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Ho Chi Minh Republic Of Vietnam
977 words
Do 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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Improve The Quality Florence Nightingale
1,123 words
Florence Nightingale is remembered throughout the
world for her heroic, almost superhuman labors in
the field of nursing. Florence Nightingale was
born in Italy in 1820 and was named Florence after
her birthplace. A brilliant child, Florence
attained outstanding academic achievement in her
years attending school. Florence grew up to be a
lively and attractive young woman, admired in her
families elite social circle and was expected to
make a good marriage, but Florence had other
concerns. In 183...
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Harriet Tubman Florence Nightingale
1,359 words
... York Infirmary for Women and Children. With
the help of her sister Emily Blackwell, (also a
physician, and Dr. Marie Zakrzewska) In 1868
Blackwell opened the Women's Medical College of
the New York. In 1869, she helped establish the
National Health Society in England. In 1875 she
became a professor at the hospital of the London
School of Medicine for Women. She was also a part
of the anti-slavery society and a member of the
Semi-Colon club. She opened the doors for future
women who wanted to...
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Reserve Police Battalion Police Battalion 101
1,616 words
The men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 were just
ordinary men, from a variety of backgrounds,
education, and age. It would appear that they were
not selected by any force other than random
chance. Their backgrounds and upbringing, however,
did little to prepare these men for the horrors
they were to witness and participate in. The group
was made up of both citizens and career policemen.
Major Wilhelm Trapp, a career policeman and World
War I veteran headed the battalion. Trapp joined
the Nazi p...
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Poor And Working Class Spread Of Communism
1,407 words
Vietnam was a small Asian country, 9000 miles away
from the United States. Yet America felt that its
national interest was threatened strongly enough
to fight a war there. The explanation for this
lies in the fear caused by the spread of communism
at that time. The role of communism was extremely
important in this conflict. You see, the US had to
enter the war to stop the spread of communism in
Asia since North Vietnam was communist. If North
Vietnam was to succeed in converting Vietnam into
a c...
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Middle And Upper Class Mustard Gas
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The dictionary describes the word humane as humane
adj. Kind, compassionate, merciful. and this was
indeed so in the case of the volunteers who worked
tirelessly to ease the suffering of the wounded
soldiers of all combatants in the fields of
northern France and Belgium, during the First
World War. In the early days of the war, army
nursing was strictly a male preserve, until it was
necessary to recruit female nurses from the ranks
of middle and upper class ladies. The warm summer
days preceding...
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First World War Middle Class
1,724 words
... always refused (Mitchell. D, 1966 p. 193) The
scarcity of hospitals in France meant that many
men copped a Bright and were sent home as there
were no facilities to treat their wounds. Many
nurses grumbled that they had volunteered to serve
abroad at the Front and there was a great deal of
jealousy and resentment aimed at those who were
posted to France. As regards nursing, they were
told that England should be regarded as the Front,
and the home hospitals should be regarded as an
extension o...
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Leaves Of Grass Part Of The Country
1,529 words
... were him was Emerson. The themes of the poems
were education, temperance, slavery, prostitution,
immigration and democratic representation. He
would use a type of experimental verse cast in
lines without rhyme and long lines with no
identifiable meter. In this and the other editions
until the "Authors Edition" he didn't put his name
on the title, but in the opposite the title page
was a portrait of Whitman. This become the most
famous frontispiece in literary history. A few
months later (195...
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World War Ii Men And Women
732 words
The notion that women should be able to
participate in ground warfare has been a long
disputed argument for decades. Many argue that it
is in every individuals right to be able to defend
their own country with honor and integrity. But
certain issues arise when this defense is
analyzed. Should women be able to engage in
hand-to-hand combat? The answer is no. Throughout
history, women have played an important role in
defending our country successfully. During World
War II, Women performed a variet...
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World War Ii U S Navy
1,668 words
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December
7, 1941, America was at last forced to officially
enter World War II. President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt officially declared war on the Japanese
and in his famous radio address to the American
people, he professed that December 7 was a day
that would live in infamy. Americans and Japanese
alike, still remember Pearl Harbor Day, but how
many remember the gallant, fighting Marines who
served on a tiny atoll in the Pacific by the name
of Wake Islan...
