Some leaders change the lives of people drastically and go down in history, whereas other leaders cause little change and fade into history and are forgotten forever. ... Hitler tried a little too hard to impress his superiors, yet he never succeeded and stayed a corporal his whole time in war. ... The Germany government made a big mistake when they decided to resume payments for their war debts. ... When Hitler was released from jail, he was a determined man. ...

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The Montgomery busboy cut was started by Rosa Parks an NAACP activist that decided not to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery. ... As a result of Rosa parks not giving up her seat on the bus for a white man, Martin Luther King was elected to lead the Montgomery bus boycott by fellow members of the NAACP. ... However the impact that he made didn't cause a turning point in the civil rights movement, as there were other factors like the little rock movement, that arguably made a bigger impact towards discrimination towards black Americans and getting the civil rights act p...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book opens up with a young man reminiscing about the past where he met his best friend who also became his partner. ... One night as Bill and Julie where getting ready for bed they noticed a strange man wandering around the shelter. ... Bill stated that they wouldn't be able to manage all three of them but Julie said to wait a little while before turning him in. ... H would break out in big sweats and shaking with a 102 fever. ... When he got to see he she was reck, but of course her smile was "big and beautiful." ...

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The words of Dick Nelson, a twenty-year-old member of the crew at the time, summarized the situation aptly: "You knew it was big, you just didn't want to mess anything up.... ... A heart-stopping 43 seconds later, at the pre-set altitude of 1890 feet, Little Boy exploded, and Hiroshima was incinerated. Van Kirk, the plane's navigator, and Nelson, the radio operator, wrote: The town was just a big mess of flame and dust. ... Three days later, the plutonium bomb, Fat Man, was loaded onto another B-29, Bockscar, and was ready to carry out its mission. ... He was merely told that...

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Moreover Europe was disintegrating economically after World War 1 but as the big three were politicians, there was very little attention in the economic part of the treaties. Little they knew that Europe would need a huge amount of economic support after the war but the whole treaties were about political matters and the leaders pleasing their nations. ... The big 3 had much different opinions; Georges Clemenceau wanted to punish Germany at the harshest way possible to take revenge on what they did to them. ...

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Tipper recalls "Before Sobel's raid, I had disliked him, not really hated the man. ... In Camp Mourmelon, the men drank, gambled, relaxed, but most of all, shook off a little bit of their front-line trauma and stress. ... Through close calls and perilous situations, each man always has the others backs. They always looked out for the man fighting next to them. ... The big picture is one of cohesiveness amongst those in the same and how they would sacrifice for each other and their country. ...

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A great need for the United States to defend itself is a big issue in his article. ... It also goes on to say that upon completion of the course you will "Enter Good Society" and "Be a Man of Culture, Power, and Influence in Your Community." ... Friends if you have a problem or a battle, big or little, on hand, mobilize VELVET- The Smoothest Smoking Tobacco. ...

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Billy Pilgrim, the main character, is a symbol that most soldiers who return home from war that have a difficult time merging back into society because the carnage of war is enough to drive a man insane. ... By breaking Billy down into a vulnerable, sad individual, Kurt Vonnegut exposes the generic big bad soldier as a broken spirit. ... It contributes to the antiwar theme because it symbolizes the damage that war does to a man's mind. ... For example when Kurt Vonnegut writes, "It had most of the food and minerals and machinery, and it disciplined other countries by threatening to s...

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With the corralling of human beings into camps, surrounded by fences and trapping those concealed in a man made Hell, it seems that it would be a "one time thing", but in reality? ... With the Operation in full play, more than 1,526,500 Jews were murdered in a little more than a year; between March, 1942 and November, 1943. ... Torture, beatings, and harsh punishments warp prisoners minds to where most constantly beg for forgiveness for what we as Americans see as small mistakes; most that we commonly label as "no big deal". ... George Santayana once said that those who don...

