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English In The 21st Century
Number of Words: 392 / Number of Pages: 2
... military to be ahead of other nations with their weapons. Both our ally and rival countries want our weapons and jets to make themselves more powerful.
Strong economy
Other countries ask us for loans to help build their economy. An example is that Russia needs some money to build a capitalist instead of a communist economy.
Japan and China ask for trade treaties so we can help them with their economic problems (a Japanese bank went bankrupt and needs our support to help rebuild the city).
Most regions in the world have been experiencing financial problems for several months (Russia, Korea, Ja ...
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The Progressive Era
Number of Words: 2175 / Number of Pages: 8
... This act soon became a model for other states. During this time many children went to work full-time out of necessity. Wages in factories were low, they worked long hours in horrible working conditions. It took many years to get laws passed. The Illinois Factory Act was the first. State legislatures eventually passed laws banning or restricting child labor. It was not until 1938 that the federal government passed the Fair Labor Standards Act. This law banned employment for children under 16, and prohibited children under 18 from operating dangerous machinery. Progressives lobbied for regulatio ...
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Assyrian Art
Number of Words: 1112 / Number of Pages: 5
... Moreover, the reliefs overwhelm the viewer by depicting the king's power and god-like divinity through propagandistic iconography and stylization.
To portray the king's god-like divinity, the reliefs represent the deities and Assurnasirpal in a similar manner. First of all, hierarchic scale is almost absent since all the figures are closely related in size, with Assurnasirpal being only slightly shorter than the deities. In historical context, this shows that Assyrian kings were closely associated with deities, but were not considered gods themselves. This lack of hierarchic scale is also seen in ...
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The War In Vietnam
Number of Words: 1998 / Number of Pages: 8
... anywhere, at home or abroad, was, by definition, and enemy of the United States. Drawing an analogy with the unsuccessful appeasement of fascist dictators before World War II, the Truman administration believed that any sign of communist aggression must be met quickly and forcefully by the United States and its allies. This reactive policy was known as containment.
In Vietnam the target of containment was Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh front he had created in 1941. Ho and his chief lieutenants were communists with long-standing connections to the Soviet Union. They were also ardent Vietnamese nationa ...
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Critical Analysis Of Silence Of The Lambs APA Format
Number of Words: 870 / Number of Pages: 4
... the book. Most of these are in the form of flashbulb memories, a recollection of an event so powerful that the recollection is highly vivid and richly detailed, as if it were preserved on film (Brown & Kulik, 1977). She draws upon these memories for courage, and they give her the strength of will to accomplish whatever task it is she is about to perform.
Hannibal Lecter is neither an antagonist nor protagonist, but more like a middleman throughout the novel. He doles out parcels of knowledge to Clarice Starling in order to test her strength of mind, and to benefit himself by getting rewards ...
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The Beginning Of A Journey
Number of Words: 992 / Number of Pages: 4
... wanted to know if Americans could journey overland to the Pacific Ocean following two rivers, the Missouri and the Columbia, which flow east and west from the Rocky Mountains. If the sources of the rivers were nearby, Jefferson reasoned that American traders would have a superior transportation route to help them compete with British fur companies pressing southward from Canada.
On February 28, 1803, the Congress appropriated funds for a small U.S. Army unit to explore the Missouri and Columbia rivers and tell the western Indian tribes that traders would soon come to buy their furs. The explo ...
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African And Native American Slavery
Number of Words: 645 / Number of Pages: 3
... showed all that hospitality they meant it. Of course, they didn't,
the Europeans captured the Indians to be used as slaves. They were also
slaughtered and raped because of resistance to leave their land. If any Indians
refused to leave their land they would be killed. The women were raped for sick
and disgusting reasons. Europeans didn't feel that the women, or men for that
matter, were worth anything as humans so they were beat and raped without any
thought about what they might be doing.
As we watched the movie Roots, I noticed a part in the movie where they
were on a ship and a man brings i ...
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The Early Nineteenth Centory
Number of Words: 1217 / Number of Pages: 5
... Territory, and doubled the nation's
size. This purchase was a mastermind move by Jefferson that let the farming
nation trade using the whole Mississippi.
Another achievement of Thomas Jefferson was the exploration of the
Louisiana Territory. He hired Lewis and Clark to explore the uncharted
territory. He told them to search the land for a river passage to the Pacific
Ocean. Jefferson also told them to keep diaries and make maps. This was
Clark's task. In May, 1804, forty-four men set out on the expedition. The
travelers tried to be friendly with the Indians on their way. When they reached ...
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Why Limp Bizkit Is NOT Heavy Metal
Number of Words: 444 / Number of Pages: 2
... to aid their mindless and annoying "ado do cha" beat. They sing and talk with an ebonic slur, as they shake their bodies erratically, making criss-cross motions with their hands, and raising each foot in turn while crouching. All this can be seen being performed by a common Rap fan or Rap artist. These points reinforce the fact that Limp Bizkit is Rap and not Heavy Metal.
Limp Bizkit is Rap and not Heavy Metal because all their song lyrics are laced with "gangsta-rap" lingo. For example,
mellow out
bitch
???
I thought I knew ya
took the time to throw my love into ya
screw ya
cuz now ...
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Decision Of The Bomb: Drop It Or Not?
Number of Words: 563 / Number of Pages: 3
... was too large of a financial investment to waste
in not using the bomb for reasonable causes. Lastly, many Americans also
held bitter resentment against the Japanese for Pearl Harbor and the
treatment of American prisoners. So the decision to drop the atomic bomb
was essential.
The atomic bomb's initial explosion has been devastating, but it
also had many after effects. Those who didn't die suffered severe burns.
Acute radiation poisoning, which occurred directly after the explosion,
caused nausea, vomiting, fatigue, diarrhea, hair loss, and even death in
thousands of people for months. After ef ...
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