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Atomic Bomb
Number of Words: 1170 / Number of Pages: 5
... It was also a fact that the Japanese government had been equipping the commoners with any kind of weapon they could get their hands on. It is true that this could mean a Japanese citizen could have anything from a gun to a spear, but many unsuspecting soldiers might have fallen victim to a surprise spear attack! The number of deaths that would have occurred would have been much greater, and an invasion would have taken a much longer period of time. The Japanese would have continued to fight the US with all of what they had; spears, guns, knives, whatever they could get their hands on, just as long ...
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Auschwitz
Number of Words: 1040 / Number of Pages: 4
... camps within Germany. Construction of nearby Birkenau (Brzenzinka), also known as II, began in October 1941 and included a women's section after August 1942. Birkenau had four gas chambers, designed to resemble showers, and four crematoria, used to incinerate bodies.
Approximately 40 more satellite camps were established around . These were forced labor camps and were known collectively as III. The first one was built at Monowitz and held Poles who had been forcibly evacuated from their hometowns by the Nazis. Prisoners were transported from all over Nazi-occupied Europe by rail, arriving at in ...
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Jeffersonians Vs. Jacksonians
Number of Words: 1844 / Number of Pages: 7
... between the “strict constructionists” (Jefferson) who believed in
the strict interpretation of the Constitution by not going an inch beyond
its clearly expressed provisions, and the “loose constructionists”
(Hamilton) who wished to reason out all sorts of implications from what it
said”. Hamilton and Jefferson began to disagree more and more. Hamilton wrote
nasty anonymous articles in John Fenno’s Gazette of the United States and
Jefferson responded to him in Philip Freneau’s National Gazette. Jefferson’s
Notes of the State of Virginia in 1787 stated that rural life was beneficial
to th ...
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De Las Casas
Number of Words: 434 / Number of Pages: 2
... the Spaniards viewed the Indians as an inferior race that was placed on earth to serve the superior race: the Europeans. This can be argued effectively because the Christians had no regard whatsoever for the Native's humanity. The Spaniards literally treated dogs with more dignity than they did with the Indians.
The "Defender and Apostle to the Indians" (xiii), Bartolome , did not represent the same views as the Spaniards. "Las Casas's entire life was dedicated to demonstrating the truth of [the atrocities], first to his king, then to the royal administration- the Council of the Indies- and then to ...
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Ameratsu
Number of Words: 293 / Number of Pages: 2
... the Heavens.
In the two earliest scriptures of the history of Shintoism, Amaterasu’s origin differs. These two scriptures are the Nihon shoki and the Kojiki. Nihon shoki states that she was the child of Izanagi and Izanami, the first Shinto gods. The Kojiki states that Amaterasu was born from Izanagi’s left eye. Izanagi’s ritually washed his eye after going to hell and that is when she was born. She was sent to rule the heavens.
One day Amaterasu briefly hid herself in a cave when offended by her brother Susano-o's scandalous behavior. When she hid the universe became dark ...
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Air Force History
Number of Words: 903 / Number of Pages: 4
... McChord Air Force Base, Washington. This was in the period when the Air Force had spent much of the 1950s training and equipping itself for a nuclear conflict. In September 1951, he transferred to Tachikawa, Japan, and continued flight engineer duties. Chief Barnes transferred in June 1952 to the 30th Air Transport Squadron, Westover Air Force Base, Mass., where he attended C-118 school and continued his flight engineer duties in that aircraft. In September 1965, he went to Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., and continued duties as senior controller. In October 1966 he entered the F-4 Field Training ...
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The Titanic
Number of Words: 956 / Number of Pages: 4
... and a private bathroom, this truly was a luxury liner. Most upper
class people had dinner at a huge restaurant on deck D (Titanic, p.2). It
was 92 ft. wide and 114 ft. long. (Titanic, p.2) . The restaurant sat about
500 people (Titanic, p.2). There were a few other places to have dinner on
the boat, even a real French restuarant called, "Cafe Parisien" (Titanic,
p.2). During the day many rich people went to the Lounge at the Promenade
deck, the walls were similar to the ones at Versailles Castle near Paris,
it was truly magnificent. Next to this was the Georgian reading and
writing room for wome ...
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Vietnam War
Number of Words: 2773 / Number of Pages: 11
... in the college. The teach-in movement was at first, a gentle approach to the antiwar activity. Although, it faded when the college students went home during the summer of 1965, other types of protest that grew through 1971 soon replaced it. All of these movements captured the attention of the White House, especially when 25,000 people marched on Washington Avenue. And at times these movements attracted the interest of all the big decision-makers and their advisors (Gettleman, 54). The teach-ins began at the University of Michigan on March 24, 1965, and spread to other campuses, including Wisconsin ...
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Christianity In The New World
Number of Words: 2745 / Number of Pages: 10
... as souls to be saved. They did not consider or treat the Indians as equals. The implanting of , and the treatment of the native population by the missionaries and christian conquerors was detrimental to New World. Through men such as Cortez and Las Casas accounts of the conversions have been recorded. One of the reasons for this was the alliance of the Catholic Church with the Spanish monarchy. The status of the Indians was disregarded as the Christian conquers and missionaries who wanted to convert them subjected them to violence and reduced them to a laboring population. The Indians, however did not ...
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19th Century Romanticism In Europe
Number of Words: 782 / Number of Pages: 3
... systematic and downright heartless in terms of feeling or
emotional thought) and it was men such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in
Germany who wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" which epitomized what
Romanticism stood for. His character expressed feelings from the heart and
gave way to a new trend of expressing emotions through individuality as
opposed to collectivism. In England, there was a resurgence into
Shakespearean drama since many Romantics believed that Shakespeare had not
been fully appreciated during the 18th century. His style of drama and
expression had been downplayed and ignored by th ...
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