It is clear that the United States must set the example and ratify its key role in the North Atlantic Treat Organization immediately. ... Thus the treaty will serve to benefit us militarily, while also increasing our influence and friendships to countries worldwide. ... Furthermore it will greatly increase the bargaining power of the democratic and capitalist world with the communist one, and will serve as a rival to the Warsaw-Pact recently ratified in the Soviet Union. ... Economically and politically the treaty also serves to benefit us tremendously. ...

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Megiddo is an historic city that served as an important junction and battlefield throughout history and is also identified as the site of the last great battle of the world, Armageddon. ... Many people believe that the stage for this last war is being set because of how the Middle East has risen to world power in such an unusual way. At the end of the age, the Valley of Megiddo, now known as the valley of Jerzeel, will serve as the gathering place for a vast army which will engage the returning messiah, Jesus Christ, and his supernatural army in the Day of the Lord. ...

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The war was a time when many men were called to serve in the military at home and abroad. ... Women were able to fill in for their husbands and brothers who were forced to leave their jobs to serve in the military. ... "The "Rosie" image served as an appropriate ideal for mobilization propaganda. ... Whether it was the ability to provide a feminine touch or simply another set of eyes, women made countless contributions to productivity in the factories. ... Women continued to work in different fields such as Rosie Monroe how went on to drive a cab, own a beauty shop, set up her own construct...

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The family's dynamics are at once set as the reader finds the mother remote and as distant as the father, who seems to spend most of his nights in London, rather then at home. ... In fact, these two protagonists serve to move the story forward as their unresolved problems with each other and with the events that were set into motion that night circle around them. ... The reader learns early on that for whatever reason, possibly the dysfunctional family,Briony seems only to understand her world through the pages of her stories, Though she sets aside her writing for a time, it becomes ...

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Even with these new policies in place, the patriotic need for gay men and women to serve their country was strong enough for them to risk being ridiculed or rejected by the military and society and they lied and hid their homosexuality in order to serve. ... Allan Bérubé argues that even though homosexuals were willing to lie about their sexuality to proudly serve their country, they were fighting several wars, World War II, the fight against the military persecuting them and being able to be themselves in society without being seen as "sexual psychopaths" (14). ... &qu...

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Life endangering, and hostile, we will never know the full extent of the horror that took place at the time of the holocaust. On a rounded sum of numbers, six million Jewish men, women, and children we killed shamelessly. Of course the nazi party, who were the socialist government power at the time,...

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Even so, the "sack dress" became more than a mass consumer product or a symbol of youth culture "it also served foreign policy purposes as a Cold War symbol of democracy and freedom. ... As many Americans felt more pressure to conform in their working lives, collecting and creating served as "spiritual compensation," and promoted individuality and family togetherness (55). Marling asserts that hobbies and handiness also served as a "badge of unabashed manliness." ... In fact, since most American men rarely used their new tools, the possession of a "fetishistic tool" often served as the ob...

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The government set up various food halls for the homeless and minimal wealth benefits for those in need. ... The weakening of the government by the Great Depression enabled Hitler to come to power and serve for Germany once Hindenburg had died in "34. ... However because of this, Hitler was able to gain the power he needed to serve for Germany and dictate his attitudes and beliefs through politics. ...

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The withdrawal of North Korea serves as the first challenge to the NPT. ... In reality, however, North Korea's withdrawal can be seen as an opportunity for them to pursue a nuclear program free from international prohibitions set forth in the stipulations of the NPT. ... In conjunction, they serve as closely linked mechanisms that encompass the political reality of these times. ...

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For example, India is building a wide variety of new missiles with a range of 90 miles to 1,300 miles. (2) And Iraq refuses to let United Nations teams in to inspect its nuclear weapons stores. (1) In addition, the many of the countries in the former Soviet Union have set up lines of trade, both legal and not, to support their own economies. ... Even if they did the set date to lower arsenals is by 2003... In many cases the collapse has, in fact, served to amplify the problems already plaguing arms control. To support its failing economy Russia has become an arms dealer, and Full nuclear w...

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Each document, despite their similar purpose, sets its own standard of rights and has its own distinctive features which have all emerged from their past history. ... The Atlantic Charter was a document that reiterated the four freedoms; Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear, and set the standard at which the post-World War II world would base its values. ... Along with the creation of the UN, a new objective was set, to create an international system of protection for human rights. ... These trials set the precedent for later international war crimes ...

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The burden of an impending economic cave-in and political instability are what set the Marshall Plan in motion (Margiotta). ... So Marshall suggested a solution: that the European nations themselves set up a program for the restoration of Europe, with United States assistance (Chambers). ... Before becoming secretary of commerce in the Truman administration, he had served in two crucial posts during World War II, as Lend-Lease representative in Britain and then as U.S. ambassador to Moscow. ...

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Nineteen forty-five set the end of World War II. Hitler had been defeated indefinitely. Nonetheless, the war had left its mark on numerous countries, especially the USA. However, not all of the changes were bad, some were good, but they were changes that affected America in terms of social, economic...

