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Hiroshima, The World Is No Lon
<view this essay>.... August 2,1939 Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the President of the United States of America warning him of the advancements that him and his fellow scientists were coming upon. In his letter he described the possibilities of what they were about to create. He described all of his thoughts to the president, about what great things their dream could be used for, and what horrible things it could bring in its development.
The first three physicists to create a nuclear chain reaction were Enrico Fermi, Italian-American; Leo Szilard, Hungarian; and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French. Enrico Fermi was born in Rome on September 21, 1901. He contributed in the creat .....
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Martin Luther King Jr And Malcolm X
<view this essay>.... where the seeds of bitterness were planted. The burning of his house by the Ku Klux Klan resulted in the murder of his father. His mother later suffered a nervous breakdown and his family was split up. He was haunted by this early nightmare for most of his life. From then on, he was driven by hatred and a desire for revenge.
The early backgrounds of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were largely responsible for the distinct different responses to American racism. Both men ultimately became towering icons of contemporary African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believin .....
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Deterioration Of The American-
<view this essay>.... this provisional government to be "pledged to the holding of free and unfettered elections as soon as possible." After the war, the Soviet Union set up a puppet government in Poland and the free elections promised them never surfaced. For liberated Europe in general, the conference promised "interim governmental authorities broadly representative of all democratic elements in the population and pledged to the earliest possible establishment through free elections of governments responsive to the will of the people." Stalin agreed to that concession thinking that the libe4rated European nations would see the Soviet Union as their saviors and create their own c .....
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The Puritans And The Salem Witch Trials
<view this essay>.... privilege to settle and govern an English colony in the Massachusetts Bay area of North America. In 1630 John Winthrop, a lawyer, directed one thousand English colonists to Massachusetts Bay.
"The Church of England had been established a century before John Winthrop and the other colonists arrived at Massachusetts Bay. In 1531, King Henry VIII had the English Parliament declare that the king, not the Pope, was the head of the church in England."1 With that statement, the religious movement called "The Reformation" began to spread across northern Europe. The Reformation led to the formation of a religious group called Protestants. In the decade that followed .....
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Oda Nobunaga
<view this essay>.... had become disorganized. The only thing that seemed to be intact was the culture. Throughout this confusing period, culture continued to grow and flourish. Underneath all the chaos, two young men, Nobunaga and Hideyoshi rose to political control. This marked the end of the hundred years of conflict and the Azuchi-Momoyama period began in 1568.
was not all glamorous and powerful from the start. He was born in 1934 in Nagoya into an obscure family. His family was a sublineage of a deputy military governor (shugodai) house in Owari Province since about 1400. Though his father Nobuhide was a vassal of the Kiyosu branch of the Oda, he was actually .....
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Bangladesh
<view this essay>.... as a nation of while fighting a war against the central Pakistani government. was soon recognized by most other nations. was admitted to the United Nations in 1974.
Most of lies within the broad delta formed by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers and is exceedingly flat, low-lying, and has annual flooding. Much fertile soil is deposited by the floodwaters. The only significant area of hilly terrain, constituting less than one-tenth of the nation's territory, is the Chittagong. Rivers are an important feature of the landscape in .
The climate of is of the tropical monsoon variety. In all areas about 80 percent of the annual rainfall typically occurs in the .....
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Apple Computers
<view this essay>.... the bicycle of the mind. Low cost computers for everyone."
From the first day on the founders of Apple kept their vision intact, and they spoke it at every turn. They only hired people into the company that had the same visions as they did.
In early 1976 Wozniak and Jobs finish work on a preassembled computer circuit board. It has no Product keyboard, case, sound or graphics. They call it the Apple I. They form the Apple Computer Company on April Fool's Day and sold the Apple I board for $666.66 at the Home brew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.
In 1977 the Apple II is available to the general public. Fully assembled and pretested, it includes 4K of .....
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Chernobyl, What Happened
<view this essay>.... with the emergency cooling system turned off, they made six fatal errors which sealed everyone's fate. Soviet officials clamed that if the technicians would have avoided at least one of those mistakes, then the plant could have been saved. The technicians began the test one day before the explosion. They started reducing the reactor's power level so they could run the turbine experiment. However in order for the plant to run at lower power they had to turn off the automatic control system, which powered all emergency limitations that the plant should make in case it goes out of control. Turning of the cooling system was an unnecessary action and though it .....
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