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Trench Warfare On The Western Front

... trench conditions. The trenches developed into such elaborate systems of defense and communication; so complicated that only the birds and young flying aces could appreciate their complexity. Millions of soldiers on both sides confronted each other from below ground level. Trenches were zig-zagged in the ground which made them harder to destroy from enemy artillery. As well, this was an intelligent defensive tactic because if one section of a trench was to be captured, the “zig-zag” prevented enemy soldiers from firing down t ...

Number of words: 860 | Number of pages: 4

Mi Vida Loca

... in Echo Park. It is a rough life with almost every “homegirl” having a baby by the time they are twenty-one and almost every “homeboy” being handicapped, killed, or in jail by the time they reach their early twenties. The girls try to become autonomous from the men in their lives by forming their own female gang. The gang culture of reflects and constructs culturally understood gender roles. The basic plot is based around two Chicano girls and their childhood lives. The movie is split up into three episodes. Maribel “Mo ...

Number of words: 1692 | Number of pages: 7

Reasons America Declared War On Germany

... of American neutrality was a big part in America’s decision to declare war on Germany. One way in which they violated American neutrality was through the use of the U-boats. These boats were the cause of the deaths of numerous Americans who were in no way associated with the war. Germany once again failed to respect America’s neutrality when it sank the Lusitania, a boat containing not only British but American citizens. These incidents outraged the American public. President Wilson chose to do nothing violent about them at fi ...

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Battle Of Saratoga

... General Barry St. Leger would serve as a diversionary attack, moving eastward from Canada along the Mohawk River. General Howe would be expected to direct the third element of the attack. According to the plan, Howe would direct General Henry Clinton to move northward along the Hudson River and link up with Burgoyne in Albany. The goal of this plan was to isolate and destroy the Continental forces of New England. Initially, the British plan appeared to be working. Burgoyne's army continually pushed back the Americans southward along ...

Number of words: 705 | Number of pages: 3

Civil War 8

... American Civil War. Slavery started out, as a few individual slaves coming from England that were generally white. This changed however, and soon the Southern slave traders began 'stealing' blacks to take back to the South. The slaves were forced to work 16-hour days, slave women were only seen as breeders and there were no laws against the rape of a female slave. In 1860 slaves accounted for one third of the South's population and even still they had no rights (see appendix one). The Unionist North many people believed it was im ...

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Ancient Rome

... wars. After type of government, the change has been made with a civil war. There have also been many civil wars between rulers. But it all boils down to wanting to be involved in government. When the Greeks finally entered Troy after ten long years of siege, a man named Aeneas escaped the city with his father, Anchises, and his son, Ascanius. They went to Mt. Ida, where they were to meet Aeneas' wife, Creusa, but she never showed up. Saddened, Aeneas acquired a boat and sailed around the Mediterranean. He bounced around from Asia Minor to G ...

Number of words: 4373 | Number of pages: 16

Persian Gulf Crisis

... one of the worst mistakes he could have made for his own reputation and for his country. The invasion of Kuwait as well as the world's response to it, the environmental disaster it caused, and the degradation of Iraq were completely the fault one man and his government: Saddam Hussein and his Baath Government. One of Hussein's weaknesses is negotiating. Negotiating in his terms is to fight it out with as much carnage as possible until his side comes out "victoriously". Repeatedly, Saddam and his government break international convention ...

Number of words: 1758 | Number of pages: 7

Civil Affair

... countries suffered from many problems that neither the United States nor Spain had to endure. In Central America both El Salvador and Guatemala had conditions that were conducive to violent civil war. El Salvador is a small country in Central America. Coffee production is the major source of income for the country. With this much importance on one crop, the country began to expand the production of coffee. As coffee production grew, there was less and less land available for the every day farmer to use for crops to feed his family and ...

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Events Leading To The American

... duty to submit and patiently bear them, till they will be pleased to relieve us....". This is a very strong dictum, that in 1764, the colonists were of a submissive nature, and were weakly pleading for self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge conflagration as the rights are slowly rescinded. On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. "I.That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance t ...

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Saddam Hussien War

... loss of billions of dollars in Iraq's annual revenue. Saddam Hussein had the nearly hopeless task of justifying the invasion. He plead the fact that Kuwait had been part of the Ottoman province of Basra, a city in the south of Iraq. However, the Ottoman province collapsed after World War I and today's Iraqi borders were not created until then. There was also a further and more obvious blunder in a bid to justify this illegal invasion. Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, had namely recognized Kuwaiti independence in 1963. Furthermore, Hussein cl ...

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The Holocaust

... and hated by many people all around the world. The physically and mentally challenged, the Gypsies, the homosexuals, the prostitutes, and mostly the Jews despised the Nazis, which were a symbol of hate and despised by these groups. On March thenth in the year ninteen hundred and thirty three, the first concentration camp is set up at Dachau. In April of that year, Hitler began to boycott Jewish owned shops. Later that month, the first anti-Jewish law was passed in Germany. A couple of years later, the Jews slowly began to loose their right ...

Number of words: 1487 | Number of pages: 6

Racism In America

... could be life threatening. Racism, in definition, is "the belief that humanity is divided into stratified genetically different socks called races; according to it’s adherent’s racial differences make one group superior to another." (Ethics; Walker, Randolph Meade, 722) If you are a racist, you believe in racism. Racists will often claim that members of their own race or minority are "mentally, physically, morally and/or culturally superior to those of other races." (The World Book Encyclopedia; Pettigrew, Thomas F., ...

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