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Sanitary Commission Regular Army
1,469 words
... West were spared battlefield relief scandals
by the fact that major battles were fought on the
banks of rivers, whence wounded arid sick could be
evacuated by river boats to Mound City, Illinois,
St. Louis, and other cities with general hospitals
in the safety and secure supply of the North.
After the relatively prompt fall of Memphis, that
city became the site of several general hospitals.
The evacuating boats, however, might I be
maintained by individual states or by the United
States Sani...
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Ho Chi Minh Tet Offensive
1,273 words
France occupied all of Vietnam by 1884.
Independence was declared after World War II, but
the French continued to rule until 1954 when
communist forces under Ho Chi Minh, who took
control over the north, defeated them.
Eisenhower's advisers believed that Ho Chi Minh's
powerful communist-nationalist appeal might set
off a geographical chain reaction. As Ho Chi
Minh's government established itself in North
Vietnam, Eisenhower supported a noncommunist
government in South Vietnam and ordered covert ...
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Theme Of The Story Important Role
1,094 words
Hemingway's In Another Country is the story about
the wounded soldiers who are puled back from the
front lines due to injuries. The setting of the
story is a military hospital in Milan, Italy,
during the war. Although author does not
specifically give the time we can say that he
refers to the World War I because this short story
was published in the book Men Without Women in
1927; it was another book of short stories which
collected The Killers, In Another Country, and
others. In the story we ca...
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Bury My Heart Heart At Wounded
405 words
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. By Dee Brown. (New
York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970. Pp. xv+
447). Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is a boring
title for such an extraordinary book. This is my
second time reading this book. I began reading
this book again just to refresh my memory, but
once I started the first page I could not put it
down. I was a freshman in high school the first
time I read it, and the only reason that I read it
was because it was required. Now, I am six years
older and I r...
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York Holt Rinehart Bury My Heart
787 words
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown. New
York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970. In the
Introduction, the author tells how he put together
a book of the oral history of the American
Indians, based on the government records of
council meetings with white officials. In these
meetings, all Indians were allowed to speak. They
chose their own interpreters, and they told their
oral history in their own words. Chapter 1 begins
with Columbus, who first called the people Indios
(p. 1). Thus, the...
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Boston Tea Party Battle Of Bunker Hill
1,415 words
George Washington and the American Revolution The
American Revolution was considered unwinnable to
many, but proved to be a crucial fight that aided
in the creation of the United States. Numerous
courageous war figures emerged during this War for
Independence. Although many people were
responsible for the war s success, one man stands
out from the rest, and he emerged to become one of
America s best known heroes- -George Washington.
His drive and determination to prevail were
primary factors for...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Peach Orchard
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Battle of Gettysburg Introduction: Driving through
Gettysburg people see statues and marking at
different sites, if you re do not know much
history you would still know that these markings
are a symbols of fallen soldiers. These soldiers
never really needed to die but the North and South
could not work out their differences peacefully
which caused a great war in U. S. history, The
Civil War. One of the biggest battles fought
during the Civil war took place in the small city
of Gettysburg. The ba...
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Mountain Lion Graduate Student
1,140 words
We, the people of America, are facing a moral
dilemma right now, this very minute, this day, and
every other day. We are faced with the dilemma of
whether the people of this free country will be
able to continue hunting. As with anything
debatable, their are two sides. In this case, we
have the Hunters, andthe Antis. Over the past
decade or so, they have been at war with one
another with people forming organizations and
plotting to destroy the others point of view. Even
the Government has gotten...
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Commission On Human Rights Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
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Running Head: INFLUENTIAL WOMEN Influential Women
Delmy E Gooch Sociology and Philosophy of Gender
Summer Evening Introduction There have been many
women that have changed and shaped the role of
women today. They opened the doors of opportunity
for future women and made many contributions to
our society. Some of these accomplishments have
gone unnoticed. The reason that I chose to discuss
the influential women of the past and present was
because they are the ones that have given me a
future. The...
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Red Badge Of Courage Jim Conklin
1,728 words
The Red Badge of Courage is the story of a young
man named Henry Fleming. The novel concerns only
two days in his life and he is a boy when the
novel begins, a man when the novel ends. He
enlists in the 304 th Regiment of New York
Volunteers against his mothers wishes, and spends
many boring months in training. He is sent into
battle finally. The battle of Chancellorville is
the agreed upon location where the book probably
takes place. It is mentioned that he travels along
the Arappahanock River...
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