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    Modern medicine was influenced by medical techniques used in the the battlefields of the civil war as techniques were so primitive that innovation became a necessity. As the amount of patients increased in the hospitals, doctors started re-using their materials. Doctors would tend to use the same scalpel or the same towel when he switched patients. The increase of infections was very common and doctors preferred to amputate soldier's limbs when they came into the hospital wounded. Amputations…

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    Finny: A Short Story

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    It was a dark evening in a dirty New York City bar. Finny had no idea how he had gotten here, and went to ask someone where he was. However, nobody seemed to be able to hear him. Eventually, an earnest boy around his age heard him and frantically ran over to him. “Where am I?” he inquired, “I have no idea how I got here! Nobody can hear me!” he exclaimed. Finny sighed, “I wish I knew. We can only hear each other, and it seems as if everybody else in this joint is living in another dimension” he…

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    tents to accommodate up to one hundred soldiers each. Ambulance carriages or wagons particularly intended for the carriage of sick and wounded, had not been in use in the militaries of America until a year or so before the eruption of the War of the Rebellion. Transport carts, army wagons, ox teams, in fact anything that could be made available for the purpose, had been working. In the War of Independence, in April, 1777, the Congress of the United States passed a bill "devising ways and means…

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    Founding Brothers The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis Founding Brothers The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis gives us six insightful vignettes of leaders of the early American Republic. The author reminds us that the founders did not know whether their creation would last. They did know that it was historic, that it was fragile and that it was a bold experiment. We have to judge them and their actions in that context, in light of what they knew not what has since come to be…

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    Throughout America’s history, there have been many presidents that changed the way this nation runs. Forty-four men have held this incredibly authoritative and respectable position. Perhaps three of the most memorable and influential presidents were George Washington, often referred to as the father of this country, Frederick Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Actions that are made by presidents can be reflected across the world and often, in many cases, reflect in other countries, whether that…

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    Was Prohibition A Success

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    How successful was Prohibition as a piece of American Legislation? Prohibition was not a big success as a piece of American Legislation and instead, had a generally negative impact on American society from January 19, 1920 to December 5, 1933. Herbert Hoover once described it as “a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose ” which came to it being known as the “Noble Experiment”. While many thought a ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of…

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    Oppression as Explained in Animal Farm "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed” –Steven Biko (Oppression Quotes). Oppression is the “cruel and unfair treatment of people, especially by not giving them the same freedom, rights, etc. as other people” (Oxford). One of the most renowned literary works pertaining to oppression is Animal Farm by George Orwell. Animal Farm allegorizes the events of the Russian Revolution and Stalin era. Using this source one…

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    It was over. The Empire had lost both their leader and strongest weapon, not to mention some of their finest troops. Sure, they still had Admirals spread throughout the galaxy, each probably with their own fleet, but without someone there to hold their hands and make sure they all got along, it was doubtful that they would be able to continue in a war. Years of the Rebellion's fighting, of losing allies and friends, had finally paid off. The Empire was done. A low groan dragged Luke out of his…

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    In the book A History of the World in Six Glasses, the author Tom Standage, travels through time along the history of six different beverages. He devotes each section to a specific drink and provides its background and origin, revealing how most all of them were first used for medicinal purposes before they were used recreationally. Along with this, Standage describes significant historic events of civilization, oppression, intellect, imperialism, and globalization, and boldly states that the…

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    agency when Congress imposed a tax on imported spirits to help pay the Revolutionary War debt in 1789 (allgov).” Citizens to this day do not like being taxed but due to the war debt “the unpopular tax imposed on distilled spirits led to the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 (Britannica).” At that time, administration of duties was within the Treasury Department and Congress created an Office of Internal Revenue and in “1863 authorized enforcement measures within the Office to aid in collecting and…

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