In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. ... The battle would last upwards of two hours and resulted in thirty-one Soviet troops killed in action (KIA), fourteen wounded in action (WIA) and an unknown number of Chinese casualties. ...

• Word Count: 1275
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I, Rigoberta Mench Mench , Rigoberta., I Rigoberta Mench , An Indian Woman in Guatemala, Verso, 1984 (edit by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray) I, Rigoberta Mench is the biographical account of the winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Mench of Guatemala. The story of her life is the...

• Word Count: 660
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Anti-socialist movements in 1950's America fueled the hysteria and paranoia of the Cold War. Senator Joseph McCarthy, head of the House of Un-American Activities Committee, amplified the chaos and accused many Americans for being enemy spies. Innocent Americans were prosecuted for being communist sp...

• Word Count: 945
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Power, Pressure, and Persuasion "Power is the ability to get another actor to do what it would not otherwise have done" (Goldstein, 73), this declaration is a accurate. To prove the accuracy of this definition this paper will define power, examine the natural state of man, and draw on the cold ...

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The amount made by the Filipino worker in a day is only a couple cents over the American minimum wage per hour; the job, however, opens doors to a previously unattainable lifestyle filled with technology, growth, and knowledge. ...

• Word Count: 1058
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Deemed by Jack Kroll as the first film to "look at Vietnam not politically, but as the manifestation of an endemic murderousness," the film opens with an hour of the three characters in their Slavic-American community of Clairton, Pennsylvania. Cimino puts great effort into emphasizing deep ties between the three lead characters, Michael, Nick, and Steven, through their work in front of the blast furnace, their after hours at the neighborhood bar, and, especially, their hunting in the mountain peaks for bucks. ...

• Word Count: 3681
• Approx Pages: 15
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of t...

• Word Count: 2184
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the midst of the trauma and human destruction that these women witnessed during their twelve-hour workdays, nurses in the Vietnam War developed a camaraderie that allowed them to survive even the worst situations. ...

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In today's modern society we have very many things to fear from, like getting hit by a car, or just getting up out of bed in the morning is sometimes scary enough, because you just never quite know what is going to happen. So we have all these little annoying things to worry about, and now we have ...

• Word Count: 2636
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate