The dispute was intensified even further in the late 1960s. ... "When the IRA announced an open-ended cease-fire at the end of August 1994 (followed by a loyalist cease-fire six weeks later), Northern Ireland seemed at least on the brink of a durable peace," (The Economist, 1996). ... "Initially they saw themselves as defenders of the Northern Catholic minority, but later spread their military activities throughout Northern Ireland, Britain, and Europe," (Darby, 1995). ... The economy has a huge impact on life in Ireland. ... Two countries fighting for control of the territory became a re...

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Is it right or is it wrong to take the life of someone who has committed a capital crime? ... In the 1600s is when this ultimate punishment reached the United States when "the first colonists came to the United States, they brought the British penal system across the ocean with them. ... After his execution, his lawyers said "The media will focus on the 'nazi' propaganda of the prosecution...the truth is [Spisak] was seriously mentally ill and committed the crimes because of this mental illness, not because of hate,"" Spisak was someone who suffered from insanity, but it w...

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Millicent Brennan 19 August 2015 HIST 4563 Hostility in the New World In the early 1600s, tensions were reaching a breaking point between the Native American tribes of Virginia and the English settlers at Jamestown. ... Native Americans had developed their ways of life over several thousand years, but in Europe, a different sort of society had developed and was ready to expand its reaches by colonizing a new world. The Europeans began their expansion west in the late 1400s with Spain's explorers, such as Christopher Columbus and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado. ...

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