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Five Thousand Men Enemy
783 wordsThe soldiers of my army were pounding at the walls of the enemy base, ramming into the thick stone and metal with tanks and bulldozers. There was little left on the interior of those walls, having been blown away by mortar shells or destroyed by howitzer fire. The few buildings that retained anything more than a foundation were scarred black and had walls that had fallen in. The base was completely lost, or so I thought. I was in command of the regiment that destroyed the base. I thought myself ...
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Da Vinci Six Months
1,127 wordsLeonardo's "Last Supper" is among the most famous paintings in the world. In its monumental simplicity, the composition of the scene is masterful; the power of its effect comes from the striking contrast in the attitudes of the twelve disciples as counterpoised to Christ. Leonardo did not choose the portrayal of the traitor Judas customary in the iconographic tradition; he portrayed, rather, that moment of highest tension as related in the New Testament, "One of you which earth with me will betr...
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Clone Human Beings Cloned Sheep
1,275 wordsIn the near future, we will have to face the fact that the course of science will always win and inevitability cloning of human or at least the cloning of organs will be performed. The question is is cloning human beings acceptable and where do we draw the line? Cloning has sparked controversies over the past few years. With the race to map the DNA and its completion, it has steered up the imagination of our society of what to come. In this paper, we will discus how the mass media has influenced...
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Defence Minister George Pearkes Minister George Pearkes Arrow
1,251 words... ir craft were sawed. And we paid $ 300, 000 for the works... We put them on trailers and took them down to the smelters where every one was smelted down. Nobody could purchase the material from us because we were under security. They were watching us all the time. We had three or four men watching us and we had to do it as quickly as we could. War assets came and took the vital parts out of the aircraft, but when that was done they wanted them out in a hurry, scrapped and out. When we got to...
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Material On The Life Of Charles Darwin
979 wordsCharles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was the son of Robert Waring Darwin and his wife Susannah, and the grandson of the scientist Erasmus Darwin. His mother died when he was eight years old, and he was brought up by his sister. He was taught the classics at Shrewsbury, then sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, which he hated. Like many modern students Darwin only excelled in subjects that intrigued him. Although his father was a physician, Darwin was uninterested in medicine and...
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World Trade Center Conflict Theory
999 wordsA terrible event took place on September 11 th 2001. Our nation was attacked, but not over seas or financially. This nation and its people were attacked here, within the United States, by our own planes. Members of the Islamic extremist group know as the Taliban attacked the United States and our way of life. The leader and financier of this group, Bin Ladin, is now the main suspect as the mastermind behind this attack. These people seek not only to destroy buildings and kill Americans, but they...
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Freedom Of Speech Eighty Four
1,549 wordsI may not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it. When I hear that statement, I automatically think of The Freedom of Speech an idea America was based on. However, that quote is not at all American, it was taken from Voltaire, a French philosopher whos thoughts changed the world as we know it. In fact, Victor Hugo said that the name Voltaire was to characterize the entire eighteenth century. For just as surely as the geological periods in the earth's hist...
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Great Heroes In Literature Beowulf And Odysseus
1,268 wordsYou can do it Superman, you can do it! Superman is one of Americas most idolized super heroes. Okay, so no regular human could take on what Superman does, but does it mean that we cant still watch his heroic ways every week at seven oclock? Superman is our modern day hero, one that everyone wants to be like but realizes that that they will never be able to fly through the air to save a burning building. If we love Superman today then who did people idolize hundreds of years ago? A man named Odys...
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World War Ii August 6 1945
1,212 wordsAt 8: 15 am on August 6, 1945, approximately 300 to 500 feet above the highly populated city of Hiroshima Japan, the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was detonated. Only minutes later 60, 000 to 100, 000 people were dead, most were vaporized leaving only an eerie shadow of carbon behind. In the year and months that followed hundreds of thousands of people died of radiation poisoning and radiation provoked disease. Children born in months immediately following the bombing were occasionally ...
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Williams P File Format
1,108 wordsYou are probably asking yourself, Why should I care about graphics file formats? Well, the average end-user (non-programmers) is only concerned with the storage of their graphics information by using a format that majority of graphics applications and filters can read. End-users are not normally concerned with the internal composition of the data within the graphics file itself. Graphic file formats can be divided into two general classes: vector and bitmap. Vector files contain data described a...
