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    The Great wall of China is an extremely important artefact. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the World and supposedly can be seen from space. It is the most challenging barrier for the enemy because it defends and protects China from any outside forces. The Great Wall of China was and still is a very significant man made feature. It is made of stone, bricks, earth, wood and many other components that the people of China could find. It was ordered to be made by the first emperor, Qin Shi Huang…

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    Marco Polo Essay

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    Marco Polo who was a Venetian merchant traveler lived in the Venice Republic. The travels of Marco Polo was recorded by Messer Rustichello of Pisa when Marco Polo was in prison in Genoa in 1298 (Polo Travels extract 1). As the book record, when Marco Polo stayed in China, The book records the Asian wonders and curiosities and Marco Polo’s journey and experience. “It is no exaggeration to say that never before or since has one man given such an immense body of new geographical knowledge to the…

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    Great Wall Of China Essay

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    The Great Wall of China, located in northern China, is a collection of walls made of stone, brick, wood and other materials put together to create one. In length they total up to more than 13,000 miles. It was built across China to contain and protect Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the many different groups of the Eurasian Steppe. Several of these walls were dated back to being built in as early years as the 7th century, but it was not until later, these joined…

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    Jordan Belfort Satire

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    Long Island stockbroking film Stratton Oakmont, is depicted in the film as reckless, obnoxious, and sexist. Nonetheless, as portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, he is a very likeable character. We can’t help but root for him. Everything about The Wolf of Wall Street is excessive. It’s a three-hour orgy of greed, indulgence and swearing (there are more than 500 utterances of the F word – a screen record for a drama), and it follows Belfort on his journey from small-town fraudster to big-time crook.…

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    “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” So preaches Michael Douglas in his Oscar-winning role as immoral businessman Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street. Stone’s follow-up to his Best Picture winner Platoon¸ Wall Street does not have quite the reputation Platoon does. I have not seen Platoon, but it seems that this makes sense because Wall Street is not a very entertaining or interesting movie because, although greed may be good, Stone forgot that clarity is good too. The plot of…

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    Wall Street Trailer

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    The Wolf of Wall Street Analysis The Wolf of Wall Street is a film filled with sex, drugs, and lots of money. It was directed by Martin Scorsese, and released on December 25th, 2013. The movie revolves around the life of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who founded his brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmont. After watching the trailer multiple times, it can be concluded that the audience targeted were mainly adults and teenagers. Even more specific, they use rhetoric to appeal to large groups like…

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    Just when it seemed that the American society could not suffer anymore, a terrible dust storm devoured the Great Plains on April 14th,1935. A dark wall of blowing sand emerged in Oklahoma and Texas. The sun and sky were completely blacked out by the storm. The Dust Bowl was a tragic event that ruined many lives. The Dust storms only took place in the Midwest states like Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming…

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    Essay On Food Pantry

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    To assist is to help someone with money, resources, or information. The food pantry has allowed me to assist impecunious people who may not be as blessed as me. The food pantry broadened my mind as I was able to connect with people who came, and earn a new understanding of the benefits that people can gain from serving their community. Through my community hours at the food pantry I realized what my work did for me, the community and how it was throughout history. In the food pantry, I got to…

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    Hoover's Mistakes

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    I hope all of the class knows at least something about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Great Depression and his New Deal. Considering we just learned about it and had a test on it. But hopefully I can go over some details that we did not go over in class and share my take on the New Deal and how it was very successful both at the time and for the future. This is because it made up for Herbert Hoover’s mistakes, provided indirect and direct relief to millions, got America out of the Depression and…

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    The gravest economic crisis of the 20th century, which, caused by the stock market crash on Wall Street in the United States on October 24th, 1929, called “Black Thursday”, propagated in the whole universe, the lively in a decade of market recession a massive growth of the unemployment and the poverty, but also by profound social and political shifts. Later the First Word War, the economic system of the United States was booming, and the technology innovation for the home appliances as…

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