Before September 11,2001, in ones concerns it was as everyday happening, business, school, work and etc.. and the question what it is to be an American was not at the fore front of anyone thoughts. ... After all we are Americans and nothing ever happens to America. ... Now that we know our country is not immune to acts of terrorism, we are reminded to continue with what Americans to best, and that is continue to go on about our lives with out hesitation reservation or fear we will let them who fears us continue to fear us ever more so now than before. ... The shock of 9-11 has faded and the ...

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After the storm, seamen often found dead Africans intertwined with others who were still alive.   ... Not long after, the United States banned it in 1808.   In 1815, after pressure from the British, France and the Netherlands agreed to ban the slave trade and Portugal agreed to end it after a few years.   ... After January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. ... It would take over 100 years and countless lives before the chance would come again-. 5 "The Fifteenth Amendment to the U. ...

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Montezuma, the Aztec leader, felt something he never felt before, and that was scary to him. ... After finding this information out he presumed by taking some of the Lords as hostages. ... He obviously intended to do this even before coming to the New World. ... Sources-6 and 8 are pictures of how peaceful it was before the Europeans showed up. ... They believed in human sacrifice is the way to be accepted in the after life. ...

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After many campaigns in the Creek War, he was promoted to major general in the army. ... Jackson wanted to pursue his love for politics after making it as a prominent general. ... Accomplishments after leaving office After Jackson left office in 1836 he remained involved with politics but was preoccupied with financial debts from his adopted son, Andrew Jr. ... After his resignation Jackson came home and served for six years as a judge on the Tennessee Supreme Court. ... Many of the U.S. presidents including Andrew Jackson held a seat in the senate before they became president. ...

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A not so well known fact about Lincoln is that before his presidency is he was not a very well known or loved politician before being president and even then he was not very well liked by many. ... After the debate of the Kansas-Nebraska Act Lincoln ran for the senate against Stephen Douglas. ... Shortly before his inauguration seven states broke away from the Union forming the Confederacy. ... Some of the volunteer troops he called for were even before before a declaration of war and Lincoln also spent two million dollars on war material, without congressional approval. ... After learning mor...

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John Danforth before later on taking up the job of being a lawyer to Monsanto, an agricultural firm. ... On July 1, 1991, after sixteen months as a judge of appeal, he was nominated to fill the position left vacant by Mr. ... At the AG's office, he worked at the criminal appeals section before being assigned duties at the taxation and revenue division. After the election of Danforth to the United States senate, Thomas joined Monsanto as an attorney before moving to Washington to work with his former colleague Danforth where he worked as a legislative attorney attached to the Senate Commer...

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Right before getting off - line I received the message from April, hey Annette do you know where we can get a cheap keg. ... Before we knew it the large billboard appeared in front of us welcome to Mexico it said. Since Laura and April were still tired from the night before we made it a point to stop at the first liquor store we set our eyes on after crossing the border. It had only been a few minutes after we arrived and already did we have enough alcohol to last us the rest of the summer. ... After a few minutes, April appeared to be nervous and begin to stutter while speaking to officer, wh...

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Just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. ... Shortly after that the United States Government began work on the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the United States effort to develop the atomic bomb before the Germans did. ... "(2) After this process was completed, "Ernest O. ... "'No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before . . . ...

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Before Chavez came into power, being in the opposition was not a problem but once he ruled, anyone who was against Chavez being a leader, was thought of as a traitor. ... Soon after, the opposition learned about Chavez's plan to disassemble democratic institutions, they began to look for ways as to how they could stop him. ... Even though, before Chavez took office he stated that he would leave office if people were not happy with him but even after the opposition collected over four million signatures, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Chavez because of a technicality in the constituti...

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The world had made a commitment after the Holocaust that genocide would never happen again, but there were three other large scale genocides that occurred after this commitment. The world just needs to figure out when state sovereignty will only go so far before they need to act. ... After World War Two the Genocide Convention was held among the United Nations. ... The international community needs to better communicate on the Genocide Convention on how many lives have to be lost before the mass murders can be considered genocide. ... The United States needs to be devoted to the protection fro...

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Just before the turn of the century, there was an increased number of Japanese immigration to the United States. Fifty years before this, many Chinese immigrants arrived to take advantage of the Gold Rush in California. ... After the attack on Pearl Harbor, fear of Japanese-American citizens escalated to a fever pitch. ... After the attack, President Roosevelt classified nationals of the Axis powers as enemy aliens. ... After the war many sought restitution for their imprisonment. ...

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He was held in service there by Doctor Emerson as a slave from the time I first knew him until April or May of 1836." [2] Soon after Mr. ... After Dr. ... Emerson's estate after his passing. ... The issues placed before the Supreme Court and its nine justices were these; Did the U.S. ... In 1857, soon after the decision of the US Supreme Court, Mrs. ...

