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Vietnam War - Summary Of Vietnam
Number of Words: 465 / Number of Pages: 2
... the Vietnam War, few lives were untouched by grief, anger and fear. The Vietnamese suffered the worst hardship; children lay dead in the street, villages remained nothing but charred ashes, and bombs destroyed thousands of innocent civilians. Soldiers were scarred emotionally as well as physically, as
The paranoia and fear of death never left them. The My Lai Massacre occurred in 1968, when the village of My Lai was completely destroyed, although it did not contain a single enemy troop. Over a hundred villagers were slaughtered. It became clearer to Americans how soldiers were losing control, and ho ...
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St. Isidore Of Seville, A Grea
Number of Words: 348 / Number of Pages: 2
... volume seven was considered some of his best work.
Book eight, of the Church and of the sects was another deeply thought out publication.
The ninth book was of languages, peoples, kingdoms, and official titles. Book ten,
etymology. Book eleven, man. The twelfth book was about birds and beasts. Book
thirteen, of the world and its parts. The fourteenth was physical geography. Book fifteen,
of public buildings and roadmaking. Volume number sixteen, was of stones and metals.
Book seventeen, was on agriculture. Book eighteen, of the terminology of war, of
jurisprudence, and public games. The nineteent ...
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The Louisiana Purchase
Number of Words: 363 / Number of Pages: 2
... to open negotiations to buy New Orleans and some territory east of the city. A treaty would have to satisfy the financial claims that some United States citizens had against the French government. Finally the French continued to claim that the province still belonged to Spain. Jefferson sent James Monroe to help with the negotiations, and authorized him to spend no more than $10,000,000. Napoleon offered Livingston and Monroe the entire province of Louisiana in a treaty dated April 30, 1803. The American negotiators agreed to pay $11,250,000 to France and $3,750,000 for the French debts to United St ...
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The Medieval Period
Number of Words: 738 / Number of Pages: 3
... exists a fifth element which is called the elixir, or “philosopher’s stone, alchemy’s long sought after prize. The elixir, or stone, was believed to have the power to transform ordinary metal into precious gold. Alchemists also believed that inorganic things were alive. These inorganic things possessed both spirit and matter values. Because of these beliefs alchemy became known as something strange, something like occult since. They referred alchemy to this because it dealt with properties of matter that could not be inferred by senses from humans. Alchemy became very interesting and popular ...
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Communistic Society
Number of Words: 714 / Number of Pages: 3
... social structure, and economic development were three important aspects of . Communists believed that the present should dominate the past, contrary to previous modes of thinking under which the past dominated the present. A person’s social standing would not be affected by his ancestors as they were prior to Marx’s time. According to Marx, under Communist Government, the State, or government, was to play a more direct and involved role in society than it previously had. Government was to control all private property and means of production, thus eliminating the bourgeoisie class and permitting ...
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The Slavery Of Africans
Number of Words: 1697 / Number of Pages: 7
... nor that they are not worthy of reparations, but that
perhaps reparations are not an adequate solution to this situation, and
indeed will only serve to worsen.
Africa is a continent in dire straits. European colonization and
colonialism damaged the native structure and society - some might say that
this simply proves that European man caused, and ought to pay for, the
damages done to Africa and her people. However, I would argue that simply
placing a 'band-aid' blanket over Africa, would serve only to mask their
problems, and relieve us of our guilt. It was this same attitude that the
early ...
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Andrew Jackson
Number of Words: 525 / Number of Pages: 2
... pox a very deadly disease, during the times of George Washington, but he survived it (internet)
He went to Waxhaw Presbyterian Church because he wanted to be a minister. Later on, he started to study law and became a lawyer and a landowner. he was a general in the War of 1812. He graduated high school from Waxhaw Presbyterian Church and is believed to have gone to college.
He got married to Mrs. Rachael Donelson Robards, a dark eyed, dark haired woman. They did not have any children together. So they adopted a nephew of Rachael’s and named him Andrew Jr. As he was married and now an adult, he had man ...
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Early Western Civilization, Egyptian Tomb
Number of Words: 1857 / Number of Pages: 7
... place of up to 50 sons of Ramesses II, perhaps the best known
of all the pharaohs, the ruler believed to have been Moses' nemesis in
the book of Exodus.
The Valley of the Kings, in which Tomb 5 is located, is just
across the Nile River from Luxor, Egypt. It is never exactly been off the
beaten track. Tourism has been brisk in the valley for millenniums:
graffiti scrawled on tomb walls proves that Greek and Roman travelers
stopped here to gaze at the wall paintings and hieroglyphics that were
already old long before the birth of Christ. Archaeologists have been
coming for centuries too. Napoleon ...
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World War 1: Forever Wounded
Number of Words: 738 / Number of Pages: 3
... they would rather risk their lives then leave the food. One by one they run to safety carrying their platters of food. Even when Paul is almost killed he doesn’t let go of his plate of pancakes.
On the field it goes without saying how many men suffered. Shells were flying from above while rifles shot in all directions on the ground. Deadly gases were used in this war for the first time in history. Paul described the pain of gas. His lungs felt ripped and smashed into a compressed ball ready to burst. All he had was a tiny mask to shield him from the deadly air. The soldiers had to wait for t ...
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Concentration Camps
Number of Words: 1368 / Number of Pages: 5
... in the Third Reich. Located 37 miles west
of Krakow, Poland, Auschwitz was home to both the greatest number of forced
laborers and deaths.
The history of the camp began on April 27, 1940 when Heinrich Himmler,
the head of the SS and Gestapo, ordered the construction of the camp in
northeast Silesia, a region captured by the Nazis in September 1939. The camp
was built by three-hundred Jewish prisoners from the local town of Oswiecim
and its surrounding area. In June of 1940 the camp opened for Polish
political prisoners. By 1941 there were about 11,000 prisoners, most of whom
were ...
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