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black colloquialism for sex) and dance (Isserman and Kazin 92). The sexually charged performances of Elvis Presley singing black ...

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

the effect that the U.S. supported Castros revolt. After all, at least on the surface, it seemed as if he was the lesser of the ev...

and in March of 1776 he used a cannon from Henry Knox ("American Revolution - George Washington," 2005). He would make a mistake ...

of historians to consistently underestimate the "depth, the persistence, the pervasiveness, the centrality of race in American soc...

almost all Cubans. Hunger and absolute poverty were overcome" (Bohmer, 2004). As mentioned, Cuba was not perfect. However,...

settlements, the refusal of Washington to mount an offensive against Nova Scotia, and perhaps the religious revival, all combined ...

operating "mills, tanneries, blacksmith shops, forges, and other community services in connection with their plantation enterprise...

were all closely related. Prior to the uprising the Italian peninsula was subdivided into a number of states that were under dynas...

We can look at this and begin to understand that China was going through a great and difficult period in relationship to many real...

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

scientific explanation, rather than a divine one, for the way the world works. The changes that came with the Scientific Revoluti...

colonists from making their own money. The Stamp Act placed taxation on almost all paper product goods: "all printed materials are...

the Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution was a time of tremendous social upheaval. During this decade-long turmoil roughly ...

its many treasures. Not only were their cultures tremendous varied, so too were the various regions that they called home and the...

to rid the Chinese Community Party of all of Maos rivals and enemies and to take control of their country through his leadership (...

is evidence that the U.S. actually supported the revolution. Supposedly, President Kennedy uttered words which would be aligned wi...

remained "destitute of hope" (Meyer and Sherman 464). The Mexican Revolution began in the spring of 1910, with the presidential c...

Provisions of Oxford, the steps which Henry took to avoid conforming to them, and the factionalism which developed amongst the bar...

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

The circumstances behind this revolution are interesting to say the least. By the twentieth century the discontent was at an...

As things now stand, much is lacking which prevents men from being, or easily becoming, capable of correctly using their own reaso...

(increases in drug use) (Garrett 288). A prominent feature of the decade is that young people became alienated from the traditiona...

revolution is over because it failed, although people continue to follow along the same course of sexual activity, and then some. ...

to love scholarship and excelled. Though John did love the church as well, he found there was far too much controversy taking p...

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...