... literary event." The Boston Globe said, "A brutally moving work of art." "A remarkable work, awesome in its conception and execution at one and the same time a novel, a documentary, a memoir, and a comic book. Brilliant, just brilliant," said Jules Feiffer, Cartoonist, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. "Maus" is just an indescribable work of art. It's touching, moving, and intensely inspiring. Art Spiegelman not only tells ... one were to read Art Spiegelman's "Maus" and then research a timeline of events that took place throughout the Holocaust, one would find that there is a lot...

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... ? Persecution of the Jews in Germany began officially on April 1st 1933. Hitler had come to power a few weeks earlier and he immediately began the plan, as outlined in his book Mein Kampf, to eliminate "the eternal mushroom of humanity - Jews".2 German Jews were stripped of their citizenship by the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 and had their businesses and stockholdings ... African ports, diplomatic means, threats, incentives and the use of physical force. The question is why were these decisions made? Scholars and politicians have attributed U.S. policy to discrepancies between early repo...

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... Americans to view innocently their bloddy conquest of the Philippines as a continuation of the western expansino of democracy (Miller 3). Archibald Paton Thornton As Stuart Creighton Miller points out in his book Benevolent Assimilation, many Americans felt that they were doing the Filipinos a favor, so to speak by stepping in to colonize the Philippine nation. American leaders and the public (both ... Philippines depending on their locale and reading habits, there was a remarkable degree of thematic similarity in the press, discussion of the Philippines and its people" (Vaughan 303). T...

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... subject of controversy, the evidence presented in The Rape of Nanking should put an end to this debate. For the second edition of the book, published on December 13, 1997 -- the 60th anniversary of the Rape of Nanking -- the authors carefully reviewed the records of Japanese military ... these agencies. The records leave open the possibility that there were in fact many more victims, but the authors eliminated from their tally any reports that might conceivably have been overlapping or unreliable. The Nanking Massacre began on December 13, 1937 when the Japanese Imperial Army captured Na...

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... the faith of investors. If for any reason shareholders decide the financial declarations business put out, the value of the U.S stock exchange will and has gone down. According to the book, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Implementation, Significance, and Impact (by Wilma H Fletcher, Theodore Plette, Preface, para. 3) state, "Since the market's peak in early 2000, U.S stocks have lost ... Title II- Auditor Independence Title III- Corporate Responsibility Title IV- Enhanced Financial Disclosures Tile V- Analyst Conflicts of Interest Tile VI- Commission Resources and Authority Tile VII- Studies an...

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Our assignment was to write a paper using Robert F. Kennedy's book Thirteen Days: a Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. We were asked to examine the Cuban Missile Crisis as: a) an example of the Cold War mentality ... Wall from cutting off thousands of Berliners for 38 years. It is easy to understand Khrushchev's perception that Kennedy was weak. RFK's book offers that the Intelligence Community in 1962 gave JFK reports that the Soviet Union would not make Cuba a military base, " the risk of retaliation from the United States would be too great ... had chosen a contingency plan in the event ...

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... Walworth. The future would show that U.S. involvement and Wilson's efforts towards standardizing diplomacy would pave the way for world government as we know it today. Reports from the Front: The Battle for Verdun, 1916 shows that the Germans were resolved to accomplish their goals of the war by any means necessary. This ... account comes from the book, Source Records of the Great War, vol. IV. The Battle of Verdun was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. New warfare tactics such ... only a few hundred feet from each other. At the time, it was hard for the rest of the world to not...

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... Arab neighbors and Arab speakers around the world, including the United States. Al-Jazeera makes sure that the Arab view is heard, but it also reports news that is unwelcome to Arab governments. As New York Times reporter John Kifner wrote, "In a part of the world where news has always ... daily newspapers and are still considered to be taboo subjects among the media. For the dedicated researcher you can shuffle through thousands of pages of congressional reports and white house papers and find the information, if you are willing to dig, in unfindable places. Why do the media and the U.S...

