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The Watergate Scandal
Number of Words: 1092 / Number of Pages: 4
... his top advisors decided to say that the break-in had been carried out for naitonal security reasons(Watergate 3). Later in 1971, H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff, was notified by an assistant, Gordon Stachan, that the U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell and John Dean, counsel to the president, had discussed the need to develop a “political intelligence capability” at the Committee for Reelection of the President(CRP). Some of the personnel and tactics identified with the activities became associated with efforts aimed at the Democrats. In early 1972, Mitchell assumed a new position as directo ...
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DEPRESSION
Number of Words: 2651 / Number of Pages: 10
... their piece of the profits. By this time, over 1.5 million people owned stock in various
companies. People in every kind of financial situation owned stocks. It seemed that it was an easy
way to make money, and most investors were getting rich. The stock market reached its all-time
high on September 3, 1929. This caused even more people to buy stock. In October of 1929,
however, the stock prices slowly began to decrease. This did not bother the stockholders that much
because ...
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The Significance Of The Franco-Prussian War On Europe
Number of Words: 360 / Number of Pages: 2
... Britain and Germany. When war developed between the
other countries in Europe Germany and Britain also began to wage war
against one another. Germany's fleet of submarines sank an English ship
prior to the United States joining in the War. The U.S. came out of their
neutral status in the war so that they could keep the German naval
submarines under control.
At the same time nationalism began to flourish. in Germany. This
nationalism evolved into an ideology of superiority over other races. This
ideology claimed that the German race had a special responsibility and
objective and that Germ ...
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Gulf War
Number of Words: 439 / Number of Pages: 2
... oil was in Hussein’s power and the U.S. was unable to trade with him because of sanctions. Therefore, oil based product prices raised 50 percent due to the lack of oil and a high demand for it. The U.S. was also giving financial aid to the Middle East to help drive out Hussein. These attempts were hopeless which gave the U.S. even more reason to send military aid into Persian Gulf.
The final reason the U.S. sent military aid to the Persian Gulf was because of the lack of success of the UN. The UN made many resolutions and sanctions to drive Hussein out of Kuwait; however, he was not moving and ...
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Genocide
Number of Words: 981 / Number of Pages: 4
... should have created a powerful and united country.
To fully understand , one must first try to define it. is “the effort to destroy the essential foundations of the life of national groups whose objectives would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups” (Charny 2). The crime of dates from a very long time ago. The first time a crime happened is not ...
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A Fourteenth Century Castle
Number of Words: 2542 / Number of Pages: 10
... castles. The towers enabled the defenders to see anyone approaching the castle, and to fire at them with bows or siege engines.
The first point of attack was usually the main entrance. A gate house protected the way into the castle. Anybody who tried to get into the building was either caught by the guards or was killed by the traps that were set up in the castle.
In the castle there were several walls that enclosed the courtyards. Each courtyard was called a bailey. During the war men women and children sheltered here. When there was no war these court yards were used for work shops.
During ...
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Henry Ford
Number of Words: 1074 / Number of Pages: 4
... fixed watches until 17 when he left school and
walked to Detroit to get a job at Michigan Car Works making repairs for $1.10 a day. He then
received a apprenticing job at Dry Dock Engine Company where he was a natural at designing
engines and repairing them. After mastering the machinists trade he went back home to go to a
small business college for three months. At home he met and courted Clara Bryant a daughter of
a neighboring farmer.
They were wed on April 11, 1888. Their home was on a 40 acre farm his father had given
him. He was not happy working on a farm and Clara knew it. ...
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Classical Greece, The Seed Of
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... demonstrated by the ancient Greeks had a direct influence on our medical, and non-medical, description today.
Many ancient Greeks such as Socrates used logic, another invaluable tool of modern Western thought. Socrates, by asking simple questions, was able to draw answers from people that supported his argument. By thinking a problem through, step-by-step, Socrates was able to formulate answers to a problem or question. This laid down the foundation for modern logic. “Not at all, my dear Agathon. It is truth that you find impossible to withstand; there is never the slightest difficulty in withs ...
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Buddhism And The Six Point Att
Number of Words: 2558 / Number of Pages: 10
... authority on two fronts. First he wanted to end “monopolistic” hold of the Hindu Brahmins on religious teaching by making the faith accessible to the average person taking away the secrecy of the Brahmins.
Buddha said, “there is no such thing as closed-fistedness in the Buddha”. (The Worlds Religions pg. 94)
In other words the religious leadership did not hold all control on spiritual enlightenment. This first attack on authority was directed at an institution of Hinduism, most directly at the Brahmin caste. The second front was pointed toward individual people. The ma ...
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A Hero Among Men, A Man Among
Number of Words: 1035 / Number of Pages: 4
... the desire of man to elevate and admire the individual who achieves greatness through determination and hard work.
The initial contrast between myth and man comes within the first few lines. Ulysses does not gracefully acquiesce to the duties of old age, as every person must eventually do; instead, he whines like a spoiled child. Nothing suits his taste: his homeland is too barren, his wife too old. He treats his loyal subjects, whom he ought to rule with the wisdom that should be learned over the years, with such disrespect and shameful disregard that one might think that they had done some grav ...
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