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  • Libral Italy

    Libral Italy

    On 10 JUNE 1940, Germany had been at war with Britain and France since the previous September, but Italy was still at peace, and had little reason to fear that any of the other powers would attack it. Germany was on the verge of winning the Battle of France, and France was likely to surrender very soon, and it seemed to many observers that Britain would then make peace. Perhaps Mussolini thought that Italy would

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    Submitted: May 21, 2010 By: Vika
  • Libraries

    Libraries

    Libraries are a fundamental part of our nation’s society. They have been a place where you can find literary and artistic materials, such as books, magazines, periodicals, and recordings, which are all available for viewing. From past to present, our history has revolved around these nationwide landmarks, whether it be from the history within the books or the place where the library is located. One such library is the historical Library of Congress. The Library

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    Submitted: May 7, 2010 By: Top
  • Library of Congress

    Library of Congress

    Sunday 30 September 2007 Library of Congress Today we had a discussion about the LOC in Washington DC in America. Dr. Taqreed has viewed us a ((Documentary film)) of this historian library. The Aim of establishment:- As the library considered a REASERCH ARM of the Congress, we can say that the creation of it was based on how United State can make decisions throughout the globe. On the other hand, the ambition of President Jefferson

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Jon
  • Lieutenant William Calley and the My Lai Massacre

    Lieutenant William Calley and the My Lai Massacre

    Lieutenant William Calley and the My Lai Massacre Very few things in our world bring about resentment, bewilderment, and anger as easily as the massacre of innocent civilians. It seems that the history of the Vietnam War includes some well known instances that involved the massacre of innocent people. This could be for many reasons, stress, anger, U.S. sentiments towards the war, and even plain hatred of the massacred people. The most infamous account

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Jack
  • Life

    Life

    My Brothers Nazi Life I was asleep in the middle of the night when I herd a sound coming from outside of my house I woke up and I ran to my brother’s room, he was sleeping in the bed with his girlfriend, I woke him up and said that I had herd a sounds outside the door, he said: “be quiet, do not make a sound”, I did as he said and then I

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    Submitted: May 16, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Life After the Great Depression

    Life After the Great Depression

    Life during the Great Depression The Great Depression was a recession that had affected every globalizing country. It started in 1929 with the Stock Market Crash, and it lasted throughout the 1930s. It caused many economic downturns. Unemployment and homelessness increased dramatically. Construction halted; farmers suffered and didn’t make a profit; mining and logging declined because there was no demand for it. The cause of the Great Depression are said to be many. But here

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Life and Death Displayed Through the Indian and Greek Cultures

    Life and Death Displayed Through the Indian and Greek Cultures

    Life and Death Displayed Through the Indian and Greek Cultures Hinduism, an ancient religion is one of the oldest in the world, evolving more that three thousand years ago. Indian and Greek cultures tend to have some similarities as well as some differences. Life and death are both equally important one to the other with these two cultures, but they seem to relate differently to these concepts. Exploration of these cultures concerning these concepts is

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    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Life at the Turn of the Century

    Life at the Turn of the Century

    Life at the turn of the century is getting better for many reasons. One reason is that there are new innovations in the field of photography. Another reason is that states are starting to require children to go to school. Lastly African Americans are fighting legal discrimination. One innovation in the field of photography is George Eastman (Eastman-Kodak) invented the first widely available camera. It cost only $25 for the camera which includes a roll

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Life During the Great Depression & Now

    Life During the Great Depression & Now

    LIFE DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND NOW The Great Depression was a huge economic disaster. The stock market crash of 1929, also known as “Black Tuesday”, was the start of the Great Depression. It began in 1929 and went into the late 1930’s. North America, Europe, and other industrialized nations were all involved in the Great Depression. Life during the Great Depression was unbearable for everyone. It had a tremendous impact on the whole entire

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Life During Westward Expansion

    Life During Westward Expansion

    In 1845, a fellow named John C. Calhoun coined the term “Manifest Destiny.” The term Manifest Destiny was a slogan for westward expansion during the 1840’s. In the west there was plenty of land, national security, the spread of democracy, urbanization, but there was also poverty out west. People moved out west in search for a new life such as a new beginning. Moving out west, settlers from the east were taking a risk of

