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    “Freedom isn’t free” (various artists sing song) is the one quote that describes the hardship and difficulties that Madagascar has experienced, since the 7th Century all the way until their independence in June of 1960 Madagascar and its people have been in constant turmoil. Through its eventful past it is easy to see how Madagascar gained its history, culture, and religion, this is the identity that the country has shifted to over this vast amount of time. Archeologists such as Jarred Diamond

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    1342, a French party of raiders arrive under the command of Sir Guillaume d'Evecque, a French Knight. In his party of raiders is a warrior dressed all in black, known simply as the Harlequin, who has hired Sir Guillaume to carry out the raid to steal Hookton's treasure, the Lance of St. George. During the raid The Harlequin kills Thomas' father, and the lance is stolen from the village. With his bow

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    United States, is now known as a war won by the underdogs but seemingly forgotten of just how much of a struggle it truly was to be victorious over a force that seemed to be unbeatable. It all started with the French and Indian war. The British traveled to the colonies to fight against the French and Indians, and suddenly the colonists weren’t so free anymore. The colonists did not stand for the unfair taxing because

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    The French and Indian War was a crucial event in American history which changed economic, political and ideological connections between the colonies and Britain throughout the time of life. Ideologically, the war brought up remarks of dissatisfaction from the colonies toward Britain. The colonists in retribution, boycotted, which damaged their economic relationship with Great Britain. It changed the political relationship between England and its colonists because the English were forced to place

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    The third aspect of the function of violence in decolonization is "violence as a cleansing force." For Fanon, in the process of decolonization, violence liberates the consciousness of the oppressed people by erasing their inferiority complex: At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect. [. . .] When the people have taken violent part in the national

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    Big Three leaders, but there were certain outcomes that easily stand out. The first of the main outcomes would consist of the free elections and free governments that were supposed to be established, although this often is not what would actually happen. The biggest case of this was agreed upon in 1945 at the Yalta Conference where Churchill pushed for free elections and free governments in Central and Eastern Europe, specifically Poland, while Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of influence in these

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    The story was getting worse and worse. Drinking, poor health and he would be given help suiting up. Would he be sober? Those old time flyboys made their own rules. "Max, you and Nicole will intercept him after he suits up, put a marker on him and send him back. Nicole will get in his plane and fly out. You will leave the air base and proceed to a fishing boat you have previous rented, and head out. Nicole will install an auto guidance system into the plane and bail out over the ocean. Max, you'll

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    Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville and the French Mississippi Company officially founded Nouvelle-Orleans. Bienville would later become governor of the Louisiana colony three different times between the years 1702 and 1743. The city was named after Duke Philippe d'Orléans, who was France's head of state at the time (Briney). With the help of Native Americans, the French were able to establish the city of New Orleans. The Native American Choctaw Nation helped the French navigate the waters and land of the

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    with his mother. He was in the middle of it all because he was in the middle of it all because he was the only one his mother could lean on. He defined abandonment by saying the boy could of “abandoned” his mother and went to England to the Free French Forces, or had the choice to stay with his mom in her time of heartbreak. He felt this way because if he left his other she would be in complete misery because

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    Prussia was a kingdom that existed nearly half a millennium ago as a patchwork of territorial fragments, with no significant resources founded yet or a coherent culture. With its capital in Berlin, “Prussia grew from being a small, poor, disregarded medieval state into one of the most vigorous and powerful nations in Europe.”1 Prussia 's involvement in the continent 's foundational religious and political conflagrations. From the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political

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