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    Think about this situation, you are at school and suddenly there is an earthquake tornado or some other natural disaster. Sadly most of the students are killed, later the parents are called in to help identify some of the remains. How are these parents going to figure out if this corpse is their child? Hmmm… maybe by what they saw their child walk out of the house in that morning, so uniforms actually could cause a problem instead of help fix them.      School uniforms…

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    There is a type of anti-hero known as a mercenary. Mercenaries’ complete jobs given by their client and once they get that job done, they receive a huge reward. The job given to them may be a good deed or a bad thing, which makes mercenaries antiheroes due to their selfish greed of money. Mercenaries’ don’t care what side they are on, as long as they receive something in the end for their own personal gain, they will almost do anything to receive their credit. These kinds of antiheroes do their…

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    The first Jewish war, which was between 66-73 C.E., was a rebellious movement by the Jews against the Romans. At first, the Romans tried to be civil with the Jews, considering the fact that all they cared about was peace and taxes. As long as the Jews were paying their taxes, the Romans were happy and civil. The Romans also respected the Jews religion and did not force them to worship their emperor, which all the Romans had to do. They also respected the fact that they were Jewish by exempting…

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    embodies his extreme disposition against war. Voltaire has always been a large proponent in the anti-war movements in eighteenth century England. His disposition against war is clearly displayed in his novel “Candide.” Voltaire utilizes the techniques of comparison, satire, imagery, and dichotomy to display the many idiosyncrasies and follies of war and through his attempts of displaying war he often also criticizes the human nature and nobility. Voltaire Satirizes war many times and many ways…

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    written, “all human authority, however organized, must have confined limits, or insolence and oppression will prove the offspring of its grandeur, and the difficulty or rather impossibility of escape prevents resistance.” By the end of the Revolutionary War, the colonists began to realize that the government established under the Articles of Confederation was insufficient, America needed a new government. One that was strong enough to control a large geographic region and its people, but not…

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    independence that will be gained if they win the war. The first set of rules to be drafted is known as the Articles of Confederation. Seeing that it was America’s first attempt at a government, it is quite obvious that there were many issues with the rules and provisions created, which caused problems in the new nation and stress among political leaders. The Articles of Confederation caused economic, legislative and leadership problems, along with unrest in the Anti-Federalist Party as shown in…

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    The Protocols of Zion The Protocols of Zion is a document that is referred to by anti-Semitists who believe in the making of a Jewish plan to dominate worldwide. This is claimed to be the minutes gathered during the discussion by someone attending the secret meetings they would hold. It’s said that the meetings Jewish elders held were taken place at a cemetery in Prague, in this meeting they constructed a plan to obtain world domination. Jews were depicted as a stable race who mainly intended to…

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    Anti Federalism Dbq

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    Revolution and the Dutch Republic after the 30 Years War, but the true pinnacle of Enlightened ideals presented itself in the minds of the British colonists during the American Revolution, when they cast off all allegiance to the titles of noble and king and proclaimed to the world in their Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal”. After the war was fought and won, however, these enlightened…

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    avant-garde, an artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, cultural, and political values of the time. Dada was not as much of a style of art like Fauvism or Cubism; it was a rebellious movement attached to an anti-establishment manifesto. It was established around World War I. Its purpose was to ridicule the supposed meaninglessness of the modern world. It peaked in 1916 to 1922, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire. It favored being against normal…

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    The Articles of Confederation granted significantly less power to the federal government and reinforced a system of strong state governments, resulting in a country divided amongst itself but united by name. The Constitution hailed more federal rights and created a strong centralized federal government while establishing state governments that dealt with less critical issues and more local laws. Under the weak nation formed by the Articles of Confederation states would always argue and never get…

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