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Ho Chi Minh Department Of State
1,427 words
Describe and assess the role of the USA in
Indo-China in the period 1945 - 1954 In 1943
President Roosevelt suggested that Indochina come
under the control of four powers after the war,
proposing that the eventual independence of the
Indochinese might follow in twenty to thirty years
time. No one knew whether the policy would require
American troops, but America was firm on the fact
that independence could not be taken by the
Vietnamese, but would be granted to the Vietnamese
by the Great Powers...
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Deeply Rooted Sit Ins
1,276 words
The 1960 s were a time of great change in American
society characterized by ethnic consciousness and
civil rights, womens rights and female liberalism,
anti-war demonstrations, student protests, and the
genesis of the counterculture. A noted speaker
once said, The Cold War, conformity, and
consumerism provided the background for the social
protests movement of the 1960 s. The cause of the
protest movements were much more deeply rooted in
U. S. institutions and history. Although the
protest movem...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Movement
955 words
Returning from WWII, black Americans, just as
those three decades prior, expected to find
America a land of equality for all people and
specifically a land endowed with increased black
civil rights. Although the late 1940 's and 1950
's are not generally considered a period of social
advancement for blacks, the decade and a half
after World War II ultimately proved to be a very
significant chapter in the history of black civil
rights and a pivotal stepping stone for the
drastic social uproar of ...
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Middle Aged Man Walter Mitty
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James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio to
Charles Leander and Mary Thurber. Thurber was
brought into the world by the nurse, Margery
Albright. Thurber could walk when he was two years
old and could speek complete sentences at the age
of four. As a child, Thurber was blinded by an
accident (his brother William shot an arrow at
him). This injury prevented Thurber from playing
with the other children, which helped him develop
a love for fantasy. This contributed to his later
fiction writings. Thu...
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1950 Popular America People
698 words
The 1950 's were an important decade full of
historic events and changes in technology.
Important historic and cultural events such as the
approval of the hydrogen bomb and transcontinental
television in 1950, the signing of the Immigration
and Naturalization Act in 1952, the end of
fighting in Korea in 1953, Rosa Parks refusal to
give up her seat on a public bus in 1955, and
Alaska and Hawaii becoming states in 1959 were
some of the most vital. Part of the 1950 's boom
in consumerism included h...
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Great Leap Forward Republic Of China
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The Peoples Republic of China is rich in cultural
and natural diversity. and is listed by biologists
as a 'mega diversity country'. Since 1950, when
China embraced modernity, the forests have been
indiscriminately felled reducing forest cover.
This has threatened biodiversity, causing drastic
declines of mammal and bird counts, recurrent
flooding and erosion, and recurrent snow
disasters. These not only threaten global climate,
but undermine the livelihood of the local people
and great loss of l...
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U S Foreign Policy Second World War
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U. S. Foreign Policy and Aid to Nepal in the Cold
War Period: Implications for Future Direction U.
S. Foreign Policy and Aid to Nepal in the Cold War
Period: Implications for Future Direction Table of
Contents Introduction The U. S. Interest in Nepal
The Motivations for Aid The U. S. Aid and its
Foreign Policy Objectives U. S. Aid and the
Politico-Economic Objectives An Evaluation of The
Aid Impact The Future Direction of the U. S. Aid
Conclusion Bibliography Introduction Foreign aid
is basicall...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
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In The Catcher In the Rye, J. D. Salinger
describes many of the events, which occurred in
his life as a maturing adolescent in the 1950 s.
The main character, Holden Caufield, is an
extremely complex character. His obsession with
sex and money, demonstrates the mindset that
existed during the 50 s. The new consumer culture
encouraged people to be materialistic. Although
Holden is not a materialist, he does spend money
without thinking. It does not seem important to
him that he has designer cloth...
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World War Ii U S Army
1,388 words
Causes of the Korean War Andrew Glass Global
Studies Period Seven The Korean War, 1950 - 1953
After the USSR installed a Communist government in
North Korea in September 1948, that government
promoted and supported an insurgency in South
Korea in an attempt to bring down the recognized
government and gain jurisdiction over the entire
Korean peninsula. Not quite two years later, after
the insurgency showed signs of failing, the
northern government undertook a direct attack,
sending the North Kore...
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William Carlos Williams Quot Quot
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Nicholas Everett Olson, Charles (1910 - 70), was
born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, and
educated at Wesleyan University and Harvard, where
he studied American civilization. During the
Second World War he worked for the Democratic
Party and for the Office of War information as
assistant chief of the Foreign Language Division.
His first two books, Call Me Ishmael (1947), a
study of Melville Moby-Dick, and The Mayan Letters
(1953), written to Robert Creeley from Mexico
where he was studyi...