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Late Nineteenth Century Spanish American War
833 wordsDuring the late nineteenth century America was a growing and prosperous country. The Civil War had ended and the United States was once again unified. As the United States gained more money and power, it looked to overseas trade to monopolize on their raw materials. The United States began to trade with Japan, China Latin America and other countries to acquire these distant resources. In order to protect these investments, the U. S. had place upon these foreign countries their political influenc...
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Hinduism And Buddhism Siddhartha Gautama
1,213 wordsThe world has many different religions. Asia has had many religions spring up. Out of these Buddhism and Hinduism are the most popular beliefs in the general population. Hinduism is the oldest known religion and is very rich with literally hundreds of gods, symbolist rituals and beliefs. It is believed to have been established around 1500 B. C. but one person never founded Hinduism as it evolved over a long period of time. Buddhism on the other hand has a definite founder, Siddhartha Gautama who...
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Thousands Of Years Indigenous Peoples
1,251 wordsIntroduction. The Arctic is located in the uppermost region of the northern hemisphere. The region consists of of the area around Greenland, USSR, Canada and Alaska (refer to appendices Fig. 1). The Arctic is mostly covered by frozen ice all year long. This region also surrounds the Arctic Ocean. So far the Artic is a naive environment, humans have not yet fully explored the region. But as people search for the resource, more and more people will move into to the area to take what they can, this...
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One Of The Major Alcoholic Beverages
1,414 wordsProhibition Led to the Rapid Growth of Organized Crime Prohibition was a period in which the sale, manufacture, or transport of alcoholic beverages became illegal. It started January 16, 1919 and continued to December 5, 1933. Although it was designed to stop drinking completely, it did not even come close. It simply created a large number of bootleggers who were able to supply the public with illegal alcohol. Many of these bootleggers became very rich and influential through selling alcohol and...
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Body Piercing And How Society
758 wordsBody piecing is a topic that is world wide and is in our every day lives. The following series of paragraphs will explain how people with piercings are looked at by society today. Some wonder why people even get piercings. Most of society doesn't really know the background of piercing's. Today's society can be very cruel and judgmental to new and different things and I will give you my insight on piercings. People get piercing for several different reasons. They might not always be the right rea...
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Law Abiding Citizens Arms Shall Not Be Infringed
980 wordsShould the mere fact that criminals committing crimes with the use of guns infringe the national right of the innocent to possess guns. This is a question that arouses everywhere and no matter which way it is viewed the controversy will always go on. 'A gun is a mere tool that can be used for good or evil. Our country is based on the belief that man is good until he or she is proven to be otherwise. ' (Harris p. 2) This means that only a few people are committing crimes with uses of guns and why...
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Generation To Generation Nez Perce
1,086 wordsI Shamans A. definition B. purpose 1. balance 2. success hunting 3. planting 4. cure sickness C. Usually males 1. post menopausal women 2. blood powers II passed down from generation to generation A. usually from memory 1. sand drawings 2. birch bark scrolls 3. paintings on rocks 4. animal hides B. children 1. eight-familiar stories 2. ten- know history III answer basic questions A. where do we come from B. where are we going C. how the world came into being D. how it was transformed E. guidelin...
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Diffusion Of Technology In Society
589 wordsIn Thermador The Thermadorians society had been isolated from the world for hundreds of years. The successful diffusion of farming technology failed for a number of reasons. Based on our information, there were several components missing. Components such as no research or plans to sustain a long-term solution to the problem. The United Nations presented modern farming technology not taking into consideration the educational level of the society in a modern world. Technology changes society, howe...
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Slot Machines High Price
542 wordsThe Lakeside Casino Resort deals a lot with selling items as well as experiences. Every aspect of running the casino as well as all the other operations that keep the casino running has to be priced right and reasonable, from playing the casino games to ordering the food for the Wheelhouse Buffet. Casino Floor: Every game on the casino floor has to be purchased from a dealer. A blackjack table alone costs between $ 1, 500 to $ 4, 000 dollars, and on the floor there are 8 tables. Other games such...
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Hundreds Of Years Hunting
700 wordsRecent reports on fishing in Minnesota show that water temperature in the majority of waters is below 40. Therefore, there is not much of activity. Maybe if water will warm up to 50 it will become possible to start fishing. However, the soon the period when it will be restricted to fish is about to begin. It was reported that even on April 8 some walleye were possible to catch. It is also expected that in two weeks it will be possible to catch bigger ones. Quite soon, many fishermen will enjoy t...
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