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New Trend For Horror Films
Words: 788 - Pages: 3.... long time. It's not the standard Slash and hack horror movie that most of us have grown up with, remember the guy with the hockey mask that just would not die. Scary at age of eleven but quit laughable now. This movie puts a new twist on things without the buckets of blood and gore displayed in the horror films of the past. The misleading promotion before the film's release and the prologue at the beginning of the film have us beliving what we see is a true account of three student filmakers that disappeared while making a documentary about a legendary witch. What hooks the audience and draws them in, is the excellant storyline and the t .....
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Korean War 2
Words: 1426 - Pages: 6.... elections to be held in all of Korea to decide one government for the country. However, North Korea refused to take part in the elections and didn't allow it. So on May 10, 1948, South Korea voted for a national assembly which set up the Republic of Korea. On September 9, North Korea set up the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. North and South Korea claimed the whole country and their troops fought several times between 1948-1950. The US removed it's troops from South Korea in 1949. It also said that Korea was outside of US defense line. North Korea saw it's chance for military action to take over South Korea.
In June 1950, No .....
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Ku Klux Klan
Words: 461 - Pages: 2.... black state militias against the Klan. In many areas Democratic law-enforcement officials were themselves Klan members or sympathizers. Even where local officers took action, Klan members sat on juries and acquitted accused night riders.
By 1871 the violence was so serious that Republicans in Congress gave President Ulysses S. Grant authority to use national troops to restore order in affected districts. Faced with trained soldiers empowered to arrest suspects and hold them without trial, the Klan collapsed with surprising swiftness. Although Southern whites resorted to violence to regain control of their states from 1874 to 1877, the Kl .....
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French Revolution 5
Words: 1071 - Pages: 4.... as fast as it should have been.
Then needs of an increasing population were not being met.
Governmet was inefficient and unrepresentative. Economic
problems made the heavy tax exempt but neary so, while the
peasents and middle classes were subjected to greater and
greater burdens. Crops falied, and trade was stagnant.
The people could no longer be taxed, but the government
faced bankruptcy unless new revenues were found. The only
soulution was to tax the privileged classes. But they were
jealoous of their privileged posistion. Altought they were
not completely unwilling to contribute some additional
taxes, th .....
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Chernobyl Revisted
Words: 412 - Pages: 2.... Chernobyl was not just one explosion it was
in fact two. The first was caused by a high pressure of steam which caused
the structure to blow apart. The second was the reactor core blowing.
Nearby neighbor of Tribneat (mainly the workers town) thought that the
explosion was just an everyday steam discharge, while it was an awfully
large discharge. 31 firefighter tried helplessely to put out the blast, of
the 31 1 survived. When asked why they fought the fire instead of not, he
replied who else would of put the fire out it was his job. When the
surface fire was put out there was yet another problem. The reactor core
was still a b .....
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The National Anthem
Words: 563 - Pages: 3.... bombs that was being discharged. The smoke from the discharge of the bombs made it very difficult to see anything in the night sky, but him and the people that accompanied him at Fort McHenry knew that if they could still see the flag that the United States still was holding their ground. This gave Key some ideas for , because at times in the battle he could not see the American flag through the mist, and drizzle, even though the night was lit by βthe bombs bursting in air.β In the morning to his relief, Key saw that the American flag was still flying above Fort McHenry. He took out a letter that he had in his pocket to write down the .....
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K.k.k.
Words: 2350 - Pages: 9.... support The Birth of a Nation opened to audiences around the country in March of 1915 and ran for 47 straight weeks including 280 sold out shows in New York.
D.W. Griffith's film spawned a new generation of the KKK. William Simmons was the first to seize upon the white supremacist feeling that swept the nation. On Thanksgiving night in 1915, Simmons and some of his friends climbed Stone Mountain in Atlanta, Georgia. There, they stood before, "β¦a burning wooden cross and before a hastily constructed rock altar upon which lay an American flag, an opened Bible, an unsheathed sword and a canteen of water." From that moment on, the K .....
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History Of Kosovo- Related To
Words: 2313 - Pages: 9.... providing an accurate description of the status quo. Finally, the Balance of Power Theory will be employed in a prospective manner, to offer a solution to the situation in terms of actually creating a balance of power within the country of Bosnia.
I. Definitions of Terms for the Purpose of this Essay
A. Neo Realism
B. Balance of Power Theory (BOP)
C. Power Transition (PT)
II. Retroactive Application of Theory
A. History of Kosovo Situation
B. How BOP/PT Theory Explains Kosovo Conflict
III. Immediate Application of Theory
A. How Status Quo is Represented by BOP Theory
IV. Prospective Application of Theory
A. Wh .....
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Comparison Of Trade Rivalries
Words: 531 - Pages: 2.... are just some of the factors that helped German industry
grow and rival that of Great Britain.
These four factors are all very similar to the Japan-U.S.
trade rivalry. Japan like Germany was able to catch up to the U.S.
because the U.S. was large and arrogant and refused to believe it
could face competition from Japan. Like Britain, U.S. industry
believed that they could hold onto markets and would not face
competition. British and U.S. industry were startled by the fast rate
of growth and industrialization that allowed Germany and Japan to
transform themselves quickly into trading rivals. This fast ra .....
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Marine Corps
Words: 1539 - Pages: 6.... States . Every Marine has gone through boot camp, each sacrificing blood, sweat, and tears. One thing that has never deteriorated in their years of existence is the fact that they have yet to lose a war they have put effort in. Is this exceptional record due to their extensive training? Is it because of their aggressive nature and mindset? What is to follow may shed some light on these questions and perhaps give some type of insight on how the was so prevailing and what conflicts had they had conquered. 1775, November 10th. This date is memorized and celebrated by every United States Marine as something of excellence, a date of honor. Th .....
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