Arizona and the U.S.S Utah remain on the floor of Pearl Harbor, each a ghostly, decaying tomb reminding all of the thousands that gave their life on that fateful day, also, they are both reminders of seemingly how easily the attack was carried out and of how America, the world's big brother and perhaps the most powerful nation in the history of the world, was caught with 'its guard down.' ... The neglect of these signs can, in most cases, be attributed to some sort of human error in dealing with those signs. Although human error played a large part in the reason that those in po...

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• Grade Level: High School

Each nation refers to the islands by different names: The Diaoyu-tai Islands (People's Republic of China), Tiaoytai (Taiwan), and The Senkaku Gunto Islands (Japan), to which they are most commonly referred ("How Uninhabited Islands," 2014). ... In the late 1970s, China and Japan arranged to enter a stalemate agreement and put aside the islands and the dispute they caused (McDevitt, 2014). ... The Senkaku islands have become a symbol of national pride for both the Japanese and Chinese people, a fact citizens of both countries are not willing to let their governments forget ("...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Goode, in World Revolution and Family Patterns, shows that "the classical family of Western nostalgia" was a false stereotype and thus other stereotypes are similarly in error. ... This lead to the dissatisfaction in the workplace by some and caused more separation than was needed between husband and wife. ... The majority of women of course did not result to this procedure but the fact that many did is an astounding implication on how assumptions can affect lives. ... The implication of this is far-reaching, as many people believe the myth that everyone was much better off during the past....

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Garraty argues that Nazi and New Deal anti depression policies bear striking similarities, and because the systems were perceived to be so fundamentally different his comparison is expository of how people handled the crisis. ... Schivelbusch uses the example of neoclassical monumentalism to underscore how the same stylistic, formal, and technological developments are used to serve ostensibly different political systems. This can be equated with the manner in which propaganda was utilized in all three systems. ... Businesses that did not comply with the NRA code could not display the symbol ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I remember thinking, 'you've had it chum, its no good worrying anymore - the die has been cast and what is to be, will be, and there is nothing you can do about it.' ... He says, See if you can spot him. ... And British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the British people looked forward to the day when England would attack. Then Hitler postponed his English invasion plans. it was, from his point of view, one if his greatest errors.. ... How important was air-power for D-day's success? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Colors represented different people, and the lines crisscrossed when people met, and ended when they died. ... In his head he refers to them and himself as the Three Musketeers, and tells himself the story of how the Three Musketeers saved the life of a dumb college kid. ... His father tries to teach him how to swim by the sink-or-swim method. ... Billy is in bad shape: he looks like hell, can barely walk, and is having vivid (but pleasant) hallucinations. ... He cruelly beats Billy, who is in such a state that he can only laugh. ...

• Word Count: 7795
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• Grade Level: High School