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Top
  • Life Goes on

    Life Goes on

    Much that characterised Hollywood in the 1950s can be described as paradoxical and ambiguous due to anti-communist hysteria and the blacklist.’ How accurate is this statement in relation to two films of the 1950s? A lot has been made of the suggested subtexts present in High Noon and On the Waterfront, that they reflect the experiences of Carl Foreman (the writer of High Noon) and Elia Kazan with the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Foreman

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Max
  • Life in New York Tenement Houses

    Life in New York Tenement Houses

    OPTION 1 Life in New York Tenement Houses 1. What are the three distinct classes of homes in the tenement houses? In what ways does each reflect the needs and resources of the renters? There are three distinct classes of houses in the tenement-houses; the cheapest is the attic home. Three rooms is next and is usually for very poor people. The vast majority of respectable working people live in four rooms. Each of these

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: July
  • Life in the Trenches

    Life in the Trenches

    Life in the trenches during World War 1 were horrible. It was entirely unexpected for those eager thousands who signed up for war August 1914.The Great War- was a phrase coined even before it had begun. It was expected to be very short and like most wars a great movement. However The First World War was symbolized by its lack of movement, the years of stalemate exemplified on the Western Front from autumn 1914 until

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • Life in the U.S. After World War I

    Life in the U.S. After World War I

    Life in the U.S. After World War I World War I which was known as a war that ended all the other wars and as the Great War finally came to an end in 1918 changing life in many countries especially in the United States of America either in a negative or positive way. World War I was a war fought from the years 1914 to 1918 in Europe between members of the Triple

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Yan
  • Life Lessons

    Life Lessons

    Dear Mr. Albom Hi my name is Sigfreid Mendoza from Archbishop O’Leary high school. Im currently in grade 12 about to graduate and go to college next year. I’m am writing you this letter because after reading your book I felt inspired to go out there and work hard for my dreams. Also how you and Morrie made me realize that I have been making mistakes in my life based on Morrie’s life lessons. Your

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    Submitted: June 7, 2016 By: BoBBob16
  • Life of a Slave

    Life of a Slave

    Life of a Slave The life of a slave was not a pleasant one. They were subjected to some of the worst conditions of the time. They were deprived of most of civil rights and were considered barely humans; assumed to be mindless brutes. They were oppressed in almost every aspect of their life, but they were able to retaliate in their own way. After arriving in America, slaves were “broken in” before they were

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    Submitted: June 2, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Life on a Plantation

    Life on a Plantation

    Life on a Plantation The life on a plantation was different for different types of slaves. There were the Filed Slaves and House or Domestic slaves. Both slave types were treated very poorly and unfair. Their were severely beaten and punished, often for no reason. Female slaves were also often raped by their masters or by local village boys. They could not defend themselves because the punishment for that would be even more devastating. The

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Vika
  • Life on the Plantation

    Life on the Plantation

    Life on the Plantation African slavery started at the 16th century and ended in the 19th century. Slave life was the most brutal and disrespected period of America. When Africans first stepped foot on the slave ships coming to America things were bad. The white man beat, raped, and treated the black man like animals. Life on the plantation wasn't any better. The slaves didn't work for a paycheck, they worked for their lives. The

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    Submitted: February 16, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Life on the Plantation

    Life on the Plantation

    Life on the Plantation African slavery started at the 16th century and ended in the 19th century. Slave life was the most brutal and disrespected period of America. When Africans first stepped foot on the slave ships coming to America things were bad. The white man beat, raped, and treated the black man like animals. Life on the plantation wasn’t any better. The slaves didn’t work for a paycheck, they worked for their lives. The

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Edward
  • Like Water for Chocolate

    Like Water for Chocolate

    The novel called like water for chocolate, by Laura Esquivel tells the story of Tita De La Garza, the youngest daughter and the protagonist of the novel, who has been living with his family in Mexico during the time of twentieth century. In the course of twelve chapters, each is marked as a "monthly installment", the reader discover Tita’s struggle to pursue true love and maintain her freedom. Each installment features a recipe to start

