As a result from the outbreak of disease and the threat of famine this "in-migration" occurred. ... Therefore, you can imagine the vile aroma that was given off by the living as well. ... I would use the words genocide and holocaust to describe what the Spanish did to the native people they encountered. ... Columbus just picked these men, women, and children up on his voyage to help him achieve what he wanted which was his greed for gold. ... As you can see there is a strong parallel between the horrible actions of Nazi Germany during WWII, and what the Spanish did to these native people. ...

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What is the effect and history of biological and chemical weapons? ... The chemical can be colourless, odourless, and tasteless which makes it to hard for a person to know what is going on until it is to late. ... The inhalation of anthrax spores can lead to infection and disease. ... People can be immunized to certain diseases. ... Who knows, the next time you are outside in your yard, you may feel light headed and find it hard to breath. ...

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After reflecting on his reasons for fighting, he develops an anti-war sentiment: "There's no time to grieve in combat, so you just stuff it...You see your friend die and then you go back to work.... As shown in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Kat reveals the reason for Himmelstoss' unfair treatment when he says, "Let a man be whatever you like in peacetime, what occupation is there in which he can behave like that without getting a crack on the nose? ... Soldiers are misled constantly about what they are fighting for. ... Interestingly, Paul personif...

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Another British vet, Donald Hodge, remembered, "We thought it was going to be a tremendous lark to knock the Kaiser off his throne, you see." ... (Fussell 73) World War I, considered one of the greatest conflicts in world history, was new kind of war, a war where you never even met your enemy. ... (The Century) Thus soldiers broke down into a mental disease which was then known as "shell shock" but is now categorized in the much broader disease called "posttraumatic stress disorder." ... Tens of thousand of shell-shock victims had been diagnosed by the end of the war, but doctors hardly...

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According to Jonathan Watts in Dispatch: Tokyo. " Most people were killed instantly, but many did not succumb until years later, when they had Leukemia and other diseases related to radiation exposure." ... If you were within a 2km radius of the nuclear blast, most likely you would have been exposed to the radiation from the bomb. ... These energies and particles in these bombs is what causes all of the diseases that people get from nuclear bombs. ... But smart bombs are a better way to do it than to cause problems in a country for year after the attack like what happened to Nagasaki and Hiros...

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What is war? ... What is war defined as? ... Terrorists do things to intimidate, to scare, to kill, to show what they believe in. Terrorists do not discuss or want to discuss their position with you - they believe that there is nothing more that can be said on the subject with you. ... If that reality doesn't scare you perhaps this will. ...

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Especially since what happened on 9/11, we as a society live in a high alert of terror attack and must be informed about the weapons these terrorists could employ. ... According to Walter Laqueur there is "Lassa fever, Legionnaires disease, and flesh eating bacteria. Nor can diseases affecting animals be excluded such as Ebola fever and Mad Cow disease" (Laqueur 64). ... These diseases are intimidating and frightening. ... These types of detection are so advanced you need a degree in and another report to explain them. ...

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They wrote You Have Seen Their Faces eighteen months after they returned from Moscow. ... She saw many doctors when she arrived back in America and when she went to a neurologist who realized what was wrong, her refused to name it, thinking it would discourage her. ... Finally, she discovered the name of her illness-Parkinson's disease, an incurable ailment that causes uncontrollable shaking or tremors, makes muscles rigid, and impairs speech. ... She eventually decided to tell the truth about her fight against Parkinson's in hope that she would help others who were suffering from th...

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WWII a lot of people gave their lives to fight for what they believed. ... This step for women was some what of a symbol of freedom. ... They were free to live their own lives and and control what they wanted to do . ... also the existence of brothels kept the level of venereal disease relatively low among service men (compared to world war II , for which more solders left with an infectious venereal disease that were wounded in the battle ) (58). ... "In 1943 , 120 prostitutes were hospitalize 166 times for congious venels diseases )(60). ...

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We all know how terrible cancer is and how many lives the disease has taken. ... If you were a little kid and you saw everyone around you was about to die, it probably wasn't the best idea to drop an atomic bomb. ... "Two wrongs don't make a right," and killing thousands of innocent people is not morally correct no matter what the situation is. ...

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The descriptions of the certain moments are what define Billy as a human. ... He believes that what happened in that exact moment will always be there. ... If you knew the future, would you do anything about it? ... ""But you do have a peaceful planet here?" ... If it was know that AIDS started in Africa and if it was know how to protect oneself from the disease, would millions still of died? ...

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Portraying the effects of war as damaging contributes to the antiwar theme because it means that after you go to war, you're never the same again. ... He uses the word discipline as if America is the ruler and it punishes other countries for not doing what it wants. ... The theme that ideas are like a disease is prevalent in both novels. Like a disease, nuclear weapons will become so powerful that they will wipe out the human race. ... He then explains how America bullies every other country with its army and weapons to get what it wants. ...

