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Vietnam War

Anti-Vietnam Movement in the U.S. The antiwar movement against Vietnam in the US from 1965-1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. The United States first became directly involved in Vietnam in 1950 when President Harry Truman started to underwrite the costs of ...

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Welcome To The Monkey House

Erin Lowe- also author of many \"outstanding\" American History essays.... of which two are published somewhere here..... one about Peter Noyes, and another about Mercantilism..... \"Books won\'t stay banned. They won\'t burn. Ideas won\'t go to jail… In the long run of history, the censor and the ...

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US History

AP US History Review 2009 Session #4 Progressivism-Truman Includes the following chapters from The American Pageant (12th edition): Ch 29-37 Ch 29 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912 Progressivism: The "real heart" of the progressive movement was effort by reformers to - ...

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Joining the National Guard

The thing what has significantly influenced me was joining the National Guard. I have been in the NATIONAL GUARD for eleven years. I joined the NATIONAL GUARD 07 November 2000. I left for basic training 10 July 2001 a month after I graduated high school. I was seventeen and a senior in high ...

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Men and Women: Opposites or Not?

Mankind’s Great Question: Men and Women: Opposites or Not? Imagine an early 1930’s household. You see kids playing in the street or the backyard with their friends, a father just returning home from doing his duties as a man and providing for the family, and a mother whom is filling her role as ...

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Men And Women 2

Whoever said men and women are equal must be blind. Women have always taken a back seat to men in American society. This occurrence is not only found in the United States, but in other countries as well. It's safe to say that the Declaration of Independence started it, and it has continued to ...

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Inequality Of The Sexes

Whoever said men and women are equal must have been blind. Women have always taken a back seat to men in American society. This occurrence is not only found in the United States, but in other countries as well. It's safe to say that the Declaration of Independence started it and it has continued ...

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Roswell Incident

Almost fifty years ago, an incident occurred in the southwestern desert of the United States that could have significant implications for all mankind. The incident was announced by the U.S. military, and denied by the U.S. military, and has remained covered-up in the government for the past fifty ...

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Gateway To Heaven" - Tiananmen

"Ouch, je je I'm telling mamma!" I yelled in agony, rubbing the imprint her book left on my head. "No you're not, she won't believe you; I'm older," snickered my sister, and with that she ran up the crowded walkway; which in the morning hour, looked much like a stampede of bulls. As I walked ...

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Gambling: Losing The Gamble

About nine years ago, I was out on the town doing some gambling. It was my night out; the wife already had hers. I did okay for awhile–up some and down some. As the night wore on, I started drinking and gambling more and became unconcerned with time. Oh, I knew it was getting late, and I was ...

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The Children Left Behind

During the ten year period of the United States involvement in Vietnam, some of the United States soldiers and civilians stationed in Vietnam fathered thousands of children with Vietnamese women. These children (Amerasians) that were left behind had distinct American physical features. Because of ...

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Men And Women

Whoever said are equal must be blind. Women have always taken a back seat to men in American society. This occurrence is not only found in the United States, but in other countries as well. It's safe to say that the Declaration of Independence started it, and it has continued to the present. ...

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The Christian Gospels

The Christian Bible has been a mainstay in society for the past two thousand years. At the heart of this ancient work, one finds the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These Gospels serve as a religious foundation for Christianity as well as a historical record of the time. Faithful ...

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Letter To The Front

Goethe-Str. 34 10115 Berlin, Germany Feburary 25th, 1916 Dear Mom and Dad, Hi Mom and Dad, how are things on the farm? Have you heard from Laura yet? She still hasn’t wrote me anything since I left for the war. Are the kids doing ok? They arent giving you any trouble are they? Before I ...

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All Quiet On The Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque’s , a novel set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque’s protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More ...

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Labor And Unions In America

The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would be built there in the next 10 years. The machinery to spin and weave cotton into cloth would be driven by water power. ...

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Great Expectations

There are many common, familiar clichés about illusion versus truth. "All that glitters is not gold" and "Things are seldom what they seem" are the most universal hackneyed phrases, but they do not cover entirely every aspect of appearance versus reality. In Charles Dickens' novel, , there ...

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Irene Joliot-curie

Irene Curie was a brilliant dedicated scientist who accomplished many things throughout her life but was overshadowed by those around her throughout her life. She was overshadowed by Nobel laureate parents Maire and Pierre Curie, by co-laureate and husband Jean Frederick Joliot, by her physicist ...

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Labor In America

The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would be built there in the next 10 years. The machinery to spin and weave cotton into cloth would be driven by water ...

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott

changed the way people lived and reacted to each other. The American civil rights movement began a long time ago, as early as the seventeenth century, with blacks and whites all protesting slavery together. The peak of the civil rights movement came in the 1950's starting with the successful ...

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