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Christine Lagarde, the finance minister of France, is set to begin her five-year term as the International Monetary Fund's managing director and chairman next month after defeating Mexican Central Bank chief Agustin Carstens. ... "I will make it my overriding goal that our institution continues to serve its entire membership with the same focus and the same spirit," said Lagarde (Rooney). ...

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Cold War - The Changing Relationship of the Superpowers The United States and Soviet Union, the single most important rivalry of the twentieth century, started as a partnership. This irony was caused by the fact that the Germans were taking over Europe, which forced them in this relationship. Onc...

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Citing his faith and his patriotism in that two day conference in Indianapolis, Welch and the John Birch Society set forth on a crusade to enlighten America about the a very real Conspiracy of a Communist coup. ... Clearly, the upheavals and atrocities of 1789 served as a model for revolutions to come, especially the Bolshevik Revolution- (Thorton The New American). ...

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Since he had no set income he was forced to move into the ghettos and became somewhat of a bum. ... He left Vienna to get away from the mixture of races and to escape the military that he had to serve in with Jews. ... Hitler was thrown in jail for his attempt to overthrow the government, but only served nine months of his 5-year sentence. ... This deal with Russia was set up so that when Hitler took Poland the land would be divided with Stalin. ... He knew he could not defeat England so set out to attack Russia, but before he did he took Yugoslavia and Greece. ...

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In the word s of Norman Birkett, who served as a British alternate judge: it was the greatest trial in history . ... Three of the four allies wanted the Nazi leaders to be executed without a trial Winston Churchill said, They should be rounded up and shot like dog s but the Americans persuaded the other allies that a trial would be most beneficial from a public relations standpoint, so now with the allies agreed the stage for Nuremberg was set. ... He said his proof of being innocent was that he served time in a German concentration camp for disagreeing with Hitler. ... With all the charge...

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The wrote letters of refusal to serve under him. ... The company reequips and reinforces back in England, then sets off for yet another airdrop, this time into Holland. ... Easy picked up a couple more soldiers, fresh from jump school, and in mid-December, was assigned to serve at the icy battleground of Bastone. ... It opened my eyes to what it means to serve our country and exactly what these men went through on a daily basis. ...

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Originally enrolled as chaplain, Pilgrim's intentions weren't to fight, but to serve the moral and spiritual needs of the soldiers. ... To cite this companionship a quote from the book would serve wonderfully, "The love of a man for a woman waxes and wanes like the moon, but the love of brother for brother is steadfast as the stars and endures like the word of the prophet..." ... Pilgrim, gifted with the ability to travel throughout time, continually does so, never ending up in one set time and place.After fighting a gruesome war, Pilgrim is rewarded by incessantly traversing time an...

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Greatest Generation has seven different sections: Ordinary People, which shows the lives of citizens who contributed to the war and came home to lead normal lives; Home Front, about those who experience the change America went through as a nation at home; Heroes, both the decorated and the unsung of the war; Women in Uniform and Our, talks of the sacrifices of the mothers, wives, and girlfriends as they either supported the cause by filling spots in factories, or fought to get a taste of action as a nurse on the front line or as a WAVE; Shame, which addresses the disgraceful way that the minor...

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Nearly three hundred fifty thousand American women served in uniform. ... Women drove as truck drivers, worked as laboratory technicians, served as radio operators, repaired airplanes, rigged parachutes, flew military aircrafts across the country, test flew newly repaired airplanes, analyzed photographs, and even trained as anti-aircraft artillery gunners by acting as flying targets. ... Etta Shiber, author of Paris Underground, and Kitty Beaurepos, Etta's good friend, set out to try to save English soldiers from German imprisonment. ...

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For those who may have been struggling with a psychological breakdown due to the stresses of combat, the DEROS fantasy served as a major prophylactic to actual overt symptoms of acute combat reaction. ... On the opposite end of the spectrum the seasoned veterans who only had a couple months left to serve did not want to get themselves killed so they avoided everything with potential danger to keep themselves alive during the final months. ... Most of the women that served in the military served in the Nurse Corps. Over 8000 women served in the country of Vietnam and of those 8000 there were ...

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You wish to serve" (63). ... Rain also serves as a life-affirming symbol, one which baptizes Henry when he decides to desert the Italian army. It is raining outside almost every time something bad occurs, such as the army's retreat or Catherine's death, and serves to mark these events as random occurrences, just like rain itself. ... An American second Lieutenant in the Italian Army's ambulance corps, Frederick Henry, is depicted as an average man in search of a set of values. ... When Henry decides to row all night across the lake to help him and Catherine escape from the o...

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Yes, Machiavelli wanted to serve the people. ... Unlike Machiavelli, our system of rewards and punishments is not along the lines of public hangings, but in foreign aid to other countries linking to our own economy, "the United States, having set up at considerable expense a reward stream in the form of foreign aid to Latin America, is probably going to lose its influence there because, as a democratic and slow-moving government, it lacks the ability to reverse its course and restore the stream of aid," (D'Amato). ...

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