The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. ... With the decline of the Amerindian population, labor from Africa formed the basis of the exploitation of the gold and agricultural resources of the export sectors of the Americas, with sugar plantations absorbing well over two thirds of slaves carried across the Atlantic by the major European and Euro-American po...

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At the close of World War II, the Allied Powers (The United States of America, England, France, and The Soviet Union) were faced with the dilemma of how to deal with the vanquished Axis military and political regime which had committed horrific crimes in its pursuit of world dominance. ... A war crime, using the definition adopted since World War II can fall into any of three categories: crimes against peace involving initiation of war; war crimes including murder, torture, or deportation of civilian populations and crimes against humanity including political, racial, or religious persecution ...

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In the United States, Americans were wrestling with the ravages of the Great Depression. ... Americans were not going to be "dragged" into another war by the British. The Depression had bred increased xenophobia and anti-Semitism, and with upward of 30% unemployment in some industrial areas1, many Americans wanted to see immigration halted completely. ... Steel Corporation, was named the chairman of the American delegation. ... In May 1942, a report was transmitted to London from the Jewish Socialist Party in Poland warning that the Germans had "embarked on the physical extermination...

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Regardless, neither before the destruction of the positive American picture, nor after, has the American thought ever been the European thought. For the American thought tosses over the edge the heart of the European thought, social equity, which Europe procured after a century of battle. ... Conversely, that social sense is nonattendant in American belief system. ... The immense divider in the middle of European and American philosophies, the political watershed of the 20th century. ... Fierce American substances substantiate the European Idea: the death penalty in Christian America, militari...

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benefits and threats of globalisation Introduction There are processes in the international order--driven by revolutions in communication and information technology--that exhibit seemingly inexorable globalising tendencies while, at the same time, there are a range of actions, adopted by states and non state actors alike, that attempt to resist these often ill defined phenomena captured by the all embracing notion of 'globalisation'. For example, the long term tendency towards freer trade, electronic commerce and the seemingly uncontrollable power of deregulated capital markets do...

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Sadly, American history for homosexual culture and politics, while even briefer than Europe's, is no better. ... " (Timmons 145) While the society was short lived, it was influential in some of the first homosexuality based legal cases in America. ... This was the first time an American court was forced to make a distinction between homosexual behavior and illegal behavior. ... In 1973, pressure groups were able to force the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its mental illness list. ... Ward's special interest group took measures to protect the civi...

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The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. ...

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And at the end of this second world war in 1945, Britain was quickly recognized that the reconstruction of British economy required a large influx of immigrants labour.The Royal commission on population reported in 1949 that immigrants of good stock would be welcomed without reserve, and potential newcomers from the Caribbean and elsewhere soon became aware of pressing needs of labor market in the united kingdom. ...

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The peasants, who comprised the largest portion of the population, were low in literacy rate and wanted little to do with political matters but sought to free themselves from the ancient requirements of the feudal system and gain relative economic parity. ... Thus the English became the forerunner for the system we have today in America and took the first few steps towards a true democracy. ...

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Since childhood, traveling has always been one of my hobbies. In the summer of 2002, my four friends and I planned to take a seven day trip to Europe. Most of Europe lies in latitudes more northerly than New York, due to which it has warm, Atlantic currents with moderate temperature. The Alps can b...

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Source C, however, is a much later source, as can be determined from the approach it uses to "persuade" people to enlist, preventing the "mad brute (of) militarism", in this case, a raving gorilla, that represents Germany, from reaching out from Europe (bottom-centre, right) which has been decimated, to the shores of "America" (bottom, centre). ... In both the Boer War and the American Civil War, in which static trench warfare was first developed, and in which over three million men were killed or wounded by weapons, such as the Springfield rifle, which was considerably inferior to the Lee-En...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate