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Ho Chi Minh Republic Of Vietnam
977 wordsDo you know why the Viet Nam war started, or when it really began? Well, it may surprise you to know that the war actually began shortly after the end of World War II. When WWII ended many countries had taken control of smaller countries in Asia. Vietnam was controlled by the French, but after WWII Vietnam wanted its independence. France did not want to give up its colonies because they needed the extra income to help rebuild its country after WWII. A man named Ho Chi Minh, who declared their in...
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Economic And Political Feel Secure
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Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady
745 wordsIn the past hundred years, many people have had a dramatic influence on the world. However, the people we usually recognize are men. Einstine with E = mc and John Kennedy with Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. Now its time to recognize the women who dramatically changed history and generations of lives. There are many women that should be mentioned in this paper but the women I write about have changed my life as well as yours. Ann Richards is a forme...
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Grand Prix World Championship
1,120 wordsFifty years have passed since the inception of the FIA World Drivers Championship. Much has changed in these five decades, but one thing remains distinctly the same: Formula 1 is, was, and always will be the most prestigious and demanding auto racing series in the world. The World Championship began as a way of uniting the top racing series of the various European nations in a series that spanned the continent. Administered by what is now the Federation Internationale de l Automobile (FIA), the ...
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Civil Rights Movement Blacks And Whites
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Communist Party N D
1,124 wordsDoes the Truth Always Set You Free? On the Waterfront is a classic, award-winning and controversial film. It received eight academy-awards in 1954, including best-picture and director. The director, Eliza Kazan, in collaboration with Budd Schulberg wrote the films screenplay. Based on actual dockside events in Hoboken, New Jersey, On the Waterfront is a story of a dock worker who tried to overthrow a corrupt union. Marlon Brando superbly portrays the character of Terry Malloy. He is a young ex-p...
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Human Adaptation And Severe Storms
657 wordsHuman Adaptation and Severe Storms The aim of this essay is to examine the process of storm development, namely to dwell on hurricanes and tornadoes formation requirements, to examine the impact hurricanes and tornadoes have on human population, the incidence of these storms and target areas in the United States of America. What is hurricane? Hurricane is a severe tropical cyclone. It originates in the equatorial areas of Caribbean Sea, the eastern areas of the Pacific Ocean and in the equatoria...
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North By Northwest University Of London
1,814 wordsAlfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art filmmaking with great audience popularity. Throughout his career, he gave his audiences more pleasure than they could bask for. The consistency of quality plot lines and technical ingenuity earned him the recognition of being one of the greatest filmmakers of all-time. His films earned him the reputation of being the "master of suspense", and after viewing two of his more popular films, Psych...
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Number Of Immigrants Ellis Island
464 wordsELLIS ISLAND Ellis Island has a long history, was needed, and was the Gateway to America from 1892 until it closed in 1954, when it began its slow decay. The island was called Gull Island by the Indians and Oyster Island by the Dutch. Later the English erected a gibbet or gallows on the island for hanging criminals and so the island became known as Gibbet Island. The Indians sold it to the Dutch East India Company for trinkets. The company later sold it to Mynheer Paul who also bought land along...
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One Of The Greatest Enrico Fermi
754 wordsEnrico Fermi was one of the greatest minds ever and one of, if not the most, influential nuclear scientist s ever. His work on the atomic bomb and nuclear transformations would earn him the Nobel Prize and a reputation for brilliance his whole life. Fermi was truly one of the greatest minds of our time. Born in Rome, Italy in 1901 Fermi was a hard worker until he died in 1954. He first became interested in science after the death of his older brother Giulio. At the age of 16 Fermi left for colle...
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Farewell To Arms Ernest Hemingway
1,197 wordsErnest Hemingway was a major American novelist and short story writer whose principal themes were violence, machismo, and the nature of what is called now male bonding. His renowned style for his firmly non-intellectual fiction is characterized by understatement and terse dialogue (Riley 231). Hemingway had a life that included him running away several times. Hemingway had many jobs before becoming a novelist and short story writer. He also had many influences, from his father s suicide to paint...
