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Orson Welles Citizen Kane
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Bomb Was Dropped End The War
1,361 words... ce if the test failed to bring surrender, the chance would be gone to give chance of surprise. So the Interim committee wanted to hit Japan without warning. Further, it should be dropped on a combined military and residential target to produce the maximum psychological shock (Yass 60). July 1945 Truman tells Stalin (Neutral Germany) about the Atomic bomb (Yass 67). July 26, 1945 Truman gives ultimatum to Japan/Japan refuses Truman gives Japan an opportunity to end the war. Truman stated that...
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Hudson Bay Company Louis Riel
529 wordsThe Metis were partly french and partly indian. Their leader was called Louis riel. Following the Union of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company in 1821, trading had been reorganized in order to reduce expenses. Since there was no longer competition in the fur trade, it was unnecessary to have two or more posts serving a single trading district. For this reason, some posts had been closed and the number of brigades reduced. This reorganization had led to some unemployment amoung Me...
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Murder King Duncan Lost And Won
1,165 wordsIn Shakespeare's "Macbeth" supernatural forces create a suspenseful atmosphere. The use of the supernatural in the witches, the visions, the ghost and the apparitions provides the backbone of the climax and "excuses" for Macbeth's change of character. Because conscience plays such a central role in Macbeth's tragic struggle, many critics use spiritual and supernatural theories to illuminate the dramas character development. The play opens with the use of the supernatural when three witches encou...
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Men And Women Sexual Attraction
1,566 wordster> Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Despite all the fashionable theories of marriage, the narratives and the feminists, the reasons to engage in marriage largely remain the same. True, there have been role reversals and new stereotypes have cropped up. But the biological, physiological and biochemical facts were less amenable to modern criticisms of culture. Men are still men and women are still women in more than one ...
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Kill A Mocking Bird Aunt Alexandra
1,130 wordsIn Harper Lees novel, To Kill A Mocking Bird we see that maturation of some of the characters is clearly evident, particularly Scouts. We see this by the way she acts in front of Miss Maudie, Calpurnia and Mrs. Alexandra Finch. Beside her father, Scout probably respects and likes the most is Miss Maudie. The two of them have a great relationship and they both love each other very deeply. When Scout first introduces us to Miss Maudie (in chapter 5), she tells us all the nicest things about her. S...
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Huck Learns Biological Father
1,046 wordsThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain brilliantly illustrates a boy's travels down the Mississippi and the trials and tribulations that occur as a result. Having a runaway slave as a companion and being set in the South during slavery only forebodes trouble. The many characters and stunts that Huck's pulls provides for an interesting depiction of a young man's venture down a river. Huck lives in a small town and has only one drunken parent, which supplies Huck with many problems. His ...
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Of Mice And Men The Withered Arm Comparisons
1,541 wordsEnglish essay on wide reading - The Withered Arm and Of mice and Men Of Mice and Men was written by the author John Steinback and published in England in 1937. It tells the story of two very contrasting characters trying to live out the American dream in the farming lands of North California. The tale is classed as a short story as is The Withered Arm which is a story about witchcraft in Dorchester during the 18 th century. This book was written by the author Thomas Hardy and published in 1888. ...
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Soccer Game Ramon Wanted
1,094 words... l, partly because I knew my boyfriend would never understand and partly because he kissed me so hard that his teeth busted my lips. After a short session of him devouring me, I pulled back and we stopped. We had places to be. Looking around at all my fellow graduates I felt we all shared sameness. It might just be the fact that we were all wearing the same costume but I felt I could relate to every one of them. With the exception of Skyler Thomas who had pink hair and drove an Oldsmobile. I ...
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Versailles Treaty Peace Treaty
1,166 wordsThe Versailles Peace Treaty, signed by Germany in 1919, can only be partially held responsible for the crisis faced by the Weimar Government. In 1923, the Weimar Government reached a terrible crisis point in which it sank into chaos, facing serious problems both politically and economically. Politically, the Weimar Government encountered extreme opponents from both the right and left wing; however, not all political threats faced by the Weimar Government were due to the Versailles Peace Treaty. ...
