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    Dutch Empire

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    Setting the Stage The Dutch Empire ahttp://img09.deviantart.net/8fb0/i/2009/122/2/8/netherlands_grunge_flag_by_think0.jpgnd the British Empire were very similar since the government took over from a company of their nation for the colonisation of another country. The Dutch East India Com pany first “colonised” the Indonesian archipelago, and then after 1799, The Dutch government took over the Dutch East India Company and “modified the company’s loose control of Java and gradually built a…

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    exemplifying this redundant storyline through the fruits of their imagination, immortalizing the endless battle. Whether this is illustrated through the townspeople and an unruly king, peasants and the aristocrats, or even a nation against omnipotent deities, the endless fight between Good and Evil is present in all aspects of literature, and life. This notion is best exemplified through Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a romantic novel set in an era characterized by an imperialistic…

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    What is the history of the red hair gene and what began the discrimination of redheads in England that is evident still to this day? From the Medieval Ages to present day, prejudices and myths about red hair have been a common occurrence. Throughout different cultures and time periods, redheads have been ridiculed and at times have been victims of resentment and condemnation due to their genetic makeup. Though the history of where these stereotypes materialized needs to be examined more…

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    of saying more than they mean, and disbelievingly so. The silences and the symbols are omitted, and meaning taken out of breath and performance (...) The Pauranic style, therefore, is the only style an Indian can use – fact against custom, history against time, geography against space, and it is these coordinates that have to change and make the life larger than it seems, and its small impurities and accidents and parts, must perforce be transmuted into equations where the mighty becomes normal,…

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    It is hard to imagine that America did not “exist” to the ancient civilizations centuries ago. This first discovery of America by the Vikings was in approximately 1000 A.D. They first established a colony in Greenland and later went to discover Labrador, Newfoundland, and the Baffin Islands. Later on the Spanish explorer, Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to land in the Bahamas, thus leading the frenzy between countries to gain new territory. The exploration of America not only brought…

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    The Truman Doctrine was an action of immense importance in the Cold War, and it set out many of the principles by which the USA was to fight the Cold War for the next 30 years. The Truman Doctrine's main purpose was to give economic aid to any country threatened by communism. Truman argued that the United States could no longer stand by and allow the forcible expansion of Soviet totalitarianism…

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    was the only independent country in the region that did not suffer from the demands for territory or other concessions. However, in reality Siam sovereignty suffered from encroachment, violations and limitations imposed on the country by Western imperialism since the middle of nineteenth century as a result of the Bowring Treaty in 1855. Some of the articles in the treaty allowed foreign countries free trade with only 3 percent export tax and import tariffs together with extraterritoriality…

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    throughout all regions of Africa and many of these were bloody to the end that some had been suppressed by outside power. The “Elite” class returned from abroad and they saw what was happening, as a result these “Elite” class started movement to revolt against the colony established on their land. One thing to say is that it 's truly amazing how he introduce these elites and graduality show how they begin a change for the good of their land, which additionally lead to one of the most famous…

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    Rebellion in the 1900s was a group of northern Chinese peasants who aimed to drive out any foreign influences from Japan and the West. They killed Christians, destroyed property, and claimed to work with magic that would protect them. They were rebelling against the upper class, by whom they felt threatened. They used natural causes, like the lack of rainfall and fierce winds, to justify their mission and expand their influences and destruction. Attracting mainly young men to join them helped…

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    e. Native American lands) and the Inter Caetera Bulls (p. 23) of the Roman Catholic Church which granted lands in South America to Spain. Though Native American presence has become more prevalent in the confines of the United Nations in order to fight this racist doctrine, misuse of the land continues. Therefore, while Native Americans are taking a variety of environmental measures to counter these misdeeds, the two most prominent acts are Native American involvement in environmental…

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