They introduce a kipande which was like an I.D that each working Kenyan or any Kenyan who's over 16 had to carry wherever they went. White settlers that lived in Kenya didn't need to carry a kipande. ... One example of discrimination is the Kipande, which was like an ID that every Kenyan and African had to carry. ... The religion made them more religious and to show the British that they could handle things on there own without the help of the British. ... Some things they resorted to were brutal, and they savagely killed many whites and also 2,000 Africans who they believed were col...

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The very idea of carrying out a night-time airborne landing of such a small force into the midst of the German army seemed to me to be little more than a suicide mission. ... Yet another rifleman who was carried to the beach in the LCVP's relates one of his incidents: "I got on the gun. ... They both attempted more than they had the strength to handle. ... Right after Dieppe, things began to go better for the Allies. in the fall of 1942 the British 8th army, commanded by General Bernard Law Montgomery, defeated the Germans and Italians in Egypt- the first in a series of defeats that was t...

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"What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge" (Tzu 77). ... This being said, it is difficult to draw conclusions on which spies completed which action, or what class they were considered to be in. ... When they landed and started the first colony, ideas of a revolution were already stirring. ... His ideas influenced the actions taken by patriots to gain independence from the British, and gave them the they needed to win the Revolutionary War. ... The United states carried out multip...

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This operation would also help to reduce Stalins suspiciousness of the West by showing that they were not content to leave the actual fighting to the Soviets. The latter was of particular importance to the Western powers as they sought to ensure that the Soviet Union would not attempt to negotiate a unilateral peace with Germany as it had done in 1918. ... Rather, they preferred to import a large quantity of food and raw materials from these regions, process them and then re-sell them back to these very same areas for a sizeable profit. ... The Soviet power industry was also severely wounded, ...

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The Italian soldiers in "In Another Country- are the heroes because they were not afraid to die. ... As a writer, Hemingway drew heavily upon his war experiences, as is seen in his earlier works that speak of men and women deprived, by World War I, of faith in the moral values in which they had believed, as well as, of those who lived with hostile disregard for anything but their own emotional needs. ... He never acts, he never loves, he never carries out his plans. ...

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They lived a happy and stable life until they were claimed to be "capitalists and therefore enemies of the people." ... Only by doing so we can prevent things like this from happening again. ... (Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine) Why would anybody perform such horrible things on another human being? ... The Nazi's wanted to make the victims do so many degrading things that they would appear to be subhuman. ... They were then ventilated with a gas which caused them to cough so severely that they had to be restrained. ...

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The gates swing open and inside lay mounds of emaciated corpses, haggard and diseased victims and remnants of skeletons within ovens so vast that they defy belief. ... This was the first time that the world in general was witness to the dispensation of justice against men who initiated and efficiently carried out acts "so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated," (Jackson). ... After the verdicts were carried out, and the majority of the defendants executed, the international legal community and the w...

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His eyes shift from the gossiping women to a cluster of businessmen laughing while they smoked cigars inside a restaurant. ... People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to be anything unique. ... Among the many events that gave him inspiration, such as the rising power of upper-class America during the 1920s, his draft into The Great War would eventually push him to publish his first work, The Enormous Room. 1 The rest, as they say, is history. ... While Cummings fought in World War I, he experienced first-hand the chaotic destruction during bat...

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Yossarian carries a mask throughout the novel. ... He carried a persona in which his public appearance did not match his true feelings. ... This shows how Hitler did not like anyone who did not see things in his perspective. ...

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These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. ... Upon the arrival of humankind in both places though, they become much less like paradise and ultimately carry out the same fate. ... Simon's character traits are like Jesus' because he demonstrates true morality and selflessness and many of the things he do seem supernatural. ... Also, some of the things Simon do seem almost supernatural or transcendent. ... The boys see the necessity for government so that they can keep law and order and although they have good intentions, ...

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When he thinks about Dresden's place in his memory, he always recalls two things: a dirty limerick about a man whose penis has let him down, and "My Name is Yon Yonson," a song which has no ending. ... When he tracked his old friend down, he asked if Bernard would help him remember things about the war. ... He carries a cruel triangular trench knife, various pieces of equipment that have been issued to him, and a pornographic photo of a woman with a horse. ... They have been captured. MY COMMENTS: There are a few things in this chapter that come to my attention. ...

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All of these things seemed to create weak soldiers who were likely to succumb to a major yet unforeseen and at the time unknown illness called combat exhaustion. ... They just wanted out of the war. ... Soldiers did not know how to cope with these things. ... There are countless things that the soldiers did or saw that could have affected them mentally. ... One soldier always carried a book from the states with him and read it repeatedly, claiming that the book was his "companion" during hard times of the war. ...

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And they really badly wanted to get to France to get in the fighting." ... The trenches were filled with rats that not only would steal soldiers food, but also carried lice that caused "trench fever"with their bites(Hatt 21). ... They could be delusional. (Hatt 57) Some were so disfunctional that they never again left hospitals or nursing homes. ... Some victims become frozen or mute thanks to shell-shock, and when they didn't respond to a Yealland's questions, he used shock-therapy. ...