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In World War I, it had been shown that heavy machine guns could be successful against tanks; however, "by 1939 most tank armor had become thick enough the be proof against even the largest machine guns (the firing bullets approximately a half inch in diameter) and a majority of the great powers lost interest in the big guns" (Kirk and Young, 292). ... The U.S did not just like big guns: there were very convincing arguments to the superiority of the M2. It had many of the good points of smaller caliber arms, plus great range, accuracy, and the incredible stopping power of its big bullets. ....

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Times were very hard and money was tight Factory had a lot of woman who had to work under very poor conditions for very little pay . In Japan "..it was acceptable for unmarried woman to work in textiles to teach or served as nurses", "all over japan woman took a variety of job's farming that was done by man , barber, cooks and sales person... Their were not getting as much as the man who got paid"...$54.65 and they still got paid $31.21 for the same job... "Each woman therefore had a quota of servicing 100 men per day (each man was allotted only three minutes)" (60). ... Durning ...

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Gandhi allows the younger generations to observe what one man did for his people and how he open the eyes of the world, forcing them to see human strength, courage, and devotion never seen before nor since. ... The movie clearly illustrates what religion each character is, almost forcing the viewer to acknowledge the everyday stereotypes, although Gandhi himself is only seen as a man of spirit. The movie further explores the life of a simple Indian man and documents the serious poverty of his people. ... Of course that path involves violence and restraint, and what this movie does is it ...

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Little by little the German population was stripped away of their judgement and morality by being brainwashed by Hitler and the Nazi party with propaganda. Propaganda played a very big role in controlling and dictating the German population during the Second World War. ... "The modern dictator must be at once a superman and a man of the people, remote yet accessible, wise yet simple, lonely on his olympian height, yet ready to mix with the crowd"(Rhodes 13). ... "Although he said that in the future the man who controlled the masses would control the State, he made no attempt to hide his contem...

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But where did America fall into this big picture of destruction and despair, and who was going to help win the war for the allies? ... It was even written that the bodies of man and animal soon became a mass of maggots and flies that soon infested the area sur! ... They had very little uses for a small or medium tank in their strategies. ...

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The area was of little economic value to the Belgians. ... There was little or no economic incentive for the Belgians to settle in the area or to make any substantial investments in a subsistence economy that lacked even a rudimentary infrastructure. ...

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Japan was left with little and was forced to acquire new resources from China. ... Since this sort of attack was new to the Japanese, Yamamoto was a little uneasy. To ensure success, he brought along 3 submarines to protect the bigger ships. They each carried a two-man battery operated mini sub to just outside of the harbour. ... Japan had lost little and had proved victorious. ...

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"The ultimate reason that brought each man here,"" Welch said, "was a sense of patriotic duty, and deep concern for the future of his family and his country- (4). ... Birch told his pastor "I know the big enemy is Communism, but the Lord has called me. ... In the South, the John Birch Society saw more growth in towns and villages than big cities like Little Rock. ...

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(Bergan, 27) Even though the treaty was not the main downfall of Germany's economy, it did push it along a little farther. ... (Bergan, 27) They did however lose the fertile area of the Rhineland, had to pay huge reparations to the French and British and lost their ability to defend themselves being limited to a 100,000 man army. ... I have a hard time seeing antisemitism playing a big part in it all, especially without the economic downfalls. ...

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While most of these do not understand this man's work, everyone knows that its impact on the world of science is astonishing. ... This job had little to do with physics, but he was able to satiate his curiosity by figuring out how new inventions worked. ... He remained at the Patents Office for another two years, but his name was becoming too big among the scientific community. ...

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"4 Chaplin himself in his autobiography describes his reasoning behind the decision: Whether I re-entered that unhappy country or not was of little consequence to me. ... One of the first big scenes in the film sees him at a dinner party, which is being filmed and broadcast on television without his knowledge. ... As such, its hefty message seemed to be delivered a little bit too late in the day to be truly meaningful. The years that Chaplin had served in producing it had actually ended up resulting in a lessened effect and probably damaged the perception of the film among many as the bi...

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