The first day of the land on Normandy, June 6, proved to be a good start. ... Because weather was lousy naval drop off targets were way off, and greeting to meet the Americans at the shore of Omaha beach was a German first class unit that bombarded the allies with bombs leaving 2500 Ameicans dead on the first day. ... Although the Germans' had some weaknesses the Allies didn't land on Normandy with open arms and no risks. The Allies had to land on open beaches giving the Germans a clear view of Allies on the beach. ...

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In the summer of 1676, as the violence dispersed and a clearing between the hatred and torment was visible, thousands were dead.... King Philip's war was a terribly violent and destructive conflict, which was sparked by the desires of maintaining cultural identity and preserving power and authority, both in societal and religious capacities upon what one believed to be his land. ... (Drake 3) They traded openly, worked together in establishing villages, and notoriously, the Indians aided the Puritans in teaching them the ways of the land, and in guiding them through the difficult New En...

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The London directors instructed the settlers to, "deal," with the Indians by any means necessary, which started the notion that, "the only good Indian is a dead Indian," (Morgan 118). ... Dale's policy of giving away free land to settlers encouraged white people to continue to take land that was not theirs, pushing Indians further and further West, away from the land and culture they were familiar with. ... In order to continue making profit they would need more land, and just when the Indians thought the white people had all the land they could possibly want, they wan...

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Furthermore it was not one of the most effective small wars, because the mission was to retrieve Pancho Villa and bring him back to the US dead or alive, neither of which were carried out because he was never found. ... For the first time in American military history, the US flew it's first air combat missions to scout the land below for signs of Villa's men and possibly his whereabouts. ...

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" The concept created by the Puritans that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" in reference to the ones Natives were not "saved" peaked during the late nineteenth century with a "nearly genocidal assault on Native American civilization (Olson & Wilson, 1986). In addition to missionaries forcing religions onto the Native populations, ranchers would often encroach on land reserved for Native American use. For example, in 1867 a treaty gave joint reservation land of nearly three million acres to the Kowas, Comanches, and Kiowa-Apaches. This treaty closed the land...

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At the end of one's life, after living the commandments and the Torah, modern Judaism allows that one will have a deliverance to the promised land, or what would be conceived as the ultimate holy. ... Jesus is believed to have died through crucifixion and then resurrected from the dead by God to illustrate forgiveness of human sin, the conquering of death, and denial of Satan. This act of redemption would be visualized by those who have faith in God, who then would likewise be resurrected from the dead to ascend into heaven. ...

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Before several Womens Rights movements women were not allowed to vote, had to submit to laws that they had no voice in forming, married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law, married women had no property rights, husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity, divorce and child custody laws favored men, giving no rights to women, women had to pay property taxes although they had no representation in the levying of these taxes, most occupations were closed to women and when women did work they were paid...

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The title "Crossing the Red Sea" is a religious allusion which compares the war torn emigrants, to the Jews who were led to the Promised Land from a life of slavery. They were to receive a new life like 'Lazarus' whom Jesus raised from the dead, but at the cost of their pasts. ... Subsequently, the enjambment and chaotic imagery "Blood Leaves similar dark stains" – emphasizes the war and bloodshed on the European land that was left behind. ...

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Two hundred years ago, society would have favored the cloning of men with strong backs and women who were built for childbearing since those were the physical types needed to open a new land. ... The issue of experimentation is not dead in human cloning. ... Some experts suggest that cloning would be justified to replace a dead child or to help save someone dying of an incurable disease through organ or marrow transplant (Sharp and Sharn). ...

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We have been taught since elementary school that the pilgrims journeyed away from Europe to escape from the oppression of the British king to be free in the new land of the Americas. ... What right did we have to take that land, when it was owned by several Native American tribes whom travelers, hunters, and journalists transformed from human beings with various cultures into savages all because of the different ways they lived, their speech, their styles of clothing, and probably more so, their skin color. ... Their race has been almost wiped away into extinction, because it was either move i...

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NAGPRA applies when human remains and funerary objects are recovered from federal or Indian land. It states that ownership or control of Native American human remains or objects shall be given to lineal descendents of the Native American or Indian tribe on whose land such objects or remains were discovered or Indian tribe which has the closest cultural affiliation and states a claim for such remains or objects to the study of the remains. (3) A coalition of five Native American tribes claim Kennewick Man as an ancestor and have requested that his bones be returned for proper burial under NAGRP...

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Simply put, Israel would not exist if Britain had not promised the land (liberated from the Turks with the help of the Palestinians in return for their independence) to the Jews (who contributed nothing to this liberation but stood ready to swoop in with a three thousand year old land claim). ... If your children are shot dead by Israeli soldiers, you can look forward to beating your head against a brick wall in search of justice, which will never come. ...

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It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolshevik Russia in 1921). ... The subsequent proposal read: It was agreed in principle that the hearth of the Polish state and people must be situated between the so-called Curzon Line (a demarcation line that pushed the eastern boundary westward) and the line of the Oder River, including Eastern Prussia and the Oppeln Province as part of Poland. (22) Stalin moved the frontier of the USSR westwards and handed over to Poland a large area of the Soviet zone of Germany, including land to which ...

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He was eventually taken to the hospital, where he was announced dead. ... By boat or by land, thousands of unaccompanied minors cross the US–Mexico border into the United States each year, without legal immigration status and adult accompaniment (Wanson 2). ...

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The Ku Klux Klan set out the primary targets of their terrorism as being "any blacks [that] challenged white supremacy by daring to vote, teach, or acquire land, and carpetbaggers, white Northerners who came to the South after the war to seek their fortunes or to assume office in the Reconstruction state governments. ... Sims was pronounced dead at the scene and though many said Sims was a peaceful man, authorities believed the murder was committed because of Sims frequently stating, "he would never vote a Democratic ticket. ...

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This "Great Migration- of Serbs in the late 17th century left Kosovo under populated and was resettled by Christian and Muslim Albanians attracted by fertile land . ... By 1994, it is estimated over 200,000 soldiers and non-combatants were dead or missing and another 2 million people were refugees . ...

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Mayhem immediately arose on the Ole Miss campus, with uprisings resulting in two people dead, hundreds of people injured and countless other people detained, when the Kennedy administration summoned 31,000 National Guardsmen and supplementary federal forces to impose command. ... Kennedy, seen as the first president to support civil rights, took office in January 1961; and the Brown ruling was still the official law of the land" (U.S. ...

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The World Conference on Human Rights took place over two weeks in June of 1993. The Conference was held in Vienna, Austria. In attendance were 171 states committed to strengthening human rights throughout the world and to presenting an international plan to accomplish this goal. Also in attendance were thousands of delegates from more than eight hundred non-governmental organizations (UNHCHR, 1996). These people included representatives for the disabled and handicapped, children, women, those who have been tortured, prisoners, and indigenous people (Drinan, 2001: 55). ...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States his...

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