•Both Japan and Germany were dissatisfied with their positions in the international power structure. Both expanded their territories through force, causing tensions with other powers.
•However, Japanese leaders felt that they were not being treated as an equal power on the world stage because of racism, while Germans felt that they were being treated unfairly because of their defeat in World War I.
<span>•Japan's initial conquests were driven primarily by a desire to acquire raw materials and other resources, whereas Germany's were driven primarily by strategic rivalries with neighboring powers.</span>
Since you did not give choices for the rites of passages, I will just give you the answers. According to Arnold van Gennep, there rites of passages have different phases - mainly there are three available. There are separation, liminality, and incorporation, in a respective manner. These answers are phases which means that they should be followed and considered step by step.
The Great Compromise <em>(Or the Connecticut Compromise of July 16, 1787) </em>was a compromise began by Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, in which <u>it was stablished a Congress representation bicameral system</u>, compound of the Senate and the House of Representatives, where in the Senate it'd be assigned an equal seats number by state, but in the House of Representatives, there would be assigned a seats number according to each state population proportion.
And the Great Compromise was compared to the Virginia and New Jersey Plans, <u>because that Compromise arised from a disccordance between the Virginia Plan</u> <em>(Or the James Maddison's plan) </em><u>and the New Jersey Plan </u><em>(Or the Paterson’s New Jersey Plan)</em> that were presented in the Convention of May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Moreover, the Virginia Plan proposed important changes in the Congress structure, stablishing a Bicameral system, but by other side the New Jersey plan was based in the confederation articles, stablishing an Unicameral congress System, so to resolve those diferences, on June 11, 1787, Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth <u>proposed the Connecticut Compromise, where were included proposals from both plans.</u>
