... . Already, early on in the book, the characters have been reduced to numbers and parts of greater numbers: Ivan Denisovich is addressed by the number on his shirt-tag, and he identifies himself and the other prisoners by the numbers of their regiments. The narrative begins with a statement of the time of ... day, and the characters are obsessed with the freezing temperatures outside. Pavlo brings a bread ration that is one loaf short. Numbers ... is twenty-below outside. Shukhov decides to report in sick. The Tartar, another guard, walks in and pulls down his blanket, reads off Shukhov'...

• Word Count: 1884
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• Grade Level: High School

... device driver, the new protocol was more like a communication protocol. In order to make it easier to use, the Host computers were assigned names, replacing numbers (Comer 41). The ARPAnet became obsolete in 1982, but the source of the program is still used at the present time. The Web began in 1989; ... is open 24 hours a day. The Internet is also a bigger and cheaper way to advertise. In the past 20 years, the Internet has changed a number of areas in society, especially the business world. In the last 40 years, the Internet has gone from a method of defense communication for the govern...

• Word Count: 1841
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... introduced under perestroika were leasing land to farmers (all land was owned by the state), allowing loss making factories to go bankrupt and limited numbers of private enterprises to open. This sounded promising but evidently would only put thousands out of jobs and force bankruptcy to many factories with ... the consumer market. There was the chronic overspending on the military; over 18 percent of the GNP by 1980 was used. These astronomical numbers were partially due to the Cold War's arms escalations, but also to quell any potential opposition. The billions and billions of dollars...

• Word Count: 1728
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... American-Japanese relations that had existed since the 1937 Japanese drive into China. The United States declared war on Japan the following day. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Proclamation Number 2525 restricting the travel and other movements of Japanese aliens in the United States and authorizing civil and military authorities to detain all suspicious aliens. Subsequent proclamations affected German and ... " during World War I and thereafter, African Americans from the Deep South flocked to the industrial centers. A pattern of all-Black or predominantly Black neighborhoods dev...

• Word Count: 2072
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• Grade Level: High School

... process of immigration itself was rather unique. Two major waves of immigration occurred during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, first from 1882 to 1903, an estimated number of 25,000 Jewish immigrants arrived doubling the 1880 Jewish population in Palestine. During that period the newly immigrants have lacked funding and had very little agricultural skills, they were ... and the Kibbutz , members have individual homesteads but conduct agriculture and economy as a collective unit . two other agricultural settlement type , the moshava and moshav ovddim , are found ...

• Word Count: 1811
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Cuba's economy unravelled during 1958, as political unrest and economic damage caused by revolutionary forces disrupted economic production and precipitated capital flight. Cuba's tourism industry collapsed as the numbers of U.S. tourists declined. Economic problems continued into 1959, after the Castro government assumed power, and conditions worsened as low world sugar prices further drained Cuba's foreign ... tourism potential, and the large US market. An enduring economic recovery that allows for the maintenance of investments in social areas, however, requires that Cuba address a n...

• Word Count: 2137
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... from collectivised farming, Stalin issued the Kolhoz Charter in February 1935. This charter made it legal to re-grant to peasants a small private plot on which they could keep a small number of livestock and trade surplus produce grown on their private plots. The result was that yields from these small plots were much higher than yields from collectivised farms as the ... them into co-operating with Stalin's revolution or be faced with mass execution or deportation. In 1939, 2.5 million hectares of land in private plots was taken away and private livestock numbers were also cut. Althoug...

• Word Count: 2410
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... moved and took their land to make room for camp's settle. They also forced these people to work in the camps and sent good number of people to the force labor camp. The order to get rid of the Jews, Hitler army rounded up all the Jews and sends ... Birkenau in August 16, 1942. The first group of women to be the prison in the section in Auschwitz I were 999 German women and same number of Jewish women from Poprad. By the end of March more than 6,000 women were held in the new section. (Gutman) The Auschwitz III or ... material which taken from Operation Reinhard alone was 180 million rei...

• Word Count: 1268
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• Grade Level: High School

... pretext for understanding current areas of opportunity within that country, principally, manufacturing, agriculture, mining and services. Interestingly, according to Edwards and Polonsky, global companies initially entered Russia in growing numbers between 1992, when President Boris Yeltsin instituted a policy of economic shock therapy, and August 1998, when the Russian economy collapsed. Since 1995 Russia's" true economy had been growing, its ... interdependencies were often lessened by the sharp fall in domestic consumption of practically all mineral commodities following the breakup o...

• Word Count: 1539
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... war, the United States continued to lie to its citizens even during the war about many things such as the total deaths of the U.S soldiers, the number of Vietnamese soldiers that were killed and the number of U.S troops that were deployed to Vietnam. The government would feed the public this false information to make it appear as if the United States was ... not justify why over 500,000 Vietnamese civilians including women and children were killed during our involvement in the war. One example of an incident that added greatly to these numbers was the My Lai massacre. When U.S soldiers ...

• Word Count: 1714
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... took place clandestinely, where small groups of pupils would meet either in the soup kitchen or in the home of the teacher. There is evidence of educating youths in a large number of places in Poland, Warsaw and numerous other places where the Nazi's prohibited education. Also, according to Ringelblum, there were in Warsaw ALONE some 600 illegal minyanim, groups of Jews ... Jewish resistance did not occur everywhere. For example, in areas of Eastern Poland that had been annexed by the Soviet Union in 1939, the German murder groups killed off large numbers of young men and members of the...

