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Roswell
1911 Words - 7 Pages.... top-secret project and that the army would be the best authority for the situation. The Army checked and found that, in fact, no secret projects had been performed in that location. Jesse Marcel and Captain Sheridan Cavitt decided to drive to the farm outside of Corona, New Mexico and look at the crash site for themselves. Upon seeing the crash site, they mutually decided that the wreckage was not from this world and that they must alert the Pentagon. The Pentagon already knew by this time what was happening in , and General Clemence McMullen told Army Air Field that they must cover up the whole story.
Thus the government of the United States decided to lie to its citizens. ....
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Civil Disobedience
3688 Words - 14 Pages.... to freedom.
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. had faith in his beliefs of equality, and that all people, regardless of race should be free and governed under the same laws. In the later part of the 1960's, Birmingham, Alabama, the home of King, was considered to be the most racially divided city in the South. "Birmingham is so segregated, we're within a cab ride of being in Johannesburg, South Africa", 1 when King said this he was only speaking half jokingly. In Birmingham the unwritten rule towards blacks was that "if the Klan doesn't stop you, the police will."2 When King decided that the time had come to end the racial hatred, or at least end the violence, he chose t ....
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Reasons For The Fall Of Socialism/Communism In Russia
3216 Words - 12 Pages.... his militia, he began a series of five year programs which would force the average farmer to meet a quota by the end of the harvest and then have the state subsidize all of the production. This system, aptly named collectivization, reprimanded all of the average worker's liberties and created great suffering during the Stalin regime. Such suffering was magnified during an anti-war treaty that Stalin had signed with Hitler's Germany in an effort to avoid a confrontation with the Nazi military. However, Hitler violated this treaty in an effort to dominate all of Europe and was denied at the expense of millions of Soviet lives who fought for freedom against his tyranny. ....
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The Tribulations Of Sharecrop Farmers
680 Words - 3 Pages.... saw the tenant farmer's houses as mere huts on the
verge of collapse. To add to the list of utility problems was the usual
pools of water which surrounded the structure(Walker 17). Water troubles
did not just stop on the outside with the moat, but many homes also had
leaky roofs to add to the repair list (Walker pg. 46). Travelers were also
able to notice that in the 1930's that doors and windows of farmers homes
were rarely screened(Jones 55). The shoddy houses that they lived in could
not be helped, but it did not improve there defenses against disease.
Being so open to disease by the housing, it was no surprise that
various illnesses struck the south with a vengean ....
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Aboriginal Beliefs
1757 Words - 7 Pages.... bound to the natural world.
The basis of Aboriginal religion revolves around their sacred mythology known as “The Dreamtime”. The Dreamtime specifically refers to the period of time when the creators made the territory of a tribe and all it contained. It was a period when patterns of living were established and laws were laid down for human beings to follow. The Dreamtime is linked with many aspects of Aboriginal practise, including rituals, storytelling and Aboriginal lore, and explains the origin of the universe, the workings of nature and the nature of humanity, and the cycle of life and death. It shapes and structures Aboriginal life by controlling kinship, c ....
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America: One Nation
1463 Words - 6 Pages.... And like a heavyweight title fight, they were the TKO punches. “VICTORY!!!” America had defeated the world.
After the war finished, the Axis powers were penalized. Russia felt deprived of suitable compensation. She felt the world was out to destroy her and the Communist Party. She began to make advances towards the surrounding countries. The Truman Doctrine was written to deter the Red spread from Greece. This Doctrine “committed the United States to permanent European presence (Lecture 28, D4).” This meant the U.S. would need to keep a strong military at hand. The Government sought to maintain its’ military dominance, and further the development of the a ....
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Generation X
557 Words - 3 Pages.... an entire generation of variables. This is partially true, only
because my peers and I don't have a specific issue which brings us
together. We have no war to oppose, no music calling for us to unite,
nothing cohesive which binds us as a generation. We are instead like
the molecules of some unknown gas: spread out, each floating in its own
way, occasionally colliding, but as a whole not really traveling in any
particular direction.
It is my perception that the label of Generation X has come to be almost
exclusively condescending. I consider myself an avid reader of news
periodicals, Time, Newsweek, etc., which often deal with the generation
gap that exists today f ....
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Comparing Britain To Japan
1096 Words - 4 Pages.... The establishment of the Japanese archipelago assumed its present shape around 10,000 years ago. Soon after the era known as the Jomon period began and continued for about 8,000 years. Gradually they formed small communities and began to organize their lives communally. Japan can be said to have taken its first steps to nationhood in the Yamato period, which began at the end of the third century AD. During this period, the ancestors of the present Emperor began to bring a number of small estates under unified rule from their bases around what are now Nara and Osaka Prefectures. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Tokugawa Ieyasu set up a government in E ....
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