... create the struggle of two great cultures, mighty opposites with a twinned destiny, as they set about trying to disentangle themselves and their feelings before the Partition of 1947. Across the country, strolling visitors marveled a few years ago at all the silken saris and bright turbans of the ... its ability to do business in a land already riddled with fierce animosities, the company found itself forced to defend trading posts with hired soldiers. Before long, the posts became cities (Calcutta, Bombay, Madras) and their soldier garrisons, small private armies. As assets and responsib...

• Word Count: 5127
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... British soldiers seeking revenge. As well as hanging mutineers, the British had some "blown from cannon," (an old Mughal punishment adopted many years before in India), in which sentenced rebels were tied over the mouths of cannons and blown to pieces when the guns were fired. In terms of ... seeing their husbands and sons butchered, were most painful... Heaven knows I feel no pity, but when some old grey bearded man is brought and shot before your very eyes, hard must be that man's heart I think who can look on with indifference...[126] Some British troops adopted a policy of " ... , and...

• Word Count: 4921
• Approx Pages: 20

... HEU and tritium; through its heavy investment in Magnox reactors and its construction of large-scale reprocessing plants, Britain was the world's largest separator of civil plutonium (domestic and foreign) before being overtaken by France in the mid-1990s; Britain probably has the widest experience of any country of decommissioning reactors and fuel-cycle facilities; it has contributed in important ways ... and form part of Britain's military inventory. Initial discharges from civil power reactors Civil Magnox reactors were the final source of weapon-grade plutonium for the British bomb ...

• Word Count: 14040
• Approx Pages: 56
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... financial instruments."27 One such son was Charles L. Tiffany, who used his father's money made in the cotton trade to open what is now known as Tiffany & Co, Long before the threat of Civil War New York, had become the third major city of the Western world and great thanks should be given to the cotton industry on which it ... ...

• Word Count: 2679
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... States of America established a republican form of government, in which power resided with the people. The revolution had many causes. Long-term social, economic, and political changes in the colonies before 1750 provided the basis for an independent nation with representative political institutions. More immediately, the French and Indian War (1754-1763) changed the relationship between the colonies and their mother ... ...

• Word Count: 2972
• Approx Pages: 12

... a workingman's revolutionary, a graduate of England's exclusive Eton prep school, a collector of modern art and a graduate of Cambridge University, nonetheless he transformed the dismal science into a revolutionary engine of social program. Before Keynes economists were gloomy naysayer's. "Nothing can be done" "Don't interfere" "It will never work", but Keynes was an optimist. "Of course we can lick unemployment!" The "economic problem is ... States and Japan which had previously imported European goods, and which could not get them during the war had developed new ways of getting the g...

• Word Count: 3219
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

... can only originate in the House of Commons. The Lords can also offer amendments to bills passed by the House of Commons, and Commons is obligated to consider these amendments before passing a bill into law. These powers of the House of Lords are limited because most British believe that in a modern democracy a non-elected house should only act as a forum for ... , elected every two years. The internal organization of the House is based on a system of committees and subcommittees. All representatives serve on several committees and these committees consider all legislation before it is pr...

• Word Count: 2945
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate