... Phelps" before August of this year, you aren't alone. However, even before Michael Phelps shattered Mark Spitz" Olympic record for the most Gold Medals in one Olympiad, he was a big star on the international swimming scene. In fact, the 2008 Beijing Olympics were the third Olympics for this golden boy. So just who is Michael Phelps? Michael Phelps was born on June 30 in 1985 in Baltimore ... Sydney, Michael swam well enough in the 200 meter butterfly semi-finals to make the medal round. He finished a respectable fifth, and returned to the United States and to his sophomore year of high s...

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... government does not exist in a vacuum. For the U.S. to flourish, it is critical for the government to form strong international partnerships. The Visa Waiver program is one way the government is attempting to do just that. Earlier this year, Congress opened the door for a solution to the visa waiver problem between the U.S. and several of its allies. Then, in March, the Hungarian, Slovakian, and Lithuanian governments signed MOUs (memoranda of understand) committing ... the U.S. government to help them qualify for the waiver program. In exchange, the U.S. would receive increased securit...

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... would think that WWIII is about to begin. The world awaits to see who the United States of America chooses as their President because that person could be the deciding factor. Being a superpower comes with great responsibility; that particular country must be involved in every conflict on earth in one way or another. You don't need a television to realize what is going on in the world. There seems to ... be a new conflict everyday with the United States ... taking some part in it. When the U.S. was attacked on 9/11, the entire world sympathized. Not many days hence, a war took place in ...

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... spend at least his first four years putting American back to work, funding projects that are necessary, but were not at the forefront of his dream. We will get better roads and structurally better schools. Maybe the tax code will get fixed, maybe not. A lot of what he dreamed he could make happen will have to wait. There will be no paying down ... economic plan. Now, when we need the money most of all is the best time to enact these changes. These are ways Obama can raise the needed money. 1. Stick by his plan to end subsidies to the oil companies. Why we are subsidizing one of the most...

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... its athletes draws foreign athletes who wish to learn from this tradition and benefit from this support. In many cases, the facilities for training in the U.S. have more funding than in certain less affluent countries. That in itself is a good reason to make the trip. What It Takes To Be The Best Many foreign athletes head to the U.S. specifically for aquatic sports. The U.S. has had so much ... success in this area in past Olympics that athletes come to benefit from the advanced training and expertise. For example, U.S. divers have won almost half ... legacy of tremendous success in ...

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... the general's penchant for creating bloodbaths in battle. Still, they fought. They fought, not for the chain of command, but for the leader. When Eisenhower sent troops to storm the beaches of Normandy, he knew full well that thousands were never coming home. What's more is that the men knew it too. Eisenhower was so unsure of his plan that he wrote two letters, one praising the valiant men who ... stormed the beaches in the event of success, the other taking full blame ... in case the offensive was defeated. The men knew what they were heading into, and they went anyhow; not for a cha...

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... clear: America wanted change, with Barack Obama, that's who they got. Now begins the tough job of actually being the President of the United States. Now that the landslide election is over, what happens next? Not only is Obama going to be under the microscope of the entire nation, he will also have to endure the glare of the global spotlight as well. How will America's first African-American president leave his ... Obama will once again commit to the goal of "effective multilateralism" where world affairs are concerned. That would mean that diplomacy is the rule and military action the e...

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... wrong, very wrong. Those white kids were innocent. Yet, where was the public apology Jesse? Those kids will forever be associated with this so-called rape, a shadow hanging over them. Their lives have in fact been forever tainted. This group of the original civil rights activists did what they had to do... in the 60's and 70's. And they were right to do so...then ... . But they live in the past as their rush to judgement clearly shows. Fear does indeed play ... preacher. In those 20 years, Obama must have heard many sermons about the evils of whitey. This is the same preacher who stated...

