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Cartels Of Japan
Number of Words: 905 / Number of Pages: 4
... adapt to the changing times. What worked for today may not work for tomorrow. The government only witnessed the success of their decisions, however they were unable to adapt that success to continue through the changing times. By protecting their businesses, they were shutting out the rest of the world, and by doing this, they would have to sustain themselves. Not that the world did not want any part of Japan, on the other hand, Japan (because of protectionism) seemed not to want any part of the world. In addition, the protectionism had some bias characteristics to it as well. It seems that the govern ...
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Maya Civilization
Number of Words: 345 / Number of Pages: 2
... the Gulf of Mexico in the southern lowlands. These rivers serve as transportation from city to city. The best soils are found in the southern highland valleys where volcanic eruptions have enriched the earth.
The Maya today number about six million people, making them the largest single block of indigenous peoples north of Peru. Some of the largest groups are found in Mexico. In spite of modernization and intermarriage between the Spanish immigrants, many Maya communities have succeeded in preserving their identity and their ways. The Maya face greater challenges, however, than those presented by to ...
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Hitler, Nazis, And The National Socialist German Workers' Party
Number of Words: 2324 / Number of Pages: 9
... presented themselves as the party of the young, the strong,
and the pure, in opposition to an establishment populated by the elderly,
the weak, and the dissolute.
Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As a young boy,
he showed little ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to
Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna academy
of fine arts.
When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer's army as a
Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a
Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by th ...
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Restore The Emperor Expel The Barbarians: The Causes Of The Showa Restoration
Number of Words: 3656 / Number of Pages: 14
... that links the constitutional settlement of 1889 to the
Showa Restoration in the 1930s is not an easy story to relate. The
transformation in Japan's governmental structure involved; the historical period
between 1868 and 1912 that preceded the Showa Restoration. This period of
democratic reforms was an underlying cause of the militarist reaction that lead
to the Showa Restoration. The transformation was also feed by several immediate
causes; such as, the downturn in the global economy in 1929Footnote5 and the
invasion of Manchuria in 1931.Footnote6 It was the convergence of these external,
internal ...
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Atomic Bomb 2
Number of Words: 1194 / Number of Pages: 5
... with Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most brilliant scientists in the country. Groves informed Oppenheimer that he had been selected to lead the expedition on trying to invent the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer immediately started preparing by telling Groves that they needed an isolated area with one ringmaster(Oppenheimer).
General Groves was in charge of the military or security part of the project, while Oppenheimer was in charge of the organization of the scientists and ideas. At times, Oppenhiemer and Grooves had some nasty arguments over policies. Even though Groves was the one who reported to ...
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Ireland An Expansion Through
Number of Words: 1410 / Number of Pages: 6
... of “a little Christian symbolism, a large dose of Zoroastrian dualism, and some of the quiet refinements of Buddhism. (49)”. Although this would not satisfy his intellectual hunger and he would move onto studying the works of Plato and Socrates. In the end though he would come across the letters of a Jew named Paul who would show him the light of the Christian god. Thus, he would purify his soul, absolve his past sins, and “ submit himself to the death of the flesh through baptism-and to the Christian God. (58)”
At this same time 4th Century Ireland was not as nearly educated as Augustine of t ...
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King Of The Seas
Number of Words: 1924 / Number of Pages: 7
... ever has!” (Davis,135) Many times in United States history the major nations of the world, such as England, France and Germany, have ignored the United States in political matters but this invention and the ironclad to ironclad battle changed a large percentage of their attitudes toward the United States. It made America become feared and respected by large European nations and all the major nations looked at this invention with pure respect and awe. (Love,29) The invention of the ironclad has helped to push America higher on the ladder to becoming a major world power and to be included in majo ...
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Hiroshema
Number of Words: 871 / Number of Pages: 4
... in the end. One reason it was a mistake was it caused the U.S. to enter the war. The United States was the ultimate cause to Japan losing the war. Secondly it made the Americans angry and determined to destroy the Japanese. Recruiting offices were flooded with young patriots who wanted to help their country out. This attack was just an example of what could have happened if the war had continued. If the war had continued another attack on U.S. soil could have taken place. This could have turned the 6,000 dead American civilians into
9,000 dead civilians. That is one of the main reasons the war n ...
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Medical Experiments In The Holocaust
Number of Words: 1416 / Number of Pages: 6
... 958). The aim of such research was strictly for Nazis to pursue their desire to engineer the perfect Aryan race of blond hair and blue eyes. Nazis justified experimentation on concentration camps inmates, with the rationalization that these individuals were already destined to die (Dodd).
Birkenau housed the bulk of the so-called medical laboratories. There the Nazis conducted dozens of experiments, mostly by people with little or no medical training, under the supervision of German doctors (Berenbaum 390).
As I mentioned before, there were two main purposes the Nazis preformed medical experiments ...
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Cost Of The Golf War
Number of Words: 2703 / Number of Pages: 10
... contributions. •The US paid roughly $7 billion, less than 12% of the total US cost and less than half what Saudi Arabia and Kuwait paid.
Why is the cost of the Gulf War to the US and how the US paid for the
war, interesting? •Along with the large scale engagement of international forces (the US had over 500,000 troops while non-US
Coalition forces were roughly 160,000 or roughly 24% of all forces), the large international contributions to defer the cost of the war for the US deployment provides an indication of how deep international support for that war was, at least amoung those countri ...
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