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  • Women of World War II

    Women of World War II

    Women of World War II Many Canadians believe that men are the ones who won the war, but we also have to remember all those who played a substantial role behind the scenes of all the action, the women. On the home front they made weapons and military crafts for those in battle. Many women were also near the battlefields nursing and taking care of wounded soldiers. WWII also brought women to the fighting front

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    Submitted: April 10, 2012 Essay by people
  • President Lyndon Johnson - War on Poverty Case

    President Lyndon Johnson - War on Poverty Case

    President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first State of the Union address on January 8, 1964 declaring a "War on Poverty" (Conley 355). Poverty is defined as a condition of deprivation due to economic circumstances (Conley 355). Poverty is blamed on the individual or the economic system. Many factors such as culture of poverty, intelligence, family and social life, and the economy explain why poverty exists in the United States. The culture of poverty argument established

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    Submitted: April 23, 2012 Essay by kristyr18
  • A Rumor of War

    A Rumor of War

    Growing up in a sheltered suburb outside of Chicago, Philip Caputo would spend his summers mowing grass, eating barbeque and fishing in the Salt Creek for bullhead, catfish and carp. He was an all American teenager without a care in the world. Caputo would daydream of the nomadic natives who once lived and hunted in the Cook and DuPage County forest. He had little to worry about; this made him yearn for further excitement in

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    Submitted: May 5, 2012 Essay by Indyfl
  • Analysis on the Setting of "lord of War"

    Analysis on the Setting of "lord of War"

    Analysis on the setting of "Lord of War" Here, I'd been running away from violence my whole life, and I should have been running towards it. It's in our nature. The earliest human skeletons had spearheads in their ribcages. As the opening credits of Andrew Niccol's "Lord of War" unspool, we are treated to a rapid-fire montage showing us the entire life span of a single bullet from its beginnings on an anonymous mechanical assembly

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    Essay Length: 1,315 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 11, 2012 Essay by people
  • Hitler - Soldier to Dictator World War II

    Hitler - Soldier to Dictator World War II

    Adolf Hitler. His name still haunts society more than sixty years after he took his life, hours before Nazi Germany surrendered to the Soviet Army in Berlin in 1945. He was born on 20th April 1889, in the small Austrian town named Braunau. Hitler was well known for his natural public speaking and leadership skills, even throughout his schooling life. It was these key features about Hitler that enabled the National Socialist Party (or Nazi

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    Submitted: May 21, 2012 Essay by people
  • War Time Bring Out Both the Good and Bad in People.

    War Time Bring Out Both the Good and Bad in People.

    War time bring out both the good and bad in people. Discuss. War time brings out both the good and bad in people without doubt. War is simply a test of human nature in its extremity; which inevitably causes us to behave and react to extremities in intense ways, whether these are good or bad. War time brings out the true colours in all of us. It has most definitely brought us many heroes, although

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    Submitted: June 6, 2012 Essay by people
  • War and American Society

    War and American Society

    You have been asked to sign the Declaration of Independence. Explain your decision. I would sign the Declaration of Independence, with some apprehension. As I read "The Birth of a Nation", "Civil Disobedience", and "Common Sense", and watched "The Patriot", "1776", I realize that the people of America were separated into three camps. The Loyalist who wanted to remain loyal to King George, Parliament, and Mother England, there were the people who wanted to stay

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    Submitted: June 19, 2012 Essay by people
  • Identify Reasons for the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War

    Identify Reasons for the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War

    Essay Item 1 (Essay-1) Objective: Identify reasons for the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War. Given: There were several eventful reasons for the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Two of those reasons consisted of the Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party Question Stem: What were some of the reasons for the Declaration of Independence? Place instructions in the space below. Be EXPLICIT about the unit of measurement required (gallons, inches, etc.), the

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    Submitted: June 22, 2012 Essay by KrstiAS
  • World War 2 - D-Day Case

    World War 2 - D-Day Case

    "You are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you...I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle." (archives.gov) This quote shows the great amount of planning and passion that was put into the D-day invasion. D-day was the best strategized invasion day in World War II because of the planning, the strategies, and because

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    Submitted: July 18, 2012 Essay by people
  • Cause of Cold War

    Cause of Cold War

    The Cause of Cold War "When Roosevelt and Stalin met in Tehran for the first time, there was little hint that 45 years argument would begin." Yet, the conflict between the US and Russia really deepened after Truman met Stalin at Potsdam for the first time. This eventually led to the conflict viral down to the Cold War. Truman's mismanagement of Stalin, from their first meeting to the conflict over Berlin, paved the road to

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    Submitted: July 22, 2012 Essay by ilollip
  • Cold War Case

    Cold War Case

    Betts, R. K. (2012). Conflict After the Cold War. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Betts writes about the Cold War has influenced in the world and what conflicts are created after it. There are many ideological arguments to define war and peace. The purpose of this book is analysing the role of power in terms of politics, military technology and strategy in the areas of peace and war. The research method is that the

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    Submitted: September 24, 2012 Essay by university
  • War in the Land of the Free

    War in the Land of the Free

    War in the Land of the Free Debate over homosexuality and religion has become the main center of controversy across the country. People chose to express their opinions differently and it may not always be in a positive way but we are all entitled to our first amendment, the freedom of speech. Although, there is only so much the amendment can permit until it becomes a crime. The Westboro Baptist Church, led by pastor Fred

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    Submitted: September 26, 2012 Essay by jaycool281
  • Women in Second World War

    Women in Second World War

    Women in the Second World War These women risked their lives in order to show the world what the war was doing to the people and to surrounding countries. They used their talent, passion, and dedication to produce historic material. Some women such as Toni Frissell took thousands of pictures "of nurses, front-line soldiers, WACs, African-American airmen, and orphaned children". Frissell worked for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar magazine where she mainly worked on fashion photography.

