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Since the ending of World War II, great controversy has arisen regarding the potential use of the Nazi doctors’ medical experiment findings. Nazi leaders instructed the doctors to perform sickening, gruesome, and terrifying experiments on the inmates of the concentration camps all throughout Europe. These unlawful experiments led the German medical community to gain vast amounts of knowledge regarding the physical limits of the human body under severe circumstances. According to Joel Dimsdale,…

Full Battle Analysis of the Conflict at Chipyong-Ni Throughout the history of the world, there have been conflicts between countries and their neighbors. Many of these conflicts have resulted in wars that have raged on across borders and homelands. Some of the most defining battles throughout our world history have taken place overseas in foreign land where the enemy has the supreme advantage. One of the most decisive and important battles in the worlds history was the Battle of Chipyong-Ni.…

Anna Waas Core 1 Group B History Character Project Hello, my name is Zhang Min Xu. I have long, straight, black hair. I am 5’1 and 32 years old. I have two kids. A girl named Li Na and a boy named after my father, Liang. I was born in the Guangdong province of China. My mother was a wealthy merchant in the Cantonese province. In addition to that, she was a member of a thirteen member guild of Chinese trade merchants. They acted as representatives for the Qing ruler to manage trade with…

Keshawn White Jiles 5th Period 5th Jan. 2018 Identity Crisis Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee details a story about the identity alteration of a Punjabi girl from India. The protagonist of the novel, Jyoti, conveys the story from her point of view when she is 24 years old. At the time she is pregnant with Bud Ripplemeyer’s baby. Jyoti narrates the novel through flashbacks and retellings of her experiences. She tells the story of her experiences in America as she becomes her own individual. When she…

Ecological imperialism delineated as the intentional destruction, through exploitation, taking out and transmit of natural resources of the colonized lands in the fascination of scientific and economic progress. The main objective of this article is to show that the loss of the natural environment and agrarian culture and the evils of the rapid urbanization and industrial activity, Green Imperialism through the two famous fictions of George Orwell. It also focuses on the ecological dimension of…

Of the 1718 municipalities that exist in Japan, 46% are classified as depopulated; despite occupying over half of the country’s total land, a mere 8% of the national population reside in these municipalities (Rural Independence Promotion Union). The problem of depopulation in villages is exacerbated by a shortage of worker population, resulting into a “graying” population, deteriorated agriculture and industry (Warnock). According to the 2005 census conducted by Statistics Japan, Miyoshi city,…

In “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell attempts to prove to his audience that their idea behind how success is attained in the United States is considerably different than what many Americans would like to think. In America many people believe in the concept of a hard-working individual pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and earning their success through dedication and talent. Gladwell attempts to prove while individual efforts are a big role in success, theses outliers would have never been…

barrels of oil into the Gulf. And in a surprising turn of events, the U.S. defended Kuwait. After taking power, Pol Pot evacuated Phnom Penh. All foreigners were deported and all embassies were closed. 2.5 million residents were forced to work hard in fields. Anyone who did not comply were tortured then killed. The Khmer Rouge controlled every person's life, money, and property. Reading material and religion was outlawed. Children were forced into the military. Purges were often conducted.…

A memorable line from If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien is “The war in Vietnam drifted in and out of human lives, taking them or sparing them like a headless, berserk taxi hack, without evident cause, a war fought for uncertain reasons.” (O’Brien, 138) The ending of this quote particularly reflects the views of Vietnam, which is the specific reason I found this quote memorable. I feel this way because people living during the Vietnam era didn’t see this as a crucial war to be apart of.…

The Vietnam War originally did not involve America, and when they entered it in 1965, what began as a civil war became an international battle. The My Lai Massacre, one result of American intervention in the Vietnam War, caused immediate tension between the American soldiers and devastation for the Vietnamese, leading to escalating opposition on the home front, and ultimately the shattering trust in the United States’ government policy. The change of support for the War, particularly in America,…