After that, the magnetic compass had been refined by Flavio Gioia that allowed it to indicate several directions, and it had a printed card under the needle to show these directions. Later on, from the seaman's experiences, magnetic compass had been refined one more time in terms of wind by dividing directions into 16 directional points, so it became more accurate than previous compasses (Wilford 99). ... Therefore, with the advanced technology, the most accurate system in indicating directions called GPS has been created based on the satellite system. Although compasses and GPS both indi...

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INTRODUCTION Did you know that six million people were murdered in death camps called concentration camps? Most of these people were Jewish. It began in Germany with Adolf Hitler who hated the Jews. In 1933 he was chancellor of Germany. The Jews began to lose their rights. Germany starts to ta...

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Adolph Hitler: Evil Hero In the days of increased social consciousness, it is seen as poor taste to mention Adolph Hitler with anything less than sheer contempt. The man was, after-all, responsible for one of the most gruesome and barbaric periods of modern history. Well over six million people d...

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Victory in Japan, the battle of the Pacific is over, Japan surrenders. The allied powers had already beaten the Axis powers in the European theater, all that was left was the war in the Pacific. The Allied forces made the decision to drop an atomic bomb on the island of Japan with hopes of pushing ...

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Elements of Fiction in the Destructors "The Destructors", written by Graham Greene, consists of many different elements of fiction. In this particular short story, Graham Greene uses key elements to mold the story into a masterpiece. Greene uses the aftermath of World War II on which to base his i...

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In today's world, human life is associated with a several types of technology. No matter where you look, at home, in the office, in the car, on the street, the computers and household appliances, mobile phones, devices for the vehicles as well as many other fancy devices are surrounding us to help u...

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August 1914 one of the most historic events in history began. This was the beginning of the First World War, a war that had never been seen before. It involved every major European nation as well as North America and Japan. There was nothing that could have prepared the world for this war it chan...

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Introduction: There were many great leaders appeared during the Second World War. A good leader should affected the war in such the way he/she wants with great leadership skills, making good decisions, and determined the outcome of the war. General Patton was one of these great leaders in the arm...

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The Fault of Man: Evil Man is and will forever be the root of all evil in the world. No matter what implementations is used to stop the evil in a person, like sending them to a correctional facility, man will always have the trill of chaos in the back of there mind. Mankind, from the dawn of e...

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I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest . . . would [have] laid the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they had been matchsticks, and of course set them afire in the center. ...

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Contrary to our expectation of two films about a same topic to be similar, or at least not so different from each other, the dramatic licenses that American and Japanese filmmakers took into their movie went into two opposite directions. ...

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In 1946 Japanese exports totaled two billion yen but by 1949 Japanese exports increased from two billion to 170 billion yen (Iriye, 94). 1949 saw a change in the way that Japan exported its goods, in 1946 more than half of Japanese goods were being sent to America but my 1949 Japan realized they needed to switch directions with their exports. ...

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Discrimination is an act or a decision that treats a person or a group of people negatively for reasons such as their, race, age or disability. Discriminatory traditions, policies, ideas, practices, and laws exist in many countries and in every part of the world, even in ones where discrimination is...

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The Burma Campaign of WW2 was held in 1942, Burma the country formally known as Myanmar is a country almost the same size and land mass as the state of Texas. The country sits down low in the bottom of southern Asia between China and India. Along the northern, eastern, and western borders of Burma a...

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In France, men had been stationed at junctions in the rain or hot sun, kept an army moving, yelled directions, swore at "laggards" and indicated with practiced movements exactly what they expected the chaos around them to do. ...

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The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Ardennes, known to the United States as the Battle of the Bulge, was the greatest battle this country had or would participate in. At its height more than 500,000 American forces were engaged with nearly 600,000 German soldiers. The Americans were at tim...

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The Modernist era arrived in late nineteenth century Europe due to a general change in the attitude of the time. The effects of Industrialization on Europe's society, the development of scientific theories, such as Darwin's evolution theory', and the tension between the European nations that was to eventually escalate into World War One, called into question the existence of God and the rationality of Mankind. Modernism was a part of [this] disturbed, transformational period of European history [which] contained and incorporated its sensibility of transition and its rising ...

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At the very beginning of Act One, we are introduced to Keller through the stage directions, which state that 'When he reads, when he speaks, when he listens, it is with the terrible concentration of the uneducated man for whom there is still wonder in many commonly known things, a man whose judgements must be dredged out of experience and a peasant-like common sense. ...

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World War II, the European front was a raging battle between the allied forces and Nazi Germany. The battle for the liberation of France began on D-Day plus 49, 1944. The allied forces had not made progress into France as foreseen. Instead, one and a half million allied forces were stalled from j...

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In 1910 Japan annexed Korea, installing a harsh rule over its people. During the 1930's an independence movement arose. Led from abroad by Syngman Rhee, who attended Harvard University at the time, it started a fire in a man that would continue to grow as time passed. With the principles of the ...

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World War I, the first globally destructive conflict that the Western Civilization produced, has been the subject of various analysis, interpretations and reevaluations of the various causes that led to it. Initially, the guilt was placed upon Germany and its allies. Eventually, historical analysis...

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In 1910 Japan annexed Korea, installing a harsh rule over its people. During the 1930's an independence movement arose. Led from abroad by Syngman Rhee, who attended Harvard University at the time, it started a fire in a man that would continue to grow as time passed. With the principles of the Atla...

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