According to three separate reports by the US, NATO, and French officials, Gadhafi's convoy, which was making its escape out of the city, was forced to pull over by an attack by French warplanes and a US drone. ... A former aide of Gadhafi's, who switched sides after his nine years of service to the former dictator, rejoiced in Gadhafi's death, saying that it didn't matter if he was dead or alive just as long as he was no longer free. ...

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"[Jefferson, pg. 1] Thomas Jefferson is saying that all people have certain rights, regardless if they are in Britain or in America. ... Before the American Revolution, the American colonists and the British army fought together in the French and Indian War. ... The colonists were angry that Britain had given the land that they couldn't settle in, back to the French. ... The French now had the same resources and profitable goods that the colonies had, the Americans now had to compete for customers with France. The Proclamation of 1763 and a few acts that followed the French and Indi...

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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. ... It was written by the Allied powers, including Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States, and Germany. ... In the west, Germany returned Alsace-Lorraine to France, after occupying it for 40 years. ... In 1921, Germany was unable to pay its debts; French and Belgian soldiers invaded and occupied the Ruhr taking any and all goods and raw materials. 2 Germany was also ordered by the Allies, primarily Britain and France, to sign the Guilt Claus...

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William Mitchell was born on December 29, 1879 in Nice, France, and grew up in Milwaukee. ... (Source #3, pg. 2) Mitchell lead the greatest air offensive attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel by commanding 1,476 aircraft and twenty balloons, assembled by 101 American, British, French, and Italian squadrons in 1918. ... Navy dirigible Shenandoah in September of 1925, Mitchell took immediate action, dropping the biggest bomb of his career, a six thousand word statement saying that these incidents were the "result of in competency, criminal negligence, and the almost treasonable negligence o...

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However, the policy was used to justify the sending of the U.S. troops into Mexico in 1866 (to intimidate the French) and the purchased of Alaska in 1867". ... "The Panamanians had authorized Philippe Bunau-Varilla, a French citizen and long-time official of the French Canal Company. ... The United States is a world among it self, just saying it strikes fear in the hearts of some people. ...

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A few of Nigeria's leading trading partners are the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands, and France. ... France has decided to support Nigeria by saying that they are going to alter its economic and diplomatic relations with Nigeria's regular trading partners like the U.S. and Great Britain. ... Abacha wife) the French language became Nigeria's second official language under her husband's rule. In June of 1996 Chief Dan Etete, Petroleum Resource Minister, transferred oil fields belonging to America to France. Besides oil, France has invested into Nigeria&...

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He was quoted saying, "A Jap is a Jap. ... Signs were posted saying things like "American Farmer... ... (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." ... The 442nd Combat Team was a highly decorated all-Japanese unit stationed in Italy and France. ...

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Despite China's rejection and their resources being reduced,by the end of 1941 however, Japan had taken over French Indochina, formerly a french colonised region, in Southeast Asia. ... Isoroku Yamamoto won the approval from high commanders in the imperial navy,by saying he'd resign if they did not agree to this plan. ...

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A good example of this is that in 1995 the official language of the European Union changed from French to English. ... The French find this very annoying and have even passed laws to try to keep English words out of their language. ... Although one might argue by saying "if it's such a great work-out, why are the Americans fat?" ...

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" Many empires followed in the footsteps of Rome, like the Spanish, French, Soviet, and British governments - which all eventually collapsed due to welfare (Kirkland). ... Recently, Thomas Piketty, a French economist, wrote a book titled Capital in the Twenty-First Century. ... In a review of the book, Paul Mason sums up the ideology by saying, "If you are not born into wealth to start with, life, for even the best educated, will be like Jane Eyre without Mr. ...

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A good example of this is that in 1995 the official language of the European Union changed from French to English. ... The French find this very annoying and have even passed laws to try to keep English words out of their language. ... Although one might argue by saying "if it's such a great work-out, why are the Americans fat?" ...

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A recent article in The Economist underlines this problem by saying that: "(McDonald's) is often derided as a symbol of all that is wrong with globalisation: the imposition of red-toothed capitalism and shallow American values on an unwilling world. ... In a country like France, where food is culture it is important to preserve and continue a tradition, rather then replace it with a McDonald's restaurant. ... Many French farmers have protested MacDomination and Cococolization, including Jose Bove, who wrote about the destruction of national cultures and farmers in his book titled, ...

