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How Successfully From 1945 To
Number of Words: 1472 / Number of Pages: 6
... papers to the Soviets. McCarthy desired a national reputation and the Republican party used McCarthy to play on the fears that already existed in society about a communist threat to the United States to damage Truman's administration.
It is not enough to simply blame the Republicans for the "Red scares". There was nothing new about a fear of communism. There had been "Red scares" in the 1920's, and the House of un-American Activities Committee was set up in 1938, which contained files of premature anti-fascists. This fear of communism is almost inevitable as communism poses a threat to the America ...
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Hiroshima 6
Number of Words: 333 / Number of Pages: 2
... get married so she became a nun.
Miss Sasaki noticed there was a big change in her strength which she attributed to all that had happened to her after the bombing. Because of her strength, she was assigned to be the director of a home for old people. She didn't like the job because she didn't know how to care for the elderly but she stayed because of her hard-earned doggedness. Her job was to also help people die in peace by talking with them. She wasn't afraid of watching people die because she had seen so much of it after the bombing.
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima affected every person wh ...
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Hamilton And Jefferson Debates
Number of Words: 772 / Number of Pages: 3
... and violent." He idealized that the federal government should encourage the development of American industries. Hamilton proposed a plan to manage the countries debts and to establish a national banking system. Hamilton also proposed to pay off the foriegn debt and to issue new bonds to replace the old bonds. One of the most significant things Hamilton did was propose the idea of a national bank that would be funded by the federal government and private investors, and that would also issue money and handle all government funds. During the XYZ affair, the Federalists prefered to fight the French t ...
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History Of The Far East
Number of Words: 2879 / Number of Pages: 11
... years old, it was based on what it called its 3 treasures - Buddha, the Law ( Darma ) and the monastic order, Buddha was a human figure, not a god , although there weren't any written accounts of his life until centuries after his death, it is believed he was born a prince and brought up in luxury, his life changed once he saw an old man, a sick man and a dead man in successive outings from his palace, this changed his outlook on life which he viewed as inevitably filled with suffering ( Schirokauer, 79 ), after Buddha resisted temptation under the wisdom ( Bodhi ) tree , there was a suitable cosmic ...
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Greek And Inuit Mythology
Number of Words: 518 / Number of Pages: 2
... bird as the principal creator of all things. It is thought that Eurynome is the author of the universe. She becomes pregnant when her serpent hands coil around her. Next, she assumes the form of a dove and lays a huge egg which the serpent keeps warm until it hatches. The egg brings forth all the things that now exist: the sun, moon, planets, stars, and the earth with its mountains, valleys, stream, lakes, all living creatures, including the first humans (Switzer 11). In like manner, Raven flies through the darkness and finds a new land, for which he calls Earth. One day, he notices a giant pe ...
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Irish Assimilation To The Us
Number of Words: 405 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the United States. Native Americans had customs that were very different.
Another boundary that was harder for the Native Americans than the Irish was personal boundaries. Native Americans had less education then the Irish did, they also did not know English and that was another hardship they faced. Both Native Americans and the Irish started out working in blue collar jobs, but the Irish eventually made there way out and into the white collar world. Native Americans still hold blue collar jobs.
Sociological boundaries were another set of boundaries that both groups had to face. There were not ...
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Mummification
Number of Words: 926 / Number of Pages: 4
... either take the brain out
piece by piece, or used the hook to stir the brain until it was liquefied. If it was liquefied they would turn the body face down so that the brain would spill out of the nostrils. The reason the Egyptians were so rough with the brain because they didn’t think that the brain had a lot of importance in the persons body. They thought that it was just there to produce snot. Instead of the Egyptians thinking that the brain was where everyone got their intelligence, memory, thoughts, etc, they thought that the heart responsible for those things. The heart was sometimes left in t ...
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Engineering
Number of Words: 2488 / Number of Pages: 10
... is the oldest of the four disciplines. It involves the construction and design of all types of structures and facilities. The construction of bridges, road, canals, airfields, buildings, and tunnels are all structures which require the skills of a civil engineer. Most projects involving a civil engineer are for public use. Civil can be broken down even further into fields such as structural , sanitary , and irrigation . More recent specializations include municipal and traffic . In many ways civil has not changed as far as buildings and structures are concerned.
The Romans were one of ...
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The Dropping Of The Atomic Bomb: Was It The Best Way To End The War?
Number of Words: 5235 / Number of Pages: 20
... Finally, on July 16th in 1945, the members of the project team experimented with the atomic bomb for the first time, and they realized that they succeeded inventing the first atomic bomb. How was it a milestone? I will explain the mechanism and the power of the atomic bomb. Ronald Takaki explains the principle of it in his book. "There is an atom that releases two neutron at the same time absorbing the one, when a neutron causes a nuclear fission. Much uranium causes a chain reaction of such a nuclear fission, and huge energy is released."(26) The atomic bomb is the weapon that utilizes the energy. ...
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Chinese Communist Influences
Number of Words: 1984 / Number of Pages: 8
... known as Confucianism. Traditional china
had neither the knowledge nor the power that would have been necessary
to cope with the superior science, technology, economic organization,
and military force that expanding West brought to bear on it. The
general sense of national weakness and humiliation was rendered still
keener by a unique phenomenon, the modernization of Japan and its rise
to great power status. Japan's success threw China's failure into
sharp remission.
The Japanese performance contributed to the discrediting and
collapse of China's imperial system, but i ...
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