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mussels get their food by taking in water and siphoning out food particles; similarly to zebra mussels ( Quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) – FactSheet). How they got to America. Quagga mussels originate in the Dnieper River drainage of Ukraine. Like the zebra mussels, they rode in the ballast tanks of large ships. They rode across the Atlantic Ocean and when ships released ballast water, they released the quagga mussels. Quagga mussels were first found in the United States in the…

This Resistance’s goal was to help fight back and help Jews get out of their camps by any means possible. The organized armed resistance was the most direct form of Jewish opposition to the Nazis. 30,000 jews fought as partisans in world war II.These Jews joined hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish partisans who fought the Germans, but they had to worry about local antisemites. Often they formed all-Jewish groups to protect themselves from their old neighbors. Jewish resistance took on different…

The Cold War was a hostile rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. It lasted from the late 1940s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The war was "cold" only in that the United States and USSR never fought each other in a direct military confrontation, but both superpowers threatened each other with nuclear annihilation and participated frequently in "proxy wars" by supporting allied nations in numerous "hot" wars in places like Korean, Vietnam, and Angola. The Cold…

Everyone had tough situations in the concentration camps in WWll. Both prisoners and guards had lived their lives in fear at the camps, and had no freedom in their own lives. In the concentration camps the prisoners would live their lives working in fear from SS guards and Kapos. While the Kapos, and SS guards were working in fear from Hitler, and the higher leaders above them. Jewish prisoners and German guards were thought as two total opposites, but they do have some things in common. In…

Mac Pollard Instructor Will Dawkins Writing 121 19 October 2014 Joseph Conrad was born on December 3, 1857, in Berdichev, Ukraine. His parents, Apollo and Evelina were Polish patriots apart of the noble class who conspired against the oppressive Russian rule of the time. As a consequence, they were arrested and forced to live in the Russian province of Vologda with their 4-year-old son, Joseph Conrad. They Conrad's education was erratic. First, he started being tutored by his literary father.…

in the Ukraine and Poland. 1) Pogroms by retreating Red Army from the Ukraine (spring, 1918), before the German army. 2) Pogroms by the retreating Ukraine army under the command of Simon Petlyura, resulting in the deaths of over 8,000Jews. 3)Pogroms by the counter revolutionary "White Army" under the command of General A.I. Denikin (fall, 1919) in which about 1,500 Jews were killed. 4) Pogroms by the "White Army" in Siberia and Mongolia (1919). 5) Pogroms by anti-Soviet bands in the Ukraine…

Urbanisation is the process by which an increasing proportion of a national population lives in towns and cities (the ratio is an indicator to compute the level of urbanisation). In other words, more people migrate from rural to urban areas. The First World, by definition, is the capitalist industrial market economies involving counties like United States, France and the United Kingdom. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the First World was so-called ‘developed countries’ as a synonym. The…

The officer interested in the reason why the man was in Germany, asked more about himself and the man replied that he was looking for an individual that had been responsible for several murders in the Ukraine. It was then when the policeman told the man in black that he was a German police officer and asked for more information about the case that the man was trying to solve. The man with a look of discouragement then began to tell the story. He started…

freedom of press, and the government propaganda is very intensive. Many of the political opponents to the regime have been either imprisoned or even killed. Russian foreign policy has also changed dramatically, Russia under Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine, supported Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and constantly escalated tensions with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. In modern world, Russia has taken the role of standing up to liberal powers and challenging their values and…

Nations are groups of people who are united through commonalities such as culture, descent, language, history, etc. In this particular source, nations and the idea of nationalism are promoted and said to provide humans with a sense of belonging. On the outside, this appears to be a truthful statement, however, when closely examining real world situations we are able to see the bigger picture. Nations on the scale they are today do the opposite of what is stated in the source, while they can…