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Imigration And Discrimination In The 1920s
Number of Words: 536 / Number of Pages: 2
... and then presented himself as the country's savior, combatting the evils of Communism. He mainly centered his attack on Russian immigrants. During the infamous Palmer raids thousands of aliens were deported and even more were arrested on little or no evidence. Their civil liberties were violated, they were not told the reasons for their arrests, denied counsel, and not given fair trials. What followed was an investigation of Palmer led by Louis Post which overturned many of Palmer's actions. Palmer's cretability was shattered after in a last minute attempt to gain the 1920 presidencial nomination, ...
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Ancient Egyptian Mathematics
Number of Words: 999 / Number of Pages: 4
... pyramid builders may have conceived the idea that P equaled about 3.14. The third theory states that the angle of elevation of the passage leading to the principal chamber determines the latitude of the pyramid, about 30o N, or that the passage itself points to what was then known as the pole star (Smith 44).
was based on two very elementary concepts. The first concept was that the Egyptians had a thorough knowledge of the twice-times table. The second concept was that they had the ability to find two-thirds of any number (Gillings 3). This number could be either integral or fractional. The Egypt ...
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Auschwitz
Number of Words: 499 / Number of Pages: 2
... rubber was scarce and the Germans were ahead of the rest of the world in their plans and ideas to produce artifical rubber. - (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland//02.html) & (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at//HTML/Allgem-Infos.html)
had 405,000 prisoners recorded through executions, beatings, starvation, and sickness.The camp was staffed partly by prisoners, some of which were selected to be Kapos and Sonderkommandos. Some of the prisoners survived through the help of some others. Of the 405,000 registrere at the complex, 65,00 survived. Out of the 16,000 soviet POW's only 96 survived. From various estimates ...
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Big Bang
Number of Words: 4054 / Number of Pages: 15
... photons, neutrinos or electrons (Maffei). The density of the Universe in its first moment of life is thought to have been 1094g/cm3 with the majority of this being radiation. For each billion pairs of these heavy particles (hadrons) that were created, one was spared annihilation due to particle-antiparticle collisions. The remaining particles constitute the majority of our universe today (Novikov).
During this creation and annihilation of particles the universe was undergoing a rate of expansion many times the speed of light. Known as
the inflationary epoch, the universe in less than one thousandth ...
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JFK
Number of Words: 531 / Number of Pages: 2
... first American astronaut to fly into space, Kennedy asked Congress to spend more money on space exploration, with the goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In 1963, clashes between the police and demonstrating blacks in Birmingham, Ala., and elsewhere, especially in the South, induced the president to stress civil rights legislation. Kennedy's new civil rights message included bills to ban discrimination in places of business; to speed up desegregation of public schools; and to end discrimination in the hiring of workers on federal construction projects. On Nov. 22, 1963, Kenne ...
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Hiroshima 3
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... burned bodies and people buried under houses that were on fire. He tried to help them but he could not because the flames were to hot. To me that would be one of the worst feelings's ever because you would want to help these people out but you could not. He finally ended up at the east parade ground, which was filled with people, many were dying. He heard people crying out for water so he found something that he could carry water in. He then proceeded to help out the dying.
He saw boats taking people across the river and he decided to get on one of them. When he reached the other side he look ...
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A Different Mirror
Number of Words: 338 / Number of Pages: 2
... people with force to the Atlantic coasts of America. The Irish women that sought to facilitate their need to work in factory settings and maids for our towns. The Chinese who migrated with ideas of a golden mountain and the Japanese who came and labored in the cane fields of Hawaii and on the farms of California. The Jewish people that fled from shtetls of Russia and created new urban communities here. The Latinos who crossed the border had come in search of the mythic and fabulous life El Norte.
Ronald Takaki closes his book, : a History of Multicultural America, with the 1992 Los Angeles r ...
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Lewis And Clark
Number of Words: 2123 / Number of Pages: 8
... steep hills, several horses fell. One was crippled, and two gave out. Patrick Gass described the trip that day as, "…the worst road (If road it can be called) that was ever traveled" (MacGregor 125). To make conditions even worse, it rained that afternoon, which made the trail even more treacherous. The party was only able to travel five miles that day. On September 3, snow fell and the team’s last thermometer broke. Several more horsed slipped and injured themselves. Later that day, the snow turned into sleet. The expedition family consumed the last of their salt pork and fish and began thei ...
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Back To Chernobyl
Number of Words: 706 / Number of Pages: 3
... before the accident, I would’ve made sure that the minimum amount of control rods were being in used considering the dangers of the reactor and their radiation incase of a meltdown. I would also have made sure all the cooling systems and equipment were working properly. Lastly, I would’ve used water as the coolant agent, so as to keep the core cooler.
In contrast to the reaction of the Soviets, I would’ve acted more quickly and expected the worst. I would’ve demanded an evacuation as soon as possible and in addition made sure I would have had a department working on p ...
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Authoritarian Government In Ge
Number of Words: 334 / Number of Pages: 2
... plan to run the country with a strong, relentless, but unrecognizable hand.
He tricked the Germans into believing everything he did was with good intent with them the people in mind. This was obvious not to be the case as we now look back and see how every one of his strategic moves, although attractive on the outside benefitted him far more than anyone else in the country. For example his suspicious attitude which eventually led to his downfall was apparent throughout his reign.
His power structure which fell apart when he blamed Catholics for all problems was built to be authoritative wi ...
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