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Atomic Bomb Prime Minister
1,111 wordsMy name is Tomataki Amuro. Fortunately, I'm one of the few survivors after the most terrible weapon, the Atomic Bomb, had dropped on the city of Hiroshima. It was a horrible piece of memory. I wish I have not been born at that time. It was a nightmare for the people in Hiroshima. The Bomb affected the whole generation of people. It even affected our next generation. Thousands of babies were born handicapped or died after a few months after their births. Because their mothers absorbed too much ra...
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War In Vietnam Southeast Asia
1,432 words... ever, Nixon faced the problem of emerging social unrest, intensified by his policies in Vietnam. Student activism was at an all time high during his presidency and led to draft resistance and campus protest. While Johnson reacted to these tensions with a sense of betrayal, Nixon responded with the covert determinism that characterized his style. He initiated subversive efforts against left wing organizations, and enlisted the aid of the FBI and CIA to infiltrate such organizations. He organi...
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Spread Of Communism Soviet Union
1,198 wordsIn the years following the end of the Cold War, many historians and social scientists have written accounts of what were some of the causes and effects of this period when the threat of war was almost always present. One such person was Melvyn Leffler and his work, The Specter of Communism, which described the origins and conflicts of the Cold War. Out of these accounts several interesting questions come to light about the true nature of the Cold War. One such question that has surfaced recently...
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Pearl Harbor Attack World War Ii
1,302 wordsThe Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 Ships Present at Pearl Harbor, 0800 7 December 1941 Action Reports for commands and ships at Pearl Harbor Cryptologic Histories relating to the Pearl Harbor Attack Related Web Sites on the Pearl Harbor Attack The road to war between Japan and the United States began in the 1930 s when differences over China drove the two nations apart. In 1931 Japan conquered Manchuria, which until then had been part of China. In 1937 Japan began a long and ultimately uns...
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Latin American Nations Foreign Debt
486 wordsBrazil is often viewed as the economic giant of the Third World. Its economy and territory are larger than the rest of South Americas, and its industry is the most advanced in the developing world. Brazilian foreign debt is also the Third Worlds largest. The problem of foreign debt has plagued the Latin American economies since the 1960 s, when foreign borrowing was the only way for Latin American nations to sustain economic growth. However, when international interest rates began to rise in the...
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Washington D C Nineteenth Century
1,188 wordsLacrosse was one of many varieties of indigenous stick ball games being played by American Indians at the time of European contact. Almost exclusively a male team sport, it is distinguished from the others, such as field hockey or shinny, by the use of a netted racquet with which to pick the ball off the ground, throw, catch and convey it into or past a goal to score a point. The cardinal rule in all varieties of lacrosse was that the ball, with few exceptions, must not be touched with the hands...
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Dien Bien Phu Ho Chi Minh
1,312 wordsAs the founder of the Indo-Chinese Communist party in 1930 and president of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969, Ho Chi Minh led the longest and most costly 20 th-century war against colonialism. His whole adult life was devoted to ending French and later, American domination of Vietnam. His goals were achieved in 1975, six years after his death, when the last Americans left South Vietnam. The Vietnamese communist has always claimed that Ho Chi Minh was the hero who gained independence for Vietnam f...
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Women Economic Opportunities And Health In Brazil
1,257 words... men in France or Finland. Another major cause of death for Brazilian women between the ages of 15 - 49 is the AIDS virus. The majority of women infected are married and contract the disease from their husband. Between the years of 1994 and 1998, the number of women with the disease grew nine times more than men (Blaney, 2004). Black women face greater ostracism from their communities for testing HIV positive than white women. The black Brazilian population is affected the most by the AIDS ep...
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Gas Chambers German Armies
1,176 words... occult. Millions of Russians, Poles, gypsies and other "subhumans" were also murdered. But Jews were the favored targets-first and foremost. It took the Nazis some time to work up to the full fury of their endeavor. In the years following 1933, the Jews were systematically deprived by law of their civil rights, of their jobs and property. Violence and brutality became a part of their everyday lives. Their places of worship were defiled, their windows smashed, their stores ransacked. Old men ...
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Native Americans Historical Perspective
1,182 wordsOn few subjects has there been such continual misconception as on the position of women among Indians. Because she was active, always busy in the camp, often carried heavy burdens, attended to the household duties, made the clothing and the home, and prepared the family food, the woman has been depicted as the slave of her husband, a patient beast of encumbrance whose labors were never done. The man, on the other hand, was said to be an loaf, who all day long sat in the shade of the lodge and sm...
