...been experimenting with tobacco and developed his first profitable export. During this, Spaniards had found that the native West Indians were using tobacco. In seeing this, the Spaniards had decided to take some home with them and then a chain reaction was sparked in which the tobacco plant was used throughout the Mediterranean. So now Spain has their own share of tobacco ready for export as they were importing it as well, this is where Britain joined the craze. English Colonists preferred the Spanish tobacco over the Virginian ones. The Virginian tobacco was produced and exported from Virginia but the Spanish tobacco was a different sort which was grown in the Caribbean as tobacco could not be grow in European land. The Spanish tobacco was sold in higher quantities and for much higher price, but nevertheless it was the favoured one by the public, so merchants imported...
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...Many African leaders in the fifteenth century were full of egotism and cared less for other community members. As long as the king of the tribe was satisfied and happy, all other tribesmen were none of his business. This kind of selfishness made several kings greedily admire other territories and conspire against each other into planned wars. One has to note that this was a time when clans were deeply divided, and communities had several kingdoms. Many kings during this time found themselves targeted for dethronement. The plan was quite simple. Start a war, capture the king, sell him to the Europeans for a weapon or weapons, and take over the throne left behind. Many more prisoners were condemned to slavery whenever found guilty. The newly introduced slavery institution was found useful by many who held grudges with specific individuals as they easily got rid of them by calling on the European traders. Over time, slavery became a business for several persons and demand failed to meet the supply as prisons were soon left empty. The next strategy employed was to increase the number of raids and wars where more people would be captured only to be sold later. The African...
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...This article is not an opinion of people, It’s the statistics that the movies have. The two movies that I will be comparing are the force awakens and the return of the Jedi. Those two movies where the two most sold Star Wars movies in the saga. The Star Wars movies will be judged on how much money each movie made, also the views each movie had. This will not include the latest Star Wars Movie The last Jedi. The Return of the Jedi is the Star Wars movie with the most made money out of all the other Star Wars movie, it made 35.6 million dollars. Therefore, surpassing Jaws and E.T. The fan base of Star Wars is saying that the return of the Jedi is the most outstanding movie they have made. It also had 120+ million views just in the movie theater....
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...lost their businesses and many families had a hard time getting food on the table. Some topics that connected to the great depression are what caused the great depression, how the world wars are connected to the great depression, and Black Tuesday. To better understand the great depression it is important to know how the great depression started. Historians have been trying for years to figure out what the real cause of the great depression was but there are multiple reasons and explanations for the crash(Caldwell). During this time in America there was not enough demand for the goods and services companies there providing (Caldwell). America’s economy was thriving before the crash because durable products were being purchased by my many people. Durable goods are worth a lot of money but once they are purchased they are not needed for awhile. “Durable goods are consumer goods that last a long time, such as automobiles, appliances, and home furnishings,”(Caldwell). Because there was not enough demand for goods companies did not need as many raw goods. Companies buy raw goods...
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...Ellie Austin 0536816 # 6 Dear Lawrence Weschler, Your essay, Vermeer in Bosnia, I have found to be fascinating. Recently, while at the Frick Collection, I had taken yet another look at Vermeer and found myself viewing the paintings in the light of Vermeer in Bosnia. The Europe of Vermeer’s youth was as scarred, scary and violent as Bosnia during the Balkan war. There is a strikingly unexpected connection between the high art and the horrors of war crimes. I can certainly relate to the ideas and experiences of Vermeer in Bosnia. In the 1990s, I had worked in various war zones, including Bosnia, first as a media stringer, later as a security contractor. When I realized that the toxic environment was becoming addictive, a distraction and a substitute for something else, a normal way of life, perhaps, and after getting into a serious legal trouble in Saudi Arabia, I had quit working the hot spots for good, as I then thought. On September 11, 2001, a warm sunny day, when I was at all looking for trouble, all the troubles had found me at the World Trade Center, of all places. My last brush with a dangerous adventure had come at on the New Year Eve of 2003, outside the restaurant Nabil in Karrada, an upscale restaurant in Iraq. I was watching the perimeter as a security contractor, when the restaurant bas car-bombed with high explosives, destroying two square blocks of buildings and killing or injuring everyone within the...
