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    event is not as important as other ones. 16. The Louisiana purchase - the Louisiana purchase was where the United States had purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France. This purchase had doubled the size of the young republic. Louisiana territory stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains & from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. This was on of the most important achievements of Thomas Jeffersons presidency. I believe this is a good…

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    What is Socialism? Socialism is defined as public control of property and resources. Society should produce goods and own property for the good of its own members, and if someone helped make a good, they should be allowed to share in it. The object of production should be to meet human needs. Money would disappear, everyone would take freely in what is produced, and work would be voluntary and as needed. Socialism is a direct opposite to capitalism’s ideas of individuals developing to the best…

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    The Al-Qaeda Organization

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    December 1979 – February 1989 is when Al-Qaeda makes its name as a terrorist organization as well as a growing information network. The Soviet–Afghan War stated in a similar fashion to the US was in Vietnam and is sometimes mentioned as the Soviet Vietnam. The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) along with many other world powers, to include the United States and The United Kingdom, had been making attempts to secure a foothold in the middle-east. The USSR had long been involved with the…

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    Bobby Chavez-Gates Coach Smith AP Human Geography 11/28/17 The Battle of the Mirror: Rwanda War Ethnicity refers to how one identifies themselves based on their cultural tradition and values. Race is the grouping of people based on similar physical traits, such as hair and skin color. Often times, complex and numerous ethnicities exists within the same land and even race; these differentiations assist in promoting discrimination, tensions, and sometimes war. Rwanda, in the mid 1900s,…

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    sources on how the author wrote the book and the details that was presented. Here are what some critics have said “Wesley Scroggins, a Republic resident and professor at Missouri State University, saw the book differently, and urged the school board to ban Slaughterhouse Five.” "In a column for the Springfield News­Leader headlined "Filthy books demeaning to Republic education," he wrote: "This is a book that contains so much profane language, it would make a sailor blush with shame. The…

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    training and international trips outside of the United States jurisdiction; my roommate was training this past summer in the Republic of Georgia. Just to get an idea of where that is, it is at the intersection of Europe and Asia. My roommate told me about his involvement in a kind of boot camp experience. The base he trained at was in a mountainous area. He said that the army wouldn’t allow them to carry much of anything with them other than food and water while they were out running obstacles.…

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    Introduction The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has come a long way since she was first established in 1965. The SAF became a conscript armed force in 1967 and started off with two infantry battalions and three Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) ships (Mindef, 2017). The Republic of Singapore Airforce (RSAF) was formed in 1968 with eight aircrafts to train the pilots (Mindef, 2017). During the 1960s, the priority was to build the foundation for Singapore’s defence (Mindef, 2017). Today, as…

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    city after the war, instead they walking around the country aimlessly in shock and in fear (Brose, 270). They were shocked about the catastrophic change in their country, as to how the war had destroyed every home and road with all of the bombs the armies used. Novelists like Albert Camus point out their shock in his novel The Plague (1957) (Brose, 269). Furthermore,…

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    Fall Of France

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    WWI waged on for a devastating four years, yet in only six weeks, France succumbed to German attack and plunged society into its next world war. Historians wrestle with explanations, trying to pin-point specific political, psychological and military French failures which were the catalyst for the actual Fall of France. For these researchers, trying to demystify events often resurrects their own personal perspectives on history. Sometimes their bias seeps into their works. None-the-less, Julian…

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    It was a civil war between communist forces in the north and anti-communist in the south part of Vietnam. Kennedy’s idea of the war was that the scale of war was unimaginable and increased the number of troops participating in the war. His decision sought to prove to USSR that he could not be intimidated (Chomsky 150). Kennedy was fully aware of the…

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