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At thirty-five minutes before launch, evacuation of the area had been proceeding on schedule. Suddenly, half an hour before launch-time, an explosive flash occurred. ... Although the BJ-1 ship experienced some problems, and the timing on some of the separation procedures was off, the capsule made it back to earth some seven hours after lift-off. ... Another mission to set humans on the Moon, was aborted after numerous failures - 200,000 miles from Earth. ... He trained on crude machinery, before NASA came up with a set training program (20). ...

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Until the papers are signed the adoption is not finalized, and takes a few weeks to a few months after a child is given to the new family. ... Before making the choice of adoption, people must think first what they are looking for in a child. ... In other words to make adoption easier, adoptive parents need to take some courses to learn how adoption companies work and what they need before going to an agency and asking what they need. ... Although, the direct communication after the adoption is limited in whatever way is agree upon by the birth parents and adoptive parents. ... The open adopt...

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On "December 6, 1941, a message that was intercepted by the US navy is placed before Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ... Roosevelt, after reading the thirteen-page transmission said, This Means War." ... The morning after Roosevelt received the message, Pearl Harbor was hit by the Japanese in a surprise attack. ... But the decoded war declaration did not reach Kimmel and Short until the morning, after the attack had begun. ... Three days before the attack, Australian intelligence spotted a Japanese fleet of aircraft carriers heading for Hawaii. ...

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In the anguished minutes before this "dead man" walks to the execution chamber, she assures him that "Christ is here." ... On the other hand, the movie also illustrated how the families' hatred did not go away after Matthew was executed. ... The film revolves around what happened on the days before and after the murder of the Clutters, right up until the time the two murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, are hanged. ... When he's paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith to join him going after the stash. ... Two family friends who come by before Sunday church find the bodies. ...

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" Polk appeared before Congress on May 11 and declared that Mexico had invaded the United States and had ["SHED AMERICAN BLOOD ON AMERICAN SOIL!"]... After this the United States declared war on Mexico. ... After he was appointed general, he broke his promise again and seized the presidency. ... At the Siege of Veracruz, mortars and naval guns harassed the defenders for twelve days before they finally surrendered with ruined moral. ... After that, the Americans pushed steadily towards Mexico City. ...

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After a year of their marriage, they left Mexico and came to the United States. ... But other than that there was not much there to do with spirituality that they did not do before. ... They've learned to handle difficult situations more appropriately than before. ... Marriage is not so easy, so make sure you are ready for it before jumping in." ... Many believe that after saying "I do" that is it and there is nothing else to do. ...

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"How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly, Before they're forever banned? ... Yes, how many years can a mountain exist, Before it's washed to the sea? ... Yes, how many ears must one man have, Before he can hear people cry? ...

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The book opens with a brief description of the training the soldiers of the 1st battalion 7th Calvary received before leaving the United States. ... The war traced its origins to before the Cold War and even before World War II. ... The French were overrun at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 after over 50 years of colonial rule. ... On December 10th 1961 two helicopter companies arrived in Vietnam aboard an aircraft carrier, more followed soon after. ... After all they were stopping communism, preventing the dreaded "Domino Effect". ...

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Before I go into the advertisements of cigarettes, I will discuss how smoking overall changed before and after the war. Before WWI, there was a strong anti-smoking movement in the United States. ... Thirteen states prohibited the sale of cigarettes, and many more states, municipalities and private businesses passed various restrictions on their sale and use. 1 This all changed after WWII; the amount of men that smoked increased a little but the amount of women smokers rose significantly during and after WWII. ... Like I stated before, tobacco companies would sponsor entire television shows inc...

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Despite the Chinese being before their time, the first true long-range missile can be credited to the Nazis during WWII. ... Soon after the war ended states began to develop long-range missiles of their own, attempting to incorporate nuclear warheads in the missile. ... After the missile enters the atmosphere it is no longer being fueled giving it a more distinct route, thus being easier to predict. ... After the ABM treaty of "72 missile defense became a less important issue. ... This new plan called for satellites carrying x-ray lasers that would burn through a missile shortly after it w...

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Before you were allowed in, there were many questions to be asked. ... Before we left for our new lives, we gave all of our furniture, utensils, clothes, and our small plot of land to our neighbors. ... Waiting day after day for the officers to call us for our turn. Day after day it never came. After a week of waiting it was finally our turn for the interview. ...

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They ranged from being cut open without anesthetics, to standing out in the cold waiting for their limbs to freeze, to being locked inside pressure chambers to test how much the body could take before their eyes popped out. ... After the disease had spread, they would take the man with the new disease and surgically look at what the disease had done to the man's inside to search for ways to cure it. ... Before implementing the germ warfare as a weapon, Unit 731 wanted to test them to see if they worked. ... The Japanese next thought of using a loaded submarine with biological weapons to b...

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Thomas Jefferson was given the honor of writing, due to the fact that he was the most eloquent writer, the first draft and after the approval of the five men committee it was submitted to the Continental Congress. ... In order to understand why these founding fathers would go to such lengths to separate themselves from Britain, after all they were committing treason by creating this Declaration, we have to go back in time to the French and Indian War, most commonly known in Europe as the Seven Years War, (1754-1763) and the aftermath. ... At first the British were frighten of the French who...

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