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    Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian men were convicted of a crime they weren’t proved to commit solely because they were communists. This is similar to the Rosenberg Trial because Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, both communists, were accused of being Soviet spies and passing information regarding nuclear weapons to the…

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    Bob. "V. Intimate Biography." English Biography Before 1700 (1972): n. pag. 16 Mar. 2010. Web. 16 Nov. 2016. Fisher, Louis. Presidential War Power. University Press of Kansas, April 1, 2004. Meyssan, Thierry. 9/11: The Big Lie. Continental Sales, August 1, 2002. Orwell, George. "George Orwell’s Letter on Why He Wrote ‘1984’." The Daily Beast. Newsweek/Daily Beast, 8 Dec. 2013. Web. 5 Dec. 2016. Orwell, George. 1984. Signet Book; Reissue edition, May 1, 1990. Schulten, Katherine. "Teaching…

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    The conflicts between Jefferson and Hamilton actually disturbed Washington, who wrote to both men in August 1792 to express his annoyed feeling towards them. Washington primary concern was about the foreign policy by the time the two parties were arising. At the time the major war approached following to the French Revolution, he rather chose to stay neutral…

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    During 1969, the Moratorium to End the War protest was filled with 250,000 anti-war activists. Teachers, students, librarians, and doctors all carried banners protesting the war in Vietnam. For the time being, it was the largest antiwar protests. It turned out to be unsuccessful because Nixon escalated the war. In recent times, they’re have been more protests similar to that from Vietnam’s. Although some believe that protestesting is an action to make their voices heard, protesting, on the other…

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    first.” I whipped out last year’s birthday present, a black, 8-gigabyte mini digital voice recorder, and even though my heart pounded, I took slow, steady steps toward the gravel driveway describing the scene: At midnight, on Friday the thirteenth of August Seth and I sprinted for the wooded lane leading to Thornewood Hall. As the lane opened onto a ragged lawn, we spied the two-story mansion perch on a hill. The steps listed. Ivy crept unchecked over its crumbling face. We crouched behind a…

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    The most significant event of this problem was the dismissal of the Paris parlement. Since Brienne’s reform was refused by the parlement due to the need of summon of Estates-General, Louis was angry and exiled the whole parlement to Troyes on 15th August 1787. This led to the revolt of the Nobles in 1788, which ostensibly aimed to support the parlements, and actually protecting themselves from being…

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    Human experimentation Since the beginning of mankind we have managed to be the dominate species of the Earth; however, we are far from peaceful with warfare, slavery, starvation, and experimenting on our own kind. Humans have done some pretty twisted and inhuman things such as the Nazi Holocaust Experiment and Project MK-Ultra. Before, during, and after WWII, Nazi’s conducted many medical experiments on the Gypsies, Slavs (Large group of Ethnolinguistic in Europe), and Jews they held in…

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    The Holocaust was an event of sadness and cruelty, as the Nazis invaded several areas of Western Europe. The Holocaust, furthermore, began on January 30,1933 and ended on May 8, 1945. The start of the unfair treatment towards the Jews began in January, as President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany. “Combining his talents for speaking with his drive and motivation, Hitler began to scale the political ladders, eventually taking over the whole German government and…

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    THE CRISIS In October 15 1962 an American spy jet U2 snapped pictured that revealed that the Soviet Union had everything there to launch ballistic missiles into the US. The US could not tolerate the existence of the first strike capability in Cuba, which would give the Soviets full superiority in case of an armed conflict. This was also critical for JFK politically given the fact that just a month later elections of the House of Representatives were to happen. Given that JFK was a democrat,…

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    World War I, also know as The Great War, was the war to end all wars. It was one of deadliest wars. It caused conflict to many countries. Many lives were lost. A life of a soldier was a terrible time during this war. Woman for once has had a chance to work. World War I changed the world in many ways. Before The Great War, there was tension between Europe regions Serbian, Austria-Hungary, and especially in the Balkan region. Due to the conflict, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was sent to help with…

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