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Because the Japanese controlled the railway, they used the incident to fuel their need to intervene with the events unfolding in China. ... Wakatsuki ultimately failed in the attempt to carry out his emperor's wishes and the Japanese military continued on its campaign throughout China which eventually pleaded to the League of Nations for intervention who then voted 42-1 against Japan with the only vote coming from Japan supporting the action. ...

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This was one of the terms that infuriated Germany the most, because they despised the Poles and believed they were an inferior race. ... They were looking for someone to blame for this predicament and also a way out of these unbearable circumstances. ... This action by the allies united the people momentarily as they had not been united since 1914. ... It meant that money had to be carried in suitcases instead of wallets. ... They felt part of a powerful new alliance that gave them hope and inspiration for the future. ...

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That unseen enemy was not carrying a visible weapon, nor was it uniformed, but it was an enemy that they had seen before and just never knew that it could be an enemy. ... Even if a soldier did get close to other soldiers, they had to go through the pain of losing them if they died. ... During these long trips home, the veterans had the closeness and emotional support of one another to go through all the things that they had experienced together (Loughrey 99). ... This fantasy day would actually often bring a harsh reality to for many soldiers, when they returned home and saw that they had d...

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Yet another irony both super powers did not want another war to start but they were plunging themselves into another war the Cold War. ... It was interesting to know that even Russia had applied for aid but they never received any. ... In the words of Dean Acheson "The great thing which creates purchasing power is people if the people can develop their own countries, they will become an increasing market for all goods including our own"2 Also Western Europe appeared open to influence by the USSR. ... The present world, the way we see things today, is founded on the principles that the var...

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Unfortunately these problems were not solved by the war and were carried on to World War II. ... The twenties were basically happy times, but all good things must come to an end. ... Those countries had non-democratic governments, they were rearming, and they were not being peaceful. Why America Entered World War II The Allies dismissed the aggression of the Axis, which consequently led to more aggression because the Axis then believed they could "walk on water- as they say for people who think they can do whatever they want and not get punished. ... Japan became an aggressor because they need...

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Children may want to continue to carry out their family legacy or perhaps join the military out of patriotism and even to experience something new. ... Francisco, a 17-year-old, explained, "I didn't want to join the Army, they made me join.". ... Women were obligated to comply with soldiers' commands during wartime if they wanted to survive. ... Most of these victims were threatened with death if they resisted or failed to oblige (p.4). ... They no longer only controlled household duties but also adapted to working as well. ...

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Millions of people are more fearful, anticipating another attack and wondering if they or a loved one are in danger. ... They believe that all young men from Islamic countries are trained to be terrorists or, at the very least, cultivated to despise the American government and what it stand for. ... While anti-terrorism laws are extremely important, and they are broadening and becoming more refined each year, they need to be carried out with a clear vision about how far politicians are willing to go when changing American culture for the sake of one word, "terrorism". ... The rea...

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Australia lost almost 500 of the 47,000 troops they had deployed to Vietnam and New Zealand lost 38 soldiers. ... At the end of the war more than 5 million mines saturated approximately 2% of the country, where they will pose a threat to human and animal life well into the 21st century. ... Shortly after the Nicaraguan conflict, things started to change drastically on the global front. ...

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While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. ... Yet, while the allies shared ideals, they were defectively democratic as well. ... People want to be told what to do when faced with a problem they cannot handle alone. ... Mussolini recognized this and began promising things that any one in Italy would find favorable. ...

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What is most disturbing is that they have nearly succeeded in grasping hold of this power, without most inhabitants of this planet having the slightest idea of what is being planned for them."" Humanity and technology are reaching a detrimental climax if they are allowed to go further unregulated. ... Forty-six other nations from every region of the world joined these five central powers in signing, and together they became the founding members of the United Nations. ... These objectives are certainly ambitious, as they cover the spectrum of international activities. ... Although it is n...

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Response When studying the history of the European Empires, it must be assessed as to why they collapsed in such a short amount of time. ... Instead, he argued: "But they did not conceive of themselves as having the right to govern in perpetuity. It was rather their duty to spread to other nations those advantages which through the course of the centuries they had won for themselves." ... Backing this further, this almost false yet Whig way of looking at the British Empire meant an arguably ignorant view that the Empire was the white man's" burden and during its end was honourably dischar...

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and that they should "Go!"... It may therefore be said of the recruiting posters that they were very effective in their methods of persuasion. ... Indeed, the attacks on the Somme, and many other dismal affairs like it, Passchendaele for example, may well have not been possible, bar such unscrupulous recruitment practices, many of the enlisting Sergeants allowing underage enlistment, "smiling they wrote his lie: aged 19 years", (Disabled) sending five different sets of brothers from Eton alone, to their premature deaths. ... Therefore, most attacks were recognised long before they took plac...

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