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British Grand Fleet Dizzy Library Arizona War
447 wordsNever in known history has a ship taken so many of her crew down with her. Thus is the story of the USS Arizona (BB- 39). The Arizona was built as part of Americas pre-World War I modernization of the U. S. Navy. She was also built in the U. S. Navy's response to the naval arms race that had begun in 1906 when the Royal Navy completed the HMS Dreadnought. She was not a large battleship by todays standards, but before World War II, it was considered very reliable if war was a threat to the United...
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597 wordsLearned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. "People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity, " he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience. Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he early became identified with the patriot cause; a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, he led in the movement for independence. During the Revolutionary Wa...
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Peace Treaty Between Lithuania Treaty Between Lithuania Mindaugas
1,451 words... ack Lithuania, but once he arrived in Pinsk, he began to delay his march. He stayed on too long at the wedding of Duke Yaropolk of Pinsk. By that time, spring had arrived, the snow had melted, and it was no longer possible to reach Lithuania. 1191 was the year of a planned attack on Lithuania by the Dukes of Polotsk and Novogrudok, however they did not fulfill their plan. It appeared that the citizenry of Novogrudok wanted vengeance on the Lithuanians, because during their war with Sweden, t...
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Farewell To Arms Henry And Catherine
1,499 wordsThe novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway opens with a portrayal of artillery troops marching through the rains. One of these men is Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver. Henry is currently in the Italian army, at the Italian front during World War I. The response of these first few chapters begins when Henry returns from winter leave in early spring. His roommate, Rinaldi, is infatuated with a British nurse, Catherine Barkley, at a nearby British hospital. Rinaldi convinces Henry...
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Fairy Godmother Sun God
2,011 wordsby Fairy Godmother Emily Jean Once upon a time their lived a powerful god. His name was Ra and he was the god of the sun. Ra was a very powerful god, but a very lonely god as well for he was having trouble finding true love. Until the tenth night of Hallows Eve, when at a ballroom masquerade Ra found himself drawn to a particular beauty in the room. Her name was Emily Jean and she was an Enchantress. Ra waited patiently for the Enchantress to be introduced. His minion captured her attention and ...
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York Oxford University East India Company
1,076 words... n to Barre and pushed through the Stamp Act. Eventually the Colonists began an embargo on stamps. When stamps were brought to the colonies, merchants who had ordered them had to keep them in a safe place otherwise the colonists would steal them and burn them up. By the end of 1765 the governments in 9 of the colonies had passed resolutions which denounced the Stamp Act. Even more importantly they denied Parliaments right to tax the colonies for revenue. (Middlekauff 83) In October of that ye...
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Mind Boggling Divorce Rate
1,742 wordsIn 1969 the first Woodstock took place. Those were the good old days when the music festival was full of good music, love, and sharing. Wake up call... In 1999 another Woodstock was held; this time it was not full of love and sharing at all. All it has been shown to be is a party full of rape, drugs, and a bad recreation of a good thing. Looking at the numerous differences there are very few similarities one being the name of the event. Through this small happening in our history, Woodstock show...
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Jing Mei Mother Older Boys
632 wordsChallenges of Life Jerry is a young boy in, the story of "Through the Tunnel. " He has a very big challenge which is swimming through a tunnel. By swimming through the tunnel he will be able to prove to the older boys and especially to himself that he can reach his goal if he sets his mind to it. Jing-mei and her mother from the story "Two Kinds, " also have a couple of challenges they must face. In this story, the mother is so eager for her daughter to excel, that she pushes and pushes until th...
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Group Of People France And England
1,037 words... left by the roadside. No one knows who they were and if anyone stopped to attempt to identify them they too would risk being killed... '. '... We were in the camp about two weeks with hardly any food and even water was scarce. More people died as typhus broke out and others were killed from other such diseases as well as malnutrition. The horrendous number of dead were thrown into a huge pit, then quickly covered with quicklime. There were layers upon layers of dead. I do not know when the p...
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Game Party Night
420 wordsOne Friday night some friends and I decided to attend our high school's football game. Upon arriving, the stadium was already covered with overjoyed, and exciting fans. During the game, there was excited chattering about the party. Everyone was talking about going. Finally, the game was in the last seconds of the fourth quarter, a nd oru team was winning. The crowd was all fired up. When the game ended, everyone stampeded to the cars and headed to the party leaving the once filled stadium desert...
