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Second World War Anti Aircraft
1,666 words
Tanks have been very influential in warfare ever
since the first Great War. They started out as a
way to cross the muck filled trenches of the first
World War to one of the most powerful ways to
attack the enemy. The United States Armed Forces
tanks have been some of the greatest of the wide
variety of tanks. The most interesting and
powerful of these giants in the United States
arsenal are: the Abrams, the M 60, the Sheridan,
the Patton, the Sherman, and the Chaffee models.
Some of these tanks ...
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State And Federal Prison Population
473 words
One of America's biggest problems today is the
overcrowding of prisons. This began when the
population of inmates started to soar in the 1980
's. With the increase of rapist, murderers, and
drug dealers skyrocketing, there is no reason to
this overpopulation. The nation responds to this
by building prison at a fast pace. But the
construction has not kept pace with the soaring
population of inmates. The number of prisoners
under the jurisdiction of Federal correctional
authorise at the end of 199...
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Frictional Unemployment Structural Unemployment
663 words
In compiling unemployment statistics for the
United States and other developed countries an
unemployed person is defined as anyone who is
capable of working and is actively seeking work
but is unable to find a job. 1 Before a person can
be unemployed in this sense he must be an active
member of the labor force in search of a job.
Students and Homemakers perform work, but they are
not considered employed unless they are paid;
however, they are not considered unemployed unless
they are actively se...
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Long Sleeve Sweater Justin And James Picture
807 words
I have known these two characters for a little
more than four years now and never once have I
seen a straight face. These two are always making
jokes or making fun of each other. The person in
the black long sleeve sweater with a silver chain
necklace over hanging his shirt is one of my best
friends named Justin. The person in the white long
sleeve sweater with his sleeves rolled up and his
Rolex watch on his wrist is one or my best friends
named James. This photograph was taken last year
when J...
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North Korea Working Class
552 words
He was born on April 15, 1912, Pyongyang, to a
poor family. His family, a most patriotic and
revolutionary one, was in the best of the people's
fight for many generations, from the beginning of
the modern revolutionary movement of the Korean
people for the independence of the country, the
freedom and liberation of the people and for the
victory of the noble revolutionary best of the
working class. He grew up, receiving his
revolutionary education at home and acquiring a
revolutionary outlook on ...
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The Manhattan Project Of World War Ii History
796 words
Throughout the course of history, especially in
past wars, one can decipher a single point that
led to the end of that event / war . All thought
World War II had many events transpire which led
to its completion, one of the most prominent and
immediate effects which brought about the end of
the war was the development of the Atomic Bomb.
Developed through the research and funding of the
Manhattan Project, the Atomic Bomb was used to
cause Japan to surrender World War II and thereby
effectively e...
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Viet Cong Special Forces
1,039 words
The book that I read for my book report was The
Tunnels of Cu Chi by Tom Mangold and John
Penycate. The reason that I chose this book was
because I am very interested in various aspects of
certain wars and I definitely am intrigued by
tunnel warfare of the Vietnam Conflict. Imagine
being in a war and coming across a tunnel in the
middle of the jungle. You have no idea what is in
the tunnel but you think it may be the enemy. Your
commander asks for volunteers to go in and
investigate. Do you volu...
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On Affirmative Action In America
1,031 words
Affirmative action applies to employers in hiring
and promoting minorities and women, governments in
reserving a portion of their contracts for
businesses owned by minorities and women, and
colleges and universities in admitting minorities
and women (Welch, 504). The history of affirmative
action has its roots in the Civil Rights Act of
1964 which stemmed from the 1954 United States
Supreme Court Case of Brown vs. Board of
Education. In this case, the Court ruled
unanimously that school segregat...
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Dead Sea Scrolls Jewish People
1,278 words
One of the latest findings in the archeological
world was recently revealed to the public on March
this year in the village of Kfar Kana, North of
Israel. Several subterranean galleries,
passageways and pits were discovered leading
scholars to believe that they were used as hiding
places during the first Jewish war in the middle
of the first century A. D. At a first assumption,
the tunnels seem they were very well planned in
advance. One hypothesis could be that the Hebrews
built those tunnels n...
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Downward Spiral Lasting Impression
1,050 words
... om the depression. The Works Progress
Administration was then formed out of the CWA. It
also was the most successful of all the New Deal
programs, as it pulled over $ 10 billion into the
economy within only three years, (1935 - 1938).
There was a heavy emphasis on spending money on
wages rather than machinery or materials- the use
of human labor was valued. Roosevelt favored this
program because it had an emphasis on creating
jobs as a way of maintaining morale by
de-emphasizing welfare-like...