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... feel the right to know what happens behind the Oval Office. Now the Presidency must battle against Newspaper journalists, radio personalities, televised news reports and now, even more menacing: the Internet. Presidents who are constantly reminded of their power and prestigious rank, become exasperated because they ... and contrast news accounts from all over the United States. That discovery is scaring the establishment press as much as Drudge's critical reports have scared the truth police at the White House. The Washington Post, CNN and other big news organizations have resorted to la...

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... American, except possibly Thomas Jefferson, has done so many things so well. During his long and useful life, Franklin concerned himself with such different matters as statesmanship and soap making, book printing and cabbage growing, and the rise of tides and the fall of empires. He also invented an efficient heating stove and proved that lightning is electricity. As a statesman, Franklin ... 's observations of nature there, and tells how he built his house, paid his bills, and spent his time. It also tells about his visitors and reports what he read and thought. On a deeper level, the b...

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... off 58 rounds at Mr. Corey. So that explains why Asad Khalil hates all Americans and why he went psycho and killed over 200 people. Throughout the book there are many racist remarks made. Whether the FBI, CIA, or NYPD makes it. The greatest amount of racism came from the cops towards the Muslim ... and Libyan community, and especially by John Corey. John Corey: "Well, the Muslims don't drink, I can't spell their f-ing names on my reports, and the women can't be seduced."(13) Now that's a fairly outlandish statement, and the response to that was Kate Mayfield (ATTF Co-Worker of John Corey...

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... impossible, the writer tells of mass hysteria, destruction, panic, and the launch of missiles by every major country including the China, but the book does have one flaw in its attempt to stay as close to possible realistic outcome, when Pat Frank was writing this novel talk of the ... , and the world was on the brink of war. This parallels to the predicted reaction that the Pentagon expected from "U.S. noncombatants" in recently declassified reports that have begun to be released to the general public. However, the leaking of a notice by unnamed Gibson III personnel that nuclear holoca...

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... In the 1930s, Joe Sr. became a major backer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, making large donations to the Democratic Party and even penning a book, in 1936, entitled I'm for Roosevelt. Later, his support for some of Roosevelt's more radical fiscal policies cooled, but he remained an enthusiastic Democrat and ... Czechoslovakia. Using his father's connections, JFK was able to stay in ambassadors' homes for the majority of his trip, and he sent detailed reports to Joe Sr. from every stop. JFK's most prescient observation came in Poland, where he noted that "rightly or wrongly the ...

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... island of Oahu or in Pearl Harbor on one of the most remembered days in United States history, December 7, 1941. Walter Lord comprised this book primarily from personal interviews with some 577 participants, admirals, sailors, generals, privates and ordinary citizens who assisted him in bringing the human side of ... the events of December 7, 1941 to the book. Where there was any discrepancy in the facts he referred to his secondary source of investigations and reports supplied by both the United States Government and the Japanese Government. While he uses no footnotes ... in his writin...

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... the story of Celia s life and tragic end, the story also illustrates the broader political backdrop of the era. Melton A. McLaurin s book Celia, a Slave brings to light the moral questions of slavery which dominated the political debates of Antebellum America. Celia was only fourteen years ... a woman and a slave made it twice as unlikely for her to achieve justice. McLaurin spends a significant amount of time in this book discussing the broader political situations of the time. These discussions serve to illustrate the context of Celia s trial, and to highlight the moral ... of Celia ...

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... detail about his young life. He does let us in on a little bit of an insight dealing with Jefferson and how he got where he did in a timely order. The book starts out telling us about Thomas Jefferson's dealings in the Continental Congress and the part he had in the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence is still a big part ... died too. I must say I am not a big history buff, but this is one of the best books I have read that deals with history. This book is also the first I have read on Thomas Jefferson. I have done reports on other presidents but never on him. T...