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Percent Per Year 20 Th Century
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Population, term referring to the total human
inhabitants of a specified area, such as a city,
country, or continent, at a given time. Population
study as a discipline is known as demography. It
is concerned with the size, composition, and
distribution of populations; their patterns of
change over time through births, deaths, and
migration; and the determinants and consequences
of such changes. Population studies yield
knowledge important for planning, particularly by
governments, in fields such...
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John Updike Short Stories
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John Updike wrote many books and short stories.
Many of his characters resembled people he knew or
they reflected his views on what was going on in
America (Interview 75 - 79). They expressed his
views on the value system that people lived by.
One of these ideas was individualism.
Individualism has not always been present in
society. Up until the late 1960? s, people
accepted whatever was happening around them. Very
few stood up for themselves or for others. Many
people wished to, but were too a...
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World War Ii Humphrey Bogart
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Film noir is one of the most beloved and popular
34; period 34; film genres of the late
twentieth century, although at the time that the
movies comprising the genre were made, the term
film noir was unknown. Essentially, it mean 34;
black film 34; a variation on the
nineteenth-century French critical term roman
noir, or 34; black novel 34; referring to any
number of doom-laden, deeply psychological crime
dramas of the 1940 s and 1950 s. At the time they
were made, the movies were ...
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Fran Ois Avant Garde
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France 39; s inestimable contribution to world
cinema begins in 1889, when Emile Reynaud patented
his 34; Th? atre Optique. 34; This
presentation system used perforated film strips,
on which he painted such animated shorts as Pauvre
Pierrot (1892) and La Press? re Care (1896). His
medium was replaced, however, by the live-action
motion pictures taken with (and projected by) the
Cin? matographe of brothers Louis and Auguste
Lumi? re. At Paris 39; Grand Caf? on December
28, 1895, they he...
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Punched Card Machines Large Scale Integration
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Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come
about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such
devices changed the way we manage, work, and live.
A machine that has done all this and more now
exists in nearly every business in the United
States. This incredible invention is the computer.
The electronic computer has been around for over a
half-century, but its ancestors have been around
for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years
has the computer changed American management to
its greate...
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Detroit Michigan Gale Contemporary Literary Criticism
3,543 words
A Biography of J. D. Salinger with Concentration
on the Early 1950? s, Particularly 1951 - 1952. 1.
The 1950? s were a time of conservatism, the
traditional American family, and similarity.
During this time of the cherished American dream,
a radical writer, who spoke to a nation of young
individuals and alienated adults, emerged. Jerome
David Salinger, generally referred to as J. D.
Salinger, surfaced as a spokesman for a generation
of post-World War II students and became one of
the most popula...
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Roman Catholic Church Justification By Faith
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Grace Kim H 2 $- 07 Bronx Science 5 / 26 / 00
Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) Martin Luther was a
German theologian and a major leader of the
Protestant Reformation. He is often called the
father of Protestantism, whose widespread
influence, aside from religion, politics,
economics, education, and language, has
established him as one of the crucial figures in
modern European History. Even one of the primary
branches of Protestantism Lutheranism- is named
after him. (Manns, 1983) Luther, was born in ...
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American Activities Committee World War Ii
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McCarthyism: The Real Witch Hunts Some people
nowadays may consider the government, or some of
its agencies, corrupt. Todays scenario is nothing
compared to that of McCarthyism in the 1950 s.
During McCarthyism, the nation was being torn
apart. Their loyalty to one another was crushed
and common human decency went down the drain
(Miller, Crucible xiv). These Communist hunts were
eerily similar to the witch hunts and trials of
Salem Massachusetts in the 1600 s. The Puritans
have a strict religion...
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Chain Gang Sean Penn
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The first prison films in American cinema were
short documentaries and melodramas which all
shared a strong social consciousness. For The
Commonwealth (1912) showed the benefits of
convicts performing useful labor; The Convict
39; s Parole (1912) and The Convict King (1915)
denounced the exploitation of prisoners as cheap
workers. Convict Life In The Ohio Penitentiary
(1912) and The Modern Prison (1914) depicted the
beneficial effects of the humane treatment of
convicts; Life In A Western Peni...
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Rabbit Run Drinking Problem
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A Race to Find Happiness There is something
extraordinarily powerful about the euphoria
associated with happiness. What causes this and
where does it come from? Some say it has to do
with a completeness in ones self, a sense of well
being and understanding. It also comes from living
for the present, and living for the future; from
making others happy, and from enjoying our enemies
misery; from being with others, and from living in
peaceful solitude. Different people experience
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