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    Essay Length: 330 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: October 2, 2012 Essay by mrmiyagi
  • How Much Are We Worth During War?

    How Much Are We Worth During War?

    In 1810, the United States' Gross National Product was 517 million dollars. By 1909, according to lecture, it had grown to $25,968 million. How did a nation of rural farmers evolve into an industrial heavyweight? Although there were many factors that allowed the U.S. economy to expand, the combined effect of railroad construction and maturation, the development of banking and financial structures and support from foreign capital flows allowed America to become a modern nation.The

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    Submitted: October 2, 2012 Essay by people
  • The French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War

    Tara Flanagan Mr. Perez APUSH W3 October 24, 2012 FRQ 1 The French and Indian War, beginning in 14, lasted seven long years and led to extreme tensions between Great Britain and the colonies. The French and Indian War began with the tensions between the colonists, Great Britain, and France and ended in a more strenuous relationship between Great Britain and the radical colonists who pushed the colonies to a revolution even though many were

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    Submitted: November 14, 2012 Essay by taraflanagan
  • World War 1 - Leading up to World War 2

    World War 1 - Leading up to World War 2

    The instability created in Europe by the First World War (1914-18) set the stage for another international conflict-World War II-which broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove

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    Submitted: November 19, 2012 Essay by Hearty
  • African Americans; Civil War Era

    African Americans; Civil War Era

    Pfeifer, Michael J. "The Northern United States and the Genesis of Racial Lynching: The Lynching of African Americans in the Civil War Era." Journal of American History, Vol.97, No.3 (2010): 621-635. This article describes the brutal lynching of African Americans during the Civil War Era. Remaking of the nation during and after the civil war was a great challenge and not only a southern process but more so a national process. Southerners, Westerners, and Northerners

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    Submitted: November 19, 2012 Essay by tweety123
  • The Coffee Bean War

    The Coffee Bean War

    THE COFFEE BEAN WAR Starbucks VS Ethiopia - Essay Copyright & Media Law In 2004 the charity organisation Oxfam started a co-operational agreement with Starbucks, the giant American coffee shop franchiser. This agreement saw to both provide support to coffee farmers in Ethiopia as well as part wider attempts to reduce poverty in the country. The Ethiopian government tried to file copyright applications in 2006 to trademark its most famous coffee bean names . Securing

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    Submitted: November 20, 2012 Essay by Smileys
  • War Is an Abomination

    War Is an Abomination

    War is an abomination. War is very much evil, but is it necessary? In an ideal world killing fellow humans would not be necessary. Destroying lives, homes, and innocence, is not right. But what if it is the only choice? What if more lives and liberty depend on war? Then is it necessary? In some cases, such as World War 2, it was apparent that we had to intervene. If not, millions of lives would

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    Submitted: November 29, 2012 Essay by aharcrow
  • What Were the Cold War Fears of the American People in the Aftermath of the Second World War?

    What Were the Cold War Fears of the American People in the Aftermath of the Second World War?

    The aftermath of the Second World War was supposed to be filled with newfound peace and international compromises but these hopes were soon shattered by the rise of the Cold War. The Cold War was a non-combative struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union to emerge as the greatest superpower in terms of weaponry and wealth. Both nations were engaged in this nuclear arm race where both sides were equipped with highly modernized

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    Submitted: December 4, 2012 Essay by candirulz
  • Civil War Negotiations

    Civil War Negotiations

    In our nations young history the Civil War was a major turning point that has created our modern day society of all men being free to pursue a life in which they dream. I will be discussing the arguments of both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis (first and only president of the confederate states) in order to understand the distributive bargaining that ultimately failed and led to the Civil War. Ultimately, both sides of the

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    Submitted: December 11, 2012 Essay by aknelson2010
  • Mexican Drug War

    Mexican Drug War

    A war has been raging in Mexico's border towns for nearly a decade as rival drug cartels battle for regional control and the smuggling routes to America. However, the Mexican government has declared its own war on the ruthless drug barons. Since Felipe Calderón took office in 2006, violence seemed to have run out of control as the only result from Mexico's military interventions appears to be an escalation of the killings. Drug trafficking organizations

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    Submitted: December 13, 2012 Essay by NissanGTR550
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    The cold war changed the military's outlook on how war could be fought. By having, other countries along with the United States develop nuclear bombs that can instantly destroy a country. This put fear in Americans and others because at any moment lives could be taken. Military leaders have had to make better decisions on uses weapons of massive destruction. America was focused on redeveloping Europe's military defenses but Asia was not a top priority

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    Essay Length: 250 Words / 1 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2012 Essay by casalex99
  • Banana Wars

    Banana Wars

    I. View point The people behind the following organizations and countries are responsible for the problem: Word Trade Organization, European Union and lastly United States. II. Time context I choose to deal with the past time facts * European Union's imposed tariffs and quotas on lands that were former colonies of the Europe. * The new rules were profitable for the European Union's but it affected the US based companies on these countries (Latin America

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    Submitted: January 12, 2013 Essay by mimeow
  • Role of Intel During World War II

    Role of Intel During World War II

    Role of Intel during World War II Before World War II the United States was said to the world's only great power without an intelligence organization. There were agencies that collected intelligence, but there was no agency that had any overall authority. The British at the time were extremely successful; they had the abilities to crack even the highest German encryptions. The Brits then urged the United States to generate a centralized intelligence organization; shortly

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    Submitted: February 3, 2013 Essay by taina

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