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Ellis Island York City
986 wordsSince the Dutch first colonized what is now New York, this seaport city has welcomed millions of people to Americas shores. They have come from all four corners of the world: from England to Ethiopia, Italy to Indonesia and Turkey to Thailand. Between 1855 (the year New Yorks official immigration center at Castle Garden opened) to 1880, the largest numbers of immigrants to the United States were from Ireland and Germany. Between 1880 and 1919 more than 23 million people emigrated to the United S...
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National Geographic Natural Resources
976 wordsJapan (or Nippon Japan INTRODUCTION Japan (or Nippon as the locals call it) is an Island situated just east of North and South Korea in Asia. It is a huge economical influence due to its market in electronics and fish products. Despite the fact that natural resources are quite low, Japan is still one of the leading economic powers of the world next to the United States. The people consist mostly of Asian descent and not many immigrants are to be found. Also Japan has one of the lowest national u...
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United States Figured States Figured War
295 wordsJapan had a goal of making an empire called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. This empire would serve the economic needs of Japan. This huge empire would stretch from Manchuria in the north to Australia in the south. It was similar to Hitlers dream of Europe filled with the Aryan race. To start this plan, Japan took over Chinas northeastern province, Manchuria. The war between China and Japan went on for three years. Japans supply of oil, iron, rubber, and tin were low. The only way th...
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Style Of Jujitsu Art Of Sumo Techniques
1,376 wordsThe Martial Arts of Japan The martial arts have influenced Japan in many ways. Many of these arts have been passed down from ancient times and are still even practiced today. In my report, I will examine the major Japanese arts and tell how they have influenced Japan. First, however, I will give a little background for these arts. The original word for Japanese martial arts was bututs, or art of the military. This had more to do with physical techniques than philosophical and mental. The physica...
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Henry Vii King Henry
491 wordsJohn Cabot, an Italian mariner, was born in Genoa, Italy around the year 1450. He worked as a trader in what is now called the Middle East. He moved to England in 1484 with his three sons, Ludovico, Sebastian, and Santa and gained experience as a seaman. On his commercial journeys, which took him to the shores of Arabia, he heard of the countries rich in spices that lay to the Far East and wanted to find a better route to the Orient. John Cabot set out to get patents from the monarchs of Spain a...
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Pompey And Crassus Returned To Rome
1,324 wordsJulius Caesar was a strong leader for the Romans who changed the course of the history of the Greek Roman world decisively and irreversibly. With his courage and strength he created a strong empire. What happened during his early political career? How did he become such a strong dictator of the Roman Empire? What events led up to the making of the first triumvirate? How did he rise over the other two in the triumvirate and why did he choose to take over? What happened during his reign as dictato...
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Karl Marx Religious Belief
864 wordsWhen Karl Marx said, Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people. He was trying to summarize his very controversial point of view, that religion is a crutch that people fall back on to escape the physical reality. People use it as a reason to get up in the morning and suffer another day of backbreaking labor so they can afford to buy bread to feed their families, as opposed to ...
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Semi Nomads People Began Farmers
300 wordsEarly Farmers in Central America As the glaciers sheltered at the end of the last Ice Age, (when Asia and North America were connected by a piece of land) the hills and mountains of Mesoamerica, or Middle America changed dramatically. From about 7000 BC farmers from these regions began to plant crops and this period was also known as the Archaic or Early Farming period, the interesting thing about this is that these development in the Agriculture coincided with the development of the agriculture...
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Century Marijuana Medical
289 wordsMarijuana has been used throughout history in many different cultures to change mood, perception, and consciousness in other words, to get high. Its effects range from increasing creativity to provoking mystical experiences, to heightening the capacity to feel, sense and share. After alcohol, it is the most popular of what are called recreational drugs. It has been used around the world for other purposes. In some primitive tribes of South America, Africa, and India, cannabis is used in religiou...
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B C Caesar 44 B C
625 wordsJulius Caesar Julius Caesar was born in 100 B. C. When he was a young man he was captured by Pirates of the eastern Mediterranean sea. He was held for a ransom of 50 talents for his life. He told the pirates that someday he would hang them. However, he never got to hang them because they were captured a couple week later and put to death. In 82 B. C. Caesar had refused to obey Sulla and he left Rome in 81 B. C. When Sulla died in 78 B. C. , Caesar returned. He helped Pompey increase his power. B...