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Brutal Rape Film Jared
1,080 wordsBased on the stage play by Nick Enright (Lorenzo's Oil, etc), this provocative and topical film is gut wrenching stuff examining the devastating impact a brutal rape and shocking murder has on a small NSW coastal community. However, it also has a more personal and topical concern that centres on the tense and mutually antagonistic relationship between 17 year old Jared (Laurence Breuls, in his first feature film) and his mother Diane (played by Linda Cropper, a veteran of stage, tv and film). Ja...
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Moment Of Conception Morally Justified
1,601 wordsAbortion is an extremely complex and highly debated public issue that has consumed much of the American social and political arena in the late twentieth century. People on both sides of the debate present strong arguments that establish valid points. Society clearly states that child abuse and the murder of one's child is illegal, but does allow abortion. Regardless of whether it is right or wrong, the fine line that exists between abortion and murder will be discussed and debated for decades to...
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Degrees Fahrenheit Surface Temperature
1,087 wordsOur planet Uranus. Uranus is the seventh planet of our solar system. Uranus is the mysterious blue planet that circles the sun, far from the Earth. A man named William Herschel first discovered this mysterious planet in 1781, he was a German musician living in England who had a great interest in Astronomy. He believed the sky held secrets he wanted to know. He couldnt afford to buy a big telescope, so he made his own. One night in March 1781, Herschel was studying constellations of Gemini. He sp...
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Germany Unification And Diplomacy
1,244 words... of an advanced school and university system. For a long time Prussia had the highest literacy rate and exemplary schools. This was partly a consequence of the reforms in the wake of the Prussian defeat against Napoleon. Industrialization was accompanied by rapid population growth and urbanization, the expansion of the middle classes and of the proletariat, which began to constitute independent organizations. After having lagged behind Western Europe for three hundred years, Germany caught up...
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The Egyptian Goddess Bastet
447 wordsThe country of Egypt consisted of two narrow strips of arable land lining either bank of the river Nile, from Aswan to the northern Delta. Ancient Egyptian society treated men and women equally. Women participated in the political, economic, and judicial world of ancient Egypt on the same terms as men. This social system reflects Egyptian mythology, where Goddesses played an equal, if not chief, role. Egyptian goddesses were creators of deities, and the protectors of the pharaohs in the form of ...
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Feet Per Second Miles An Hour
1,130 words... ing machine. Just as the building was being completed, the parts and material for the machines arrived simultaneously with one of the worst storms that had visited Kitty Hawk in years. The storm came on suddenly, blowing 30 to 40 miles an hour. It increased during the night, and the next day was blowing over seventy-five miles an hour. In order to save the tar-paper roof, we decided it would be necessary to get out in this wind and nail down more securely certain parts that were especially e...
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World War Ii Orwell Wrote
1,327 wordsOrwell was influenced by many things including events his life and the idea of totalitarianism. Theseinfluenced his writing of the book 1984. Orwell began life with the name of Eric Blair. Blairknew by the time he was four or five that he wanted to be awaited. Like his character in Winston Smith in 1984, he thought of himself as an outsider and a rebel. He told one childhood friend: You are noticed more if you stand on your head than if you are right side up. (Evans 20) At eighth was packed off ...
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Expense Accounts Qat One
658 wordsChewing it over Im branded a travel writer, and I dont like the term. Partly because it suggests that I live in some Whickers World of lounges, terminals and expense accounts (well, I wouldnt mind the expense accounts); and partly because my favourite journeys are the shortest ones. From my front door in Sana the first city founded after the Flood, capital of the Republic of Yemen and one of the most stunning urban landscapes in the world it takes precisely two-and-a-half minutes to walk to Shar...
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Emma Had Read Critical Period Life
543 wordsThe idea of love affairs, lovers, mistresses, gloomy forests, broken hearts, horses ridden to death, killed couriers, and virtuous men were responsible for Emma Bovarys ultimate ruin. When these stories were read to Emma during her time at the convent it was at a time of her life when she was in school learning. Things made bigger impressions on her than they would have at other stages in her life. Psychologically, Emma problem was partly caused because of a term called a critical period. A crit...
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Jay Gould Evolutionary Theory
1,471 wordsAdventures in evolution The Structure of Evolutionary Theory Stephen Jay Gould 1, 464 pages, Harvard I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History Stephen Jay Gould 401 pp, Cape There are many reasons to regret the death of Stephen Jay Gould; one of the weightiest is that he never had time to finish his last book at its proper length. Even close to death, he had twice the energy, range, and ambition of most writers; and the result is a last testament which is about twice as long as ...
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