They the purchased 900,000 acres of Washington state timberland from the Northern Pacific Railway largest private land transaction in American history to that time. ... In order to aid the government Weyerhaeuser Company gave the military use of their private fleet. ... With this information I would then along with my supervisors decide weather the paper could be shipped to the customer, down-graded, or beatered (recycled). ... After the appropriate information was gathered and further testing completed it was then time to answer the claim. ... I used many complex spreadsheets and creat...

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The Conqueror's by Michael Beschloss World War II is one of the most intensively studied conflicts in history and nearly sixty years after its end, new information is still emerging. ... This book allows the American people to hear private conversations and letters of historical giants. ... As allied forces fought Germany in public eye, Roosevelt and later Truman fought Churchill and Stalin in private on the best way to ensure that Germany can never threaten the world again. ...

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Around seven "o clock Private Elliot noticed an unscheduled fleet of planes, however authorities dismissed it as some unexpected B-17's. The privates manning the radar weren't the only ones who saw these planes; residents on the island noticed these foreign planes, but after all, the island was a navy base so most dismissed them as an incoming fleet of American planes. ... The only problem I felt the book had was that when he was describing the attacks, he switched the stand points of people so much you almost got cheated of information, however it defi...

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My research consists of two books; Hirohito: Behind the Myth by Edward Behr and Hirohito: Emperor of Japan by Leonard Mosley, and an article from the PBS web page titled Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989 (see bibliography for complete information). I will begin the essay by writing a summary on Hirohito from information that I found consistent with all three of my sources. ... Hirohito continued to express political views in private but had no official influence in governmental affairs. ... The information for the most part was consistent. ... He did an excellent job of backing up his opinion...

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Scott used the atmosphere of fear and distrust to advance their own private anti-Oriental agendas (Ward 460-461). ... The reliability of Massey's information is also questionable since the authors are unable to account for how he came by it. ... This only proves the consulate's desire to acquire information about a country it was currently at war with. It is not evidence that Japanese Canadians in any way participated in the collection of this information. ... No information is given to allow the reader to assess this officer's credibility. ...

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The details of the September 11 attack are still buried in distant lands while the on Pearl Harbor happened over 60 years ago; therefore most of the documents and information concerning the attack have been released. ...

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It was both straight and private, talking directly to people in their homes across the country. The radio was invented by accident, unlike the newspaper that was born out of need of information. ... Television depends on the visual image more than the content of information being processed. ...

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The US Supreme Court: Sexually Motivated? Following the defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II the United States almost immediately became burdened with another challenge, that of, containing their former ally, the Soviet Union. Known as the Cold War, this conflict inspired tremendous technological advances as well as, drastic social changes throughout the world and especially within the United States. The rivalry for global dominance immediately became, perhaps, the single most important factor determining the American, as well as, the global human experience and would remain...

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1. In "Homo Loquens"," Marshall Poe describes his theories on speech communication. Within his ideas, he points out disadvantages in speech, and how society tends to interpret it. One disadvantage that Poe pointed out was the idea of privacy, and how with speech, nothing can ever be private. "You ha...

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The new Cuban government, under Fidel Castro confiscated private property, sent agents to initiate revolutions in several Latin American countries, and established diplomatic and economic ties with leading socialist powers, such as USSR In June Congress had passed legislation enabling President Dwight D. to take retaliatory steps against Cuba. ... The Kennedy administration would suffer the consequence of the invasion, while critics charged the CIA with supplying faulty information to the new president. ...

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This is another feature of the book I enjoy often enough in the United States you do not receive the information on what the other guys did during the battle; just a centralized view centered on the American forces. ... Ambrose through imagery, personal narrative from not only the commanders but the privates, and through overall skill to include the minutest details has created a masterpiece and homage to all sides that had something to do with the battle and to the battle itself....

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The Germans focused more on stimulating private industry through subsidies and tax rebate, they encouraged consumer spending through marriage loans, they also implemented public works programs including the autobahn, housing, railroads, and navigation projects. ...

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As I read "Night", I was struck by the apparent lack of information the Jews had in respect to their families and others of the Jewish faith in regards to the war. ... All things that we as human beings take for granted, such as water, food, a flat surface to sleep on, and even a semi-private place to relieve ourselves was taken from these people. ...

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A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had a strong military, it was encircled by hostile capitalist governments and felt that if communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ...

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Introduction The genesis of World War One was controversial and was shrouded on confusion. Pinpointing exactly the political origins of the war is a still discordant issue even after all these years, however no one can deny that the facts are still there. While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. Many new politica...

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