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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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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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Federal Troops Labor Force
1,042 wordsEverything seemed so perfect. Pullman, Illinois was a company town on the outskirts of Chicago, founded in 1880 by George Pullman, president of the railroad sleeping car company. Pullman advertised his town as a model community that included everything from parks to libraries and was filled with satisfied, well paid workers. Each resident worked for the Pullman company, which manufactured railroad cars, and by 1894 it operated "first class" sleeping cars on almost every one of the nation's major...
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Remarks On The Lost City Of Atlantis
1,095 wordsOver 11, 000 years ago there existed an island nation located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, populated by a noble and powerful race. The people of this land possessed great wealth thanks to the natural resources found throughout their island. The island was a center for trade and commerce. The rulers of this land held sway over the people and land of their own island and well into Europe and Africa. This was the island of Atlantis (Keyes page 1 of 4). Atlantis was one of many myths of Anci...
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Man Made Destructive Power
828 wordsIn about 450 B. C. , the city of Olympia -- where the first Olympic games were held in 776 B. C. -- built a temple to honor the god Zeus. Many considered the Doric-style temple too simple, so a lavish 40 -foot statue of Zeus was commissioned for the inside. Wealthy Greeks decided to move the statue to a palace in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey). Their effort prolonged its life, as fire later devastated the Olympia temple. However, the new location couldn't keep Zeus eternally safe:...
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Erich Maria Remarque Quiet On The Western Front
1,759 wordsThe destructiveness of war can be understood upon several levels. Primarily, war exposes innocent lives to violence so unforgiving that it leaves physical and mental scarring to the victims for the rest of their existence. War destroys the bonds that soldiers have built with their family, friends and former lives in their pre-enlistment years. War strips all the baggage of life away from the participant, leaving only the raw emotion to be endured by the soldier. Fear, hate, passion, confusion, e...
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Greece And Turkey France And Britain
1,102 wordsFrom when World War II ended in 1945 all the way up to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Cold War dominated international affairs. It was a global struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. Although the Cold War was sometimes fought on the battlefield, it involved everything from political rhetoric to sports. Overshadowing all was the threat of nuclear war. From an American perspective the Cold War was largely a war on communism this outlook by the US caused and sustain...
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B C E Form Of Writing
1,416 wordsBook 1 Chapter 1 1 a. Cave art was found in Europe, Africa, Australia, North America and western France. It is estimated that the art was done around ten to thirty thousand years ago. Mostly hunters painted on the walls before they went out for a hunt. Cave art was done by painting with polychrome mineral pigments and shaded with burnt coal and bitumen, and was usually drawn in the inaccessible part of the caves, one over the other. The art was usually animals such as bears, bulls, lions, zebras...
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Grassy Knoll Kennedys Assassination
1,237 words... et that wounded Kennedy wasnt the same one that responsible for his wounds. A FBI supplementary report states that the bullet that entered Kennedys back had penetrated to less than a finger length. If this is true, how can the bullet have exited from the front of his neck? There are of course other facts that warp this theory such as the fact that the bullet was mysteriously found on a hospital stretcher in pristine condition. Yet the bullet should have been out of shape and showing signs of...
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Stem Cell Research Vitro Fertilization
1,113 words... the health of the mother can be proven (United 148 - 55). Many speculate that Roe v. Wade will be overturned within the next fifty years, and possibly sooner. The laws may be changed to allow abortions completely, or to forbid them completely. Stem cells will definitely play a part in this decision. It is possible that the action of using fetuses to save lives can make abortions seem less evil. To terminate one life to save others is a decision that the world must make, and not make lightly....
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American Cancer Society Survival Rate
1,474 words... boost of treatment to the cancer itself and the area close by. Internal radiotherapy for cancer of the cervix is also known as called 'calcium treatment'. This is because a radioactive element called calcium is the radiation source that is used for the in-patient treatment over a few days. Other radioactive metals can be used, which release radiation more quickly. Treatment can be given in 2 - 5 sessions of a few minutes each. The overall total radiation dose the patient receives will be abo...
