My grandma remembered during harvest season that some Mexican families would come and live in three small houses on the land. ... The only thing she remembered going to the store for was coffee, sugar, and material to make clothes. My grandma walked two miles to school. ... My grandma does not remember her parents disliking the president, Herbert Hoover. ... She did remember that her parents helped out the neighboring families that were not as fortunate as they were. ...

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Decision to Drop the Bomb Essay "Today the guns are silent, the Skies no longer rain death-the seas bear only commerce-men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. ... But the lives that were lost on those days should be remembered for what they really were. ...

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If they had stopped a few moments earlier, the people would have already noticed them and walked around them. The romanticism of the picture was the major reason why I had remembered and chosen the picture. ...

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My book is entitled A Separate Peace, written by John Knowles. The copyright date is 1959, and this book contains 196 pages. The scene takes place in the Devon School, in New Hampshire. It is the summer of 1942 (World War II) and America is at war. The plot is about a sixteen year old boy, Gen...

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Everyday he had to remember leaving them, he often worried and felt bad because he never knew what was happening to them. ... As he reached the town he remembered a friend of his that had lived across from the market. ... The yellow star separated them from normal people, the "non-Jews", it made them stand out and was a signal that others could walk all over them (pg. 151). ...

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Imperialism is a process created to expand the state by dominating foreign territory while abusing the population as well as the natural resources. Lindquist believed imperialism was not only the cause of the Holocaust but was not used to help the natives of foreign territory. Instead imperialism wa...

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(movie) Canada walked away from the war as a nation who had contributed wisely to the war, and of all the wartime leaders Mackenzie King became the only one to be re-elected in peace time. ... King had a huge impact on Canadian identity, and will be remembered for making an alliance with the United States that is still strong to this day. ...

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Colonel Ralph Ingersoll, an intelligence officer with the First Army, recalled, "Riding [in a jeep] through the Ardennes, I wore woolen underwear, a woolen uniform, armored force combat overalls, a sweater, an armored force field jacket with elastic cuffs, a muffler, a heavy lined trench coat, two pairs of heavy woolen socks, and combat boots with galoshes over them ¾and I cannot remember ever being war- (Ambrose2 259). ...

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I remember thinking, 'you've had it chum, its no good worrying anymore - the die has been cast and what is to be, will be, and there is nothing you can do about it.' ... Some of the riflemen got up and they walked over and looked in the hole. ... They just looked in the hole and walked away..." ...

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Cummings and His Works Two women walk past him, conversing with their noses pointed to the sky, in glistening attire, with fur scarves slung around their necks and ornate designs engraved into their dresses. ...

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He publicly made many comments on what a good German woman should look like, how they should walk, how they should talk, basically everything that a German woman should be like according to Hitler. ... Nazi Germany in 1934 set up centers where a woman could come and find out information on how to be a true German woman, she needed to follow what came to be known as the Ten Commandments of a good German woman, they included; Remember that you are a German, if you are genetically healthy you should not remain unmarried, keep your body pure, you should keep your mind and spirit pure, as German ...

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When he tracked his old friend down, he asked if Bernard would help him remember things about the war. ... Billy is in bad shape: he looks like hell, can barely walk, and is having vivid (but pleasant) hallucinations. ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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It is up to those of us who follow to remember and to help prevent such terrible tragedies from happening again. 2) The Holocaust, what is the true depth of the word? ... "We walked over pain-racked bodies. ...

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The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had a strong military, it was encircled by hostile capitalist governments and felt that if communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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