... , and U.S. troops were on stand-down in many areas. During this offensive over 85,000 NLF soldiers simultaneously struck at almost every major city and provincial capital across South Vietnam, sending their defenders reeling. The U.S. Embassy in Saigon, previously thought to be invulnerable, was taken over by ... in most of South Vietnam, South Vietnamese Communists assassinated civilians for collaborating with Americans, which was a favor, returned when the ARVN recaptured the city. United States Marines were ordered to go from house to house to find North Vietnamese and NLF soldiers. Th...

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... from California. His opponent was a liberal Congresswoman named Helen Douglas. After another bitterly fought campaign Nixon linked her voting record with that of the American-Labor-Party congressman from New York, who was widely regarded as pro-Communist. Nixon won the election by 680,000 votes. In 1952, Nixon was selected to be Dwight Eisenhower's vice presidential- running mate, but shortly ... acknowledge Brown's victory, and attacked the press in a televised news conference. Most polical observers believed this was the end of his political career. After his defeat Nixon move to New ...

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... of family history. I inadvertently determined that my grandfather and Eleanor both lived in Italian speaking homes. Additionally, each of their parents immigrated to New York from Italy and ended up in its capital district. "When my mom first came here she had a real hard time. They didn't have ... began to understand why her Dad would be so upset if he knew she turned Republican. "Dan O"Connell was a staunch democrat who ran the city of Albany and most of the surrounding cities." Eleanor said "I can remember when he backed Harry Truman in 1948. He and his guys would go ... more nationa...

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... 2 the conditions in Korea worsened causing extreme desperation throughout the country. One can only imagine the chaos not only in Seoul, which exchanged hands 4 times, but also in every major city in both North and South Korea. Koreans frantically fled their homes in search for refugee camps, safety, shelter, and food. Phase 3 began in April of 1951. The beginning of this ... March 1995. 1993 World Trade Center Bombings On Friday, February 26, 1993 at 12.18 p.m. the World Trade Center complex in New York was rocked by an explosion which killed six people and injured more than thousand. ...

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... steps of thousands of students all over the country protested against the war. The protesters left the dormitory town and went down the streets of the City of Kent in the morning on May 2. The City Mayor Leroy Satrom asked Governor James Rhodes to send the National Guard forces to school to suppress the protest after an anonymous student had burned the ... he was running to a car. A bullet went through Sandra Scheuer's throat as she was walking to class.3 The university was closed immediately and the city of Keny was placed under a 5:00 curfew with all entrances to the city blocked off....

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... help the country see that peace and unity were more important than aggression and dominance. There was a Flower Power love-in in the spring of 1967 in New York's Central Park. The love-in was a gathering of 10,000 people adorned in exotic hippie costumes and face and body paint. These people congregated for a day ... as were many of the Flower Power acts. As important as hippies and flowers were, the defining event of the "60s took place in Bethel, New York, from August 15-18, 1969. The three-day event was held in a field owned by farmer Max Yasgur in the Catskill Mountains, just fifty-f...

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... the major battles in Operation: Iraqi Freedom broke out. We took one of San Francisco's famous trolley rides late at night to view parts of the city. About half an hour into it, the trolley stopped at Union Square, and we were dropped off to await pickup by a bus. The trolley ... would not have had such a great loss of soldiers in Vietnam. As this war progressed, so did civil unrest. One hundred thousand protesters gathered in New York, and even more in San Francisco. Riots broke out here, and in other big cities such as Detroit. The president was getting no support from any ... Some c...

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... ensued in Saigon. Millions of people wanted to flee leave the country. Most were unable to get aboard a U.S. plane or helicopter. According to an Associated Press article in the New York Times many of those who could not escape "rushed to drug stores to buy quantities of sleeping pills" "with which they could commit suicide." President Thieu resigned amidst the panic ... quoted admonishing the U.S. saying that the Paris peace accords "led the South Vietnamese to death." Days later, on May 30 Saigon fell to North Vietnam. Tanks and troops conquered the city with little resistance. ( Butl...