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Jon
  • Lincoln

    Lincoln

    Understanding My Dad My father and I had never been really close. Our conversations go as far as how each other’s day went. We would usually talk about once or twice every few weeks, and still it seemed there was nothing to say. Sometimes it appears that my father is a middle-aged child. Once I tried to tell my father something, other than how my day had been, and realized he wasn’t even listening. It

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Lincoln

    Lincoln

    3. What were Lincoln’s beliefs concerning race and slavery? How did they change over time, and in what ways did they remain the same? How were they evident in the Lincoln-Douglass Debates, and the history of emancipation? On October 16, 1854, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech denouncing the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois. He stated that it was too modified and it was a repeal to the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Lincoln

    Lincoln

    In August of 1862, Abraham Lincoln was pressed with a very controversial issue facing the United States. As commander in chief, he had to weigh the policy of slavery. Lincoln's main focus was to restore the Union. He was personally against slavery, but it had no effect on his views. (Lincoln's response letter to Horace Greeley) Lincoln wanted to save the Union at all costs. In the letter response to Horace Greeley, Lincoln stated that

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: July
  • Lincoln

    Lincoln

    Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, the son of Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln , pioneer farmers. At the age of two he was taken by his parents to nearby Knob Creek and at eight to Spencer Co., Ind. The following year his mother died. In 1819 his father married Sarah Bush Johnston, a kindly widow. Lincoln grew up a tall, gangling youth, who could hold his own in physical contests

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Vika
  • Lincoln and Douglas Debate

    Lincoln and Douglas Debate

    The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 was a very influential event that occurred in American history and has much significance, even till this day. The debates were in contest for the United States Senate seat in Illinois. The main topic involved in the debates was based around slavery and the separation of the union because of it. Both Lincoln and Douglas refer to the U.S. Constitution in their remarks and state different opinions surrounding what they

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    Submitted: May 23, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Lincoln and the Emanciption

    Lincoln and the Emanciption

    What were President Lincoln's attitude emancipation of slaves before and during the early days of the Civil War? The Emancipation Proclamation was a declaration by Abraham Lincoln that seemed like it was a revolutionary idea on the potential treatment and freeing of blacks, but really, the Emancipation Proclamation was just a politically inspired hoax. It did not give freedom to slaves, or create a bigger hope for equality. Although the Emancipation Proclamation sounded like a

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    Submitted: April 8, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Lincoln, Curry and Donald

    Lincoln, Curry and Donald

    Writing a biography of someone is not an easy undertaking. For one thing, it is nearly impossible to create a “complete” biography of someone, for as time passes, details and events become less vivid in our minds, and we may forget certain details or entire events. Also, there can be no such thing as a truly impartial biography. When an author sets out to write a biography of someone, there is some message they’re trying

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: July
  • Lincolns Assassination

    Lincolns Assassination

    The Lincoln Assassination On April, 14 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching a performance of An American Cousin at Ford’s Theater. President Lincoln died the next morning. The person who had killed Lincoln was John Wilkes Booth. A few days before he was killed, Lincoln had told his spouse about a dream he had, he saw a president shrouded on a catafalque in the east room of the White House. Even after this

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Artur
  • Lincoln’s Attitude Toward Black

    Lincoln’s Attitude Toward Black

    President Lincoln's statements cannot be reconciled. The fact is that he changed his attitude about Blacks and about slavery between 1858 and 1862, due to the Civil War. Lincoln long believed that it was impossible for the black and white races to live together as equals. For years, he brought forth a policy known as colonization, in which slaves would be freed and then sent to live in Africa. In this way, both black and

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Lindbergh Kidnapping

    Lindbergh Kidnapping

    Lindbergh Kidnapping Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born on Feb. 4th 1902 in Detroid, Michigan. He died aged 72 in Maui, Hawaii on August 26th 1974 of lymphomia. He was an American author, inventor, explorer and social activist. He became world famous in 1927, when he flew from NY to Paris without stopping. Later he was awarded with the nation’s highest military decoration for his historic exploit. He also had strong political ideas and

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    Submitted: January 9, 2017 By: kathiwa
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