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... Many argue that the war on drugs is waste of time and money but many are forgetting that the war on drugs has been successful in achieving its aims. The war on drugs has the power to diminish the supply of drugs causing for drug prices to increase and by doing the consumption of illegal drugs on the streets to reduce. This paper will present a debate on the affects our society will suffer if the war on drugs is discontinued. The war on drugs needs to continue because by doing nothing people will continue to sell drugs, profit from the drugs sales which in return thousands of people lives and families will be destroyed and our streets will continue to be unsafe for the children. Drugs are harmful to our society they have the power to destroy lives. If government were to legalize drugs and provide treatment for those on drugs the government would basically be telling people that its o.k. to drugs. According to Wikipedia.com “The U.S. government's most recent 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) reported that nationwide over 800,000 adolescents ages 12–17 sold illegal drugs during the 12 months preceding the survey. The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that nationwide 25.4% of students had been offered, sold, or given an illegal drug by someone on school property. The prevalence of having been offered, sold, or given an illegal drug on school property ranged...
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...Pequot War Laura Junior HIS/115 March 3, 2013 Kathleen Scarpena Pequot War The story of the Pequot War was a key element in colonial history. The Pequot War was a short, vicious war fought in 1637. The Pequot tribe was defeated by the English colonists and their Native Indian allies. According to warpaths2peacepipes.com (2012), “the Pequot tribe was forced to sign the Treaty of Hartford declaring the Pequot nation to be dissolved.” The Treaty of Harford stated that the survivors of the Great Swamp fights were to be divided as slaves to the Indian allies and that no Pequot could inhabit former Pequot territory thus erasing the name Pequot (warpaths2peacepipes.com, 2012). Two events weakened the Pequot tribe before the war against the English; in 1631 the tribe was divided into Pro-English and Pro-Dutch factions and in 1633-34 they suffered a smallpox epidemic. According to ColonialWarsCT.org (2011), “The suffering of the Indians reached a breaking point on July 20, 1636. On that date, the Pequot's killed a dishonest trader, John Oldham. Many settlers demanded that the Pequot's be punished for this transgression.” On May 26, 1637, a military force under John Underhill and John Mason attacked and destroyed the Pequot village, killing over 500 Indians. Many of the Indians were captured and sold in the West Indies as slaves. The Pequot leader, Sassacus, was captured on July 28 and executed by the Mohawks. According to ColonialWarsCT.org (2011), “The few Pequot’s who were...
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...Van Pham Truax, p. 6 9/12/14 Chapter 3 Assignment I. Thesis Question: 1) Analyze the challenges Native Americans faced in both allying with and waging war against European settlers. Be sure to reference different regions. From the mid-17th century to the mid-18th century, Britain was at many wars with France, Netherlands, and Spain. These nations dragged the Native Americans into their power struggles as the wars reached the New World. Native Americans faced challenges to trade, peace, and relations with each other and with European settlers in both allying with and waging war against European settlers. However, a few turned these challenges to their advantage. In allying with one European country and not the other, Native Americans faced hostility and conflicts with the other. During the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain was fighting both France and Spain. It allied with the Creek Indians in the Carolinas to attack Spanish settlements in the New World, specifically Spanish Florida. This alliance with Britain resulted in Spanish aggression towards the Creeks. However, even the alliance with Britain could not stop hostility between the English settlers and the Creeks; the Creeks rebelled against the English settlers after the latter ordered the natives to pay trade debts. Farther up north in the New England region, Mohawk Indians allied with the...
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...Avery Taylor Mr. Kotris English III 7 Dec 2011 How the Civil War Affected the United States Economy “The American Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 and it was one of the most devastating wars in history.”(Kelly) Should the Union have helped the South become more industrialized like the northeastern part, or should it have just left the South like it was, an agrarian-based economy that relied heavily on slave-worked plantations for the production of cotton for export to Europe and the northern U.S. states. “If the economy of the South would have been ranked independently in 1860, it would have been the fourth richest country in world.”(Carter) The northern states were more of an industrialized economy, where they made clothes, iron, etc. No war in American history strained the economic resources of the economy as the Civil War did.(Barbieri) Governments on both sides were forced to resort to borrowing on an unprecedented scale to meet the financial obligations for the war. With more developed markets and an industrial base that could ultimately produce the goods needed for the war, the Union was clearly in a better position to meet this challenge.(Pearl) The South, on the other hand, had always relied on either Northern or foreign capital markets for their financial needs, and they had virtually no manufacturing establishments to produce military supplies. The Civil War’s most devastating effect was on the economy, where it caused labor issues all across...
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...Women were more likely to get sold into slavery to perform household chores, spin and dye cotton, and sometimes be shown off to let everyone know of a man’s wealth. Men would usually work outside either farming, doing repairs, or building things. In later years, when European countries came into the slave trade, slaves from Africa could be bought with a trade of goods of clothing, food, firearms, and even liquor. Though, by the 18th century, most slaves were obtained...
