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Fort Pillow Attack
Number of Words: 1288 / Number of Pages: 5
... Forrest. Confederate sharpshooters
claimed the lives of several key Union officers during the morning assault
on the fort. The losses included the commanding officer Major Loinel F.
Booth, and his second in command shortly after that. These losses created
a complete breakdown of order and leadership among the Union troops within
the fort. (251) During the morning engagement, the gun boat the New Era
was continually attempting to shell the Confederate forces from the
Mississippi, but with minimal success. The Union forces fought back
heartily until around one o¦clock in the afternoon, when both sid ...
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Military Clash Between The United States And Iraqi Jets
Number of Words: 320 / Number of Pages: 2
... to disregard the no-flight-zones so that they may be pursued by U.S. warplanes, in hopes to perhaps capture a U.S. pilot in an elaborate blackmailing plot.
This military clash was just one of the three military clashes which has happened in the past two or so weeks. Despite the close encounter, President Hussein stated that he would continue to send warplanes over the no-flight-zones. These blatant disregards for the no-flight-zone restrictions seem to be part of Saddam Hussein’s plan to force the UN to withdraw weapons inspectors from Iraq.
This problem is extremely important to the future ...
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Baroque Architecture
Number of Words: 968 / Number of Pages: 4
... made the two styles different were its culture, economy, religion, government, and economics. These can make one style very different from the other, but there were also other reasons why.
Italians were the first to come up with , they became very interested in the surroundings of their buildings. They placed elaborate gardens around places. They set off important buildings in the cities by open squares decorated with fountains or colonnades. Roads leading from the squares giving a dramatic view of stairways, sculpture, or other buildings far in the distance. These were some of the things the ...
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The Vietnam War
Number of Words: 2274 / Number of Pages: 9
... by force.
The Geneva Conference in 1954, officially split Vietnam into two parts, North or Vietminh and South or French supported. It also ended the fighting of the North and South under several circumstances. First it officially declared France defeated by the Vietminh. After this was officially declared the United States stepped in to influence the South. The most important circumstance was the agreement that in 1956 general elections would be held. With the election two years away both parties had time to rebuild whatever armed forces or governments they could. The Geneva Conference sta ...
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The Indians Of The Pacific Northwest
Number of Words: 1590 / Number of Pages: 6
... those of the Green and White Rivers. (1) He was considered to be Duwamish since his mother was the daughter of a Duwamish chief and the line of descent passed matrilineally. This was sometimes the case when fathers died while their son's were was still young and the mother would return to her tribe to raise the children. The Duwamish lived on the Duwamish River and various islands across the Puget Sound. Seattle was married twice, his first wife Ladaila, died after bearing one daughter, Kiksomlo, known as "Angeline". His second wife, Oiahl, had three daughters all of whom died young and two boys ...
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The Vietname War In "America's Australia: Australia's America" And "Into The Dark House"
Number of Words: 1793 / Number of Pages: 7
... focus of the War,
American involvement, McMahon deals with this concept in fourteen tightly
written and easily comprehendable Chapters. This results in identifying the
problems and the outcomes associated with the War. The outcomes of these
problems associated with the War primarily manifested themselves on the
battlefield not in the sheltered walls of the decision makers.
D.J.Dennis's Vietnam diary takes an in-depth look at the effects of policy
on the battlefield focusing on the Australian Soldier . These four books
provide a comprehensive and unique perspective on the Vietnam War.
Vietnam, loc ...
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Austin Museum Of Art
Number of Words: 723 / Number of Pages: 3
... various photographers that were entered into a contest earlier in the year. Now the pictures were traveling around the state of Texas, and had even made a stop at the MSC in College Station. The pieces in the exhibit made visible the numerous ways in which art and photography can be presented. There were huge photographs, Polaroids, pictures developed onto clothing, series photographs, bound pictures, and a large amount whose methods of production could not be identified. There was one group of photographs done by the same artist that truly caught my attention. The artist, while a young woman did ...
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Indentured Servants And Slaves
Number of Words: 963 / Number of Pages: 4
... or her own. If both
parents died, their children would be required to work until they were 21.
When the boat reached America all servants were forced to stay onboard
until they could pay the toll or have a master pay the toll, then they
would serve that master for a set number of years (Gottlieb p 30). At this
time many families were broken up. No master wanted the sick, so the sick
would usually remain onboard until they died.
The slave's journey was equally as harsh, if not harsher, than that
of the indentured servant. The African slaves were first kidnapped,
separating them from their family, ...
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Noh Play Tsunemasa And Youchi Soga
Number of Words: 675 / Number of Pages: 3
... the soldiers.
In these two Noh plays, both protagonists also deal with the lives and sufferings of warriors. For example, according to the story of "Tsunemasa", Tsunemasa had been killed in the battle, so he was still suffering the woes that consuming him. Therefore, the priest performed a liturgy for the salvation of his soul. In the “Youchi Soga” play, the Soga brothers were also suffering the woe of losing their father. That woe forced them to take revenge on their father’s murderer and these was just a warrior’s life. After Joro was killed, Goro was suffering another lose of brother.
Although ...
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The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy Or Single-gunman?
Number of Words: 1375 / Number of Pages: 5
... for
the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Two days later, Oswald was killed
by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, while he was being moved from the
city to the county jail.
At a glance, the above story sounds as if this should be an open-and-shut
case. After all, according to the facts above, Oswald must have killed
Kennedy. However, you must take a deeper look into this case. Many people
who witnessed the murder of John F. Kennedy dispute the facts above, saying
that they heard shots from places besides the book depository, and other
things that may contradict what is stated above. One of ...
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