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Large areas of Belgium and France had been devastated and two of Europe's most powerful countries, Germany and Austria-Hungary, were defeated and exhausted. ... Calvin Coolidge epitomized the time when he was quoted saying, "The business of America is business,". ... America never ratified the treaty but Britain and France still enforced it. ... When Germany refused to pay all that was demanded, France and Belgium occupied the coalmines in the Ruhr industrial area. ...

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I think his seven primary concerns are as follows: 1) The termination of the Poverty Program; 2) Sending young brothers to fight for liberation in Southeast Asia, when they don't live free in Georgia and Harlem, and die alongside whites who live in a nation and cannot go to the same schools; 3) The massive violence used in Vietnam; 4) America would never be free or saved from itself unless the descendants had their own shackles removed; 5) The burden of maintain his role as a man who received the Nobel Prize for Peace and work for the "brotherhood of man"; 6) The Vietnam people who have b...

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For years now, the fight for gays rights have risen to a very high peek. It has been a very controversial topic for many years now. The gay community was rights such as the right to marriage, or the right to adopt a child with their partner. Throughout the whole gay movement, there has been many peo...

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Even though he just wanted to hurt the British and French economically, he hurt the Americans more. ... He abused this win, however, saying that his victory was a popular mandate to eliminate the Second National Bank before its term ended in 1836. ...

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When asked to evaluate how many troops were available if and when the United States would get involved, the army could only gather a mere one hundred thousand, while the French, Russian and Japanese armies numbered in millions. ... In the early stages of the war American Ambassador to London was quoted saying "It's the end of the world, the end of everything". ...

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Roosevelt eventually undercut the conference by saying that he had little interest in currency stabilization and by announcing that he would work for economic recovery in other ways. ... In the spring of 1940, after Germany had conquered Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France Roosevelt convened a special session of Congress and asked it to lift the embargo on the sale of weapons, a provision that primarily hurt the European countries opposed to Hitler and Germany, known as the Allies. ...

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Have you ever wondered what your IQ really measures? "IQ" stands for "intelligence quotient." A person's IQ is supposed to be a measure of that person's intelligence: the higher the IQ number, the greater the intelligence. This is inaccurate, however, since it assumes that there is only one kind ...

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(New York Times, October 31, 2003, pg.22) The United States Anti Doping Agency was tipped by an anonymous coach, saying several American and International athletes are taking an undetectable steroid. ... Out of the reading of "The real scandal of sports: Doping- I read about Erwan Menteour, a French tour de France bicyclist. ...

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Americans' experience with the quartering of troops in their homes began shortly after the French and Indian War ended in 1763. The British Parliament decided it was necessary to keep a permanent supply of troops in the colonies in order to protect them from further uprisings of the French and Indians. ... After the Constitution was written by the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 and submitted to the States for ratification, many voices arose saying the Constitution did not sufficiently protect the basic natural rights of the citizens. ...

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The book, Teenagers and Alcohol: When Saying No Isn't Enough, asserts that high school surveys in the last decade show that ninety-two percent of its students have tried alcohol (Vogler & Bartz 4). Former Senator Baker says, in Teenagers and Alcohol: When Saying No Isn't Enough, that alcohol is thebloody monster that defiles innocence; creates misery, poverty, fear; causes helplessness and hopelessness, then certainly, I am against it (Qtd. in Vogler & Bartz 3).? ... Our United States government should follow the examples set forth by France, Italy, Spain, and other Europea...

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Who determines what makes a person civilized? Who decides whose god is the "right- god? Who shapes the guidelines of what an acceptable person is? The answer to this question is no one. There should not be any person that has complete authority over another person's life, beliefs, and living arr...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... In addition to the Americans fighting in the continental army, France and Spain sent troops to fight against the British. ...

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Beveridge delivers a speech to Congress, saying that, "àand thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the worldà" On the other hand, expansionism became a competition of between America and the other countries. ... Industrial growth was similarly in evidence in Europe among certain nations, notably England, Germany, France and Russia. ...

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