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    How Americans debated the scope of government’s role in the economy with the acceleration of a national and international market economy(pp. 232-235) The spirit of national consciousness was formed after the War of 1812 Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper attained international recognition in the 1820s, as the nation’s first writers of importance to use American scenes and themes. School textbooks were written by Americans instead of British for Americans. North American Review began publication

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    In the time during 1725 to 1750s a great awakening era occurred, this mainly focused on bringing the people’s mindset in the american colonies from the focus of wealth back to the focus of the church. However the Second Great awakening that occurred in the 1800s was a bit different, it did have the original religious aspect of bringing people back to church but it sparked social reforms such as Women's right movement, Temperance movement, Anti- slavery abolition movement,better educational movement

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    In 1992, director Michael Mann decided to create a remake of the American classic The Last of the Mohicans, written by James Fenimore Cooper. The Last of the Mohicans is a novel that takes place during the French and Indian War. The reader is taken through the story through the last surviving members of the Mohican tribe and the British as they fight against the French and survive attacks from the Huron Indians. Though Mann changes some details of the story slightly, the overall story remains the

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    Where Nazi officials judged fairly during the Nuremburg Trails that followed World War II? Twenty-four major political and military leaders of Nazi Germany, indicted for aggressive war, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Of the twenty-four twenty-one were taken into custody and put on trial; these were known as the Nuremberg Trials. These trials started on November 20th 1945 and were the first ever war crime tribunal. The Trials were held by the Allied forces of World War II and were held

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    Humans will destroy the earth if no one acts. Climate change is a serious problem that has been around for decades. The 21st century is special because of the technology and information available. Yet, people continue to ignore the overwhelming destruction happening to nature. Through many years, masses have begun to take responsibility and restore the planet. In time, the earth might be what it once was. Climate change began in the 1820s with Joseph Fourier and in the 1860s with John Tyndall. Fourier

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    Daniel Boone, an American explorer and frontiersman, was born November 2, 1734 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Boone was fathered by a blacksmith and weaver, Squire Boone Sr. and nurtured by his England emigrated mother, Sarah Morgan. Boone was the sixth born and received a skimp formal education, for he learned to read and write from his mother. Boone acquired an education in wilderness and survival skills from his father. Boone just like his father had a niche for woodsmanship and hunting, for at

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    Metamorphosis can be expressed in numerous ways yet all terms interpret metamorphosis as a complete change of form - transformation. According to art academics, metamorphosis is allowing an artist to transform their quite ordinary ideas into something extraordinary. (Abraham, 2017) Transformation can be depicted through alteration, transition, evolution or construction/deconstruction by an artist to achieve a metamorphosis work of art. Thus, Transformation is expressed through the works of Bill Henson

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    Twain, Mark. Complete Works. Amazon Digital, 2014. Most known for his successful humor stories, Mark Twain started his fame with short stories included in a book titled Complete Works. One short story titled "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" contains a tall tale of a man who was requested by his friend to ask a guy named Simon about someone named Leonidas Smiley. Simon then begins telling a story about someone named Jim Smiley who had a betting problem. He bet his pet frog could

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    The novel The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper is a story during the French-Indian War; it follows Hawkeye and his group in mission of escorting the Munro sisters to their father in Fort William Henry and the different hardships they meet along the way. As for the novel by John Rollin Ridge's, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, recites the story of the famous Joaquin Murieta and his band as they run wild across California during the American Gold Rush; narrating the rise and

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    1) Reviving Religion a) People were now embracing Deism which rejected divinity of Christ and concept of sinning. They believed that there was some supreme person that created the aspects of the universe b) Deism helped spread Unitarian faith in New England. This faith consisted of believing that in only in one person God existed there c) The Second Great Awakening started in the 1800s. This caused lots of changes such as moving towards abolishing

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