Whitney
Industrial Revolution
Louis Pasteur
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Ben Franklin once said, “Either writes something worth reading or does something worth writing”. This quote shines through history as we, as a society, celebrate those of great accomplishments, whether it be generous kings, lawful dictators, or even genius inventors. Invention and, more specifically, inventors...
Eli Whitney
Industrial Revolution
Louis Pasteur
2419 words | 5 Pages
The following research report explores the views and perspectives of various nations of the world regarding Xinjiang’s human rights abuse. Articles from various corners of the world and of distinct matters were studied to gain information on China’s repression of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang. The...
Civil Rights Violation
Genocide
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Abstract Slavery has existed in countless cultures around the world throughout the vast majority of human history. From ancient civilizations to modern society, slavery has occurred in some form or fashion. However, its form is constantly evolving, and the international human rights community is struggling...
Civil Rights Violation
Human Trafficking
Slave Trade
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Religion played a role throughout Elie Wiesel’s life. It shaped him into the man he would later become. His experiences throughout the Holocaust continuously tested his faith in God. He often struggled with the problem of evil in the world and would question: “if God...
Holocaust
Problem of Evil
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Islam, the popular and influential communal religion was believed to have begun in Mecca and Medina around the beginning of the 7th century, approximately 600 years after Christianity was founded. Islam stands to yield many believers, which meant that there had to be some way...
History of Islam
Silk Road
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Imagine you’re celebrating your sixth birthday with your family. As you are about to blow out your birthday candles, a strange man busts down the door shouting at all of you to go outside. He shoots you, father, when he questions what is happening, you...
Holocaust
Josef Mengele
Second Holocaust
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Under the floors of the huge museum, under the daylight, unexposed to everyday life and everyday words being exchanged and being echoed in circles through the museum hall and disappearing out in the smock and daylight, that surrounds the city. Even guests allowed in the...
Charles I
Fashion
564 words | 1 Page
The Hopi people are a spiritual, indigenous American group who place emphasis in their ancestor’s history, rather than archeologist history. Hopi people believe that their cultural landscape, or landforms that are affiliated with religious and historical affairs, bodies of water, and places of worship, includes...
American Culture
American History
The Hopi People
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The concentration camps are a constant reminder of World War II and the Holocaust. Concentration camps varied in tasks and cruelties inflicted upon the prisoners held there. Auschwitz is the main example of a concentration camp; it was partly owned by the company known as...
Holocaust
Josef Mengele
Nazi Concentration Camps
1948 words | 4 Pages
The fruition of eugenics began with Francis Galton. The term “good creation” was created to produce an elite group based on genetics. The Nazis viewed the population problem as a biological problem, specifically with the Jewish and Gypsy populations. The Nazi transformation of the medical...
Eugenics
Josef Mengele
Nazi Concentration Camps
3120 words | 7 Pages
During World War II, prisoners held in German concentration camps were victims to many torturous experiences. The Nazi concentration camps have been historically considered as one of the worst examples that prove how low humanity can fall. Not many circumstances show such overt disregard for...
Holocaust
Josef Mengele
Nazi Concentration Camps
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Throughout the entire existence of the world, a few occasions profoundly change the political circumstance of human advancements. One of those occasions happened in the second thousand years B.C. At that time the third dynasty of Ur has controlled all of Mesopotamia for more than a century. Climate...
Ancient Egypt
Hammurabi’s Code
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Reciprocity dates as far back to the time of Hammurabi (c. 1792–1750 BC). Hammurabi’s code is a collection of 282 laws and standards, that demanded the individual act in terms of the public interest. Hobhouse referred to reciprocity as “the vital principle of society,” and...
Hammurabi’s Code
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The British Empire was not to be classified as a consistent empire. Across the realms, the ruling and the modes of excising powers varied from one place to the other. About the American colony, the British Empire established varied forms of ruling and diverse leadership...
American Colonies
Thirteen Colonies