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Costa Rica Roman Catholicism
905 wordsCosta Rica, a country of Central America, covers an area of 19, 730 square miles. The capital is San Jos. Extending from northwest to southeast, Costa Rica is bounded on the north by Nicaragua, along its 185 -mile northeastern coastline by the Caribbean Sea, on the southeast by Panama, and along its 630 -mile southwestern coastline by the Pacific Ocean. Costa Rica has a narrow Pacific coastal region that rises abruptly into central highlands. The highlands, forming the rugged backbone of the cou...
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Ho Chi Minh President John F Kennedy
1,842 wordsThe reports in this novel are prefaced with a quote by Robert Shape, which sums up the feelings of those Americans involved in the Vietnam conflict. He states, Vietnam, Vietnam... There are no sure answers. In this novel, the author gives a detailed historical account of the happenings in Vietnam between 1950 and 1975. He successfully reports the confusing nature, proximity to the present and the emotions that still surround the conflict in Vietnam. In his journey through the years that America ...
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Sex Tourism In Southeast Asia
516 wordsTourism is a big part of revenue for many countries in the world today. But just what is it that brings tourist to a specific place? There are many different reasons including buildings, art, beaches, and even prostitution! There is one specific kind of tourism that is causing such an issue in Southeast Asia and other countries. This is called sex tourism which is a major form of prostitution that even involves children. The average girl that is involved in sex tourism is of the ages of 12 - 40 ...
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Rio De Janeiro Sao Paulo
1,365 words... ng, ministries, president's office, and more than a million people. Congress is made up of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, who make the laws by which the country is governed. They are also responsible for financial policy and relations with other countries. The president needs approval from Congress for many acts, but he can veto laws passed by them. The 26 states and the Federal District elect their own governor and legislature, and each state is divided into Municipios, each of whi...
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World War Ii Ballistic Missiles
1,170 wordsWAR FROM THE COLD WAR TO PRESENT The end of World War II was the spawn of a new war that would continue for over fifty years: The Cold War. Technically this war was not a fifty-year physical confrontation between two countries but more of a political confrontation between the world's two remaining super-powers. The dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the beginning of a new arsenal that would lead to the development of nuclear weapons. After Japan and Germany were de...
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Southeast Asia Women Workers
977 wordsThe policies of the state both reflect and reinforce the gender regime having diverse and distinctive impacts on men, women and the family gender regime. It is well understood in political science, that the state intervenes in and regulates much of our lives. Our births are registered, our incomes taxed, our rights to drive cars are licensed and so on. There is less awareness of the fact that public laws promote gender ideals, that is, influence how we identify and recognize good feminine and go...
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Middle East Latin America
1,052 wordsArabs have been immigrating into the Latin America from the Middle East since the beginning of the 20 th century. Some of them came following their dreams to establish a better life for themselves, while others were forced to flee the war-torn countries of the Middle East like Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, and Yemen. Those immigrants kept their traditions alive, and, like many other immigrant communities, faced the challenge of passing such traditions on to their children while integrating into the ...
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Republic Of Ireland Roman Catholic
948 wordsIreland is a Ireland Ireland Ireland is a country in Europe with a coast on the Atlantic Ocean. It is called the Emerald Isle because of its green color. Its people derived mainly from Great Britain. Most of the population is Roman Catholic. The Climate is much like ours. The republic of Ireland covers 83 % of its stand with the other 17 % containing the country of Northern Ireland. There are twenty-six counties in the Republic with the over-all capitol of Dublin. The six northeastern counties f...
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Southeast Asia Women
2,163 wordsEnglish 109 Gates of Ivory In a world surrounded by war, death, and atrocity, it sometimes seems as if there is nowhere positive for the characters in the Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble to turn. In the mist of these bad images Drabble juxtaposes a unique view into the world of women? s reproduction and menstruation that has rarely been revealed in other novels. She shows that menstruation exposes feelings ranging from liberation and empowerment in Alix Bowen, to shame, disgust and sorrow in ...
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Indian Ocean Persian Gulf
1,180 wordsIndian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third largest body of water in the world, covering about 20 % of the Earths water surface. It is bounded on the north by southern Asia; on the west by the Arabian Peninsula and Africa; on the east by the Malay Peninsula, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by Antarctica. It is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the 20 deg east meridian south of Africa, and from the Pacific by the 147 deg east meridian. The northernmost extent of the Indian Oc...
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