Lily Willen
Chapter 22 Essays
3/13/12
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The revolutionary movements in Venezuela, Mexico, and Brazil all had strong leaders and were motivated by the same things, but they all had different intentions. Napoleon's invasion of Spain sparked the revolutions of both Venezuela and Mexico because the power of their monarch was weakened, and anger and fear lead to up rise in the colonies. All three of the countries wanted independence because they felt like they were economically subordinate to Spain or Portugal. The Spanish colonies in Venezuela and Mexico were motivated to acquire independence because of enlightenment and other revolutionary movements like the French Revolution or American Revolution. Similarly, Brazil began to ...
The battle on March 9, 1862, between the USS Monitor and the CSS Merrimack, officially the CSS Virginia, is one of the most revolutionary naval battles in world history. Up until that point, all battles had been waged between wooden ships. This was the first battle in maritime history that two ironclad ships waged war....
In this essay, I?m going to introduce to the reader a topic not touched a lot because of its complexity and its avoidance by conservative adults. This topic is, of course, . During one week, I looked for information in the library and at my house, and from the information I gathered and my one knowledge about the topic, I?m go...
The U.S. Entering World War II "A date that will live in infamy," (Snyder 33) was what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called December 7, 1941. It was a calm Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. Then two U.S. soldiers saw an oscilloscope signal on their mobile radars. They immediately called this in to their commanding offi...
China and Japan From 1500 to 1800, China and Japan tried to politically and economically established their countries in very different ways. Japan fought war after war for a century before they changed their ways. China on the other hand slowly established a government and used education as a tool to be politically and economically strong....
DAVID KORESH AND THE DAVIDIANS Branch Davidians, American religious movement that became widely known in 1993, when most of its members were killed in a fire that destroyed their headquarters near Waco, Texas. The fire marked the end of a 51-day siege by United States federal agents. (Microsoft' Encarta' 98 Encyclopedia. ' 1993-1997 Micro...