During my great grandpa's illness, he had to sell all the land, except for 100 acres, for the needed income. ... At night he would have bad dreams of war and the sound of thunder terrified him. ... She dreaded it because she knew there was the possibility of having bad news in the mail. ... She just did not know if it was good or bad. ... I was amazed that her family owned nineteen hundred acres, which was a lot of land for back then, and still is today. ...

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They finally had to pull out of South Vietnam after one million Vietnamese as well as nearly 60, 000 Americans lost lives and the administration incurred severe backlash at home (Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, chapter 3). ... Following Henry Kissinger's mindset, as he famously said, "It's a shame they can't both lose" the U.S set out to make sure that both regimes crumbled in the midst of war (Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Chapter 3). ... Though at the time there were no immediate repercussions to the United States, as did many events of the Cold War, the Iran-Contra Scanda...

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A possible Japanese attack had been talked about for months between Americans, but no one believed that the Japanese would land such a bold attack so close to the United States. ... One author accounted that, "Japan became imperialistic and decided it needed more land to grow its economy so it declared war on China in 1937 to try and take over more land"(History.com Staff). ... By doing this, Japan hoped to gain land, because they were imperialistic, and gain the resources beheld by the new land, but doing this held certain challenges. ... The results of the attack on Pearl Harbor were...

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The U.S made a deal to help the Russians in WWII, since in return they would agree after defeating Germany that they would help us fight Japan and in return get land that they had lost in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904. ... Also, the United States wanted more land around the world to become an imperial power, many people argue. ... So the attack against the battleship Maine gave the U.S a reason to go into war to protect our economic investments and gain more land to have a greater economic power around the world. ... In essence, the United States only starts Wars in time of National Defen...

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In that case the U.S. heightened racial and class divisions by working to reverse the highly popular land redistribution and land reforms of the Guzman government, which had begun to ease such frictions. ... Indeed part of the purpose of operation PBSUCCESS was to ensure the continued export of agricultural products from the United Fruit Company's land holdings in Guatemala, and reverse the domestically focused social and economic reforms of the Guzman government. ... Operation PBSUCCESS is a case study that illustrates Centeno's arguments in his "Blood and Debt" inasmuch...

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By the time the Japanese arrived in the 1890's, anti-Oriental sentiments were high and they received the same bad treatment as the Chinese. ... (Conrat 63) One incarcerated man was over heard saying, "we should have made ourselves known to our Caucasian neighbors, that we should have gone to the length of becoming 200% Americans" (Conrat10) This resembles the way the "Ozawa", in Okita's poem, feels when she says, "I am a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spelling and a messy room." ... Some of their professions were doctors; nurses; stenographers; and land surveyors. ...

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This three year war would truly end in a stalemate, with no land being lost or gained and one of the largest demilitarized zones being created. ... The positive experiences and events were great and they helped get through the bad times. ... They make us who we are, the pride of an American comes from getting through those bad times and making things better, that's what this nation has always been about and is founded upon. ... In conclusion, historians shouldn't focus on the bad or the good, but rather they should focus on the whole and see what this era created for the United State...

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He learned that the finest thing for man to do was to conquer foreign countries, and that peace is a bad thing because it makes man weak. ... This deal with Russia was set up so that when Hitler took Poland the land would be divided with Stalin. ... It wasn't bad enough that Hitler was conquering foreign countries and trying to rule the world, but he also began showing his hatred toward the different races. ... After hearing this horrible news Hitler became a nervous wreck and began saying he was going to destroy the land he had led to a catastrophe. ...

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. @ Vichy o Led by Marshall Henri Petain (WW1 war hero) May 26-June 4, 1940 Allies successfully evacuate 350,000 of the 400,000 trapped by the German defeat of France (blitzkrieg) o Among the evacuated is Charles De Gaulle Forms the basis for a Free French government-in-exile July 10, 1940 Beginning of the BATTLE OF BRITAIN o Hitler attempts to bomb England into submission in preparation for his planned invasion o After 6 months Hitler abandons his plans to invade due to his losses inflicted by the RAF o He mistakenly concentrated his air force upon London and other population...

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France also granted a piece of land to Canada in order memorialize the success of the Canadian troops at Vimy Ridge and many others. ... " This is very important to Canada's independence because Canada can now decide for itself what's good and what's bad. ...

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Economic Miracle and Crisis Korea, 'The Land of Morning Calm', which is located between two major Asian countries, Japan and China, has founded its basic economic system by producing food such as rice and trading them since B.C. 3000. ... Bad harvests in 1980 made the situation worse. ...

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This is the very reason why we are able to regulate most of the good or bad effects that happen on earth. ... Humans spew different poisons on the very land that we inhabit and anticipate nothing unpleasant for the present and the future. ...

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Now I"m not one of those people who think everything is bad, my opinion is based purely and utterly on facts. ... Filmmakers are casting in on this possible scenario with the release of movies like WaterWorld, Imagine a future without dry land. ...

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Another thing adding to the fear of Americans was the BRAVO test in 1954 that contaminated 7,000 square miles of land and sea which included islands, people, and fish brought in by fisherman of that area. ... Frank's novels Alas Babylon in particular illustrate through all the bad of war many good things may come. ...

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Economy Of Hungary During the two decades following World War II, Hungary was transformed from a predominantly agricultural land into an industrial-agricultural state. This transformation was carried out under a system of central planning patterned on that of the Soviet Union. Consumer desires were...

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Nazi writer Schunzel wrote, "In this land we do not read books. ... Most movies were war stories depicting a heroic soldier fighting the bad guys and either wining the war or losing Ghassemi 5 honorably in combat. ... By showing movies with such a message, the Nazi Party makes people believe that Jews are bad people and that it is okay to hurt them. ...

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Not only was the Enabling Act passed, but the Nazis also had control over media such as radio and press making it easy for them to portray Hitler and Nazism as the way for Germans to flourish and Communism as evil and posters showing the bad side of Communism pushed this through. ... It also rejected Private Property since nobody was allowed to own land, it had all to be collectivized. ...

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So many things happen throughout the Holocaust that many believe that it's not true or just don't even know what had happened. So many contradicting issues arose after the Holocaust concerning certain events that happened but were not documented, certain writers had different ideas to present, and ...

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Not only did Squealor prove to the animals that they had a purpose for drinking the milk and they didn't steal it, but he actually was a strong enough speaker to flip around the whole situation and make the other animals seem like the bad guys for even accusing the pigs of doing such a horrible thing. ...

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This essay will go into detail about the Canadian roles in World War I and World War 2. It will tell about the victories and defeats of these wars, as well as the influences made on the world by Canada, and the influence on Canada itself. Canada's military effort in World War I put the country in...

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HISTORY OF AVIATION: The first form of an aircraft was the kite, designed in the 5th century. In the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci studied bird's flight, and later produced the airscrew and the parachute. The airscrew, leading to the propeller later on, and the parachute were tremendously impor...

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