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... poor a chance to buy just about the same as the average and over-average income people in the Chicago land area and throughout the cities. Groups were organized in the city's communities to improve the schools. Parents got more involved in their children education and their environment. In order to make sure their kids didn't experience the same communities got each ... War, and racial unrest increased. Throughout the nation demonstration was in major motion. Riots broke out in the overcrowded ghetto slums of Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Detroit, Newark, and New York City. From this...

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... effective scores in musical history. One final aspect of musical theatre is subject matter. Rent and Miss Saigon both have an incredibly powerful subject matter. Rent takes place in New York and chronicles the lives of 7 young adults. It takes a close look at drug addiction, friendship, gay and lesbian relationships, AIDS, tolerance, and many more. Rent gives you a fresh slice of ... . The girl stays in Vietnam and has the GI's son. The girl tries to get to America, and ends up in Hoh chi minh city. The GI finds out about his son and goes to the city and finds them. The girl finds out th...

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... United States in 1960, a "Camelot mystique- filled the White House. Jacqueline Kennedy's graceful and classic style greatly affected fashion in the early 1960's. Suddenly people were looking to Washington DC, a city full of politicians not usually recognized for their stylish dress, for fashion tips. Jacqueline's style was so influential that the media labeled her, the "United State's unofficial fashion maven-. With ... Jackie Kennedy's cropped sleeve suits for inspirations and modifying it by pairing the pencil skirt with a more narrow and tight-fitting jacket. At the spring 2003 runwa...

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... 1965 with more than 120,000 people taking part. Opposition increased even more in 1967 when Martin Luther King jumped on the bandwagon and 200,000 people demonstrated in New York. Tax rises and draft cards really peeved many people. $1 million of damage was caused outside the pentagon in protests. Many influential TV stations and newspapers started to oppose the war ... being shot in the head by a US general was seen by over 20 million people on TV which led to widespread disgust as well as the destruction of the ancient city of Hue which people felt was unnecessary. The offensive was h...

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... the Vietnam War. Going south to Atlanta was an eye opener to the oppression and Jim Crow south were he was not in his environment of the north in New York City. He was not concerned that he would be working at a Negro school, but it was just another job that paid the bills. He did not go there expecting to play ... ...

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... August 9, 1974. When President Nixon resigned he and his wife moved to their home in San Clemente, California. They continued to live there until 1980 when they moved to New York City and subsequently moved to northern Bergan County, New Jersey in 1981. During his retirement Nixon continued to travel extensively. He traveled all over the United States and went to places ... ...

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... usually them that had to mourn over the loss of their dad, brother, or son. "In the spring of 1967, huge antiwar protests occurred in major cities such as New York City and San Francisco"(Alterman 11 ). Every kind of person participated in this march, priests, business people, and mothers. Hundreds of men burned their draft cards in these protests. As the ... ...

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... until dusk. He saw grain unloaded from small river junks. He saw a monkey dancing at the end of a leather leash. He saw the river darken, the sky turning pink, the city beginning to light itself. And he believed what he saw."(P 104) This is very representative of O'Brien's writing style and the style of the book. I realize that some people probably ... the end comes as no shock. I would recommend that persons having patience and willingness to read the book through to the end, despite its slow start, read this book. New York times ...

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... , and in 1961, he quit school to pursue a career in music. He started playing around Greenwich Village, making a name and after his first gig at Gerde's Folk City he got a review in the New York Times. The critic, Robert Shelton, wrote:" Dylan is vague about his antecedents and birthplace, but it matters less where he has been than where he is going ... ...

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... the progress of a maturing society. The anti-war movements of the 1980's showed that the conservative thoughts overpowered the liberal ideas. The anti-Vietnam War movement brought demonstrations in New York City that attracted 25,000 marchers; within two years similar demonstrations drew several hundred thousand participants in Washington, D.C., London, and other European capitals. The election of Richard Nixon in 1968 and ... ...

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... , in honor of the anti-war protesting. Going on at the same time in the U.S., were the millions of anti-war protests in major cities. The major cities included New York City, Washington, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Portland. On May 4th, 1970, four students were killed at Kent State University in Ohio at 12:50 P.M. they reportedly panicked and fired into a crowd of ... ...

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