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... who gave so much must now receive; it is up to the citizens of the Union to take their dream and make it a reality. The Revolutions Sparked by Lincoln's Speech Considering the fact that the introductory orator for the ceremony where the Gettysburg Address was delivered went well into two hours, the ... the key foundations of what lead America to be founded in the first place. He is seeking to spark a revolution of American unity through the quoting of Jefferson's writings in the Declaration of Independence. There is also the reference to re-consecrating the commitment that each citizen ha...

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... put nuclear weapons in Cuba, but they put them there anyway. They thought that the United Stated wouldn't find out. They were wrong. The closest the United States ever came to a nuclear war was under President John F. Kennedy. The Prime minister of the Soviet Union was Nikita Khrushchev who secretly ordered the nuclear warheads to be placed in Cuba. Khrushchev had promised, revolutionary leader, Fidel ... of Russian military technicians that were in Cuba. As the days passed, the U-2 planes brought back more reports and photographs. The missiles that were photographed were placed within r...

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When the smoke of the civil war cleared, the US entered a new era. This era was nest known as reconstruction. Reconstruction was the government's grand plan to rebuild the south and reunite the states. There was a huge problem ahead however. The president and congress did not agree on how the south should be allowed back into the union. Andrew Johnson, president at the time, believed that the south should not have to be ... uprising of women's rights activists. What amendment XV meant was that all black men were now able to vote. Women's rights were still being denied, even though restricting...

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... their Manifest Destiny. Now, it's time for them to set their eyes on inheritance other than within the boundaries of the United States. It's progress for the Americans to expand and want what they do not have (expand their sight and goals; take more land). Trade is very important to American merchants, and foreign trade was of greater relevance. Theodore Roosevelt talked about expansion and ... % of American products were sold at home. The 10% was sold abroad and amounted to about a billion dollars. Oil was a huge export in the 1880s and the 1890s. Thanks to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co...

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... . It was a day that will forever be embedded in every American's mind. An attack that wasn't foreseen by anybody fell upon one of the busiest. I was at school when I heard about the event. The day was as normal as can be, not a cloud in the sky, a clear September morning. I was in my United States History class. Everybody was laughing and having fun when an announcement ... school, I went right to the television and couldn't help but turn it to a channel about the attack. I was totally shocked at what I saw next. They were showing replay after replay of the plane crash. It flew right int...

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... dust and agricultural decline were no strangers to the north. In fact the agricultural devastation helped to lengthen the Depression whose effects were felt worldwide. The movement of people on the Plains was also profound. Paul Bonnifield says "Wheat was a real good thing. The world needed it and was paying a good price for it. Wheat farmers with tractors, one way plows and combines purchased by most farmers ... of finding a way to get something to eat and wear. Every possible crack was plugged, sheets were places over windows and blankets were hung behind doors. Often the places were ...

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... to my friends and family, my life flashed in front of my eyes as if it was going to fade away and a new life was going to be born. The moment I stepped into the airplane, I knew that my life would change forever. I would have to confront many difficulties, including learning a foreign language. I would need to grow up and take responsibility for myself ... States, I have learned to speak English and I have gained appreciation of many different cultures. Most importantly, I have become more independent and responsible. The first day of seventh grade I was very frightened. For the entire ...

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... cheaper. Many Americans blamed Hoover for these problems and thought that he had not done enough to help America to recover from the economic slump. Hoover and his government were accused of doing nothing due to their belief in rugged individualism. This meant that ... said 'in Hoover we trusted and now we are busted'. He also believed that business would bring about the end to the depression and it was the government's job not to interfere. Therefore the government were accused of not doing anything due to their belief of rugged individualism. Roosevelt, in contrast to Hoover's .....

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... large grants that were passed on as direct cash payments for needy families. It was short-lived because it stressed the importance of immediate relief rather than long-term recovery. The pressure of the emergency created by the Great Depression was so intense and the power of Roosevelt's voice was so persuasive that Congress did just about anything he wished. Because of this Roosevelt had ... to 4 million people at a given time. Many people had jobs in the fields of construction, teaching, social work, and medicine. All of these jobs gave back to the nation and the community. The major ...

