citizens were riding the high of an international war hero. Prosperity, federal economic stimulus, and a growing need to escape the urban lifestyle lead to a decline of cities in the years following the war. “1945 through 1970 was a pinnacle in the history of suburbanization” (Nicolaides 216). Postwar prosperity contributed to the decline of urban cities because for the first time in the history of the United States more than just the rich could be land and home owners. Working-class citizens were
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moved out west to get away from the growing cities and to find more land to produce food and products for the growing population. The Homestead Act enabled more farmers to move out west in hopes of having a better life. The General Land Office gave away 160 acres of land to anyone who was willing to live on the land for five years. Once the five-year period ended the settlers were able to purchase the land. The construction of the Transcontinental Railroad also enabled farmers to move out west. The railroads
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Liverpool Rebranding Liverpool is a city in the north west of England and has a population of around 470000. It became a city in 1880 and is historically part of Lancashire. Overtime Liverpool has had many identities. In the 18th and 19th centuries it was a huge port with massive ships using the River Mersey to transport cargo and other goods. Around 1960 it became a leader in popular culture. Liverpool needed to rebrand because the city became old and run down but had little money to
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AP* World History Study Guide and Graphic Organizers – Unit 5: The Modern World, 1914 CE – present 1. World War I Students are required to know the causes, major events, and consequences of WWI 1) Causes a) Imperialism i) No new lands to expand into – some nations didn’t have many colonies (Germany, Italy) ii) Rivalries as nations competed for colonies iii) Sometimes armed conflict in colonial lands for control over resources b) Nationalism i) Pride in one’s nation, want one’s nation to
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After WWII instead of ceding the territory he had captured, he claimed the territory as part of the Soviet empire. The Communist Party took over their governments and cut off all communications with the West, turning them into Soviet satellites. In response to these actions the U.S. issued the Truman contract, which states that the U.S. pledged to help nations at risk of being captured by Communists, mainly enacted to thwart Stalin from Greece and Turkey
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destroyed. Practicing any of the former pagan religions was considered an act of treason and punishable by death. He ordered this conversion in both the seat of the empire in the west and in the eastern capital Constantinople. Fifteen years after the adoption in 495 AD, Theodosius died and the Roman Empire split into two halves: The west, now controlled by Theodosius’ son Honorius and the east, controlled by his other son Arcadius. This begins the ultimate demise of the empire as it was currently known.
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financial crisis occurred due to easy monetary policies along with tax cuts and to failure of regulatory arrangements (Desai 1-3). This was the origin of the global financial crisis in the United States. Global financial crisis major impacts were in the west countries at first, but it has exceeded all borders and reached the Middle East and despite the common believe that GCC countries didn't get affected by the global financial crisis, they were affected in several ways and different degrees. The idea
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Carthaginian navigator was believed to be a visitor to the area that is now Sierra Leone. Hanno descried the gorillas as a tribe of hairy women. The gorillas can be found today in places like Southern Cameroon, Southwest corner of Central Africa Republic, West Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and south to the Cabinda enclaves of Angola. A group of gorillas would be called a troop, and the space that they travel is called a range. Each gorilla is indentified by the lines on their noses. These lines can be
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inner cities have suffered from urban decline in the past 30 years due to many reasons. Urban decline is generally defined as when an area starts losing businesses, people lose their jobs, people move away from the area as the local economy shrinks meaning the desirability of the area as a whole also falls. In response to this urban decline, many local governments have introduced urban regeneration schemes. Urban regeneration is the attempt to reverse that decline by both improving the physical structure
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Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor are but a few examples. Translated in the 18-century this novel sparked European curiosity about the exotic arts, luxuries and pleasures of the East at a time when the East was shrouded mystery and closed off from the West. The elegance of Arabian Nights can be seen in the architecture of the Great Mosque at Cordoba and the amazing construction of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. These structures illuminate the great craftsmanship of the Islamic builders. The striking
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