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    Another key element to what Mary Thorp views as British is the adherence to one’s responsibility and duty. One of the best examples of this from the book can be seen in Thorp’s diary entry on March 6th 1917 where she states, “If I were in England, how glad I should be to volunteer for the civil service, in such great need just now; still I feel I did my duty in remaining at my post & trying to make good men of the three boys” (100). This quote is interesting as it examines two aspects of duty…

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    Peaceful resistance positively impacts our society because it unites people that are willing to fight for what is right or what they believe in. A free society would not really be a free society if they were not allowed to think freely and express their opinions. There is a lot of people who hate violence, so peaceful disobedience has multiple ways to get what intended. If the government thinks that people will not fight against a certain matter that is not correct, they will not do anything to…

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    Dbq Colonialism In Kenya

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    to the different point of views of what being colonized was like in the eyes of those being controlled and those who controlled.Also, Kenya was created by Europeans in which It was automatically limited about four thousand miles to the northwest in Berlin Germany. All of Africa was under European control except Liberia and Ethiopia. The result of this colonization was due to the fact that seven countries were given the right to own a specific territory leaving most Africans under the European…

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    Hats Off To Heroes

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    for our country , so why don’t we give them something back. A Veteran center would be a great way for our community to come together as well as a great way to show our Veterans their appreciated. One reason why we should build a Veteran center in Berlin is to show our Veterans that they’re appreciate. They’ve risked their lives for us so I truly believe that it’s our responsibility to give them something back. It’s important to realize how many veterans are in our community.…

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    conference between United States President, John F. Kennedy, and Soviet Union Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, on June 4th, 1961 to talk about the poor relationship between the two countries and to find a resolution to their many problems. Secondly, the Berlin Wall was a physical concrete and wire wall that was constructed by communist East Germany’s government to stop East Berliners from rebelling and moving to the West. At this period in time, the United States was still fearful of Communism and…

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    November 7, 1878, in Vienna, Austria. She is the third of eight offspring of a Jewish family. She had entered the University of Vienna in 1901, learning under the wings of Ludwig Boltzmann. After she earned her doctorate degree in 1906, she went to Berlin in 1907 to train with Max Planck and the scientific expert Otto Hahn. She worked alongside Hahn for a long time. Lise became the first woman to be the head of the physics department in Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. Hahn and…

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    georg cantor was born on march 3, 1845 in St.Petersburg, Russia. he was raised by both his father, Georg and his mother maria. Georg’s was the oldest of six children and was regarded as an amazing violinist. Frantz BOhm was his grandfathered and a well know musician and soloist in a russian imperial orchestra. Georg’s family background was a bit confusing. his parents were both of the german-jewish sock but both were christian; his father was a protestant and his mother was catholic. when…

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    “Isla” by Virgil Suarez is a powerful image of migration through the eyes of a young boy. Suarez uses this narrative, free-verse poem as a personal experience of his migration from Cuba. His reference to Godzilla helps the reader connect with his experience (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). In the poem, Suarez begins by using allusions to make the poem more relevant to the reader. He references several children television programs putting the reader in a young mindset. The speaker is aware at an…

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    The first objective of our game is to teach players about the Berlin Conference. The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, was the very conference in which many European powers came together and carved up the map of Africa to claim territories, which were already inhabited by the indigenous people of Africa, as their own. This not only…

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    In the mid 1900’s Adolf Hitler had taken control of Germany leading the country through world war 2. His hatred towards Jews was a result of many incidents occurring in his life which he believed was the Jews fault. This influenced how he had controlled Germany and the war, starting up concentration camps and making new laws which ruined lives. Its easy to say Hitler was a murderer of many, and a lot of people realized the wrongful ways of Hitler but were not brave enough to stand up against him…

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