City Of Berlin
.... the effort.
On your right you'll see the Reichstag, Platz der Republic which was built in 1898 to house Parliament. In 1933, the Nazis, who then blamed the Communists, burned it down. Damaged by allied forces in WWII, it was restored in 1970 as a museum.
We're now coming up to the Olympic Stadium. It was built for the 1936 Olympics and was used for Nazi rallies afterward. It seats over 95,000 people and is an example of the grand ideas Hitler had for Berlin.
Now the 453 foot-high structur .....
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Aborigines
.... in spirits and the afterlife.
The Aborigines are very innocent. This is because the believe that you must be at peace with nature and that technology to them breeds corruption. Because of their innocence, they are dying off. Their population has dwindled to almost nothing, and almost all of the members are elders. When these people die, there will be no one left of their kind.
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Civil Affair
.... to the world. The poor would never make enough to buy coffee produced in El Salvador. The conditions in 1960's El Salvador were quickly leading to problems.
In the 1970's El Salvador began to become more violent. The government began to develop a militaristic side. The poor began to form guerilla movements to show the government that they were fed up with the situation that existed in the country (Rosenburg 14). Over the years the economic system that developed in El Salvador was a push for the .....
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Civil Rights Movement 2
.... other black leaders wanted to push beyond socialintegration, now guaranteed under the previous year's civil rights law, topolitical rights, mainly southern blacks' rights to register and vote.king picked a tough alabama town to tackle: selma, where only 1% ofeligible black voters were registered to vote. the violence, the march,the excitement all contributed to the passage of the second landmark civilrights act of the decade. even though there was horrendous violence, rev.king announced that as a "matte .....
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Cold War Essay
.... likely to use such a devastating device, had the country’s political involvement declined to pre-war levels. It was the Iron curtain which brought Russia to the limelight, and it was also Roosevelt who sold the land to Stalin for which he could build his buffer zone. Its somewhat ironic that a buffer zone brought Russia closer to the west.
The arms race could have been prevented, but not stopped. It can be explained like this: There are two obvious options to build weapons or to not build. If no po .....
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Collective Memory
.... Vladimir Jabotinsky states that Nationalism is a “supreme value” and there is no higher value than “the nation and the fatherland”. I agree with this statement because in Israel’s case, Jews had a strong sense of nationalism and as a result it led them to fight for their nation and fatherland. Without the strong nationalistic views of thousands of Jews the goal of creating the nation-state of Israel would not have been reached.
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Cubans
.... freedom was guaranteed in the 1976 constitution, but it is very difficult to practice one's religion openly and succeed in Cuban society. Until very recently, for example, higher education was not accessible to young people who openly professed a religion.
Equality of the sexes is the official socialist ideal, although sexism is still prevalent, and women still do most of the domestic work. The Family Code of 1974 established the official goal of equal participation in the home, but in fact, these .....
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Chernobyl 3
.... anachronisms. Maintaining them and keeping them safe has become a problem of immense proportion. As the plants age and other technology becomes available, what to do with these “eyesores” is a consuming issue for many government agencies and environmental groups. No one knows what to do about the problem and in many areas of the world, another nuclear meltdown is an accident waiting to happen. Despite a vast array of safety measures, a break in reactor pipe or a leak in a containment vessel, could spe .....
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Chernobyl, What Happened
.... system. It took the shift manager thirtyseconds to realize what was happening and shouted at another operators to press button AZ-5 which would driven all the control rods back into the core, but because the rods were melted from serious heat they didn't fit properly into the core. As the manager gloomy eyed looked down at the control panel several loud banging noises were heard. Immediately the one thousand tone roof of the reactor blew off sky high, and brought down the giant two hundred tone refuel .....
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Chesapeake Vs. New England Col
.... was just such a case. She held weekly meetings in her home where her and her husband would interpret the bible for their followers. In addition she noted that not all the clergy would be saved and attacked many of their teachings. She was banished and took her husband and seven kids to Road Island where religion was not as strict. The New England colonies survived on exporting lumber, grain and the production of ships. The Puritans wanted to be the model society; they did not realized that b .....
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Chicago
.... because that was the place where they saw lots of business opportunities. That was the place where they thought they could start their new career. Even today, 70% of the people are originally from other countries. As we know that there were thousands of immigrants in Chicago, few questions always strikes in mind, like “Who helped these immigrants?, How did they manage to communicate in English?, What did they do after coming here?, where did they live?” etc.
I found the answer after an easy try. I .....
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Chicago Politics
.... and carefully balanced Democratic slates and platforms among the many ethnic, labor, and business interests. He believed, like Mayor Richard J. Daley after him, that “good government was good politics-and good politics was good government. Once in office, he tried to run the city and the party like a business: competence was rewarded, but if you did not deliver, then you were out.
Following Cermak’s assassination, it was assumed that Pat Nash would assume the mayoral position, yet he waived .....
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Absolutism In The 17th Century
.... ready to give all the power of government to a single person. The merchants and land-owning nobles
supported Parliament, where members could be elected and changed in necessary, rather than an absolute monarch with no restraints. In 1642, differences between Charles I and Parliament sparked England's civil war, which was caused partly by royal stubbornness to share control of the country, and partly by Parliament's refusal to give up their power in government (internet 2). This was the major turning p .....
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China 3
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equally among all the landowners surviving sons when he died. Living
conditions for the average peasant are generally better today then they
were in the past. There are more opportunities for education and
greater security for the family as social unit.
Marriage in China has also changed. Today there is a law that
provides for the freedom of choice in marriages. This law also states
that men and woman are equal, therefore a man can no longer
dominate a woman. There are al .....
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Chinese Communist Influences
.... as Confucianism. Traditional china
had neither the knowledge nor the power that would have been necessary
to cope with the superior science, technology, economic organization,
and military force that expanding West brought to bear on it. The
general sense of national weakness and humiliation was rendered still
keener by a unique phenomenon, the modernization of Japan and its rise
to great power status. Japan's success threw China's failure into
sharp remission.
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