• Word Count: 1262
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... out of business because they could not keep up with the pay, leaving many people out of work (Schmemman 64). Along with much unemployment, birth rates began to decrease. The number dropped 40% each month and continued to decrease until 1994, when it slowly recovered (Vasager 2). A lot of women did not have a clear idea of how much it would cost to ... to take risk, leaving their children to do the same. Despite the amount of emphasis that is put on health care within East Germany, they still manage to have downgrading numbers on life expectancy, it had decreased by 0.9 years in East Ger...

• Word Count: 1509
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... Bohme issued a comprehensive extermination order. Due to the "Balkan mentality", widespread communism and allegedly nationalist rebel movements, he ordered "all Communists, people suspected of being communist, all Jews, and a given number of nationalist and democratically minded inhabitants are to be seized as hostages in swift operations. These hostages were to be told that they would be shot if German soldiers or ... to use. The victims were coaxed into the vans under two pretexts. First, that they were being put to work. Second, that they were being transferred to a better camp. Larg...

• Word Count: 1897
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... and the USSR the need to find a different modus vi! vendi, an alternative means of survival other than the arms race. The Cuban paradox led the two superpowers to reach a number of limited agreements that would set the pace for a period of thawing' in the Cold War. In 1963 an agreement in Geneva provided for the establishment of a hot line' , a direct ... ABM treaty, setting out limits on anti- ballistic missile for an indefinite duration, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT1), which was an interim agreement for 5 years, setting limits on numbers of land and sea based missiles...

• Word Count: 1917
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... he said, "an Iron Curtain has descended. Behind that line lie all the states of Central and Eastern Europe. The Communist parties have been raised to power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. This is certainly not the liberated Europe we fought to build. Nor is it one which allows permanent peace." There were more ... the Cold War because both sides had formed military alliances and it seemed as if they were preparing for something. To finally round off, the Cold War was intensified by a number of factors after 1945. Indeed the main reason...

• Word Count: 1962
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• Grade Level: High School

... and MacArthur was able to provide the assurance that Truman was searching for. MacArthur assured Truman that the Chinese wouldn't enter the war, and even if they did, the greatest number of troops they could hope to maintain in Korea was 50,000 to 60,000. MacArthur claimed that the United Nations had won the war and that it would be ... the Chinese action and he continued the UN march northward, even promising on November 24th to have American troops home for Christmas. Two days later, the Chinese struck in massive numbers against the overextended, ill-equipped, and outnumbered UN troop...

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... , and running out of ammunition and food. Finally, the battle ended not with a retreat, but with a surrender. The last major difference of the two battles is the magnitude and sheer numbers. The Battle of Stalingrad was on a completely different level than D-Day. The final casualty estimate of D-Day was anywhere from 14,000 to 19,000. The range of the ... numbers is due to unreported German casualties. The final casualty count from Stalingrad was a staggering 300,000 men. Even though, both battles were similar in that they were both turning points, ... ...

• Word Count: 1844
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• Grade Level: High School

... Winter, meant a comeback for Soviet forces and the Red Army was able to save Moscow from invasion. Stalin's role in strengthening the Red Army, ensuring well stocked weaponry and large numbers played a significant role in the USSR's victory. Hitler, although a driving force in the division, was undermined by Stalin's leadership and success in terms of foreign policy. Conclusion The role of ... ...

• Word Count: 1393
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... their eventual downfall. Whilst Soviet manpower supremacy was not in itself determinative, their vast quantitative advantage did facilitate Russian shock tactics, allowing them to overwhelm isolated German divisions. Their large numbers afforded them a continuous front off attack, denying the Germans time to regroup. Despite suffering 1.2 million casualties at Stalingrad it would be unfair to say the Russian war effort was merely ... ...

• Word Count: 2415
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... Jews" (Flood 593). Hitler himself stated clearly that "Marxism presents itself as the perfection of the Jews' attempt to exclude the pre-eminence of personality[]and replace it by the numbers of the masses" (Hitler 447). How ironic! That he would condemn the Jews for the exact same thing which he himself was doing. This constant identification of Socialism with Jews ... ...

• Word Count: 2487
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... a population of 146,001,176 educated people. Over 99% of the people over 15 years of age can read and write, showing a very strong education system. History shows that these numbers will not decline due to the fact that this percentage has increased each year for the past decade. This shows target that their economy will be strong in years to ... ...

• Word Count: 1482
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• Has Bibliography
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... that the dominating view was that the word's rangelands were suffering from desertification mainly due to overgrazing of domestic animals which in turn was due to an increase in the numbers of such animals. While solutions to desertification existed they were not used mainly because of the pastoralists" system of communal land tenure and finally they believe that the solution to ... ...

• Word Count: 2388
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... severed. " in March 1917, food riots and strikes broke out in Petrograd."" (Richards, 1938, p 271). Soldiers started riots and in the war front soldiers began to desert in ever-increasing numbers- (Fiehn, 1996, p 41) as a result of poor conditions and the appeal for the war to end. Unlike France, the chaos in Russia was not dealt accordingly which further implicated the ... ...

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... sexuality, and enjoys what is forbidden. In a normal world sex is free, in 1984 it's forbidden act accept for reproduction because it is necessary in order to keep the party's numbers unvarying. Julia has been sexually active since she was a teenager. "She had had her first love affair when she was sixteen, with a party member of sixty" (Orwell 109). Love and ... ...

• Word Count: 2496
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... human rights abuses and vast poverty. Its people are not allowed much of the freedom that others countries offer as seen in the massacre at Tiananmen square in which countless numbers of students were killed while protesting for more democratic reforms. Even though communism has not been completely successful in these examples and countless others such as North Korea and Vietnam ... ...

• Word Count: 1453
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate