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Mining In Canada
... almost 20 per cent of Canada's total export earnings3 (See Appendix A). As for the employment rate, over 70 per cent of the mines are owned by Canadians and approximately 108,000 Canadians are directly employed in the mining industry4. Mining is very important in Canadian life. Not only do the products power the family car and heat the family home, the manufacturing sector, the high tech industries and even the better known resource industries are all dependent, in some way, on the mining industry. The mining industry will continue to be an important support to the economy. Mining is taking full advantage of the quick expansion of computers and microelectronics. The ...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
... 1900. There too Roosevelt remained an average student, making it through with a C average most of the time(Hacker 19). At Harvard, his social activities took preference over his academic pursuit and the In 1903 Roosevelt graduated from Harvard and entered the Columbia Law School. He dropped out in his third year after passing the New York bar examination(Hacker 24). Soon after, Roosevelt started practicing law with a New York law firm. While still in law school, Roosevelt met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt a distant cousin, only a few years younger than him(Alsop 28). They were married on St. Patrick's day, March 17th, 1905(Freidel 13). He was twenty-three and she was twe ...
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Fanon's Three Stages Related To The Indigenous People Of Chiapas
... theory, assimilation,
began formalizing. Throughout history the colonizers of Mexico were more
technologically advanced than the natives. The Europeans had guns, cannons
and massive ships. Not only did these possessions enable them to have
greater brute force, but it took the white man to the level of the gods in
the eyes of the natives. The colonizers could easily take advantage of
this reverence. Fanon states "The effect consciously sought by colonialism
was to drive into the natives' heads the idea that if the settlers were to
leave, they would at once fall back into barbarism, degradation, and
bestiality."(Fanon 211) The colonizers, believing the nativ ...
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The Raid Of Dieppe
... also provided action for troops, who were bored and frustrated after three years of training in England. This raid also allowed for the military to test the readiness for amphibious attacks. The objective in attacking Dieppe was to capture and remove German invasion barges. Radar equipment and secret papers were to be captured as well. The Allies hoped to destroy German defenses around Dieppe, such as near by air installations, radar, rail, harbor facilities, along with gasoline dumps. These were a few of the many things that the raid on Dieppe was to accomplish. "But the raid had gone all wrong as far as the plan was concerned"-a war correspondent.
was sch ...
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Events Leading To The American
... for self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge conflagration as the rights are slowly rescinded.
On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. "I.That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of Great Britain." This statement can be used as a summation of the entire document that the Stamp Act Congress had initiated. The statement depicts the colonists has having to be ...
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First Crusade
... that they had assumed the cross and were soldiers of Christ.
The causes of the Crusades were many and complex, but prevailing religious beliefs were clearly of major importance. Other reasons for joining the band of crusaders were:
a) Some went to escape bad times at home.
b) Some went because they were bored.
c) Some went to find out what opportunity there were in the East.
d) Some went to wash away their sins and ensure a place in
heaven.
e) Some went for adventure.
f) Some wanted a chance to gain some of the riches of the east.
g) Some here forced to go by their feudal lords.
The Crusaders continued an older tradition of the pilgrimage to the Ho ...
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The Renaissance And The Church
... The eight Crusades were the efforts to take back Jerusalem from the Muslims. These Crusades introduced to Western Europe the new tastes of art, fine quisines and new types of cloth, including silk.. With this the need for trade with the Far East increased drastically. This increase in trade caused an abundance of wealth in Western Europe which intern brought new products and goods to Western Europe.
In the year 1305 the Roman Catholic Church was relocated from Rome to France. With this the power of the papal states was divided among the region's leading families. Starting near the year 1300 the demand for reform began to grow at a rapid pace. By ...
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Oregon Trail
... and followed the Umatilla River to the Columbia River. Shorter and more direct routes were developed along some parts of the trail, but they were often more difficult.
Originally, like many other main routes in the United States, sections of the had been used by the Native Americans and trappers. As early as 1742, part of the trail in Wyoming had been blazed by the Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye; the Lewis and Clark Expedition, between 1804 and 1806, made more of it known. The German-American fur trader and financier John Jacob Astor, in establishing his trading posts, dispatched a party overland in 1811 to follow the trail ...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
... about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won." 1 The world had almost seen another world war, the effects of which would have been devastating because of the weapons involved. Humanity, indeed, was the prevention of the war.
The Cuban Revolution was a background cause to the crisis. On January 1st, 1959 a Marxist regime in Cuba would have seemed unlikely. To the communist party in Cuba, Fidel Castro appeared tempestuous, irresponsible and stubbornly bourgeois. In 1943 President Batista appointed a communist to his Cabinet, as he used communists as leaders of the labor unions. Batista started to fail the Cuban communists and their loyalties transf ...
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Holocaust Rememberance Day
... the Holocaust, that being nearly 65%
of European Jewry. However, they were not the only ones.
Germans sought to really “cleanse” the human race. They targeted all the people who were
somehow different from their “norms”. 5 million people other than Jews were killed during the
Holocaust; these included homosexuals, gypsies, disabled, Jehova’s witnesses and Polish people,
the list goes on and on. Asides from all the deaths, Nazis are famous for notorious experiments
that they performed on “lower” races in and outside of their concentration camps. They tore apart
families, often making parents watch their children being escorted to the gas chambers ...
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