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Their coughs would come from wearing the cold wet clothes, causing lung disease, you would almost be able to hear them coughing up phlegm. ... He uses onomatopoeic words so that you get the sense of them being so frustrated and exhausted walking through the sticky, bloody, muddy, trenches. ... When you drown you suffocate and the soldier is suffocating because he has no air. ... The readers are asked to imagine what he has seen, as in the soldier laying on the cart. ... I personally agree with that and think that people should read this poem to find out some real truth about what people ...

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This is what the advocates of an "empowered United Nations are really after. 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."" ... Winston Churchill himself said it best: "The stone age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. ... If it were possible, as a planet, to spend money where it is most urgently needed, the world may eradicate vario...

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Owen then compares the soldiers death to a life threatening disease, saying it is "obscene as cancer". ... If they had known what the war was really like they would not have signed up, but the propaganda's glamorous representation of warfare and the shaming of men who were not involved pressured them to join. ... The poem then directly targets those who promote war, as Owen says: "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori." ...

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What Hitler did to accomplish this was he created common enemies (Jews, Communists, Liberals, Pacifists, free masons, gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, etc.) and made the people feel like they where better then these people, but he also made them fear full of them almost like an infection or disease. ... The Actions of The German people: With the German people being a very proud race and civilization being an older one there are many traditions they lived by, as most people in the world the Germans where scared of change and losing what they have. ... The Germans where trying to ...

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Similar to the Holocaust massive amounts of people suffered their death, the population was cut in half due to violence, famine, and disease. ... What other forces besides imperialism influenced the how Hitler came to killing six million Jews in 12 years? What Lindqvist fails to mention is the impact of World War One on the Holocaust. ... "You already know enough. ... What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions" (Sven Lindqvist)....

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The "bloodsucking bat" takes life out, like people who use, take advantage of you and drain you of your positive energy and everything you have. The "rat", an animal that rings on plague, disease and infection, like evil cursed people who bring trouble, torment and disaster. The "stoat", a sly, sharp-toothed, quick-footed animal like a person who leads you into traps and deserts you when you need them most. ... It is nicer to be encircled by people who try to please you, who catch you when you fall, rather than by people who make your lie miserable and trip you up. ... The use of the simi...

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Multiple diverse functional and dysfunctional aggressors utilize weapons of mass destruction. The Weapons could be better understood by getting an insight into the development of modern warfare and the tactics employed by those who deploy them. The tactical benefits of these weapons will be determ...

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His stand against Hitler during World War II and strong friendship with Franklin Delano Roosevelt are what many Americans know him for today, but he was a fascinating man. Hopefully, after you read this paper, you'll have a much wider understanding of the type of man he was and what he stood for. ...

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When George Washington left the presidency in 1796, he issued his farewell address, which listed many key points of what he believed the country's path should be. ... As Senator Henry Cabot Lodge said, "The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence. ... Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance; this great land of ordered liberty. ... Senators should cease to turn their eyes to the past and sh...

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Men who went out to battle, grim and glad; Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad... These trenches were characterized by being filled with mud and thick water, teeming with disease. ... This disease will cause the flesh to rot until the surgeon removes the infected, gangrenous foot in order to save the leg. ... Being constantly exposed to germs and disease coupled with not being well nourished, made the soldiers more susceptible to catching dangerous illnesses such as typhus. ... "What was remarkable about the Great War of 1914-1918, was that while it should have changed so muc...

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What I had believed before was that, like mentioned above, people too close to the hypocenter immediately died, and all others suffered prolonged internal effects later in life, years after the bomb, like tumors or terminal diseases. ... No one knew what was coming. ... Undoubtedly every character in Hachiya's accounts was Asian in heritage, but it has been statistically proven that you relate more easily to those who look like you. ... The simple fact is, no matter what side you"re on, your sentiments are probably similar to those of the people of your "enemy." ... The latter is what yo...

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All together we had over a $250 million dollars invested there with sugar and other materials that we did not what to be destroyed. ... America had a problem getting people to join the army because more men died of diseases then died from bullets. ... At 12:00 on that day you could hear Stars and Stripes forever playing with a 21-gun salute. ... After 20 years the veteran roughriders came back to see what they had done and to apologias to the people. What we had done in this war is called Magnetite Destiny. ...

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All in all, the war was fought for a worthy cause and eventually earned African Americans what was due to them. ... More than 200,000 blacks fought for the Union and 38,000 died, the majority of disease (PBS). ... African Americans were very capable of doing things, contrary to what some believed. ... In the government, you have African American leaders like Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell, that have a position of high ranking. ... It helped to abolish slavery, and finally give African Americans what they deserved. ...

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