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Aging Process Human Nature
1,593 wordsLost Horizon is the story of four people who, while being evacuated from a war-torn city in Asia, were kidnapped and taken to a mystical and mysterious valley in the Tibetan mountains named Shangri-La. Shangri-La was a uncommonly strange place. It was isolated, it wasnt on any map and no one had heard of it before. Shangri-La was also unusually peaceful. Everyone was polite and moderate in everything they did so that there were no disputes amongst the inhabitants and thus, no need for police off...
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Marco Polo Figure 1
1,202 wordsMarco Polo Travels Even though many people only recognize Marco Polo as the famous one in his family, his uncle and his father were also travelers. They were actually the first ones from the family to travel to China. On their second journey they brought Marco and this would be the adventure that many people would remember in years to come. Marco Polo was born in 1274. He was an Italian traveler and explorer. He was also the first European to cross the entire continent of Asia and leave a record...
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Tobacco Companies Cigarette Manufacturers
1,215 wordsI. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The United States is the world s second largest tobacco grower. Thus, tobacco is an important cash crop and the cigarette manufacturers play a very important role in the U. S economy Approximately 500, 000 Americans die every year as a direct result of smoking (1: 66). As the U. S. population becomes more health conscious, the number of smokers is decreasing every year. However, the tobacco industry has remained prosperous due to the continuing demand of millions of smok...
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Kung Fu Martial Arts
347 wordsME 10. 20. 96. BTHS CB Martial Arts To follow is my report on martial arts in Asia. This a very interesting subject, and a very good report. It will describe martial arts and some types of martial arts. It will also say where they originated from. The term martial arts is a general term used to describe general types of fighting. Most martial arts practised today came from China, Japan, and Korea. There are hundreds of types of martial arts, each divided into specific styles or systems. Technica...
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Younger Brother Northern China
1,304 wordsTwelfth-century Mongolia is as far back as a search for their origins need go. A group of peopl's speaking the languages of the family called Mongol who had long demanded the attention of Chinese governments then lived there. Generally, China played off one of them against another in the interests of its own security. They were barbarians, not much different in their cultural level from others who have already crossed these pages. Two tribes among them, the Tatars and that which became known as ...
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Soviet Bloc Cold War
677 wordsIn his article Americas Future Grand Strategy, Layne pits the current US grand strategy of preponderance against his proposed US grand strategy of offshore balancing. Layne delineates the current US strategy of preponderance and what he sees as the problems inherent in the current method in the Post-Cold War era. Instead, he proposes the strategy of offshore balancing and explains why he believes it would be a more successful strategy for the twenty-first century. The strategy of preponderance i...
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Gulf Of Tonkin End The War
1,120 wordsThe Second Vietnam War 1960 - 1975 And American The Second Vietnam War 1960 - 1975 And American Involvement August 1954: US National Security Council decided Vietnam Settlement represented " a major forward stride of communism which might lead to the loss of SE Asia" (seeing the conflict in Cold War terms) President Eisenhower agreed to aid the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. Facts about Diem? s Regime: > Refused to hold reunification talks or hold elections promised under the terms of the Ge...
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King Philip Middle East
705 words&# 65279; The Roman Empire was a strong hold over the Mediterranean for many years. Being the goal of most all world leaders, the Romans wanted land along with their power. They set their eyes on the valuable lands around them and the Mediterranean world as well as parts of Northern Europe and Asia. The Roman civilization and culture was much influenced by the Phonetians and Greeks. Later, the Romans were in control of these lands and their people. Three of their prize provinces held at much val...
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Child Prostitution Children Bangkok
403 wordsThe desire to be wealthy in the glittering growth of the Thai economy not only lures Many girls into prostitution, but also keeps them there. Although it has not been legal to sell children and women in Thailand since 1905, it is now common for impoverished families in the north to indenture their daughters into sex slavery in closed brothels, from which they are not allowed to leave. It is estimated that 20 per cent of prostitutes were deceived and forced into the profession. When parents faile...
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Amount Of People Access The Internet
667 wordsThe Internet s growth and size have grown vastly over the last couple of years due to rapid interest in particular to businesses that want their customers to access their products online. The Internet s size alone has ballooned to an estimated 89. 4 million people who actually surfed in August 2000, a 1. 7 % increase from July. There are an estimated 146. 4 million people who had access to the Internet but did not actually surf which shows the growth of the Internet in a short period of time. Wi...
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