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... dedicated to stopping gun violence. CSGV maintains a library on the gun industry and violence research. (CSGV at http://www.gunfree.internect/csgv/) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) reports indicates there were over 211,000,000 firearms privately owned in the United States in 1991, and approximately 70,666,000 were handguns.(http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/bureaus/atf ... with handguns, and there were only 251 justifiable homicides by civilians using handguns.(CSGV at http://www.gunfree.internect/csgv/basic info & FBI, Crime in the United States:Uniform Crime Reports 19...

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... -called Responsibilities Program- began, which also helped this process. In this porgram some of liberal governors asked the FBI to provide information about state employees. Because these were mainly oral reports later it was easy to deny these inquiries. The whole program lasted for four years and the bureau could carry across 810 such ... reports (Ellen Schrecker).+++ Show business was one of the most well known industries where blacklisting existed from the 1930s. Through Hollywood and the broadcast industry it was easy to attract publicity. ... the Hollywood Ten, in 1950 just some...

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... she quietly divorced William Sanger, and to improve her poor health she went to California, where she spent three months writing a book entitled, Women and the New Race. The book focused on "free motherhood" and women's responsibility to determine her fate. She discussed women's right to choose whether or not ... she will conceive. In the book she states that it "was immoral having unwanted babies, or leading oneself to believe that governments were right to encourage large families." ... of our times." The daily letters that Margaret received helped to keep her focused on her cause. Som...

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... division during the November 1965 battle, which took place in the Ia Drang valley in Vietnam. Joseph L Galloway was a reporter that accompanied the 1st Battalion into this battle. This book does not try to make a political statement by addressing the issues surrounding America's involvement in Vietnam. Instead, this is every soldier's personal story of that horrific battle code named ... of different soldiers. Collectively these soldiers's gave an account of all points of view. Interviews include medics, infantrymen, helicopter pilots, officers, sergeants, reporters, and even the enemy...

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... what the health risks were. The government said the pesticides were safe, so the people used them. It was not until Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, written in 1967, that people started to question the use of pesticides. Author and scientist Theo Colborn questions why the effects of ... these toxins were not discovered earlier. In her book, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story, she writes about early signs that should have ... small penises. In mid-April of 1988, seals began washing up on the shores of Norther...

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... write, I think it's blood money. The Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995 is a good example for what I mean about the media and their books. A book was written for him about him, and Timothy McVeih wanted to be caught. He wanted to be known. He killed 168 people, 19 of which were children, ... he was suicidal, but he had developed an indifference to life, particularly his own. For people to go in and tell him that they want to write a book about his life story and the bombing, in his mind it's making him feel like a hero. I think it's sick. The most recent terrorist attack, ... during the las...

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... 1796, Ohio 1803 and Louisiana 1812. As people expanded into the west, the American adventuring spirit was awoken. There was rapid expansion across the west. Reports, phamplets and letters sent back to those in the east described the west as "bountiful rather than harsh and risky".3. The first document I will ... look at is "Jefferson seeks Congressional Funding for Exploration of the Louisiana Territory, 1803."pg 168 of the Enduring Voices book. The document talks about how America wanted to ensure a quick expansion into Louisiana. Jefferson speaks of wanting to involve the natives in di...

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... " while she is in the black community. Reverend Skyes is the pastor of First Purchase African M.E. Church and is an even-keeled figure through the book. One thing that impressed me about Reverend Skyes was that he never described himself or his congregation with the word "nigger/s". I think that it reflects ... Deas for 8 years without incident. He was unjustly charged with the rape of the Mayella Ewell. The court trial is a major plot crescendo in the book. Prior to the actual courtroom, Scout and Jem hear many nasty, narrow-minded comments from their schoolmates, neighbors and even fam...

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... . Another opinion related to the American pit bull terrier is that they should be banned because of the association with illegal dog fighting and crime. Karen Delise, author of the book The Pit Bull Placebo, says pit bulls got a bad reputation because of the reporting of the national media. At first the media was reporting on pit bulls to show the ... violation of animal rights and the cruelty being done to the pit bulls. These media reports did their job in the beginning but soon started to attract the attention of the wrong types of people. By the mid-1970s pit bulls became linked to d...

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