And reportedly not a single shot was fired against the American Soldiers at My Lai. ... The effects of napalm on the human body are unbearably painful and almost always cause death among its victims. ... Agent Orange still ravages through certain areas of Vietnam til this day as The Vietnam Red Cross recorded over 4.8 million deaths and 400,000 children born with birth defects due to exposure to Agent Orange. ... In the end we had to fight and rebel to achieve the status of a free nation we so proudly claim today. ... I can only assume that the United States simply did not care or under estima...

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That alone is not good. ... He was tied to a post and pistol whipped to death by other students from the school, just because he was gay (Dallas Morning News Oct. 14,1998). ... We have education to help teach those younger children not to hate and not to turn to violence. ... All hate crimes end in either the death of someone or in the injury of the victim, or retaliation from the victim. ... Let's make it a future we can all live in, one that our past leaders would be proud of. ...

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Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows, That too many people have died? ... Not the brainy part – not the sermons and all – but I'd be okay with the people part.... For instance, Norman Bowker claims that his father was proud of him getting combat medals, despite him not liking the idea. ... The battlefield saw more death and destruction than other wars. ... People like Cross swear that he would not forgive himself for the death of his unit members such as Lavender. ...

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That market system does not distribute food on the basis of nutritional need. ... I am not a father myself, but I talked to my own dad about this. ... Over 40 percent of all deaths in poor countries occur among children under five years old. ... So a lot of hunger is caused by the military, so even when countries aren't at war, they can cause death just by being selfish. ... They shouldn't be shown on tv at all, I am sure they are not proud of the way they look and probably wouldn't want to be on tv. ...

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The politically correct view is that Columbus did not discover America, because people had lived here for thousands of years. ... Many people also give Columbus praise for proving that the world really is round and not flat. ... The main legacy of Columbus is death and destruction. ... As a result, it was not uncommon to see thousands of Indians whipped out at a time. ... We, as Americans, should be proud of the United States and all that it currently stands for, but we should not cover up the mistakes that have been made along the way. ...

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Citizens do not have private property rights. ... The right to bargain collectively is not allowed either. The Confederation of Cuban Workers does not protect a worker's rights. ... They can buy buildings but not land. ... Although Castro is quite proud of the way...

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They were introduced to satisfy not a specific but general need. ... Some owners treated their slaves well; some did not. ... Every house slave would walk in a way so that the keys would jingle to show how, proud, important and trusted the slave was. ... Deaths in slave childbirths were many due heavy excess labors. Slaves were not well clothed. ...

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Historians are quoted as saying that although World War I was not inevitable; World War II was due to the unresolved tension between nations. ... Hitler promised the people of Germany a better life in which they would be proud to call themselves German. ... A fascist government does not tolerate any questioning of the government, if caught doing so would be punishable by law.8 On April 7, the first anti-Jewish law removed all "non-Aryans" from any and all government jobs. ... He ordered the SA leaders, including Ferdinand von Bredow, Georg von Detten, Karl Ernst, Hans Hayn, Edmund H...

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They were not fighting a war yet, though a war was going on in the very country that they were in. ... But soon, holding off the enemy was not so easy for the American soldiers, and more troops were sent in. ... All of these new, and newly perfected, weapons made the Vietnam War an unfamiliar territory for everybody as the death toll soared through the roof. ... This is not true, 91% of all living Vietnam veterans say that they are proud that they served their country, 74% would serve again knowing that there would be the same outcome, and 97% of them were discharged under honorable conditions...

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This period of time also brought astonishing change not only to the United States, but the world as a whole. ... This was not the first step but it was an important one along the road to being number one in the world. ... The evidence of death destruction and fear exists at any point in human history, and the United States is no exception. However, in the case of the 1950s, as a decade, as a period of time in our history as a nation, can be decidedly a positive time period, sure there are events that took place that we are not proud of and feared. There are events that we wish we would not ...

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Hansberry also incorporates into her work the fact that there is a clash between the black nationalist and the black integrationist during that time with the use of comparison between Joseph Asagai, a Nigerian student who is very proud of his African heritage, and George Murchison, an arrogant African-American who is already assimilated to the white world. ... Although the Younger's have worked hard all of their lives, they still cannot afford suitable housing until the death of Walter's father brings a ten thousand dollar life insurance check. ... Hansberry believes that African-Ame...

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All we could do after that is sit and watch the buildings crumble as people hopelessly scrambled for whatever cover they could find and the heroes of the hour strong and proud took their places running back into the ash and dust looking for people who's lives they felt were more important then their own. ... And the fact is the two events were not all that different from each other. ... Further than that, however, I will not forget what happened that day. All of America started to look at one another and realize that we are not and should not be fighting ourselves. ... Not that I can sa...

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Some women bound their breasts or wore special corsets to flatten their chests because in this era a flat chest was something to be proud of. ... Lets not forget the long flowing hair. ... Tweens are girls and boys from the ages of around nine to fourteen who are not yet considered adolescents. ... Salons tell us that the UVA light used in tanning beds is safer than the UVB rays, but that might not be entirely true. ... Seven thousand three hundred deaths are being anticipated by the U.S. ...

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"The other half" that Riis refers to is the city's poor population whose lifestyle was largely unknown to New York's Prestigious because they simply did not care to know. ... Riis begins his analysis by describing the manner in which these tenements grew from housing the city's proud aristocrats to becoming the overcrowded homes for the industrious poor. ... But these diseases they encountered were generally not due to being in a New World, it was due to the conditions they lived in, and their refusal to try and get help when ill. ... Every Sunday when Italians would sit down ...

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