On December 17, 1941 the Japanese attacked the United States naval base Pearl Harbor. ... " Young American men were basically dumped onto the battlefield. ... So, even though the Americans were supposed to hate Germans, it still caused American soldiers stress to kill with no purpose. ... The American soldiers were exposed to death everywhere but that did not mean they grew used to it. ... The American soldiers worried about "the uncertainties that came with each day on the front lines....

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• Grade Level: High School

Sadly, American history for homosexual culture and politics, while even briefer than Europe's, is no better. ... " (Timmons 145) While the society was short lived, it was influential in some of the first homosexuality based legal cases in America. ... This was the first time an American court was forced to make a distinction between homosexual behavior and illegal behavior. ... In 1973, pressure groups were able to force the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its mental illness list. ... Ward's special interest group took measures to protect the civi...

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Due to the considerable number of countries in Europe using their own monetary units, problems arose in trading between countries as well as discrepancies in exchange rates between the various forms of money. After several consecutive years of confusion, the European Monetary Union concluded that it was time to unify European currency. The currency they concluded to be the most beneficial for solving the currency problem was the Euro. The Euro is the new single currency for eleven European countries participating in the monetary union. On January 1, 1999, the Euro became the official curr...

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The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

The importance of securing natural energy resources is taking center stage in the European Union's (EU) future plans. Turkey, a candidate for a full membership to EU, is located close to 70% of the world's oil and gas reserves. Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. This would give all the countries involved a necessary alternative to the Russian supply routes - and it would become the fourth most dynamic energy corridor for Eu...

• Word Count: 6977
• Approx Pages: 28
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate