... species day by the year 2020" (Landry, 5). Those responsible for the devastation of the rainforests is the ruthless logging companies along with the complete ignorance of the local peasants and governments that aid in the yearly loss of the hundreds of thousands of acres of essential rainforests. In Latin America cattle ranching for export trade is the chief culprit in rain forest destruction. The bullheaded ranchers fail to see the effects of their burning the land. After land ... will always promise us life and a future, and economics will only keep us happy for a while before it dest...

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... it has become evident that many have suffered a worse fate. In 1943 this Germans had discovered 4 500 Polish corpses in the Katyn forest. German Investigators had concluded that the corpses were Polish prisoners who were brutally massacred by Russian Soldiers. The Germans blamed the Soviets. Stalin promptly denied any accusations for this barbaric act . As the Germans publicised what they had discovered Russia had immensely affected their status ... nuclear bomb on Nagaski, which killed around 40,000 individuals . Hirohito, head of Japan surrendered and reported the nations surrender on ...

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... they also have every possibility of being evil within. Humans are responsible for their own actions and the consequences that they may have to face. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding assist in investigating the correlation to the real world and the island world that has been created in The Lord of the Flies. Both in the real and island world one sees that every individual is shaped with comparable ... arrogance, because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp."" (Golding 18) The first project by the boys on this island is to build a fire on top of the mountain. The...

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Study Guide: Cold War Exam #2 Algeria - the largest of France's North African colonies. In 1954, radical nationalist groups merged to create the National Liberation Front, and launched an uprising in cities all around Algeria. France, having just lost Indochina, sent a bunch of troops and fought a war that lasted 7 years. Large number of atrocities led to it being labeled the "dirty war". ... U.S. were fearful of a Soviet ally and "unsinkable aircraft carrier" so close to our borders. Inherent flaws in plan and no support from U.S. military or government brought a quick and embarrassing end ...

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... , these devices did not perform well. According to Donald Lopez, Senior Advisor to the director of the National Air and Space Museum, in his book Aviation a Smithsonian guide, people of that time tried to imitate birds. For example "in 1010 a monk named Eilmer jumped from Malmesbury Abbey in England and broke his legs. In 1162, a man in Constantinople fashioned sail-like wings from a fabric gathered into pleats and folds ... they had to clear was creating a system for controlling and stabilizing flight- (Aviation a Smithsonian guide, p 25). In 1900, the Wright brothers found out a new me...

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... Roma of kidnapping children for evil purposes (Bergen, 2003.) Nineteenth and twentieth century "experts" concluded that if criminality was inherited and Roma were criminals, then one could fight crime by preventing Roma from having children. This type of discrimination was not limited to Germany. In the late 19th centuries in England numerous Roma families were herded into forest compounds in the New Forest area of England ... . These people were forced to live in the worst of conditions. At a conference in Hungary in 1909 concerning the Roma problem, one speaker said, "Every Roma should...

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... the weapon should be demonstrated over some area accessible to the Japanese observers, and where its effects would be dramatic. I remember suggesting that a good place--satisfactory place for such a demonstration would be a large forest of cryptomaria [sic] trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomaria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood. I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest . . . would [have] laid the trees out in ... windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they had ... been matchsticks, and of course set them af...

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... efficiently. Plus, sports influenced clothing. Comfortable clothes were designed specifically for certain sports. Cars also led to development of shopping centers. The first shopping place was built in Lake Forest, Illinois (Payne, 544). In more recent times, fashion has come to be generally acknowledged as applying to the women's dresses. The women's fashions of the 1900s are called La Belle Époque. "Grecian bend- ... also popular during this period to produce the fashionable S-curved figure. All the skirts during that time swept the floor, and the evening gowns were low necked with a r...

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... by U.S. Finally, was the U.S. response; Hitler believed the U.S. could not respond quick enough to stop his advance. This was where Hitler made his worst mistake as the U.S. made the greatest mobilization effort in history. However, it still depended on the soldiers in the front line. For those soldiers, the Ardennes Forest was the snowiest, coldest, most awful place they had or would ever be. It represented the low point for the soldiers in the war, reminiscent of ... battles in their father's war, World War One. They were fighting on stationary ... ...

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... outside of cities were built for families to be raised in. The houses were mass produced and cheap for new families, they all looked the same and the inhabitants of the community shared similar values. Parents financially had to adapt to the needs of kids, the bills of a house, and materialism. White collar jobs seemed to be the answer; although the jobs help provide for families it took away the significance of working. White ... States. A common stereotype of Americans is they are lazy. White collared jobs have to take some of the blame for this accusation. White collared employees ha...

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... , there was sharp reaction. All actions went against the Atlantic Charter, which was the ideal of the public, and the renouncement of this caused a mixture of fear and hostility toward those nations that seemed to "participate willingly- in the march to communism. The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration of principles to guide a post-World War II peace settlement. The charter supported the general principles of national self-determination and non ... some of the other agreements less satisfactory than the one on the United Nations, they looked upon the world organization, and Soviet ...

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... technology was made by William Hale. He invented a method to spin the rocket, thus he could eliminate the need for the guide stick and improve the performance of the rockets (Britannica.com, 2000). Then in the early years of the 20th century, the velocity and range of the rockets were increased. The most important person for rocket technology was Robert H. Goddard in these times. He is an american scientist and inventor who from 1908 to ... modular and will consist of light components (Hennig, 1994, p.9). In order to meet these new design and development demands, and produce the missile...

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... fertility boom that produced seventy five million kids. The birth rate increased from 2.1 births per woman in the 1930's to 3.7 births per woman in the 1950's. There were several reasons for this phenomenon. The first cause for the birth rate increase was post World War II euphoria. The uniting of the young men coming home to their wives caused the birth rate to increase (Jones 14-22). In 1946, thirty four million babies were ... were marrying about three years earlier, and women who had delayed marriage during the war were joining their younger sisters. The economic prosperity of the c...

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... and his part have become much more personalized because he actually sees the face of the enemy, the man he has killed, right in front of him. In his grief, Paul checks the dead man's for identification so that he can find out the deceased's name. He realizes that the man he killed is no real enemy, that, in fact, he had a family, and is clearly very much like Paul ... in the understanding what really went on during the battles in World War 1. The book is fiction, but the visuals of the war and life during the war are all true. Remarque accurately describes the new weapons and tactics us...

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... planet if there isn't anything done about it. "Lake at the end of the World" by Caroline Macdonald is a novel that depicts a very accurate future that might be. The world has been destroyed by a lot of pollution and people have been poisoned by mass cropping of forest's to feed the grow world which has reached the point of starvation. A girl, Diana lives with her mum and ... dad next to this lake, this lake is basically the only known natural piece of evidence of what the world use to be like. They don't use the lake because they think it is polluted by ... 't seem to be stopping, somet...

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... meant that God was on their side. This attitude became an inseparable element of the society they have grown into. Nowadays the "obsession" with work has come to the point where lots of parents claim that they have no time for their kids, no time to sleep, read, cook, exercise, socialize - in short, no time to live! Their children do have biological parents, but physically ... they hardly even meet them. In the family where both parents work kids are usually left for themselves. This fact contributes to a number of juvenile delinquency and addiction-related problems. The young have no p...

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... could quickly move up and down the beaches. Unlike heavy tanks though, the Sherman Light Tank could be destroyed by machine guns. Amphibious trucks were used to transport soldiers to the shores, floating along until their wheels touched the bottom and they were able to move much faster. The M-60 was still the fastest firing machine gun. In pillboxes at the top of the cliff, the Germans had 3 or 4 of these ... fast-firing weapons shooting down onto the landing troops. The newly developed sniper rifle was a threat to the Allies as the Germans had several dozens of these posted up on the c...

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... and damaged many additional vessels. More than 160 aircraft were destroyed. The United States was in shock! December 8th, 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war against Japan. At first the war in the Pacific did not go well for the Americans. The Japanese seized the Philippines, Guam, Wake, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malay, and Indonesia. "In the Philippines in 1942, Japanese soldiers forced Americans and Filipino prisoners weakened by insufficient ... Nagasaki. Because of bad weather the pilot was unable to find the planned target point so he took aim on a stadium as a landmark to guide him...

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... were unable to have at least a minimal amount of protection from opposing sides and they had a much greater chance of dying ("Slaughter in the trenches", NA). Furthermore, the lack of preparation for World War One impacted the men as they were unaware of the weapons that were being developed to fight trenches (DeamandMedia, 2001-2005). Weapons such as tanks, flamethrowers, poison gas, tracer bullets, catapults, artillery ... weeks to die (schoolhistory, 2014). Blistered skin, internal and external bleeding, sore eyes were all prime symptoms of gases. Thus, the weapons developed for tren...

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... and it is equally here. The music that is played is traditional Balkan music, typical for the period that is depicted. It is happy music throughout which contrasts to the sad, serious moments of the movie but connects with the happier parts being Sarajevo in 84 and the preparation of the wedding in the salon. Whilst on the topic of the salon, the music (as well as the light) cut off abruptly but then ... starts up again and I think this is foreshadowing the killing that is ... about to take place, especially as it is the mother that turns ... ...

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... example of what happens when a group of kids are placed into adult situations. The boys on the island were students used to rules and regulations. The plane crash that caused the boys to be on this island is the reason that the boys will now have to fend for themselves. Boys like Piggy and Ralph believe that rules are necessary in order to maintain civility. To do this they ... been killed, and even though it happened as an accident it should never have been in such a vicious way. Simon just happened to be the poor child that was in the wrong place at the wrong time and had to pay for i...

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... it's because democracy is in danger in the United States. To try to help understand the current state of political culture, Jensen refers back to his favorite radical Americans Scott Nearing. There are three principals that Nearing used to guide his life and they are the quest "to learn the truth, to teach the truth, and to help build the truth into the life of the community. " Because these ... principles guided his teaching it got him into some trouble. Living with the purpose to speak against exploitation or corruption in society was not something accepted in the early 20th century. H...

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... had to find a site to build and test an atomic reactor. A section of the Cook County Forest Preserve, just outside of Chicago was the first choice. However, that was later changed to an underground squash court under the University's Stagg Field(Cohen 24). Once the test was completed, scientists needed another place to actually build and detonate a test bomb without killing unsuspecting Americans. Los Alamos ... to provide housing and remotely safe test locations for the workers, the government built several small top-secret cities for research. In New Mexico, the Los Alamos Ranch Schoo...

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... justify every invention that it comes up with in order to not take responsibility for the negative effects of what it has developed, is the more fragile humans" existence on the Earth becomes. The Flame Deluge acts as a chilling foreshadow to what the invention of the atomic bomb in our society will probably lead to, and the creation of the light generator shows that even the most innocent of all inventions can open ... the door to things which are more sinister. Science makes the potentially fatal mistake of not reflecting upon the potential for destruction of what it is creating; rath...

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... Eventually he fell ill with severe trench fever at the end of October 1916. While in the hospital he started writing The Book of Lost Tales that eventually became The Silmarillon, the basis for most of the Lord of the Rings series' content (van Vliet). Tolkein's experiences during the Great War, and the happenings throughout his life, seem to appear in the history of Middle Earth. Tolkein was also a ... patterns as a basis (Shippey). The Great War In the first sentence in the Foreword of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkein describes his book as "a history of the Great War of the Ring."" (Tol...

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