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World War 2
Number of Words: 976 / Number of Pages: 4
... WWII. First off, I was not aware that the war actually started in Europe, I thought that the start of the war started when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. I did not know that the Japanese also bombed placed such as the Philippines, Thailand, and Malaya. I was not aware of all the islands taken over by Japan. The Japanese took over the Philippines and many other small islands to expand their territory, and to push the Japanese back the US had to literally jump from island to island. During the Holocaust, I knew that most or all of the Jews put into concentration camps being camps being killed ...
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Egyptian Mummies
Number of Words: 899 / Number of Pages: 4
... of this procedure the body would now be ready for burial.
Egyptians used other methods of embalment. One method attributed to the
lower class was to bury the body in the desert sand for a lengthy period of
time. The result of this method dried the skin of the body into a leathery
shell. Arab historian Abdel el Latif discovered on one of his expeditions
a rather unorthodox method of embalment. Latif and his team came across a
jar filled with honey. During a lunch break Latif and his party indulged
in the jar of honey until hair began to emerge from the jar. Upon close
observation the body of a sm ...
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Racism In America
Number of Words: 828 / Number of Pages: 4
... these reasons, many racists think they deserve special rights or privileges. The Bill of Rights was written a little under 200 years ago, yet controlling is still a task no one can seem to over take. In South Carolina, a Confederate flag still waves high over the capitol for everyone to see. Is the kind of example we want to set for the youth of America? To people in Europe, Asia, and on other continents, America is a wonderful place to live. It has been said to be "one of the greatest nations on earth." (Nova; Marshall, Christopher) Yet, our struggle to regulate all of our citizens is a r ...
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Captain Ron, Pirates, And The British
Number of Words: 794 / Number of Pages: 3
... with one hundred men on each to stop
the pirates
Capt. Ron over heard the conversation, he prepared an army of he's
own and attack by surpprised before they even go get ready to fire back.
Mango was frustrated, he didn't know what to do. The king told him to set
perimeters around every harbours.But Capt. Ron's army was getting bigger
and bigger, though he was missing out on ships. Meanwhile Mango set all the
parameter, and had build over nine ships, but he was missing out on
experience men.
Capt. Ron sent a group of twelve ships to get other boats, but he
ran into Mango's crew. The meeting bet ...
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Kosovo 2
Number of Words: 740 / Number of Pages: 3
... Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonian, In Serbia the two provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina were given autonomous status.
By 1992 the Yugoslavian Federation was falling apart. Nationalism had once
again replaced communism as the dominant force in the Balkans. Slovenia and then Croatia were the first to break away, but only at the cost of renewed conflict with Serbia. The war in Croatia led to hundreds of thousands of refugees in the 1940's. By 1992, a further conflict had broken out in Bosnia, which had also declared independence. Since the revocation of Kosovo's self-rule the ...
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Events Leading To The American
Number of Words: 996 / Number of Pages: 4
... to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his
subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to
that august body, the Parliament of Great Britain."
This statement can be used as a summation of the entire document
that the Stamp Act Congress had initiated. The statement depicts
the colonists has having to be submissive and servile in the view
of Great Britain, this policy angered the colonists very much, and
was another component of the transition of the colonists'
rights and liberties.
When the Declatory Act was passed in March of 1766, many
colonies were attempting to claim t ...
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Cuban Missile Crisis 4
Number of Words: 1317 / Number of Pages: 5
... The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt by the U.S.
to remove Castro from office. We armed and trained about 2000 Cuban exiles for this job. The hope was that a
general uprising would begin, and Castro would be removed from office by his own people and not by any United
States personnel. What cost the success of the mission was that the U.S. neglected to provide air cover for the
troops. Of the 2000 troops, 300 were killed and the rest were taken prisoner. Evidently, Kennedy did not want
another Bay of Pigs, so he elected to try a naval!
blockade. He must have made the right choice, beca ...
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Cold War
Number of Words: 777 / Number of Pages: 3
... airlift all supplies to West Germany. After about a year on May 12, 1949 the soviets realized their defeat and ended the blockade.
The United States realized that the soviets expansionist aims threatened not only Europe but developing nations of the world as well. So in 1949 President Truman approved the Point Four Program which put aside nearly $400 million for technical development in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Truman had the idea that if these developing countries would modernize and strengthen their economies the growth of communism would be discouraged. In 1949 the United States joined with ...
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Cry Freedom
Number of Words: 675 / Number of Pages: 3
... out of the country which includes a plan of him diskized as a preast and the escape of his family. Before that he was placed on house arrest as Biko was through with his revolutionary era of speaches. My personal response to the apartheid issue is that im simply tottally against that because it cause discrimination and stronger racism. But I guess that strong racism within a certain community caused apartheid.
The incidnts that were occuring in South Africa were absolutly discracfull to how a country was behaving in the eyes of the world. I believe that preventing South africa from particip ...
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Vietnam
Number of Words: 1314 / Number of Pages: 5
... to North Vietnam and the Vietcong. On both
sides, however, the burden of the war fell mainly on the civilians.1
On January 27, in Paris, delegations representing the United States,
South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Provisional Revolutionary
Communist Government of South Vietnam signed an Agreement on Ending
the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam. The cease-fire officially went into
effect on January 28. Both the US and North Vietnam asserted that there
were no secret peace terms.2
All the US fighting forces had withdrawn from Vietnam by March
1973, but not without major losses on both sid ...
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