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Marlon Brando Humphrey Bogart
2,163 words... t also helped increase survival rates for surgery. The first eye bank was established at New York Hospital in 1944. Unemployment almost disappeared, as most men were drafted and sent off to war. The government reclassified 55 % of their jobs, allowing women and blacks to fill them. First, single women were actively recruited to the workforce. In 1943, with virtually all the single women employed, married women were allowed to work. Japanese immigrants and their descendants, suspected of loya...
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Pontifex Maximus Julius Caesar
4,797 wordsJulius Gaius Caesar had as big an impact on history as any one man could have. Caesar had to work his way up through the governmental ranks and became Caesar in 69 BC. In 65 BC, he was elected Curule Aedile, and during his reign, he instituted the Gladiatorial Games. These games made Caesar extremely popular with every aspect of life from the plebeians (common people) to the highest of classes. When Caesar returned to Rome in 60 BC, after a year as Governor in Spain, he joined up with Crassus an...
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World War Ii U S Military
1,485 words(Except Persons of Japanese Descent) America Land of the free and home of the brave. Land of the free Land of the free Funny that the land of the free would steal away the lives of 119, 000 individuals simply because they looked different. Nothing like good old irony to bring a country together. During the late 1800 s, there was a large rise in the immigration of Japanese to the U. S, much to the dismay of many American citizens. The Japanese have long been discriminated against in the U. S. Peo...
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Stands Six Foot Weights Two Hundred Marino
783 wordsJohn Elway, Jim Kelly, Todd Blackledge, Dan Marino and Boomer Asian all started their National Football League careers in 1983. They are known today as the great quarterback club of 1983. Arguably, the greatest class of quarterbacks ever drafted. There has not been a single NFL draft, prior or since, that has produced such talent at this position. Some of these quarterbacks had immediately success; some had it later in their careers. In a profession where the average career spans less than three...
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World War Ii Lend Lease
1,981 wordsIn 1935 the first neutrality act was passed, which meant that America would not be allowed to sell weapons to warring nations. In 1939 Americans steered clear of the war that broke out in Europe. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first and only president elected to three terms. He answered all critics with Abraham Lincoln's slogan "Dont change horses in midstream." He was nominated to his third term in 1940. Shortly afterward, in March of 1941, Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, which allowed u...
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Haight Ashbury Collins Publishers
1,947 wordsThe 1950 s gave to America certain ideals and values that were strongly followed and enforced, some of the people in the following generation took those ideals and attempted to destroy them. Most of them were just teenagers or young adults, but they all agreed that the lifestyle and beliefs that their parents and most other adults established didnt make sense and needed to be changed. These kids started to defy authority and soon were getting encouragement from popular bands, actors, and authors...
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History On The Articles Of Confederation And Constitution
1,288 wordsThe first constitution and government of the colonies, the Articles of Confederation, was drafted by John Dickinson in 1776, during the Second Continental Congress, and was ratified by all thirteen states on March 1, 1781, remaining the unifying document of the states until June 21, 1788. The Articles provided for a loose confederation of the independent states, which gave limited powers to a central government. The Articles created a weak government and proved to have many major failures. Howev...
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Analysis Of The Draft Riots In 1863
1,155 wordsThere was a pressing need for more people to participate in the Civil War of 1863, which compelled the United States Congress to pass legislation, known as the Enrollment (Conscription) Act, on 3 March 1963. Opponents of the administration and opponents of President Abraham Lincoln vigorously attacked the bill (the Conscription Act), criticizing with particular emphasis a provision that enabled draftees to obtain exemption from service by supplying a substitute or by the payment of $ 300. Presse...
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Men And Women Great Britain
1,066 wordsThe 1940 s Drafted Drafted The 1940 s brought forth a huge battle, otherwise known as World War II. Millions of men were killed because they risked their lives fighting for their country. Many families were extremely affected by the outcome of this war. While millions of people were being drafted to fight, there were many who opposed. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and within days England and France declared a war on Germany. Throughout the next couple of weeks, Great Britain, Can...
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Role Of Women Women In Society
1,223 wordsThe 20 th Century has been the period where women in society have got the chance to be accepted in various divisions such as labour, military and voting. I think that the period where war had a drastic effect on the role of women was in the First and Second World War. However, I believe that the war did effect the role of women in many ways, but this only lasted for the period of war. In order to examine how the war effected the role of women in society, we must examine what were the roles of wo...
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