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"Restore The Emperor Expel The Barbarians": The Causes Of The Showa Restoration

Sonno joi, "Restore the Emperor and expel the Barbarians," was the battle cry that ushered in the Showa Restoration in Japan during the 1930's.Footnote1 The Showa Restoration was a combination of Japanese nationalism, Japanese expansionism, and Japanese militarism all carried out in the name ...

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Shoeless Joe Jackson

For anyone who knows anything about baseball, the 1919 World Series brings to mind many things. "The Black Sox Scandal of 1919 started out as a few gamblers trying to get rich, and turned into one of the biggest, and easily the darkest, event in baseball history" (Everstine 4). This ...

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Cassablanca

1942, the year of the creation of one of the most historical movies known to date. That movie, Casablanca, based on the play "Everybody Wants to go to Rick's", still captivates audiences around the world. The setting of the movie is Casablanca, Morocco during the second world war. Casablanca ...

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To Be Or Not

Many time periods have been interesting to those who were living in them. Things aren’t going to change overnight, even if they change rapidly. Some issues are enormous, fundamental and long-term, such as male dominance, social victimization, or urban sprawl. Meanwhile other critical issues play ...

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Subliminial Messages

"People are exposed to some subliminal stimuli at all times throughout life" (Koponen, 97). A subliminal message is an insufficiently intense message used to produce a discrete sensation by influencing one's mental process or behavior. "Subliminal stimuli range from those just below threshold ...

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Imperialism

Colonialism is an important concept to address because it has had such a major impact on the modern world. It is often responsible for the movement of peoples throughout the world and is often a factor in the rate of development of nations. In their acquisition of Asian colonies, the European ...

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Dizzy Gelespie

The people of today, raised by the sounds of The Beatles and Pearl Jam have forgotten all about the musicians that paved the way for these artists, and the musical styles that evolved into rock and roll, rhythm and blues and rap or hip hop. Unfortunately the music that once dominated the night ...

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The California Gold Rush

“In a small Californian city of Coloma, January 28, 1848, one event occurred that would change the course of world history and American history (Axon 1)”. A new mill (Sutter’s mill) was put up on the American River, and was doing its job of sweeping away the rubble from, the crystal clear water. ...

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The Beatles And The Sex Pistols: A Study

Rock 'n' roll is a most interesting subject that can create all types of arguments, usually arguments that give way to questions on who was the greatest and who was the most influential of all time. These questions are practically impossible ...

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Lebanon

, a nation that once proudly called itself the Switzerland of the Middle East, is today a country in name only. Its government controls little more than half of the nation's capital, Beirut. Its once-vibrant economy is a shambles. And its society is fragmented - so fragmented, some believe, that ...

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Is Our Society Becoming Post-l

iterate? Thousands of years have passed since our culture invented an alphabet to allow spoken words to be permanently recorded. This 'great leap' from orality to literacy had many consequences that will be discussed here. However, many other technologies have come into existence since the ...

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The Banning Of Guns Is Ineffective

Americans are faced with an ever-growing problem of violence. Our streets have become a battleground where the elderly are beaten for their social security checks, where terrified women are viciously attacked and raped, where teen-age gangsters shoot it out for a patch of turf to sell ...

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The Archaeological Sites In The Aegean

The archeological sites in the Aegean Sea, have tremendously impacted what we know. What we know today has been learned from Homer’s Illiad, the odyssey, and artifacts from the Aegean sites excavated by Heinrich Schliemann, and Sir Arthur Evens. These sites are what we believe of as the ruins of ...

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Green Architecture

is an approach to building which has become more popular in the last 25 to 30 years. Also known as sustainable design, is a method of design that minimizes the impact of building on the environment. Once thought of as unconventional and nonstandard, both regulatory agencies and the public alike ...

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Hate Crimes

I. What are A. Definitions for B. Counting 1. White Power 2. Black Power II. Examples of Hate Crimes A. Hate Crime penalties III. Reasons for Hate Crimes Even though Hate Crimes have been around in the past, and have been ...

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Dvd Vs. Vcr

INTRODUCTIONThis report will strive to clearly discern the differences between the average home Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) and the recently developed Digital Video Disc (DVD) system. These two home entertainment components have very clear differences. It is important for consumers to carefully ...

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Uses And Abuses Of Information

In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, we are presented with a dystopian vision of the future. Orwell’s book follows the life of Winston Smith, a citizen of Airstrip 1, formerly Britain and part of the nation of Oceania. The country is governed by Ingsoc, the English Socialists, a ...

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Religion: Judaism Or Judaisms?

? It has been argued that Judaism can be seen not only as a single religion, but as a group of similar religions. It has also been pointed-out that through all the trials and tribulations that Judaism has suffered through, that there have been common themes that have proven omni-pervasive. Any ...

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Basketball Needs To Be Fixed

Professional and college basketball have become very popular in the hearts and minds of many Americans. Millions of dollars a year are spent on apparel, tickets, and television all generated by people's love for basketball. But in the last couple of years, both the National Basketball Association ...

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Teenage Violence: A National Plague

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Kyra . We are here tonight to discuss with you a problem that is plaguing our nations' youth. Violence among youth, especially in schools is one of American society's most pressing concerns. It has become a source of controversy also. To begin ...

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