He also made claims that Hiroshima was a military base. ... It was far from what Americans would consider a military base. ... This project included the modifications of forty six b-29 bombers to be used in the Manhattan Project, the training of the 509th composite bombing group, as well as support for the units based on Tinian Island. ... Many say the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should have been considered war crimes because of the slaughter of innocent civilians. ... Allied forces decimated many Nazi occupied cities with bombing runs, those operations were not considered to be war cri...

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During the case most of the jurors based their first decision on a stereotype. They looked at the defendant's past history of crime and just assumed that he was guilty. ... The Defendant could have been put in jail or even killed for a crime that he didn't commit. ...

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The Watergate Scandal: The Watergate Scandal was a series of crimes committed by President Nixon and his staff members who were found to of spied on and harassed political opponents, accepted illegal campaign contributions, and covered up their own misdeeds. ... For years Nixon was carrying on the crimes and they weren't noticed until 1972. ... The LM spent 21 hours 36 minutes on the lunar surface, and the crew spent 2 hours 31 minutes outside the LM in a local area excursion on foot to a distance of approximately 50-m (160 ft) from Tranquillity Base (Encarta Encyclopedia). ... The ...

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The ruins served as hard evidence of brutal crimes against humanity. ... Leaving sites such as those preserved serves as a means to let the human imagination recreate the events based on the evidence. ...

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The FBI and Police are supposed to protect us, to solve crimes, and they need help from some random factory worker guy? ... While in the movie the Firm only planned to blow up a naval base. ... "The Saboteur's plotline of a domestic conspiracy to take over and subvert the United States government is based on historical facts. ...

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As I read the book, my heart ached with pain and agony because I know this is a book based on real, tragic events. ... I do not envy Wiesel for enduring the pain of the Holocaust and living through such a tragic crime, but I do envy him for sticking with it and surviving the most painful of events. ...

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Our counterterrorism policy is to 1) make no concessions to terrorists and strike no deals; 2) to bring terrorists to justice for their crimes; 3) to isolate and apply pressure on states that sponsor terrorism to force them to change their behavior, and 4) to bolster the counterterrorism capabilities of those countries that work with the U.S. and require assistance. ... There are many types of terrorism, but the one we focus on seems to be a religious based form. ...

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A soldier is forced to step over the body of a friend of his from base on his journey to get off the beach. ... As Phil Boas writes in his article, during the 1947 Tokyo War Crimes trial, Marquis Kido Koichi, a chief adviser to Emperor Hirohito, stated, "the bomb and Russian invasion led to a surrender that likely saved 20 million of my innocent compatriots from war ravages." ...

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Berkeley protesters became national leaders as the protests spread nationwide; more than 50,000 students, faculties and other activists from different universities traveled to Washington D.C to protest the war (Von Eschen lecture, Global Protest and Détente) From this atmosphere, two Berkeley residents formed the Black Panther, an African American revolutionary leftist party that practiced militant self-defense against U.S. government brutality, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community-based programs. ... Khomeini came into power, the Shah fl...

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Story Elements in A Farewell to Arms The book A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a classic novel about the love story of a nurse and a war-ridden soldier. It captures the inspiring trials and tribulations of the disillusioned soldier caught between love and war. Driving an ambul...

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Gatsby grew up in poverty, and through organized crime, he was able to emerge as a mysterious yet influential character. He devotes himself to a woman, Daisy, who would never love him, is obsessed with being rich, and builds his life based on a series of lies. ...

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He wrote articles, poems and stories for the school's publications largely based on his own experiences. ... Even the details of the wound to the leg are based exactly on the novelist's own injury. ...

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World War I, a war fought to "destroy the axis of evil" and to resolve conflicts between belligerent countries, brought nothing but turmoil and numerous dilemmas to the warring nations; politically and economically. Immediately after the war, many people thought the war had made a safe environment f...

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During the 1960's America was ripped apart by a war in a far off country in Asia. Seeing an enemy that was hoping to gain power and eventually rule the world and the nation stared war against communism in the face. The US was faced with the decision, to watch as its friends in other countries faded into the depths of communism, or to come along side and help its international friends put a stop to communism. The USA sent many soldiers to fight against the enemy, never quite realizing what it was truly sending them against. From the US viewpoint, it was thought that the War in Vietnam ...

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Jonathan Tunney 7 December 2003 Development and Change War has been a part of society since the beginning of time. Wars have been won. Wars have been lost. People have died. Countries have tasted the spoils of victory as well as the agony of defeat. Where some countries have stood ...

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