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    Immigration In Australia

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    The history of immigration began in Australia about 50000 years ago when people migrated to the mainland and their ancestors reached the mainland through Islands. Europe's permanent colonies began in 1788 and established a British colony in New South Wales. From the beginning of 1901, the Federation maintained Australia's "White Australia" policy, which was abolished after World War II and heralded the multicultural era of Australia. In 1901, 98% of Australians are white. Australia wants to…

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    March To Yorktown

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    March to Virginia The march to Yorktown began on 19 August 1862 and was led by Washington and Rochambeau. During the protection of the Hudson Valley, a march in Newport, Rhode Island began, involving 3000 American soldiers and 4000 French soldiers. Fake dispatches where sent out by Washington in order to not compromise their destination, the dispatches were to reveal to Clinton that the Franco-American army was going to launch an attack on New York. From September 2nd to the 4th the Americans…

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    1. If you were colonist, would you be a loyalist, a Patriot or undecided? Why? Having all your aspects of your daily life control by a central faceless government seem like an easy way to avoid conflict. Do all people want to be told what to do and be stuck in an endless spiral of a broken system? That is why I side with the Patriot. The freedom to be yourself and govern yourself without the fear of silver spoon king’s army forcing the people with taxes and laws from thousands of miles away.…

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    Revolution is the attempted overthrow of a group in power. Revolution appears in Asia when nationalist leader Gandhi led a salt march to show his dissatisfaction with the British salt monopoly. Another example of a revolution occurred in Central America when Toussaint L’Ouverture led a group of Haitian rebels to victory against France resulting in the abolition of slavery. Finally, the third example of revolution occurred in the Middle East where the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), as…

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    There is another person who affected and shaped Philadelphia in 18the century, whose name is Benjamin Franklin, the founding father of the United States. If say William Penn determined the childhood of Philadelphia, then Benjamin Franklin is the one who witnesses the teenagerhood of Philadelphia, and saw it grew up to an attractive city. When Benjamin moved to Philadelphia from Boston in 1723, Philadelphia has already been a growing city but without many public services. He found the first…

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    had the colonies and Britain avoided a war. Due to the colonies’ rebellion, Britain and France fell even deeper into debt; the colonists’ actions produced lasting effects on other nations’ wellbeing. Sometimes countries benefited from it, but sometimes the revolution changed other countries in a cynical way. No matter how favorable or negative the influence, however, it seemed that “Gentlemen are careless of the consequences of what they say” (D). With such ignorance, then, did the colonies…

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    Republicanism- idea of being a republican in a nation where the head of the state is not appointed by blood but by election the idea of being headed by a limited government where rep serve the will of the people. (consent of the governed) this is significant because it was the type of government we had when we first the won the revolution or its what the colonists were pushing for. John Locke-English philosopher. He believed that all people had the right to life liberty and property. He came up…

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    Nyasaland Hypocrisy

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    this situation. In the year 1945, one former Nyasaland KAR soldier who was identified as St. Boniface criticized the British in a journal about the blatant hypocrisy. He discussed both the experiences of hypocrisy in Nyasaland and other parts of the colonies. In his words, he spoke about the horrid attitude of the British towards Nyasaland citizens and veterans. He said that the British viewed the people of Nyasaland as children, and not intelligent people. He pointed to the severity of such…

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    come up with some new policies that they wanted the colonist to follow. After the war ended the colonist were not hesitate to state the calm. They refused to pay their taxes.”…the most serious of which was the lax enforcement of royal polices in the colonies, the principle labeled ‘salutary neglect’.” Salutary neglect from the colonist was them not wanting to pay there taxes. The British were some what confused and concerned onto why the would not pay there taxes. When Britain realized that…

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    The constitution forbids the idea less consumption of our freedoms, in regards to our populist demands. That is why the constitution was drafted. In 1776 the constitution was placed in order to promote the common defense and promote general welfare. This encourages and purveys freedom. Ideally meaning open to circumvented and unrelated imperfections. In realization equating theories in the promotion of the people. 1st amendment rights are nominal to our power. Why may items attached to the 1st…

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