... organization's general secretary until August of 1940. During his time with 'Dobama Asiayone', he organized a countrywide strike known as Revolution of Year 1300. He also played a pivotal role in founding another nationalist organization, the Freedom Bloc and became its general secretary. He was also a founder member and the first secretary-general of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) in August ... held in the aftermath of World War I.12 His plan was never heard by the world powers or officially recognized, but his effort was well known in Vietnam. Ho became a founding member of t...

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... neighborhood and went to a white school. Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese traditions, none of the children spoke any Japanese. Jeanne was a second generation Japanese American along with her brothers and sisters. This meant she was an American citizen, something her parents and other first generation Japanese Americans could not become. Her citizenship did not matter when Executive Order 9066 ... neighborhood and went to a white school. Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese traditions, none of the children spoke any Japanese. Jeanne was a second generation...

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... leader. WWII. Although the war did complete the widespread economic recovery Roosevelt had begun with his New Deal, the war took many lives, left many families changed forever. While fathers, brothers, relatives, and neighbors fought on the Eastern Hemisphere across two oceans, those left behind felt the effects of the conflict in many ways. There was rationing of meat, sugar, canned ... apparatus that supplied oxygen to divers and allowed them to stay underwater for several hours in 1943. I. The first non-leaking ballpoint pen was invented in 1935 by the Hungarian brothers Lazlo and Ge...

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... Lange's photographs and immediately sought to team up with her. Taylor was writing articles to publicize the terrible effects of the depression but felt he needed photographs to accompany his essays. Lange agreed to work with him, and their first effort was published in Survey Graphic in September 1934. The publication of this first article caused an immediate commotion. Lange was ... ...

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... Lange's photographs and immediately sought to team up with her. Taylor was writing articles to publicize the terrible effects of the depression but felt he needed photographs to accompany his essays. Lange agreed to work with him, and their first effort was published in Survey Graphic in September 1934. The publication of this first article caused an immediate commotion. Lange was ... ...

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... at the root of the idea and how much prevalence it had in the minds of the American people. For this we may start all the way back at the founding of the nation. Heralding John Winthrop's famous metaphor as the new state being a "City upon a hill"9 the puritan founders have implemented an idea that the New England community ... ...

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... 's the United States looked to India as a large poor democratic challenger to large poor communist China. At one time India was the largest recipient of U.S. economic assistance, but India was a founding member of the nonaligned movement. It claimed political independence from both Cold War superpower, but the U.S. and India assist one another on security issues. During India's war with China, the ... ...

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... country (Halliday and Cumings 1988:33). The United States had planted yet another of its personally groomed governments in the world. North Korea responded in September 1948 by declaring the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Kim Il Sung was elected premier. Legitimacy has been an enormous issue throughout the history of Korea. Beginning when the Koryo dynasty ... ...

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... the Soviet Union signed the United Nations charter. Forty-six other nations from every region of the world joined these five central powers in signing, and together they became the founding members of the United Nations. Today, the U.N. is an all-inclusive body. All but four of the world's nations belong to the United Nations at present. As is defined in ... ...

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... that smothers civilization and alters all its processes of evolution. He asked the American people to "take up this Communist challenge" and help the Republic of Korea do what the founding fathers of our own nation did to make the United States what it is today. He reiterated that "the Korean people will never swerve from the original objective of their ... ...

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... that smothers civilization and alters all its processes of evolution. He asked the American people to "take up this Communist challenge" and help the Republic of Korea do what the founding fathers of our own nation did to make the United States what it is today. He reiterated that "the Korean people will never swerve from the original objective of their ... ...

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... of the century with the advent of Scientific Management techniques, developed by engineers, rather than accountants. Finally, an intricate Return On Investment (ROI) model was developed by the Du Pont brothers in 1903 to support the management of large, diversified organizations. In this model, which is still taught in business schools today, ROI is equal to the return on sales (operating ... ...

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... as Gettysburg and Glory. Glory is a great movie about the 54th Regiment, which is composed of free black men. These men from Massachusetts fight for the freedom of their enslaved brothers in the South (Glory). This movie puts a positive twist to war in that the blacks took up arms too to support a cause, which is something they had never done before ... ...

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... not been possible, bar such unscrupulous recruitment practices, many of the enlisting Sergeants allowing underage enlistment, "smiling they wrote his lie: aged 19 years", (Disabled) sending five different sets of brothers from Eton alone, to their premature deaths. Death, as taught in such establishments, was not one of dehumanising pain where, "eyes writhe in his face" (Dulce Et Decorum Est) after ... ...

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... around the concept that the "correlation of forces was moving in favor of socialism."(2) Brezhnev believed that eventually, the capitalist West would experience revolution and would turn towards their socialist brothers for support. Time was not an issue with Brezhnev. If he could maintain a supposed belligerent foe and keep socialism firmly in place at home, he would have no problems contrary ... ...

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... turn of the century with the beginning of Scientific Management techniques, developed by engineers, rather than accountants. Finally, an intricate Return on Investment (ROI) model was developed by the DuPont brothers in 1903 to support the management of large, diversified organizations. In this model, which is still taught in business schools today, ROI is equal to the return on sales (operating ... ...

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... working hard and it was important to them, they still had to make extra time to carry out their "duties." By duties, I mean they always wrote letters to their husband, brothers, and friends that were fighting over seas. Females also frequently attended USO dances, and made sure that every soldier that came home had somebody there to talk to so that ... ...

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... in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Croats (Roman Catholic), ethnic Serbs (Serb-Orthodox) and Muslims. Many of the Bosnian-Serbs at this time wanted the province to be united with their Serbian "brothers" from across the river in Serbia, a sentiment which was largely shared amongst all Serbs. 6 October 1908 saw the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria directly into the Austro-Hungarian ... ...

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... JFK's continuing struggle with Addison's Disease--papers were loathe to risk lawsuits by publishing rumors, especially when the Justice Department was in the hands of JFK's brother Robert. The Kennedy brothers, assisted by the slightly unstable, paranoiac FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, had no qualms about using their power against their political opponents. Illegal wiretapping, something Hoover had been practicing for years ... ...

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... as Gettysburg and Glory. Glory is a great movie about the 54th Regiment, which is composed of free black men. These men from Massachusetts fight for the freedom of their enslaved brothers in the South (Glory). This movie puts a positive twist to war in that the blacks took up arms too to support a cause, which is something they had never done before ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School