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    Controversy on the Front Lines Women should be allowed to fight on the front lines. Women should fight on the front lines because, they have taken part in war efforts already, they fought for their own right to vote, and if they fit the position there should be no reason for them not to. From the beginning women have had some role in war. Whether it be staying at home, being a single parent, or enlisting and helping where they are told. Native Americans were able to treat men and women as…

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    still aren’t. Many of them began as monarchies and the discriminating actions of certain monarchies would eventually cause people to protest. People will often revolt as a result of a repressive social society and that can lead to revolutions. The French Revolution is a prime example of a country’s struggle to form a democratic government. France had an incredibly repressive social system called the Ancien Regime. The Ancien Regime was made up of three different estates and the people of France…

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    The Rights of women have definitely evolved over the past centuries. Women went from being treated as an object, not a person, to gaining many rights. They have evolved to be entitled to the right to vote, the right to work, the right to own land, and the basic fundamental rights that men have received. As the world becomes more modernized, women still want more rights, they want to be treated as an equal to men. In the United States, women want equal pay in the work force as men, when their…

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    The Magna Carta was written in 1215 due to the misbehavior of King John. After his brother died, John became king and demanded that nobles pay higher taxes to support his wars in France. Unfortunately, this was not a popular idea among the nobles. Powerful barons joined together to revolt against the king, even threatening to take his life. John’s consequence was one of the most significant documents in world history, the Magna Carta, which stood for “Great Charter” in Latin. This imperative…

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    In the book the great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, symbolism is used to describe in the color green, the valley of ashes and in the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg. The color of green is used to the book to symbolize the hope of Gatsby winning the love of Daisy over. This is possible with his money and his love for her. The money helps him achieve this by finally being in the class as daisy. He now has the hope to pursue his dream. Green also symbolizes the green light at the end of…

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    The word ‘success’ is a single word that can unfairly summarize an individual’s lifetime of hard work and dedication. This one word can take on different meanings for different individuals, but it typically signifies an achievement of a personal goal. The pursuit of success is what characterizes the American Dream, and leads individuals to idolize the United States. The American Dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through…

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    quite easy for citizens. The French first made their way into Canada for colonization and during this time, about 10 000 people from France, immigrated to Canada. French is the that is used to communicate with each other and was more preferred by the French Canadians. The Multiculturalism Act created a bond between French Canadians and English Canadians. There initially was conflicts between the two before the war because of the language barrier. Ontario had banned French as a language in 1913,…

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    The differences between the three primary forms of government, oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy are as follows: oligarchy is governmental rule being in the hands of a small group of men who belonged to wealthy families. This form of leadership could be found in the city-state of Sparta where its citizens were known for their military self-discipline. There were three parts that made up Spartan oligarchy: military chiefs who were assigned as the state’s religious leaders and generals of its army…

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    John F. Kennedy once said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” During the 1700s, Toussaint L’Ouverture and Napoleon Bonaparte lead violent revolutions that propagated many changes that perpetually impacted the world. Despite the many differences between them, the similarities they shared were salient. Furthermore, both leaders held mass revolts and violent riots, demanded equality among their people, and destroyed their former government. Due…

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    differences; and the French language. The First Nations people, too, have encountered a great deal of conflict and hardship in the formation of their identity. The following paper will identify similarities and differences between the formation of Quebec's national identity with that of First Nations peoples. Demographically until about 1830, the French Canadians were in the majority. However, around the 1840's, elites began to realize a gap had developed between standard French and the…

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