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Words: 414 - Pages: 2.... people lost their lives. The only way for the armies to have some type of protection from the machine guns was to dig trenches. Someone even said that the most important weapon the soldiers had was their shovel. In the following years many waves of charges were made over the top of No Mans Land and nearly every single one was shot down and died. This type of warfare had never ever been seen by the army and some people claimed that it wasn't war of strength it was a war of attrition, that is that the winner would be the person with more people and supplies. In between the trenches was an area called No Mans Land, this was an area in which if .....
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Vietnam War - The Conflict In Vietnam
Words: 1515 - Pages: 6.... that had lasted for fifty - f! ive days, the French surrendered. Ho Chi Minh led the war against France and won. After the war there was a conference in Geneva where Vietnam was divided into two parts along the seventeenth parallel. North Vietnam was mainly Communist and supported Ho Chi Minh, while the south was supported by the United States and the French were based there. There was still some Communist rebels within South Vietnam. These were the Viet Cong. The South Vietnam ruler was Ngo Dinh Diem who was anti - Communist. At the conference, Laos and Cambodia became independent states.
North Vietnam wished to unify North and South .....
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American Revolution
Words: 954 - Pages: 4.... representation in Parliament. When England denied them representation, the Colonists decided to fight their colonizer for political freedom. Making the the first anti-colonial, democratic revolution in history. With the battle cry of “ No taxation without representation”, Americans went to war and it is from this violent uproar that the United States of America was born. The “thirteen” colonies which would later become the Unites States of America were originally colonies of Great Britain. By the time that the took place, the citizens of these colonies were beginning to grow weary with Britain’s rule. Rebellion and discont .....
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The Irish Republican Army And British Rule
Words: 619 - Pages: 3.... was destroying us. We must
get the English out of Ireland."
The British forces consistently dismantled the Irish from their positions
while bitter street fighting took place in Dublin. Approximately a
thousand Irish men and women set out to capture Irelands freedom on that
April morning. Within six days the rising ended. The Irish had to
surrender after losing too many men. Afterwards the British brought the
leaders of the uprising before trial. Most of the leaders like Thomas
McDonagh, Patrick Pearce James Connolly and Thomas Clark were all executed
by a firing squad. Expect for de Valera, who was not executed because he
was an Americ .....
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The Battle Of Antietam
Words: 318 - Pages: 2.... victory were
certain and there were no Confederate reserves remaining to oppose their
advance. Too much time had been wasted and the last Confederate division,
that had been left at Harper’s Ferry to supervise the surrender of the
garrison, was approching the battlefield. They came upon the flank of the
Union forces and drove them back.
At the end Confederate generals urged Robert E. Lee to retreat, but
he refused. At dawn, on the 18th, the army was still there inviting
attack. Although more then 10,000 additional Union troops reached the
battlefield McClellan made no move. Lee had had read McClellan’s mind, he
also knew his ow .....
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Conflicts Of Opinions In The Government
Words: 491 - Pages: 2.... for the backbone of the economy. The Federalist’s also favored a loose, general interpretation of the United States constitution. The Federalist’s also favored tariffs to protect good manufactured in the United States.
In contrast, Thomas Jefferson’s political views favored the common person. Jefferson believed that farmers were the most valuable citizens. His followers called themselves the Democratic Republicans. “Cultivators of the earth,” Jefferson wrote, “are the most valuable citizens.” This belief could be due to the fact that he was a farmer himself. Jefferson thought that agriculture should be the backbone of th .....
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The Titanic
Words: 481 - Pages: 2.... the crew. had 16 watertight compartments helping to reduce the risk of sinking. To make the great ship it cost a roughly 7.5 million dollars. To buy a first-class ticket it was three thousand one hundred dollars. And a third-class ticket costs thirty-two dollars. The first-class lounge was designed after the palace at Versailles. ’s official name was the RMS Titanic which stands for Royal Mail Steamer.
April 10,1912 Titanic left the docks of Southampton, England and was headed to Cherbourg, France and then from France they left for Queenstown, England, from England to New York City.’s top speed was 23 knots. The morning before .....
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Albert Einstein
Words: 3249 - Pages: 12.... reigned in most German schools. The teachers weren't so happy about how Einstein was doing and once one of his teachers told him: "You know Einstein, you will never amount to anything." At the time his family's financial status had gone from bad to worse.
Teenage Years and Graduation:
Einstein's relatives in Northern city of Milan in Italy, offered help to the family. At the time Einstein was at the age of fifteen when he decided to drop-out of high school and join his family to travel to Milan. However he was expelled from school by the principal; he (the principal) said:" on the grounds that his presence in the class is dis .....
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Lynchings In America
Words: 841 - Pages: 4.... victims were killed by mobs of their own race. In addition, other societies such as Ancient Rome and Greece, Germany, China, Nigeria, and East Africa lynched their own. It is for this reason that Mr. Schwarz believes lynchings cannot be explained only in terms of racism and paranoid "white psyche". To find the true reason, we must consider a different point of view. According to Mr. Schwarz, in the late 19th century, there arose in the South a large proportion of transient black men who, as their labor became expendable in an increasingly industrial and commercial economy, adopted a life of crime. In the article, Mr. Schwarz writes, " .....
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The Ultimate Revenge From Medea
Words: 865 - Pages: 4.... women are subservient to men. If a man thought that their wife is no longer pleasing them, the Greek Society allows the man to take another women in their bed. An example of this situation is when Medea’s husband, Jason, leaves her for Kroen’s daughter. By Jason leaving Medea for Kreon’s daughter, she falls into a desperate state of depression. She becomes emotionally and physically unstable. Her heart is engulfed with violent evil thoughts. Because of the Greek Societies values, Medea is unable to deal with the pain, which makes her heart revengeful. Another
example of the values of the Greek Society is that women were thought to .....
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