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    the diary through WW2 and the camp. She was born in 1992,June 12 and she died March 12,1945. Her parents names were, Otto frank and Edith frank. She died of sickness called typhus at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.Her dad was a officer during WW1. The annex was a hiding place during ww2 that was in the back of Otto frank's business building.The door was covered by a book case. It was a big enough hideout to fit two families.She hid in the annex for 2 years before it got found and the…

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    It has been 100 Years since WW1. How far have we come? Today, I will be talking about Gay rights. For many centuries, Gay people have been deprived of the rights they feel they deserve. They believed that they deserved what everyone else deserves… Happiness and Freedom. I believe that whatever we got, should have been given to them. The same opportunities we got. We all breathe the same way. We all get sick. So… Why should who we like define us? On 27 August, 1975, South Australia became the…

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    asthma and dealt with it by embracing a strenuos lifestyle. Roosevelt had many ideas to make America better and his efforts but much of his ideas were blocked in Congress. He led the two year expedition in the Amazon, almost dying of the disease. During WW1 he opposed President Wilson for keeping the U.S. out of the war against Germany. He offered his military services but they were never summoned. Unfortunately he didn't get to run for president again for…

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    today’s society, and will likely continue for many years to come. It’s a timeless piece portraying themes of materialism, wealth, class, and love and loss in superficial relationships. In the roaring twenties, people are cheerful because of the end of WW1. Hence, the society in the novel becomes more concerned with material possessions, having affairs, attending wild parties and becoming exceedingly drunk. No matter the extravagance of Gatsby’s parties, the masses of people that came didn’t…

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    In this class so far we have looked at the history of the United States since the end of the Civil War, more specifically 1877. We have gone over a lot of different times and events in America. Wars, social movements, and cultural changes that further altered the United States into the nation it is today. Within this paper we shall hit on some key time periods in our history that shows great revolution and change in our society, politics, and economic status as a nation. Without the changes…

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    Awards of Guilt It’s the late 1910’s, a nurse for a hospital that treats WW1 soldiers was recently assigned to a new patient and her first shift begins tonight. She prepares like she would for any other patient, then enters the room for the first time. When she enters, she stands in the doorway unable to move, too shocked by the sight she has come across. Laying in the bed, where a man was supposed to be, was a distorted figure. The figure had the body of a man, but was missing the arms, the…

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    For example, once The Great War became WW1 it’s perspective cannot be changed back. Once WW2 had happened, it became illogical to not understand WW1 as WW1. This is significant because this is a restriction on one's freedom, as one is not able to conceive of the historical event in any other way. What's more, we can consider the issue with Sartre's…

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    Slang In The 1920s

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    The Language Of The 1920s In the twenties, language was flowing in the streets of the United States.Groups of people spoke slang in the cities and towns.Slang expressed the cultures and movements of the 1920s. The people that used slang in 1920s came from all sorts of backgrounds.They used slang for different things such as drinks mixed with alcohol.Which was called a cocktail, in Speakeasies, as for people that don’t usually drink alcohol can drink it. Lots of types of…

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    What Is USS Texas?

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    USS Texas (BB-35), the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a New York-class battleship. The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914. Soon after her commissioning, Texas saw action in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I. When the United States formally entered World War II in 1941, Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic, and later shelled…

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    9 Palms Manifesto Bernd and Hilla Becher were born in 1931 and 1934. They were german conceptual artists, first meeting at their college, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Collaborating on their first project in 1959, the pari photographed disappearing German industrial architecture. These works would be only done on 8x10 inch film. Always shot objectively, on cloudy days, to avoid shadows. They favoured early morning light as well. They arranged the photos in rows, helping to display the…

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