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...human as little more than an animal - buying, selling, leasing, and physically punishing someone else. Although slavery in general interested me, I was even more interested to find out how enslaved women were treated in the nineteenth century, before the Civil War and also after they were finally granted their freedom. I often thought women would have been treated a little better than males. I believed they would have been given an easier workload to bear since they also had the task of raising their children. It was disturbing to discover they were treated much worse than males were. Because women could work as well as reproduce offspring, providing an additional generation of slaves, women were extremely valuable to slave owners. "Strong black women were sold as breeders valued for their reproductive as well as productive capacity" (Doherty). In the years just before the Civil War women were often sold for higher prices than males at slave auctions. "For one group of women, the assigned price depended upon their beauty and subsequent use to the master who could lease them to wealthy white men" (Doherty). Women were sold for as much as $1,800. Skilled men were sold for up to $1,500 and unskilled field hands were sold for up to $1,350 (Gates 22). All slaves, no matter their age or gender, were required to perform labor-intensive work for a number of hours each day. They were given no reward for their hard work, however were expected to complete it as directed by their...
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...When considering the depth of the development process taken towards the United States’ current state, one would often overlook the impacts of slavery. Although considered a rather egregious act on America’s part, it catalyzed much of the labor needed for expansion and amelioration as well as the historical context for widespread intolerance and exploitation of Native Americans and Africans. Slavery was no new concept to Africans. They had held slaves for many years before Europeans arrived. African slavery was mostly due to bankruptcy, prisoners of war, or foreignness. However, slavery in Africa was nowhere near as brutal as slavery in America mostly due to the fact that in Africa, one’s race was not considered inferior, they were not introduced to an alien land, and they related in that they practiced the same ideologies and customs. By the time Europeans sought slaves from African empires, invasion was no new feat. Constant invasions beforehand from the Persians, Romans, and Byzantines, had softened the shock value of debilitation. (“Slavery in America” 3). The Portuguese soon set up what would be considered “slave factories” along the coast of Africa in which they would bargain for slaves through an exchange of goods or even organize slave-hunting expeditions. Americans soon followed Portugal’s example by...
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...of battle in the Irish War of Independence. They were also used from 1922-23 during the Irish Civil War. The Irish did not find the Thompson submachine gun to be an effective weapon. They noted only 32 percent of those attacked with the Thompson received serious injuries. Prohibition had significantly expanded the earnings of America’s gangsters through bootlegging (the illegal manufacture and sale of alcohol) and illegal drinking institutions, as well as gambling and prostitution. From 1924 to 1930, the city of Chicago gained an extensive status for lawlessness and violence. As the years pass, Al Capone gained control over most of Chicago’s crime commotion by ruthlessly killing his rivals with the Tommy Gun. In 1924, authorities counted around 16 murders that were gang-related. The amount of gang-related murders continued until 1929, reaching a total of 64...
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...in the Revolutionary War, both American and British armies. Some of the men that enlisted were men who were runaway slaves and joined on hopes of freedom. The documents discussed in this assignment were written by two African American men who were runaway slaves that fought in the Revolutionary War. One reading is a letter that was written to the U.S. Commissioner of Pensions and the other letter was written as Memoirs of the Life of Boston King. The readings consist of why they joined the army, their reasons for running away and their life after war. Jehu Grant was an African American slave who was motivated to write his document after being denied pension. He felt that his explanations would hopefully change the mind of the court’s ruling, and he would be granted is pension for serving in the war. The other document is a memoir of the life of Boston King, who was also a African American slave. Boston King wrote about his participation in the war, and the time he spent there. Boston also wrote about his reasons for joining and his life after the war. This document was written to describe The British armies and the part that African Americans played during and after war. Both documents were written for public view and intended to inform African Americans as well as the courts. The readings were both produced long after the events took place. There is a lot of information in both reading that could possibly be history topics. Some include The Life after War for African Americans...
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...Automobiles - An Introduction The word automobile was coined by 14th century Italian painter & engineer named Martini. Martini never built an automobile but he did draw plans for a man-powered carriage with four wheels. Martini thought up the name automobile from the Greek word, "auto," (meaning self) and the Latin word, "mobils" (meaning moving). The automobile as we know it was not invented in a single day by a single inventor. The history of the automobile reflects an evolution that took place worldwide. It is estimated that over 100,000 patents created the modern automobile. However, we can point to the many firsts that occurred along the way. An automobile, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. The term motorcar has also been used in the context of electrified rail systems to denote a car which functions as a small locomotive but also provides space for passengers and baggage. These locomotive cars were often used on suburban routes by both interurban and intercity railroad systems. There are approximately 600 million passenger cars worldwide (roughly one car per eleven people). Around the world, there were about...
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