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The main reason for the start of the Manhattan Project and the production of the atom bomb was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Manhattan Project was appointed by Harry S. Truman. The first atom bomb was dropped on August6, 1945, on Hiroshima, Japan. The blast wiped out a 4.7 square mile area, killing over seventy thousand people. Another seventy thousand people were injured from the blast. After the first atom bomb, President Truman issued ... a stern warning to Japan to stop the attacks. "we are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the ...

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... our support of non-Communist South Vietnam was necessary to prevent the expansion of Communisim in Southeast Asia. They thought that if North Vietnam took over South Vietnam and other southeast Asian countries, they would "all fall over like dominoes" with communism. Opponenets of the war, Doves, steadily protested. They thought the United States should have never been fighting a war in Asia, ... a war that made troops travel halfway across the world. They believed Americans had no business interfering ... in a Vietnamese matter. If the United States' involvement in the war had lasted ...

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... (1950) On June 25, 1950, after months of military buildup and consultation with the Soviet Union, the North Korean military crossed the 38th parallel to officially invade South Korea. They planned to take over South Korea in three weeks but the United States sent assistance just two days after the invasion. The Soviets did not anticipate American involvement and a three-year war between communist and democratic ... soldiers attacks South Korean and U.S positions. By November 26, Chinese were launching a series of simultaneous attacks over a 25 mile front. This forced the United Nations ...

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... period of 1803 to 1815, the Napoleonic War took place. This long-lasting war was a battle between Great Britain and France. These two nations fought for the power over Europe. During the war, the U.S was involved. They called themselves as "neutral". America overall may not have benefited but the industries within the U.S. did. These industries made war supplies such as artillery ... and weapons which were then sold to the two fighting nations. Initially, America benefited from the Napoleonic War because before the year 1807, when the blockades, Orders ... just to make sure that there w...

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... quantity grew to 60,000 (Dustbowl np). Yearly, the farmers planted wheat on the same soil without thinking of any long-lasting damage done. Over plowed, the millions of acres of grasslands in the Great Plains turned the once nutritious soil into a fine unprotected dust (Bonnifield np). Eventually at the end of 1931, extreme droughts began. The lack of rainfall and extreme winds developed into "black blizzards", where ... ; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Car-loads, caravans, homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thous...

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... dollars to encourage Americans to travel around. With so much freedom of movement, America, for the first time, had more people living in the urban areas than in the rural and with the car they could visit their families that stayed in the farms. Electricity also revolutionized America. By the end of the 1920s over two thirds of all homes in America had electricity; electricity usage almost tripled ... . The invention of the light bulb contributed a lot to this. Another milestone of this era was the invention of the radio. Since ... some people were better paid they had more free time in...

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... American War Yellow Journalism Joseph Pulitzer - The World Wm. Randolph Hearst - The Journal These newspapers printed slanted and sensationalized articles about the war to attract readers. Cubans revolt against Spanish rule in Cuba Jose Marti - Cuban patriot who wrote newspaper articles about the struggle for freedom. Lola Rodrigvez ditio - Puerto Rican poet who wrote poems for Puerto Rican Independence. The U.S. wanted to protect their business interests in ... Cuba. Entrepreneurs saw natural resources and cheap labor. Expansionists saw new territories to conquer. The Yellow Press infl...

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... prisoner by the Germans. However, the sacrifice was not completely unsuccessful. The mistakes made at Dieppe taught the Allies valuable military lessons. When the Allies he Allies attacked the Germans at Normandy, France on June 6th, 1944. They made careful plans. They also used more troops and additional planes to destroy the German defenses. The hard lessons learned at Dieppe helped the Allies succeed at Normandy, they used what they ... had learned from the Dieppe raid to their advantage, they defeated the Germans and won the most important victory of World War Two. Important lessons...

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