However, adopting an insurance principle had important consequences. ... Government intervention became part of everyday life, rationing was introduced; people were urged by the government to take prudent measures, regardless of their class to contribute to the war. ... "A people's war had to produce a people's peace." ... However, due to population growth and industrialization, coupled with the first and second world war, civil rest became apparent. Housing had become the major domestic issue during World War 1 after the wave of strikes by housing tenants protesting against land...

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The English Civil War was a radical time period in which England suffered tremendous hardships. ... Another important idea that the English Civil war created for early Americans was the sense of isolationism. ... The English Civil was a great form of letting the colonist do whatever they want. ... The claim that the Revolutionary war was not so revolutionary is made at it's greatest points during this time period. ... These values of freedom were created due to isolationism from the mouther country and were intensified once the British began fighting themselves during the civil war and re...

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His great oratory skills left the largest impact on Civil War time period literature. ... Douglass, as a former slave, single-handedly redefined American Civil War literature, simply by redefining how antislavery writings were viewed. ... Frederick Douglass played a major role in the redefinition of American literature in the Civil War time period. Abolitionism was a very important thing in many people's lives, and not only ex-slaves. ... He wrote three significant autobiographies that helped define the way literature developed during the Civil War time period. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Account for Pitt's success in restoring National fortunes in the years 1783 - 1793 Pitt had restored a majority of national fortunes during 1783 and 1793. ... The national debt in 1783 was £243 million, before the American wars the debt was £160 million, quite clearly the national debt had increased greatly due to the American wars. ... There was peace on all fronts; Britain was not at war with anyone. ... The Civil list was the list of patronage. ... One of Pitts most important reforms were the reforms on the expenditure of the army. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." ... After the end of the civil war in England, and the restoration of King Charles II, England closed its grip on the colonies. ... During the reign of King William all the colonies were forced to accept a royal governor. ... On the eve of the revolutionary war the political situation in the American colonies was still fai...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They are in many ways the two extremes, Czechoslovakia - 'The Velvet Revolution' so named for being civil and without deaths. ... The government during communism was quite different from the present system. ... Such human rights provisions as states own constitutions, and international covenants on political, economic, civil, and cultural rights. ... The American war for independence can be dated back to times of the British victory in the French and Indian War. ... Moreover, the war generated substantial resenment towards the colonists among English leaders, who were not satisfied ...

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They are in many ways the two extremes, Czechoslovakia - 'The Velvet Revolution' so named for being civil and without deaths. ... The government during communism was quite different from the present system. ... Such human rights provisions as states own constitutions, and international covenants on political, economic, civil, and cultural rights. ... The American war for independence can be dated back to times of the British victory in the French and Indian War. ... Moreover, the war generated substantial resenment towards the colonists among English leaders, who were not satisfied ...

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Every movement, civil or otherwise, needs a symbol. ... While all people opposed to the system of human objectification faced adversity and critics, Brown had to deal with criticism within his own cause. ... Melville enumerates that idea through the title of the poem, and his attribution of John Brown as "The meteor of the war." John Brown was such a central topic in many works of literature during this time period because he represents to the abolitionist movement what the American Renaissance symbolized for these authors. The concepts of liberty, freedom, and the necessity of bein...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the movie Gandhi, India is revealed much like the United States was during the Civil Rights Movements, a country split between the "serving" race and the "served" race. ... Gandhi experiences this civil war with great dismay, for all he has lived for is being destroyed. ... However it does not cease until he is near death, and the people do so to save his life. ... And when there are two distinct religions, races, or cultures, it becomes a power tug of war where there is only one winner. ... In conclusion, I thought that this movie was a prime example of Hollywood stepping aside to allo...

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• Grade Level: High School