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    The American colonies were becoming more separated from Britain every day. By 1763, their relationship was weak and the next thirteen years would do nothing but make it worse. Colonists were not initially resistant to British rule, but after years of being stripped of their freedoms they shifted toward the idea of separating from Britain and creating their own government that would incorporate Republican values. After the Seven Years’ War, British troops remained in America. The cost of…

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    Pancho Villa Thesis

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    Mexican revolution and the Northern Forces.Villa was convicted to death by Victoriano Huerta, Villa fled to the United States to later find out that Huerta was death. After Huertas assassination, in 1914 Villa returned to Mexico and formed a group a man known as the Division del Norte (The Division of the North). This group of men where a combination of Villa’s man and Venustiano Carranza. This lead both Villa and Carranza to enter “Mexico city as the victorious leaders of the revolution.”…

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    The Steam Engine

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    certain locations that had water or wind power. The steam engine has made a huge impact on modern technology and was the catalyst for mass production in the United states. Steam engines were a marvelous piece of engineering during the industrial revolution that changed modern technology. The use of coal was widespread during the 18th and 19th century. Coal is abundant everywhere since it is an organic chemical that is produced from dead plant matter squeezed and pressurized by the earths crust…

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    continue on October 5, 1789 with the March on Versailles, which is perhaps one of the most shocking events of the revolution. Thousands of women marched on Versailles declaring their need for bread. Their anger was directed mainly at the queen and demanded her to face them. The crowd did not kill her, but declared that the King and Queen had to stay in Paris to witness the revolution. This event did not come without victims, “Two of her bodyguards were not so lucky; their…

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    Throughout history, there have been numerous eras of change and revolution in thought and social practise; however, none have been as momentous and influential in changing Europe as the period of Enlightenment that spread across the continent between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With the rise of “enlightened” thought, there was an influx of new writers that brought forth new and stimulating ideas, which caused quite a stir in the conservative areas of the world. Widely acclaimed…

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    In my visual art piece I have attempted to illustrate how the industrial revolution was negative for modern western society. As the American academic Irving Babbitt once said "The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards". Although it is undeniable that the industrial revolution enabled significant improvements that lead to new inventions and technological advances, the cost at which they were…

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    political power, rallied youths and called them the “Red Guards.” Their job was to punish people who were involved with the failure of the Great Leap Forward. Religious texts and architecture was burned in the process. It was called the Cultural Revolution. It was another attempt of Zedong’s to change the Chinese way of thinking. Eventually, this reform also failed and China was damaged once again. In Beijing, the Red Guards destroyed more than seventy-two percent of the historical and cultural…

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    film that does exactly what the final part of a trilogy is supposed to do: which is to reveal something you believed to be true from the previous two flicks and turn that entire belief upside down. The article The Matrix Revolutions by J Hoberman states that, “The Matrix Revolutions insists on the primacy of faith over knowledge. Once it locks and loads, however, the triumphant visuals short-circuit anything resembling abstract thought”. What this mean is that the films focus more Neo…

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    The patriots have been making trouble for the Loyalist. They only want to preserve their lands when the colonies stand up to Britain. They will only brew more trouble for the Loyalist. The Patriots have been making trouble with the British by turning down the acts and boycotting the products of the British to prove that they won 't buy anything until they are heard and respected. The British would only help the colonies if they would buy taxed goods so they have money to protect them. While many…

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    The United States of America, a nation that is here thanks in part to the result of the American Revolutionary War. A battle that began in the year 1775 and ended in 1783, the fight for American independence was long sought for. However, independence was not the only thing missing from the previous Thirteen British Colonies, economic developments were being fought for as well. The American Revolutionary War pitted Great Britain and the Thirteen British Colonies against each other where the…

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