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    World War II introduced some of the greatest advances in history, taking early World War I and modernizing how people thought and how we fight wars now. One of the major topics of World War II is Pearl Harbor, it changed everything in America after it. Another thing about World War II is aviation, it had a huge impact on the war. Another huge thing about World War II is the atomic bomb. One of the major topic of World War II is Pearl Harbor, it changed everything in America after it. Pearl…

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    watch over. With the Air Force flying over, the German U-boats would usually not attack as they would be greatly outnumbered and basically going into a suicide battle. Without the help form the Air Force, the merchant navy would’ve had only the two destroyers and two cruisers to protect them, and when the “wolfpack” tactic was implemented, the four navy ships would not have been powerful enough to defend the…

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    Born in Montreal and with French-speaking parents, Omer levesque was inspired to be in the Royal Canadian Air Force ever since he was a little boy. He did not know how to speak English very well so Omer joined the local militia unit and became the lieutenant there. Later joining the RCAF, and on March 31, 1951 he was the very first pilot to shoot down a Korean plane during the Korean war. Omer Levesque and other Canadian forces contribution to the war lead to Canada causing a significant impact.…

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    Atlas Shrugged is a really odd novel that takes place in a dystopian United States somewhere in the future. The book gives off a very negative feel as though nothing in the world is quite right. Businesses have closed; men are out of work it’s as if the great depression has hit all over again. In fact other countries have turned into Socialist states causing them to go bankrupt; all the talented men in the world have started to disappear as well for an unexplained reason. The main character of…

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    time and escorted the B-17's in order for the mission to be successful and have superiority in the air by the US. During the war, battleships and other navy technologies were also introduced that contributed to the outcome of the war. For example, destroyers and aircraft carriers (the most notable carrier was Casablanca-class carrier) were introduced in the…

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    The Battle of Santa Cruz Islands started on October 26, 1942. The Battle of Santa Cruz Islands took place in between the American and the Japanese. The United States military planners were determined to keep the supply lines open with Australia; at the same time the Japanese were just as determined to cut them. In late October, the Japanese decide to launch a major offensive. Their goal was to gain control of Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal, eliminate the 10,000 American troops on the island…

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    perpetrators. The god Krishna, presenting himself as Arjuna’s charioteer, advises Arjuna. In the eleventh discourse, Krishna chooses to reveal his divine form to Arjuna, encompassing his roles as Creator, Protector, and Destroyer. Out of all Krishna’s forms, the text describes his role as the Destroyer in the greatest, most discomforting detail. Though Arjuna is distressed, Krishna uses his harrowing form to emphasize the importance of the destruction…

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    is that gods or divinities can take many forms, but all form one universal spirit called Brahman. The three most important representations of Brahman are Brahma, the creator of the universe, Vishnu, the preserver of the universe, and Shiva, the destroyer of the universe. The Hindu belief involves reincarnation…

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    At the beginning of the war the american citizens supported the the war as the Vietnamese sunk a american ship at the Gulf Of Tonkin on the 2 of August 1964 a destroyer USS Maddox was doing intelligence patrols when reportedly 3 North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats attacked these incidents escalated the war in Vietnam but when the government brought back Conscription there support began to decline and then the Tet Offensive is when they began to oppose the war.In January 1968 the Vietcong and…

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    Devil’s Advocate Letter to My Song https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/tanehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me/397619/ 1. Although Coates has mentioned numerous times about how he feels racism is present back then and still found today, he fails to address the other side of racism, that is reverse racism on the majority group of Caucasian people. Alghoutht is is not mentioned or talked about much, possibly due to the fact that it is not as extreme level of severity, it can be…

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