Leaves help the tree grow and flourish just as our value of caring for our neighbors help us to unite and become more successful as a whole. ... Our common American values bind us together as one unit just as all the leaves work together to benefit the oak. ... Just as our branches stretch out, so do our American arms to help those less fortunate. ... The mighty oak births many acorns with hopes that they will spring forth into new trees. ... Like a circle that never ends, life goes on. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Leaves help the tree grow and flourish, just as our value of caring for our neighbors help us to unite and become more successful as a whole. ... Our common, basic American values bind us together as one unit just as all the leaves work together to benefit the oak. ... Just as our branches stretch out, so do our American arms to help those less fortunate. ... The mighty oak births many acorns with hopes that they will spring forth into new trees. ... Like a circle, never-ending, life goes on! ...

• Word Count: 906
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• Grade Level: High School

Noriega, Panama's defacto leader, was in league with the US, the CIA, and the Drug Enforcement Agency until 1986. ... The National Assembly replaced the president with a supporter of Noriega. ... On October 1st 1989, the wife of Moises Giroldi, a member of Noriega's inner circle who had crushed the 1988 Macias coup attempt, informed Southcom officers that her husband was planning a nonviolent coup against Noriega and that he wanted limited U.S. help. ... Supposedly several rebel leaders, but not Giroldi, were then prepared to turn Noriega over to U.S. authorities, but in some way ...

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• Grade Level: High School

With those words, Kennedy launched a new era of space exploration in the United States. ... The astronauts that helped shape the training programs, took the beatings of primitive flight tests, and died in order to serve their country were born before World War II. ... After a few more test flights, Apollo 8, launched on December 21, 1968, was the first manned lunar orbital mission, staying in the Moon's orbit for twenty hours, making ten circles (Zimmerman, 6). ... He trained on crude machinery, before NASA came up with a set training program (20). ... With the Russian Space Program in sh...

• Word Count: 2293
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the United States, Americans were wrestling with the ravages of the Great Depression. With the lingering memory of the more than 300,000 U.S. troops either killed or injured in World War I, isolationism was the dominant sentiment in most political circles. ... It was in this context that the democratic world, led by the United States, was faced with a refugee problem that it was morally bound to deal with. ... Even Hitler commented with bitter sarcasm regarding Western hypocrisy, "It is a shameful example to observe today how the entire democratic world dissolves in tears of pity,...

• Word Count: 4346
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• Grade Level: High School