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Manhattan Project
<view this essay>.... and it's atomic research. On account of the fear of Germany the United States took action upon testing their own atomic bomb. Once the bomb was tested, the United States had to decide whether it should be used and if so, where? Then there was the process of dropping the bomb. The was overall one of the highest and most significant projects ever done in the United States.2 The United States government was shocked by the news of German scientists discovering nuclear fission. The news came to the United States from Albert Einstein. Einstein found out the nuclear fission information from a German physicist named Leo Szilard. He then told it to President Frankli .....
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New Orleans - Before The Civil War
<view this essay>.... and levees has been built to protect the city from flooding.
New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville, and named for the regent of France, Philippe II, duc d'Orleans. It remained a French colony until 1763, when it was transferred to the Spanish. In 1800, Spain ceded it back to France; in 1803, New Orleans, along with the entire Louisiana Purchase, was sold by Napoleon I to the United States. It was the site of the Battle of New Orleans (1815) in the War of 1812. During the Civil War the city was besieged by Union ships under Adm. David Farragut; it fell on Apr. 25, 1862.
And that's what it say's in the books, a bi .....
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The Shining
<view this essay>.... with a statement to the effect that, “ These things come and go but they are unexplainable”. This juncture of the film is a starting point for one of the central themes of the film which is : how a fragile family unit is besieged by unusual forces both natural and supernatural which breaks and possesses and unites with the morally challenged father while the mother and the child through their innocence, love, and honesty triumph over these forces.
One motif which reappears in the film is the power of nature, especially in relation to the individual. In fact, the film begins with a majestic shot of the Rocky Mountains showing its beauty and height. T .....
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Alexander Hamilton And The National Debt
<view this essay>.... Hamilton's purpose was to get rid off national debt and he seemed to stop at nothing to change this.
Hamilton wanted to fund the national debt by issuing new bonds. He wanted to assume state debts to equalize the financial burden of war and put America on a sound economy. He wanted to create a national bank. This bank would be a collecting point for federal taxes as well as issue currency. The protective tariff plan was a plan that didn't work. It was supposed to place a tax on imported goods, in hopes of protecting American manufacturers. Congress did not pass this bill. This did not stop Hamilton. He came up with another plan to raise money, an e .....
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America
<view this essay>.... youth as adults and sentence them as such", etc.
The truth is that you can build more prisons until half of is locked up, and the other half their victims. Longer sentences are no cure-all. Time has no more power to change a man than space does. Five or fifteen years really matters not, because for whatever reasons a person commits a crime and is sent to prison, there is no rehabilitation. The hostility of a prison environment that serves as little more than a warehouse to store bodies in, works to harden the character of the person forced to survive in it, and when the time comes to release this person, he/she is released back into society without any rehabil .....
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Birth Of Nazism
<view this essay>.... With the loss of the war, came the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles. Within the treaty, many demands of Germany were made which nearly raped her of her economic capacities. Industries had suffered, causing great unemployment. With this unemployment came inflation as well. The hardships posed upon the country not only harmed her economically, but socially too. The state of the people was equally harsh. Stripped of any sign of nationalism that may have once reigned within them, there was very little to have pride in. They were the joke of Europe, not to mention the brutal force which had caused the hardships within her neighbors as well. Leader .....
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Cultural Revolution Of The 1920s
<view this essay>.... Scopes trial received worldwide publicity. The press nicknamed it the Monkey Trial because, people believed that the theory of evolution meant that humans were descended from monkeys. Clarence Darrow was the defense lawyer. Former U.S. secretary of state William Jennings Bryan was the prosecutor. The defense argued that the Butler Act was unconstitutional. They did not deny that Scopes had broken the law. He was convicted and fined $100. Darrow was quoted as saying, "Scopes isn't on trial, civilization is on trial." The world was changing and scientific advances made it harder to fully accept the Bible's interpretation of creation. The older generation seem .....
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US Intervention In Haiti
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as there occurred a military coup under the leadership of Lt. Gen. Rauol
Cedras which overthrew the popularly elected civilian government of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
What followed were a series of ineffective embargoes and failed
negotiations led by the US, the OAS and the UN culminating in a US led
invasion of Haiti. The US government has played a large, and at times
indefensible, role in the events that took place and they were backed by
groups such as the CIA, the Pentagon and US backed international aid
organizations like USAID. Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton both
focussed constantly upon short range goals such as winning the .....
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