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- 4731: Touch Wood: Rene
- ... growing as a Jewish girl during the German invasion of France. In 1940, Renée and her family were living in Alsace, France, where nothing ever changed. No one expected anything unusual to happen. Then one day, a war with Germany is announced on the radio. The Germans wanted to annex Alsace and forced the Jews to leave. France was split into two zones- the Free Zone and the German occupied zone ... more of a home and helps Renée to miss Alsace a little less. Renée's parents had left Poland and then Hungary to find a freer, better life. They settled in France and thought they¹d be safe. Then Adolf Hitler, a German man who hated Jewish people, started trouble all over again. First, seven synagogues were blown up. Then, the Germans created a curfew prohibiting Jews to go during certain ...
- 4732: Epstein’s Welfare in America
- ... can change the way we perceive welfare. The word welfare has some very serious connotations to it, as if it were words like “homeless” or “urban slum”. According to the Journal Sentinel, Senator Gwendolynne Moore (D-Milwaukee) says, “I guess the good news is that if you were not African-American, that if you had a GED or a high school diploma, and if you did not live in Milwaukee County ... problem with Wisconsin welfare is that if puts limitations on what people can and cannot do. For example, if a dependent of W-2 had a child and needed to have the child watched at day care, he/she must have proof of a job in order to claim a cent from welfare money is such a program. Another problem with welfare comes from its origin. Once the federal government carried ...
- 4733: Call of the Wild: Buck
- ... hundred miles and then is sold to Francois and Perrault his new owners. Buck has a conflict with Spitz the leader of the pack of the dogs. They keep attacking each other, and then one day they had a big fight and Buck killed Spitz. Buck was the new leader of the pack. The dogs that could not make it would be shot. Francois and Perrault sold all the dogs including Buck to the Scotch half-breed man. The man beat all the dogs until one day they stopped at a bar and it was time to leave, but Buck couldn't move at all and the Scotch half-breed kept on beating Buck, then John Thorton went up and beat up ... finally he saw John Thorton dead. He heard a noise and he saw the Yeehats he knew they killed everyone. He went after them killing them one by one they all scattered. Then the next day they were back Buck and the timber wolves scared them off and Buck was never seen again, but the Yeehats have seen what they call the Ghost Dog running with the timber wolves stealing ...
- 4734: Search of April Raintree
- ... help her; April still feels that she is not a Metis because she has almost everything white people do. Cheryl confronted April about this when she was intoxicated and this led to an argument “....you’d be proud to be half-breed. Proud, I tell you.” After the disagreement Cheryl runs away from the house for awhile. One night she recieves a call from one of Cheryls’ friends explaining what has ... was concerned that the same thought might have entered Cheryls’ mind. When April arrived at the bridge. Her premonition was correct. Cheryl took her own life. When April was back at her house the next day she read through Cheryls’ private notes and letters in effort to explain how her life took such a downward turn. During the course of reading Cheryl’s notes of the past year, April finally knew ...
- 4735: Native Americans
- ... guarded the camp. Others were scouts who rode ahead and signaled the appearance of game or the enemy. Signals included riding in a certain pattern, waving a buffalo robe, sending up puffs of smoke by day, and using fire by night. The women became so expert that they could set up the tepees or take them down in a few minutes. They packed all equipment and lashed it onto the travois ... if their hunting ground provided enough for all. This large group could be a tribe. Indian Religion, Government, and Social Practices Like other people who live close to nature, the Indians were concerned largely with day-to-day problems on which their survival as a people depended. They were interested mostly in whether there would be enough food, whether the tribe would avoid illness, and whether they would win in war. They ...
- 4736: Assimilation of the Native Americans
- ... the Aboriginals of British Columbia have suffered through racism, reserve systems, residential schools, and prohibition of practicing their cultural traditions, they have survived and in fact, have prospered and continue to prosper in the present day. Colonization During the colonization period of the 1800’s, settlers started to fill up Britain’s western colony. The gold rush enhanced the popularity of the colony and the settlers became preoccupied with its wealth ... Press. Fisher, Robin. Contact And Conflict Second Edition(1994) UBC Press. Frideres, James. S Aboriginal Peoples In Canada Fifth Edition(1998) Prentice Hall. Johnston, Hugh J.M. The Pacific Province(1996) Douglas & McIntyre. McMillan, Alan D. Native Peoples And Cultures of Canada Second Edition (1995) Douglas & McIntyre.
- 4737: A Discussion on the Myth and Failure of Reconstruction Following the Civil War, and How This Failure Impacted and Changed America
- ... The Reconstruction period should have been a time of cleansing and a return to what had been but instead it turned out to be a terrible failure and its repercussions have continued up to this day, 130 years later. The Civil War lasted from April 14, 1861 to April 9,1865. 620,000 lives were lost and approximately four million slaves were set free.(Tindall 451) "American nationalism emerged triumphant . . . but ... trash that could be collected in a civilized community, of no personal credit of social responsibility."(Tindall 467) Their characters ranged from honest to dishonest, from intelligent to stupid, from the crass opportunists who indulge d in corruption to the distinguished figures.(Trelease 107) James A. Longstreet, who had fought at the battle of Gettysburg, was one of the South's most notable "scalawags".(Tindall 467) He became a successful cotton ...
- 4738: Nuclear Physicists And The Development Of A Nuclear Bomb
- ... to fear that Nazi Germany might construct such weapons. Einstein, reacting to the danger from Hitler's aggression, had already abandoned his strict pacifism. He now signed a letter that was delivered to President F.D. Roosevelt, warning him to take action. This, and a second Einstein-Szilard letter of March 1940, joined efforts by other scientists to prod the United States government into preparing for nuclear warfare. Einstein played no ... be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality," he wrote. "It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day." With this credo Einstein had already given humanity a new view of the physical universe, and a model for what a person of conscience may achieve. Einstein thought that if only he could find the ...
- 4739: Causes of the American Civil War
- ... said that succession was illegal and said that he intended to maintain federal possessions in the South. Southerners hoped the threat of succession would force acceptance of Southern demands, but it did not. Finally the day came on Dec. 20, 1860 when South Carolina adopted an ordinance of succession. The other states to follow and succeed were: Mississippi on Jan 9, 1861, Florida on January 10, Alabama on Jan 11, Georgia ... believed the Constitution did not allow the North to take any action against the South. An effort was made on February 4th by the Virginia Legislature who called a conference of the states at Washington D.C. Representatives were sent from 7 slave and 14 free states. An amendment was passed saying Congress could never interfere with slavery in the states. But it was not ratified by the necessary number of ...
- 4740: The Battle of Midway
- ... The first detachment was from the Marine 3rd Defense Battalion, it was relieved on September 11, 1941, by 34 officers and 755 men from the 6th defense Battalion under the command of Lt. Col. Harold D. Shannon, a veteran of W.W.I and duty in Nicaragua, Panama and Hawaii. Shannon and Simarad meshed into an effective team right away. Knocking out the Pan American direction finder and destroying a Consolidated ... all possible aid. On May 25, while the work continued, Shannon and Simard got some good news. The Japanese attack would come between June 3 and 5, giving them another week to prepare. That same day, the light cruiser St. Louis arrived, to deliver an eight-gun, 37mm anti-aircraft battery from the Marine 3rd defense Battalion and two rifle companies from the 2nd Raider Battalion. By June 1, both Sand ...
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