... pushed through the territory to the copper mines of Katanga by 1910 and a lead and zinc mine had opened up at Kabwe, formerly known as Broken Hill. In the late 1920's, however, vast deposits of copper ore were discovered on the Katangan border and by 1940 the mines employed 30,000 ... elected to the legislative Council. In 1938, when Gore-Browne became the nominated member to represent the interests of the Africans, his seat at Broken Hill was taken over by Roy Welensky, a locomotive engine driver and railway union official who had grown up in Southern Rhodesia. The settlers started ... r...

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... British arrived, they ruled most of northern India save for a few fiefdoms still controlled by tribute-paying Hindu rajas. Though ruthless, the Moguls had cultivated tastes, especially for Persianstyle gardens, poems and miniatures. The young emperor Jahangir, for example, boasted of slaughtering 17,000 animals and nearly 14,000 birds, yet he was a great patron of the arts. His successor, Shah ... ...

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... , "grabbed my wrist and threw me down. While I was on the floor, he started pounding me in the chest" This violent, unjustified, and illegal confrontation left Rena with a broken collarbone and a healthy distrust of Peabody Mining Corporation by the Navajo people. On top of this violent confrontation the mining operation has drained her aquifers and now left her land ... ...

• Word Count: 1241
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... Pala readily adopted Christianity and the customs of his Portuguese rulers, it was said by Senaka Weeratna that by his death in 1654 that the Prince was a "highly disappointed, broken man." (3) Peiris states that Vijaya Pala's conversion to Catholicism was "a grave political blunder" because "the social organisation of his people was based on Buddhism, and his ... ...

• Word Count: 1990
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... aware of the severity of suffering that slaves endure and hopes to bring that reality to light. During Douglass's time with Covey, he experienced the true brutality of slavery. Feeling broken and tamed, he claimed, "My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died" (83). This is the ... ...

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... , no one was hurt and no property was damaged except for the tea. One Patriot even returned the next day to replace a lock on a sea chest that had been accidentally broken. This was not the work of anarchists who wanted to destroy everything in their way, but of Englishmen who simply wanted a redress of grievances. After the Boston Massacre, when the ... ...

• Word Count: 967
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... , no one was hurt and no property was damaged except for the tea. One Patriot even returned the next day to replace a lock on a sea chest that had been accidentally broken. This was not the work of anarchists who wanted to destroy everything in their way, but of Englishmen who simply wanted a redress of grievances. After the Boston Massacre, when the ... ...

• Word Count: 967
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... irrigate 30 millions acres of land. Their factories and companies provided jobs for those in need, and introduced new skills and business techniques. Jawaharlal Nehru believes that "many crafts were broken up," such as shipbuilding and metal work. Indians pointed out that although the British were creating industries, they were taking all profits back to Europe, leaving India without much of ... ...

• Word Count: 498
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... superior force and numbers. They had to engage in a different style of warfare, and they discovered that the human quest for freedom is a powerful motivator, one that can only be broken by persistent removal of the freedoms themselves. The British were able to gain superiority and eventually win the Boer War by utilizing the combination of brute force, vastly superior numbers ... ...

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... of a few women, and the coming together of many, the female minority was able to have its voice heard. The set of ideals was categorized under a certain title of "womanhood". Broken into four sections, the ideals included piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity. Piety, showing display of religious dedication and morality, was crucial, because at this point in history women were considered ... ...

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... to alter or abolish it. The colonists viewed monarchical government as doing such and as they viewed their relationship to the British crown as solely contracted and liable to be broken if considerations were not fulfilled. The considerations, which the colonists desired to be filled, were not specifically a quest for liberty. In reality they were quests for self-interest and to ... ...

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