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- 10961: Comparison: Treatment of War in "The Rank Stench of Those Bodies Haunts Me Still" and "The Soldier"
- ... other influence on your life. Followed by the line "Gave, once her flowers to love, her ways to roam", the poem seems to impress on you the idea that your country has given you a great deal. In the sestet, the poem expresses hopes that his spirit can give something back in return. The expressions "English air", "suns of home" and "English heaven" tie these symbols of freedom to nationalism. The ...
- 10962: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... failure of the operation falls directly in the lap of the Central Intelligence Agency and a young president and his advisors. The fall out from the invasion caused a rise in tension between the two great superpowers and ironically 34 years after the event, the person that the invasion meant to topple, Fidel Castro, is still in power. To understand the origins of the invasion and its ramifications for the future ...
- 10963: The Battle at Chancellorsville
- ... loss to the North, defeating General Joseph Hooker's army which was almost twice the size of his. Dividing his army up several times, he drove the Federal army from the battlefield and brought a great victory to the South. In the Federal Army of the Potomac, morale rose with the appointment of Joseph Hooker to command. Hooker reorganized the army and formed a cavalry corps. He wanted to strike at ...
- 10964: Snowmobiling
- ... Snowmobiles have become much more reliable over the years, but they are machines and do break down. Now you're asking me how riding around in the freezing cold can be fun. It can be great fun! All you have to do is get a group of friends together and go. It's like cruising the main drag accept you have beautiful snow-covered scenery to accompany you, and instead of ...
- 10965: The Scarlet Letter: Guilt, Strength and Revenge
- ... during a very bright period of his life. He had recently quit his job at the Custom's house in Boston and moved away. He moved to the socialist community of Brook Farm where other great thinkers and writers, such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emmerson, also lived. Along with this he was recently married and had children. The Scarlet Letter was an immediate success and was very well ...
- 10966: Cigars
- ... cigars are hand rolled, whereas all cigarettes are machine rolled. Including the type and quality of the leaf, rolling is the ultimate judge of whether a cigar is good or bad. Cigar companies go to great pains to be sure they hire only the best "Torcedores" (cigar rollers). If a cigar is underfilled it will burn hot and harsh; if it is overfilled it is "Plugged" and will not draw. To ...
- 10967: Characteristics of a Leader
- ... them. These are the most important, but not all of, the qualities you need to be a leader. If you have these three and nothing else, you would still go down in history as a great leader.
- 10968: Nuclear Energy
- Nuclear Energy From Theory to Practice The nuclear age began in Germany, in the 1930s in the lab of chemist Otto Hahn. Hahn was attempting to produce radium (In great need during the war) by bombarding uranium atoms with neutrons. To his surprise, he ended up with a much lighter element, barium. That was 1938, This started the race for the power of the atom ...
- 10969: UFOs
- ... a warfare weapon against them. So, from 53-69 that is all the United States were thinking about, and never considered any of this to be a unique phenomenon. [VII] Conclusion: I have learned a great amount of things from doing this project. There are many people out there studying these sightings, and reports. People using their own funds to figure out what exactly is up there. I feel bad for ...
- 10970: How Toxic Waste Affects Our Natural Environment
- ... fish in high enough concentrations to kill people. Medical wastes such as used needles and vials of blood (some carrying the AIDS virus) have washed up along the Atlantic coast and in one of the Great Lakes. Mutated and disfigured fish as well as other water animals have washed up dead or been caught by fishermen. The list of stories goes on, and it's still growing. Canada and the USA ...
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