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    country because Britain refused to make their position in the war clearly know to us and continued to grow their navy. Russia didn’t control Serbia which caused the instability throughout Europe and mobilized signalling a full on war. Also, France supported Russia even before the war. Allso, Austria-Hungary made Serbia out to be a monster, delayed their response to the assassination of their heir. It was their fault for sending him to Bosnia in the first place. Moreover, They refused to back…

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    Neutrality In WW1

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    To remain strictly neutral, Wilson initially refused to trade with belligerent nations; however, this definition of neutrality made the nation prone to a recession. As a result, the U.S. turned to an alternative way of staying neutral: trading with all nations despite their political status. From 1914-1917, the U.S. restricted their involvement in WWI to economic relations. However, European military operations began to fight for control of the seas, prompting both Britain and France to violate…

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    As I was leaving my car, I started to head over to the jailhouse where Tom Robinson was being currently held, until the start of our trial. It was about ten o’clock when I started to read my favorite newspaper on the stairs, here at the county jailhouse. After a little while I saw Jem, Dill and Atticus trying to sneak up on me or something, I decided that I should just let it go because of what Aunt Alexandra said the other night about how Cal doesn’t let anything get past her. I didn’t even get…

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    interlopers wrote their own rules and forced the Chinese to capitulate to their imperial demands. Each European power in China controlled one or more of its ports, which they used to ship to Europe the resources they had plundered inland. At first, China refused to import any goods from European powers,…

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    There are many differences in books but there is so many things that they have in common with the hero’s journey too. To begin the Star Wars movie and the Hunger Games both share the hero’s journey but in either the same ways or different ways. Such as in the Hunger Games the Ordinary world was a very poor town and the ordinary world in star wars is a desert planet in space. In addition I think the call to adventure for Katniss was when she entered the arena because from there on the her life…

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    nephew. On top of that he had imposed heavy taxes on his barons. 2. The reason he taxed his barons so severely was to pay for his expensive foreign wars. If they refused to pay these taxes he would punish them and even seize their property. 3. The barons reacted by demanding that their king obeyed the law like the rest of them. When he refused they withdrew their oaths of allegiance to him and seized London, forcing king John to negotiate with them. This negotiation created the Magna Carta.…

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    Cynthia is a 29-year-old financial planner who is married and the mother of three children. Her husband brought her to the emergency room after having spent the past 12 days in “another cycle of depression,” marked by a quick temper, almost no sleep and tearfulness. He noted that these “dark periods” have gone on as long as he has known her but that she had experienced at least a half dozen of these episodes in the prior year. Cynthia’s husband reported that her mood typically stabilizes within…

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    It did not matter what they thought, only that they did not speak their minds. And if they would have decided to speak their minds in Miss Emily’s presence, well, they would have been shown out of the house. She simply refused to listen to anyone who had anything crass to say. It is hinted at in the story that Miss Emily killed, or took the life of Homer Barron, as the townspeople found his remains in an upstairs bedroom. There is no actual evidence that she killed him…

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    busses, they did not drink from the same water fountain or even allowed to vote. She found this kind of living unbearable and found that some African Americans started standing up for themselves, for example Claudette Colvin, who was a 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat for a white man, Freddie Gray an attorney who represented those who were arrested during the civil rights movement, the lynching of Emmet till who was a 14-year-old boy accused of raping two white women. Her seeing…

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    Washington D.C. at the end of President Adams term, and the Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson refused to honor the Presidential appointment, Marbury petitioned the Supreme Court with a “writ of mandamus” in which he asked the Supreme Court to honor his commission and three others that Thomas Jefferson had refused to accept their appointments. Subsequently, John Marshall who was the Chief Justice at the time, refused the writ even though he acknowldeged that the men deserved their commissions.…

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