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The Presidents' Decisions During The Civil War
Words: 1417 / Pages: 6 .... Both new Presidents were faced with difficult decisions very early in their administration of which the dilemma of Fort Sumter was one of the first and most important. Fort Sumter was constructed at the entrance of the Harbor of Charleston in South Carolina. In 1860 when South Carolina seceded, Major Anderson of the United States Military established his headquarters at Fort Sumter. The fort itself was militarily unimportant to either side, yet it later became a significant symbol to both the North and the South. In the controversy that surrounded Fort Sumter, both Presidents attempted to act in the best interest of their nations. While .....
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A Story About Seeing NOFX
Words: 826 / Pages: 4 .... sex, drugs, lesbians, bums, alcohol, animal freedom... and many other strange subjects. In their music you will find punk, of course, but also rock, hardcore, ska, even reggae and jazz. If you ask me they are a just a punk-ska band. Their songs are interesting and different from one another. Each song has it's own characteristics. The lyrics are very interesting, sometimes strange, and sometimes incomprehensible. You basically just have to understand them in your own way.
The club was packed, or more accurately, stuffed. After much anticipation the punk gods, NOFX hit the stage and the crowd surged with excitement even before they opened the set w .....
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Allegory Of American Pie By Do
Words: 2399 / Pages: 9 .... important song in rock’n’roll history, "American Pie", is the song about the demise of rock’n’roll after Buddy Holly’s death and the heathenism of rock that resulted. Although McLean himself won’t reveal any symbolism in his songs, "American Pie" is one of the most analyzed pieces of literature in modern society. Although not all of its secrets have been revealed, many "scholars" of the sixties will agree that the mystery of this song is one of the reasons it has become so successful- everyone wants to know the meanings of its allegories.
Proof of "American Pie’s" truth lies in the allegory of the song. Many People enjoy the song but ha .....
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Development Of Computers
Words: 1550 / Pages: 6 .... successors (M-220, “Ural-11-14”, “Minsk-22” and “Minsk-32”) created in the 1960s were the main ones in the USSR until the computers of the third generation were put into the serial production, that is until the early 1970s.
In the 1960s the science-research and assembling base was enlarged. As the result of this measures, all researches connected with creating and putting into the serial production of semi-conductor electronic computing machines were almost finished. That allowed to stop the production of the first generation machines beginning from the 1964.
Next decades the whole branch of the computer engineering had been .....
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The Civil War Campaign Of 1862
Words: 354 / Pages: 2 .... McDowell busy. Lee went out to the Peninsula to find that McClellan's army was split in two by the flood-swollen Chickahominy River, and sent General Joseph Johnston to attack the force lying south of the river. This became known as the Battle of Seven Pines, a confused and bloody affair in which Johnston was severely wounded.
Lee was given command of the army and began shuffling troops around in front of McClellan to convince him that he was faced with an enormous force. Lee then moved across the river and attacked the Union forces there; these fell back so that Lee could attack the southern half on its flank, and this, in turn, fell back. Lee conti .....
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Watergate Scandal
Words: 861 / Pages: 4 .... who used that door to go back and forth earlier that day, so he peeled the tape away and continued his work. He came back to that door about 2:00 a.m. that same shift and noticed that there had been a second taping. Once he found the second one he decided to phone the Washington D.C. police. An undercover officer named Sergeant Paul Leeper and officers John Barret and Carl Shoffler intercepted the call while on patrol. Flashlights were noticed by a former F.B.I. agent. The F.B.I. agent named Alfred Baldwin calls and tells the police that there are lights on in the entire 8th floor of Watergate. So the three officers entered the building, .....
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Iraq And The United States
Words: 565 / Pages: 3 .... from homelessness, poverty and hunger. In many cities in the world including in Iraq people can be found in famine. However, the United States is spending U.S. tax dollars in vain.
Many congressmen are also unhappy in with the way the U.S. tax dollars are being spent. Senator John Warner, Republican Virginia, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services is very unhappy of the unnecessary spending of the U.S. dollar. Warner stated: "Based on briefings tax payers have spent $750 million on the Gulf War effort," (USA TODAY 2/27/98). This outrage spending could be used to solve the United States economical burdens, and it would be horrible if the .....
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Reasons, Causes And Details Of Plantation Slavery
Words: 1756 / Pages: 7 .... them. This worked out good but in the end they had allow them to be independent. Soon the indentured servants populations started to decrease, causing less indentured servants available. Without the indentured servants, colonist could not make as much money since they relied on them to do their work. With the idea of slaves, the colonists knew that slaves could be the next source of labor on their plantations.
Before slaves came into the picture, indentured servants were the only source of labor colonists had. The population of indentured servants was decreasing because of many factors. They were running away from the masters, dying from dise .....
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Portraits Of Ingres And Reynolds
Words: 1746 / Pages: 7 .... one solid brown. Bertin occupies the whole bottom section of the painting, with nothing of his body going above three-fourths of the canvas. He is the ground, below even the earth tones of the background.
He has on a black suit, brown vest, and white shirt, as well. These colors working together allow you to make certain assumptions about him. He looks like a working man, which he was. “Louis-Francois Bertin (1766-1841), was one of the great leaders of the French upper middle class, a businessman and a journalist” (Rosenblum, 134). This would explain the one striking color in the piece, the red.
Bertin is sitting on a red cushion, red bei .....
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World War I
Words: 915 / Pages: 4 .... was created though out Europe when Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II increased the size of his army. The Kaiser had a disturbed childhood. He was born with a bad arm that he couldn't use. Germans valued perfection in humans and it would be kind of hypocritical for the future leader of Germany to speak of perfection and not be perfect himself. His parents put him through hell and back trying to fix his arm. Nothing worked and the constant medical experiments on his body left him messed-up for life. At age 29 Kaiser Wilhelm II became the youngest emperor of Germany. The Kaiser had a personality all to himself. He knew that he had all the power, and he .....
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