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The Chicago Fire Of 1871

The summer of 1871 had been an unusually dry one in Chicago. Between July and October, only 5 inches of rain fell. In addition to twenty-seven fires in the first week of October, on Saturday night, October 7, a blaze broke out in a planning mill on the West Side and destroyed almost every ...

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American Dream And Gatsby

The Great Gatsby and the American Dream Everyone wants to be successful in life, but most often people take the wrong ways to get there. In the 1920’s the American Dream was something that everyone struggled to have. A spouse, children, money, a big house and a car meant that someone had ...

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The Salem Witch Trials

In 1692 the Massachusetts Bay Colony was an isolated but growing Puritan community in the North American wilderness. The colonists frequently mistrusted each other and quarreled about petty things. The spiritual life of Puritans who lived in isolated areas like Salem Village may have added to ...

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Charles Manson

is known as one of the most sinister and evil criminals of all time. He organized the murders that shocked the world and his name still strikes fear into American hearts. Manson’s childhood, personality, and uncanny ability to control people led to the creation of a family-like cult and ...

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Its The Earps Vs. The Clantons

In the 1940’s, protagonists and antagonists were easily distinguished in America’s Western-style films. However in John Ford’s film, “My Darling Clementine”, which depicts the famous story of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday’s character is portrayed as an elusive, ...

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Shih Huang Ti

In the year 221 B.C.E., there was a great ruler over the Ch’in kingdom in China, named . Shih was power hungry and wanted more land so he gathered his army and captured the surrounding kingdoms. As the ruler of so many kingdoms he became "the first emperor" of China. Shih showed his tyranny when ...

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Death Marches

Perhaps some of the most vivid images of the Holocaust are the , when tens of thousands of Jews at one time were paraded to the extermination camps in Germany, Poland and Austria. Some of the more notable included the mass march from the Warsaw Ghetto to the extermination camp at Auschwitz and ...

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Creative Story: Fast Eddie

Where do I begin... to write down my misadventure. I would have never picked up a pen and began had it not been for my host. He's the type of fellow who tells you what to do and his partners (soldiers) make sure you did just as your told. This hideout, this fortress has more weapons than I've ...

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The Masque Of The Red Death: An In Depth Review Of The Image

Death imagery is a popular theme in Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. Poe’s most famous works are morbid tales or terror, madness, death and decay (Vora). Poe captures the reader’s imagination and proceeds to lead them into a world of the gothic and the grotesque. A perfect example of this type ...

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Hernan Cortes

was born in 1485 in a town called Medellin in Extremadura. It talks about little of his child hood and little about his young life except that he studied law at the University of Salamanca. His law school years were cut short in 1501 when he decided to try his luck in the New World. He sailed ...

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The Puritans And The Salem Witch Trials

In 1692 the Massachusetts Bay Colony was an isolated but growing Puritan community in the North American wilderness. The colonists frequently mistrusted each other and quarreled about petty things. The spiritual life of Puritans who lived in isolated areas like Salem Village may have added to ...

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Booker T. Washington

“Up From Slavery” inspired readers across the nation. People of this time had realized that they could no longer expect support from the federal government, in their struggle for dignity and opportunity in the south, so many blacks concluded that self-reliance, self-help, and racial ...

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Charles Manson: Orgins Of A Madman

Charles Manson is known as one of the most sinister and evil criminals of all time. He organized the murders that shocked the world and his name still strikes fear into American hearts. Manson's childhood, personality, and uncanny ability to control people led to the creation of a family-like ...

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How The Government May Have Created AIDS

The following is a complete verbatim transcription from a recent broadcast of "Network 23", a program shown on a local Los Angeles Public Access Cable Channel. FULL TRANSCRIPTION FROM NETWORK 23: ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Good evening, I'm Michel Kassett. This is Network 23. A ...

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Sociopolitical Philosophy In The Works Of Stoker And Yeats

Around the turn of this century there was widespread fear throughout Europe, and especially Ireland, of the consequences of the race mixing that was occurring and the rise of the lower classes over the aristocracies in control. In Ireland, the Protestants who were in control of the country began ...

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The Development Of Desire

The development of the male warrior, throughout literature, has a direct relationship with the development of western civilization. The attributes a warrior holds, fall respectively with the attributes that each society held as valuable. These characteristics, started by societies ideals, become ...

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Lost In Samarra

Dawn looked out the window hopelessly as the train rolled over the Syria border. Her black lab, Billy, sat next to her, his tongue hanging out in exhaustion. Dawn was remembering her long boring journey from California headed to Iraq. First, she got on a bus from her house in Sacramento, to the ...

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Wealth In The Great Gatsby

A young bondman from the Mid-west named Nick Carraway, moves to a suburb of New York in search of fortune. The first few weeks pose a general \"Culture shock\" to him, but he quickly befriends one of his cousins by the name of Daisy Buchannon and her husband Tom. His neighbor, a very wealthy Mr. ...

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The Battle Of Saratoga

is considered to be the major turning point of the American Revolution. This battle proved to the world that the fledgling American army was an effective fighting force capable of defeating the highly trained British forces in a major confrontation. As a result of this successful battle, the ...

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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Edge Of War

Cuban Missile Crisis John F. Kennedy\'s greatest triumph as President of the United States came in 1962, as the world\'s two largest superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, edged closer and closer to nuclear war. The Soviet premier of Russia was caught arming Fidel Castro with nuclear ...

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