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Houses Hours House
306 wordsThree years ago something terrible happened in my hometown. It all begun one evening when I was sitting and watching on the local TV station. They interrupted the tv program I was watching, with an extra weather forecast. They said that there was a hurricane coming our way. They told us that we had to stay inside our houses, and that the best would be that we went into a room in the basement without windows. The hurricane was expected within the next five hours. When my mother found out that my ...
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U S S R Winston Churchill
643 wordsWhat was the Cold War and what events caused it? Cold War is the term used to describe the intense rivalry that developed after World War II between groups of Communist and non-Communist nations. On one side were the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U. S. S. R. ) and its communist allies that referred to as the Eastern bloc. On the other side were the United Staes and its democratic allies, usually referred to as the Western bloc. Cold War was characterized by mutual distrust, suspicion, and...
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Gave Birth Mexico City
1,167 words... ce was when a person reached an alter and was stretched across a convex stone. Then a priest, with a sharp knife, would cut open the victims chest and tear out his heart. The heart then would be placed in a bowl called a chacmool. An estimated 10, 000 to 15, 000 people were sacrificed a year. The language of the Aztecs was called Nahuatl. The language is a mix of Indian languages from the Pimas, Comanches, and the Shoshones. The Aztecs used pictographic writings that were recorded on paper o...
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Century B C Status Quo
560 wordsOften the following situation takes place. One of the Old Ones comes to Earth as a Master, and persuades a group of people to become Chosen. The Chosen try to persuade others to become Chosen, and to stop being self-serving which the opposite of Chosen is. They advocate altering the current system of corruption. They want to change the status-quo. Those in power who benefit from the status-quo are against this. The establishment persecutes and tries to destroy the small group of Chosen people. S...
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Residential Areas South African
619 wordsOne of the most repressive apartheid restrictions was the law requiring that blacks and all other nonwhites carry a pass book stating their legal residence and workplace. Those without the proper papers could be stopped by police and summarily expelled to the countryside. Interracial Marriage and Immorality Acts prohibited marriage and sexual relations across color lines. Group Areas Act defined residential areas by race. Under it, Colored and Indians were removed to special segregated townships...
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Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve
934 wordsThe plot of Nathaniel Hawthorns Rappaccini's Daughter revolves around the rivalry of two scientists, and how their acts lead to the destruction of an innocent young woman. When the story is examined on a symbolic level, the reader sees that Rappaccini's Daughter is an allegorical reenactment of the original fall from innocence and purity in the Garden of Eden. Rappaccini's garden sets the stage of this allegory, while the characters of the story each represent the important figures from the Gene...
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Effective Use Of Computers On The Battlefield Future
1,240 wordsEffective Use of Computers on the Battlefield of the Future Abstract This paper emphasizes the importance of using computer technology on future battlefields. Outline p. 1 Beginning of Computer Era in military p. 2 What future holds p. 3 - Conclusion The history of military conflicts in 20 th century shows that they tend to become less continuous, which is accomplished by the implementation of new informational technology. In 17 th century, wars often lasted for 30 - 50 years. World War One went...
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Friedrich Nietzsche Greek Tragedy
1,708 wordsNietzsche paper The book, written by Friedrich Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy in the 19 th century, has been discussed for many years by many philosophers. It was a great work full of interesting thoughts concerning the history of the Greek tragedy. The book had a great influence on Western intellectual world. Friedrich Nietzsche's work is not only about the history of the tragedy but he showed the difference as well as the equality between the Dionysian and the Apollonian. The author was sure t...
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Air Pollution Future Generations
1,132 wordsAir Pollution Before dealing with air pollution, a basic definition of pollution must first be made. Pollution has its origins in the Latin word pollute, which means contamination of any feature of the environment (web). Photochemical smog, emissions, chemicals, etc. are all instances of pollutants and most all of them donate to the air pollution dilemma. Almost all air pollutants are the consequence of burning fossil fuels, this could be in the home, by industry or internal combustion engines. ...
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