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York City Ballet School Of American Ballet Balanchine
948 wordsGeorge Balanchine, or originally Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze, a Russian-born choreographer, is recognized as one of the foremost choreographers in the history of ballet. George was among a generation of dancers who spent the years of World War 1 at the Imperial school of ballet at the Mariinsky theatre. George was the son of a composer, and he also studied music from 1921 to 1924 at the Petrograd Conservatory in St. Petersburg. As a student Balanchine had already tried choreography. His fi...
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Great Leap Forward Republic Of China
1,326 words+Mao 2 History + October 1, 1949 The People s Republic of China was formed with its nationalist capital at Beijing. + 4 social classes: Workers, Peasants, the petite bourgeoisie, and the National-Capitalist, which were led by CCP. + In February 1950, after months of hard bargaining, China and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance, valid until 1980. The pact also was intended to counter Japan or any powers joining Japan for the purpose of aggression. + ...
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World War Ii Martial Arts
1,858 wordsOne of the most underrated and misunderstood of all film genres, the martial-arts film is also one of the most popular among the movie-going masses and encompasses several sub-genres: kung fu, judo, ninja, and karate action flicks, samurai epics, the Asian fantasy and modern-day &# 34; new wave&# 34; gun-action violence of directors like John Woo, the acrobatic action / comedy antics of the talented Jackie Chan, and the historical epic as reinterpreted by Tsui Hark. The Orient has always seemed ...
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Color And Form Madame Matisse Artist
700 wordsMatisse, Henri +mile Be t (1869 - 1954), French artist, leader of the fauve group, regarded as one of the great formative figures in 20 th-century art, a master of the use of color and form to convey emotional expression. Matisse was born in Le Cateau in northern France on December 31, 1869. The son of a middle-class family, he studied and began to practice law. In 1890, however, while recovering slowly from an attack of appendicitis, he became intrigued by the practice of painting. In 1892, hav...
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981 wordsGreat Men Have Great Assistants As I stood there on the top of the world and I thought of the hundreds of men who had lost their lives in their effort to reach it [North Pole], I felt profoundly grateful that I had the honor of representing my race. With these words, Matthew Henson planted the American flag on the North Pole. During the past, black Americans have not received the acknowledgement they deserved. Such was the case of Matthew A. Henson. He was the first person to discover the North ...
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Martin Luther King Jr Contemporary Literary Criticism
1,482 wordsMaya Angelou? s work has been heavily affected by the era in which she began to write. The fifties and sixties was a tumultuous time for most African-Americans in the US. The civil-rights movement, led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Urban League, Martin Luther King, Jr. , and others, was instrumental in securing legislation, notably the civil-rights acts of 1964 and 1968 and the voting rights act of 1965, prohibiting discrimination in publ...
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Alger Hiss Mccarthy Hearings
2,273 wordsSince Joseph R. McCarthy first used his political power to ruin the careers of hundreds of men, the term McCarthyism has forever been used to denote someone or something that uses their power to launch a groundless and mean spirited attack on a particular minority group. Joseph R. McCarthy, possibly the greatest demagogue in the history of America, was also the strongest anti-Communist. In the minds of his friends and foes alike, he was an incredible person whose mere presence could be overpower...
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World War Ii Hydrogen Bomb
1,106 wordsThe Hydrogen Bomb Essay submitted by Anonymous Thesis Statement The hydrogen bomb is a nuclear weapon in which light atomic nuclei of hydrogen are joined together in an uncontrolled nuclear fusion reaction to release tremendous amounts of energy. The hydrogen bomb is about a thousand times as powerful as the atomic bomb, which produces a nuclear fission explosion about a million times more powerful than comparably sized bombs using conventional high explosives such as TNT. The Hydrogen Bomb The ...
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20 Th Century Century Fox
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