Incidents have occurs in cities of all sizes, as well as in rural America. There were incidents in New York (LaGuardia Airport, and World Trade Center), Georgia (1996 Olympics), Oklahoma City (Oklahoma City Federal Building), and in Alabama (New Women Abortion Clinic). ... The World Trade Center in New York City was bombed by Islamic Fundamentalists. ... It is twice the size of the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, and has three times the floor space of the Empire State Building in New York. ... The Pentagon is virtually a city in itself. ...

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On September 29 and 30, 1941 there was a mass killing at Babi Yar, a Russian city near Kiev. ... Steven Wise, the head rabbi of New York in this time period, received the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. ... On September 29 and 30, 1941 there was a mass killing at Babi Yar, a Russian city near Kiev. ... Steven Wise, the head rabbi of New York in this time period, received the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. ...

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After the destruction of New York's Twin Towers, most people who live in westernized countries have taken a viewpoint that Muslims, in general, are anti-American, vengeful, devious and dangerous. ... Instead of airplanes crashing into the Trade Towers, it would be airplanes dropping nuclear weapons on all of New York. ...

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The surprise attack on the United States Embassy in the city of Saigon on January 30th, 1968 was a major turning point in the war that was negatively affected by the media. ... In New York City twelve men burned their draft cards as a statement opposing the war.9 This was only the start of these protests, which grew stronger and stronger as the war went on. ... According to the New York Times, no one present at the protest had any recollection of the troops being fired upon.12 The violence these young Americans were protesting had now spread from Vietnam to American soil. ...

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One can only imagine the chaos not only in Seoul, which exchanged hands 4 times, but also in every major city in both North and South Korea. ... U.S. pilots began a bombing campaign on the capitol of Guatemala and other cities around the country. ...

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Septimus Warren Smith and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Works Cited Dowling, David. Mrs. Dalloway: Mapping Streams of Consciousness. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishing, 1991. Gilbert, Martin. The First World War: A Complete History. New York, NY: Henry Ho...

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When developing my research I came across this cartoon from the New York Times in 1949.8 The message is clearly that coming from an American point of view it has to hold up the world through a globalisation of its ideas and way of life, in order to keep the world out of the hands of the USSR and Stalin. ... Heralding John Winthrop's famous metaphor as the new state being a "City upon a hill"9 the puritan founders have implemented an idea that the New England community would grow to become a model for the rest of humanity. ...

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It is also the 5th largest city in the world. The city is notorious for its traffic problems. ... My family emigrated to the United States, in New York City, when I was five years old and it was my first time returning to Korea since. ... The North took Seoul in 3 days and advanced as far as Pusan, a coastal city on the far southeast of the peninsula. ... The city was decimated and both countries were in ruins. ...

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As the bombs continued to fall and the fires continued burn a question arose from the rubble of what was once Germany. The question was how to deal with Germany. Germany was responsible for the start of World War II and they were partially responsible for the start of World War I. Since Germany has ...

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Though The Hall of People in Berlin, the construction and expansion of roads and thoroughfares, and the implementation of state measures to control hygiene and traffic, militaristic planning of cities are evident of attempts for Haussmanesque transformations and plans of war, the Fascists in Germany, Italy, and Russia were unable to fully execute a complete concrete embodiment of their political system largely due to interruptions in construction during the Second World War. In Washington D.C the construction of neoclassical buildings such as the White House and the Supreme Court building we...

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Billy was born in 1922 in Ilium, New York. ... He returned home for rest, but without warning one day he went to New York and claimed on the radio that he had been kidnapped by aliens called Trafalmadorians. Billy's daughter, Barbara, when and picked him up in New York. ...

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Ironically, it was not the godless, evil communists that had used a nuclear weapon, rather the Democratic peace- loving nation that bombed the two civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using atomic bombs. ...

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However, it was not long before New York became the residence for millions of Italians. ... With regards to states, it is of the essence to note that close to 90% of the Italians settled in specific cities, especially Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, ...

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One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. The problems that the greater ...

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His nature is sinful and his state perilous-(Golding, "Fable-, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1965, page 61). ... (Dick, Bernard F, William Golding, Twayne Publishers, New York, 1967, page 27). ...

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1) A Terrible Tragedy The human tragedy of the Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II. The adversity of this persecution influenced not only the European arena, but also peoples from all over the globe and their ideas. The impact caused by this ethnic cleansing was enormous. People's lives were drastically changed as they were persecuted and tortured. Families were taken out of their homes and forced to move to distant locations in exile. ...

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The US Supreme Court: Sexually Motivated? Following the defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II the United States almost immediately became burdened with another challenge, that of, containing their former ally, the Soviet Union. Known as the Cold War, this conflict inspired tremendou...

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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau- am -Inn, Austria. The town is located near the Austrian- Germany border. His father Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother Klara, had previously given birth to two other children, Ida and Gustav. However they both died in infancy. ...

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"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Family Redefining the American Teenager The Rise of the Hot Rod Culture The Rise of the Excess Culture Baby Boomers and Redesign Converting from Chrome to Muscle The Automobile as Identity Downfall and Decline Conclusion Bibliography Introduction With the end of World War II, the United State...

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Also, the "old sith avenue el" refers to an old elevated subway train that ran through New York City, and was torn up to trade to Japan. 3 Now, to put the ideas together, the "nipponized bit of the old sixth avenue," is the metal Japan acquired from the U.S. to make into bullets for Japanese soldiers during World War II. ...

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Many have compared the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. They argue that both attacks were just as astonishing, unwarranted and unpredictable. The World Trade Center buildings in New York City still lie in ruin, an icy...

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