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Iron Ore La Plata
797 words
The Pantanal wetlands are the largest wetlands in
the world, spanning an area of 210, 000 km 2, a
region the size of South Dakota and over ten times
the current size of the Everglades in Florida
(Silveria). The vast area contains over 600 bird
and about 300 fish species and provides homeland
to over 1. 8 million people (The waterway 40). In
1993 only forty wood stork pairs nested in the
Everglades compared to over one hundred times that
in the Pantanal (Eckstrom 54). This majestic
wetland area, ...
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One Of The Main Main Reasons
573 words
Casinos have become Casinos Casinos Casinos have
become a large part of cities economy and hundreds
of thousands of peoples lives. Casinos are
exciting for many people who feel they have a
chance to win it big. Because so much money is
flowing into casinos, the local business are being
affected. Most are not thriving with the new
tourism and the seemingly revived economy. In 1994
more people made the trip to a casino then to a
ball park (Popkin). The casinos are attracting so
much of Americans d...
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Middle Class Families Stock Market
623 words
The United States had experienced a decade of
change and prosperity in the 1920 s. World War I
was over, the boys were home, and new business was
booming. There was a consumer goods revolution
fueled by a few major industries. One of the most
prominent industries was the automobile industry.
Automobile sales increased dramatically after
World War I. The automobile changed the lifestyle
of Americans. It was now possible to work in the
city, but live in a suburban area. Before the
automobile, peop...
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Great Pyramid Meters High
576 words
The Great Pyramid The great pyramid was built
during the reign of Khufu, 2 nd king of the fourth
dynasty (2, 720 - 2, 560 BC). It stands on the
Giza plateau nearby Cairo and is the biggest
pyramid in the world. It measures 230 m (756 ft)
on each side of its base and originally measured
147 m (482 ft) high. Beginning in the 10 th
century AD the entire Giza complex served as a
source of building materials for the construction
of Cairo; as a result, all three pyramids were
stripped of their origina...
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Lake Michigan Great Lakes
814 words
Chicago Tim SchochChicago is a port and
transportation center on the southwestern shore of
Lake Michigan in the state of Illinois. It has a
population of 2, 783, 726 and has been the seat of
Cook County since 1931. Long known as the nations
second city, Chicago dropped to third place among
largest U. S. cities during the 1980 s as its
population declined during the decade by 7. 4 %.
Its three-state metropolitan area showed a slight
increase, totaling 8, 065, 633. Many of Chicagos
people are offs...
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Middle Aged Man Clich
1,428 words
Lolita is perhaps one of the most disturbing
novels of the century: it tells the immoral story
of a middle- aged man who falls in love with a
twelve year- old girl (a nymphet, as he calls her)
and has a sexual relationship with her for over
two years, until she disappears with another more
perverse middle- aged man. What makes this novel
particularly disturbing is the fact that Humbert's
sexual perversion is disguised in highly poetic
garb and that the only monitor of virtue is the
gifted perver...
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Heavy Equipment One Construction
249 words
Choose one of your extracurricular or work
activities and explain why it has been of value to
you. I have always been an out-doors type person.
Furthermore, there has always been one interest of
mine that has only grown stronger throughout the
years, from as far back as I can remember. It
probably all started with my first Tonka Truck
when I was just a little guy. For some reason, I
have always enjoyed, or perhaps been enthralled
by, heavy equipment and the outdoors. I have
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World War Ii Mexican Immigrants
650 words
factories and steel mills, left behind to perform
the jobs once carried out by the soldiers who were
abroad fighting the war. After World War II,
immigration to the United States increased once
again. Many people who had survived Nazi
persecution in Europe fled to the United States.
Additionally, Chinese immigrants were entering the
country. A big construction boom marked these
years. The suburbs were growing rapidly and the
automobile industry was flourishing. Many of the
Western European immig...
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Miles Per Hour Large Amount
1,472 words
Dangers and Destructions of Floods and Hurricanes
Floods and hurricanes have been effecting the
lives of people around the world for years. This
research paper is going to state some of the worst
floods and hurricanes, and how future ones can be
controlled. A flood is an overflow of water on dry
land. The two types of floods are coastal and
river floods. Coastal floods are the first topic
in this research paper. A coastal flood is the
flooding of beaches and surrounding areas;
including bar spit...
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Second World War Third Generation
1,600 words
THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS IN UKRAINE AND THE
FORMER USSR The government and the authorities had
paid serious attention to the development of the
computer industry right after the Second World
War. The leading bodies considered this task to be
one of the principal for the national economy. Up
to the beginning of the 1950 s there were only
small productive capacities which specialized in
the producing accounting and account-perforating
(punching) machines. The electronic numerical
computer engi...
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