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Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck
968 wordsJohn Steinbeck John Steinbeck was a famous American author who wrote from the 1920 to the 1940. Steinbeck was constantly moving across the country trying to succeed as a writer. John Steinbeck lived a life of constant up and downs, successes and failures before he landed on his feet and became a famous author. John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on February 27, 1902. He was the only son and the third child of John Ernst Steinbeck and Olive Hamilton. Steinbeck's father owned comfortabl...
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Didn T Wasn T
1,092 wordsEvery little kid has heroes. Most kids in my generation followed the ninja turtles, wrestlers, and other various sorts of characters. Not that I didn? t like them also, but my hero was quite different from all the usual common heroes. My biggest hero was Popeye, the Sailor Man. To me, Popeye was the ultimate. He always did the right thing no matter what. Popeye had a girlfriend, and he got to wear a really cool sailor suit. And with a can of spinach, he could take anyone on, and come out victori...
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Holden Pencey Prep
1,384 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye is about a man named Holden Caulfield, who is narrating the story. Holden is in a psychiatric hospital in California, where at the given moment he was spending his time. He then had a flashback of when he was a young man at the age of sixteen. The story starts off at Pencey Prep, Holden's present school at which he was flunking out of. Holden had only a few more days before his expulsion from Pencey, so he had been paying his final dues to his admired instructors, such as ...
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Lucille Ball Love Lucy
756 wordsCuban bandleader and singer-turned savvy TV mogul who, after his marriage to comedienne Lucille Ball in 1940, parlayed their successful I Love Lucy series into the Desi TV production empire, which in its heyday also produced the successful and highly lucrative The Untouchables and Star Trek series. p Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Area III was born in 1917 to wealthy Cuban landowners. His father was also the mayor of the town they lived in, but that soon changed. At the age of 16, Desi and his mot...
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Rival Gang Capone Men
1,713 wordsThe Life and World Of Al Capone Written By, John Kepler Report By, Adam Monteverde Al Capone is Americas best known gangster and the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920 s Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a lawless city. Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. Baptized " Alphonsus Capone, " he grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a membe...
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Johnny Torrio Bugs Moran
1,525 wordsThe Life and Times of Al Capone by Bill Rollindubeys Alphonse Capone was born in New York City by two parents Gabriel and Teresa Capone. Capone's parents immigrated to the United States in 1893 from Naples, Italy. Capone came from a large family and was the fourth oldest of nine children. (Kobler 10). As a child, Capone was very wise when it came to living on the streets of New York. He had a clever mind when it came to street smarts. As far as school goes, Capone was a near-illiterate. He came ...
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Song Tra Bong Rat Kiley
777 wordsIn the short story, ? Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, ? by Tim O? Brien, the author shows that no matter what the circumstances were, the people that were exposed to the Vietnam War were affected greatly. A very young girl named Mary Anne Bell was brought by a boyfriend to the war in Vietnam. When she arrived she was a bubbly young girl, and after a few weeks, she was transformed into a hard, mean killer. Mark Fossie decided he was going to sneak his girlfriend onto his base in Vietnam. When sh...
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Things She Desires Find A Job Carrie
893 wordsIn August of 1889, Carrie Member leaves her small town to find employment in the city of Chicago. Theodore Dreiser, the author of Sister Carrie, informs the reader that, " Self-interest with her was high, but not strong. It was nevertheless her guiding characteristic. " . With her youth and innocence she hopes to seek employment so that she can get and buy all the nice things that she wants. Carrie does not have any idea how hard this is going to be. When she tries to find a job, she i...
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556 wordsThe New Immigration In 1886 the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland. Set at the entrance to New York, the statue was just in time to greet the biggest migration in global history. Between 1880 and World War I, about 22 million men, women, and children entered the United States. More than a million arrived in each of the years 1905, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1913, and 1914. Not everyone had to travel in steerage. Passenge...
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Fell In Love Forced To Leave
1,584 wordsDylan Thomas Final Trip to America Dylan Marlais Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on October 27, 1914. He died November 9 th, 1953 in New York City. In only 39 years, Dylan Thomas left an indelible mark on history. Thomas published numerous books of his poetry, plays, short stories, and various other works. He first toured America in early 1950, reading at a variety of public forums. This tour was very successful and Thomas fell in love with America, a romance that would bring his end just more...
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