Auschwitz 2
.... to the gas chambers within a few hours; these people were sent to the Birkenau camp, where more than 20,000 people could be gassed and cremated each day. At Birkenau, the Nazis used a cyanide gas called Zyklon-B, which was manufactured by a pest-control company. A second group of prisoners were used as slave labor at industrial factories for such companies as I. G. Farben and Krupp.Camp Commandant Rudolf Hoess admitted to a minimum figure of 2.5 million deaths at Auschwitz. Reflecting back some years l .....
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Austrailian Aborigines
.... into seven territories; New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory. The city of Sydney, in New South Wales, is the largest city with a population of 3,500,000.
The natural vegetation of Australia is comprised of six types, rainforest, sclerophyll forest, woodland, grassland, shrubland, and desert. The interior is comprised of desert, shurbland, and grassland. The Northern Territory, the location of most aboriginal clans and tribes, has .....
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Australia And The Depression
.... borrowing for new investment. However, the returns from the investments were not sufficient to satisfy debt repayments and so the government persistently used overdrafts. In the later half of 1929, Australia's external debt position worsened. When the government approached the banks to extend further overdrafts, the banks refused. The banks argued that if sufficient funds could be found to repay the maturing Treasury bills, funds could also be found to reduce overdrafts
(Schedvin 1970 p137). Australia b .....
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Australia In The Vietnam War
.... involvement in Vietnam came about due to the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation(SEATO). Australia was a country involved in SEATO. After Americas request, South Vietnam requested Australia’s help in the Vietnam Conflict. Australia’s involvement in this organisation was an important one, if South-East Asia fell to communism, then it’s northern shores would be vulnerable. Having said this, Australia’s involvement in this conflict was not purely for this reason. Political ambitio .....
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Australian History - Populate
.... by the war. Along with that, 170 000 migrants were brought to Australia between 1947-1951 by the International Refugee Organisation. One of the immediate effects of post-war immigration was to increase the size of the workforce by approximately 200 000.
The importance of migrant labour was immense, as they made up large numbers in the iron and steel construction industries where goods were in high demand following the war. Other occupations where migrants formed a large part of the workforce were ti .....
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Authoritarian Government In Ge
.... his way into making the people believe they had say and actually covered all the necessary clauses in an ingenious plan to run the country with a strong, relentless, but unrecognizable hand.
He tricked the Germans into believing everything he did was with good intent with them the people in mind. This was obvious not to be the case as we now look back and see how every one of his strategic moves, although attractive on the outside benefitted him far more than anyone else in the country. For exam .....
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Al Capone 2
.... wars. The most famous event that Capone was responsible for was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. At this occurrence, Capone's gunmen dressed as police officers and executed seven members of the "Bugs" Moran gang. This incident won Capone control of Chicago's underworld. In June 1931 Capone was indicted for federal income tax evasion and in October was tried and found guilty in court. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison and was fined $80,000. He entered Atlanta penitentiary in May 1932 .....
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Automation
.... to drive great distances rapidly, many people choose to live far away from where they work. Many cities have a downtown core where people work and a suburban area where they live. People may spend a great deal of time commuting through rush hour traffic.
In spite of many problems , it is hard to imagine a society without cars. Cars and trucks have become so important that most people would not want to do without them. They would prefer to see the design and construction of cars changed to accommod .....
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A Hero Among Men, A Man Among
.... and ability of man, and the audience’s awe-inspired response to his monologue demonstrates the desire of man to elevate and admire the individual who achieves greatness through determination and hard work.
The initial contrast between myth and man comes within the first few lines. Ulysses does not gracefully acquiesce to the duties of old age, as every person must eventually do; instead, he whines like a spoiled child. Nothing suits his taste: his homeland is too barren, his wife too old. He .....
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A New Generation
.... debates between Nixon and Kennedy were televised. Burner believes that "Nixon's biggest error turned out to be agreeing to this series of four debates" (Burner 53). Nixon appeared dull and unattractive, while Kennedy performed with maturity and style. He pledged to "get the country moving again" with his New Frontier policy (Kennedy et al 597). Kennedy won by a narrow margin and became the youngest president elected to office, as well as the first Roman Catholic accomplishments was the formation of th .....
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Admiration Of Anne Bradstreets
.... such an unlikely Beginning with the Figure I have since made there. I was in my working Dress, my best Clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuff’d out with shirts and stockings; I knew no Soul, nor where to look for lodging. I was fatigu’dwith Traveling, Rowing and Want of Rest. I was very hungry, and my whole stock of cashconsisted of a Dutch Dollar and and about a Shilling in Copper. The latter I gave the People of the Boat for my Passage, who at firs .....
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Adolf Hitler
.... where the
Academy of arts was located. He failed the first time he tried to get
admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure
of success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the
academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a
really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter."1 The
rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could
not apply to the school of architecture as he had .....
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Aquinas’ Fifth Way Of Proving
.... Design, through the art of conversation and Socratic debate, the two main characters in his essay set forth and decipher the problems of evil and how it may disprove Aquinas’ fifth way among countless other theories of creation by a omnipotent, omniscient and benevolent God. Hume explains that if God created the universe to achieve an end, and if the path toward that end is the best manner to that end, then how does one explain the existence of evils in the universe such as natural disasters, pain, d .....
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African American Women
.... can have many meanings. "… In my third grade class… I remarked that once again (the little boy) had received a much lower mark than I did… he spit out that word…"(232) here I saw the meaning of the word that I saw, the only meaning I knew. A derogatory remark used to demean an African American person. Then as I read into the story more I saw another meaning, "…the word was always applied to a man who had distinguished himself… that brought approval for his strength, intelligence, or drive."(233) Here the .....
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Airplane Warfare In WWI
.... in Villard-227) Even by the
beginning of the war in 1912, the use of planes in war was
still prohibited by the War Office. Shortly thereafter this
changed, people awakened to the possibilities of air
warfare. The world soon started to realize the
effectiveness of planes in war and how the control of the
skies could influence the outcome.
Although the French were the first to have a
working, conscripting air force and to license fliers, their
trust in air .....
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