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Essays on History
Title: New Jersey Vs. T.L.O.
Details: Words: 340, Pages: 2... one dollar bills, and two letters that implies that she is a dealer. Mr. Choplick notified her mother and the police and told her mother to take her to the police headquarters. A New Jersey juvenile court admitted the evidence, saying that the search of the purse was reasonable under the standard of enforcing school policy and maintaining school discipline. The court found the student, T.L.O., to be a delinquent and sentenced her to a years probation. The appellate Division affirmed the courts decision that there had been no Fourth Amendment violation, T.L.O. appealed . The supreme court reversed the decision . The court held that the fourth amendment prohibit ...
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Title: The History Of Slave Labor
Details: Words: 976, Pages: 4... again back in England, more people were resistant about traveling to the New World as a servant rather than an investor in the "tobacco game." Because white labor inevitably became inadequate due to its transient nature, and the costs of indentured servitude began to rise, planters turned their eyes toward the cheaper and indefinite service of black laborers. Although it may have not been as socially desirable, African s figured into this "problem" in that they represented skilled labor and were a proficient in tropical agriculture. With a high immunity to diseases such as malaria and yellow fever-lethal to Europeans and Indians alike, African Americans were ...
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Title: Lincoln Could He Have Preserve
Details: Words: 734, Pages: 3... States.
One of Lincoln’s options was to sit by and do nothing. This was not really an option, however, because abandoning his soldiers at this fort would not only lower the morale of his entire army, but could also turn many of his supporters against him. So, needless to say, Lincoln could not really consider this as an option.
Lincoln, for a time, also entertained the idea of compromise. The southern resolve was so concrete that this idea was abandoned rather quickly.
Another idea, proposed by Secretary of State Seward, was to abandon Fort Sumter and concentrate on Fort Pickens. Lincoln did not accept this idea either, mainly because abandoning a fort a ...
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Title: Israeli Palestinian Conflict
Details: Words: 1252, Pages: 5... By the beginning of the 20th century,
however, Zionism came to have a political meaning: that Jews were not just a
religious or ethnic group but were a nation of people who should have their own
state. Today Zionism is the term for Jewish nationalism.
Not all Jews agree upon what Zionism is, but to a point there is
agreement, it is upon three things: there should be a Jewish state; it should be
permanent, independent, and secure; and Jews who are threatened anywhere in the
world should be able to go there to be safe. All other issues--the boundaries of
the state, the nature of government, relations with the Palestinians, relations
with American Jews, religious ...
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Title: Concentration Camps 2
Details: Words: 1373, Pages: 5... camps. The average prisoner only survived eight weeks in Auschwitz. Some learned the ins and outs of survival in Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination camp constructed in the Third Reich. Located 37 miles west of Krakow, Poland, Auschwitz was home to both the greatest number of forced laborers and deaths.
The history of the camp began on April 27, 1940 when Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and Gestapo, ordered the construction of the camp in north-east Silesia, a region captured by the Nazis in September 1939. The camp was built by three-hundred Jewish prisoners from the local town of Oswiecim and its surrounding area. ...
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Title: Arab-Israeli Wars
Details: Words: 1610, Pages: 6... the command
of British officers, besieged Jerusalem. By April, Haganah, the principal
Jewish military group, seized the offensive, scoring victories against the
Arab Liberation Army in northern Palestine, Jaffa, and Jerusalem. British
military forces withdrew to Haifa; although officially neutral, some
commanders assisted one side or the other.
After the British had departed and the state of Israel had been
established on May 15, 1948, under the premiership of David BEN-GURION, the
Palestine Arab forces and foreign volunteers were joined by regular armies
of Transjordan (now the kingdom of JORDAN), IRAQ, LEBANON, and SYRIA, with
token support from S ...
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Title: Shadow And Custodial President
Details: Words: 1834, Pages: 7... titles. Others may not be.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 1868-1876
Towards the end of President Johnson’s term in office, Johnson and Grant began to have public disagreements about the state of the Union. Due to these quarrels Grant aligned himself with the Radical Republican political party. Grant was already well known for his triumphs during the Civil War and was thus, the popular choice for Presidential Nominee.
Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He was educated at West Point, where he graduated 21st out of 39. Grant fought in both the Mexican and Civil Wars. In 1864 President Abraham Lincoln appointed Grant to the Position of General in Chief.
As Preside ...
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Title: The Boston Massacre
Details: Words: 326, Pages: 2... was a
young seventeen year old male, and Patrick Carr, a feather maker.
The purpose of the Boston Massacre was to try to make liberal and
moderate people become radicals. It was really an accident and the radicals
tried to use propaganda and turn something small into something big. The
British soldiers were accused of Murder and manslaughter. To represent them
was John Adams, a relative of Samuel Adams. Adams wanted the trial to get
over and didn't want the truth to come out. The Boston Massacre and
misleading visual representation by Paul Revere could have been one cause
of a later war.
The Boston Massacre increased the hatred between the American ...
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Title: Maurice Sendak
Details: Words: 1689, Pages: 7... father. “Sendak” not only means “fish”, but also is a remembrance that there is always something fishy in all of his work.)
Sendak grew up in a family of storytellers. His father told (uncensored) stories that were considered “not for children.” They were nightmarishly scary stories of pogroms, death, love affairs, and other Jewish tales. His brother wrote stories, and his sister bound the stories into books that they sold on the sidewalks. Sendak loved hearing his father tell stories, and associates good books with being close and spending time with his father. Everyone in his family also read stories, and growing up, Sendak was jealous of his o ...
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Title: History Of Kosovo- Related To
Details: Words: 2313, Pages: 9... Finally, the Balance of Power Theory will be employed in a prospective manner, to offer a solution to the situation in terms of actually creating a balance of power within the country of Bosnia.
I. Definitions of Terms for the Purpose of this Essay
A. Neo Realism
B. Balance of Power Theory (BOP)
C. Power Transition (PT)
II. Retroactive Application of Theory
A. History of Kosovo Situation
B. How BOP/PT Theory Explains Kosovo Conflict
III. Immediate Application of Theory
A. How Status Quo is Represented by BOP Theory
IV. Prospective Application of Theory
A. What Actual Balance of Power may lead to Peace in the Region
V. Conclusion ...
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