... 154,000 British, Canadian and American soldiers, including 23,000 arriving by parachute and glider. The invasion also involved a long-range deception plan on a scale the world had never before seen and the clandestine operations of tens of thousands of Allied resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied countries of western Europe. American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named supreme commander for the allies in Europe. British General, Sir Frederick Morgan, established a combined American-British headquarters known as COSSAC, for Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander. COSSAC developed a number of plans for the Allies, most notable was that of Operation Ov ...
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... members to educate the young. Health care was improved, infant mortality rate has dropped from 60 to 11.1 which is comparable to industrialized nations. Even with all the good changes their are hardships do go with them. Castro took over business's, some of which were owned by foreign investors, collecting some of the revenue to help Cuba's economy. Some of Batistas followers and the wealthy fled to the U.S. to escape the taking of their wealth or being jailed. On April 17, 1961 the CIA arranged a invasion with 2000 exiles to invade Cuba to spark a uprising against Castro, this was known as the Bay Of Pigs. The invasion failed, this opened a window of opportun ...
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... dollar bills, and two letters that implies that she is a dealer. Mr. Choplick notified her mother and the police and told her mother to take her to the police headquarters. A New Jersey juvenile court admitted the evidence, saying that the search of the purse was reasonable under the standard of enforcing school policy and maintaining school discipline. The court found the student, T.L.O., to be a delinquent and sentenced her to a years probation. The appellate Division affirmed the courts decision that there had been no Fourth Amendment violation, T.L.O. appealed . The supreme court reversed the decision . The court held that the fourth amendment prohibits ...
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... on eliminating it totally. The workers realized that the government's way of improving Poland's status in the world market was to exploit the workers. On December 14, 1970 the workers finally showed their anger and frustration by striking. A white-collar worker explained the situation that arouse at Lenin Shipyard that morning: When I entered the Gdansk Shipyard, I could feel the tension. As usual, everyone was going to their workplace, but on each face you could see something serious was going on. When I reached the hangar of S-5, above which was my office, I noticed that all the machines were shut off even though the workers started their shift at 6:00 whil ...
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... law to these two governments, thinking that most people didn’t realize how similar the new and old system in Hong Kong really were. Also upon reading the Basic Law I was struck by the similarities with our own constitution. It is when you read further into the Basic law that you discover how different the system of governments in the United States of America and the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong are. I also plan to give perspectives of people living in Hong Kong a year after the handover. It is my desire that you take from this paper a new level of insight into the situation in Hong Kong and what it may mean to China. Hong Kong is located at the M ...
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... concentrations are now respectively in Turkey (approx. 52% of all Kurds), Iran(25.5%), Iraq (16%), Syria (5%) and the CIS (1.5%). Barring a catastrophe, Kurds will become the third most populous ethnic group in the Middle East by the year 2000, displacing the Turks. Furthermore, if present demographic trends hold, as they are likely to, in about fifty years Kurds will also replace the Turks as the majority ethnic group in Turkey itself. There is now one Kurdish city with a population of nearly a million (Kirminshan), two with over half a million (Diyarbekir, Kirkuk), five between a quarter and half a million (Antep, Arbil, Hamadan, Malatya, Sulaymania), and qua ...
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... war in 1939, the need for laborers resulted in the creation of forced labor camps in which prisoners became virtual slaves. Jews were subdued to inhumane treatment, which resulted in death through illness, starvation, beatings, or execution. People imprisoned in death camps were used for the most work they could give and after that their lives were terminated, by gassing them and then burning their remains. The six most popular extermination camps were Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, and Majdanek. At Auschwitz, slave labor was used to produce rubber and other products. The minimum upkeep meant a lack of adequate sanitation, and cruelly insuffic ...
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... what had happened. We now believe that "at least 27 cities and villages near the Chernobyl nuclear plant are too contaminated by radioactivity to be resettled in the foreseeable future; and that "the radiation released stretched world wide (1). We also know that the explosion and fire tore apart one of the reactors and that "31 people died" (2). However this figure conflicts with the April 29,1986 United Press International "unconfirmed" report that over 2000 people were killed by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion (3). Looking back, we can see that as the story unfolded, international outrage grew over Soviet limitations on news of the disaster ...
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... are negative and unhealthy, while others remain positive and strong. One’s opinion of love in general is often based one which branches of love he or she has encountered. This can best be seen when analyzing Plato’s Symposium and Augustine’s Confessions; because their visions of love were of different branches, their opinions on the value of love differ greatly. Plato’s understanding of the concept of love leaned towards the branch of Eros, while Augustine’s love was more Ludus based. In Saint Augustine’s pubescent age he resigned himself to the urgings of the flesh, as he speaks about in Book II of Confessions. All too quickly he plunged deeply into the pleas ...
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... among the most sophisticated of people. There would be a GOLD RUSH. After a great amount of success Sutter wanted more. He was soon due to get much more. In 1848 Sutter decided to increase his wealth with a saw mill. On January, 24,1848, during construction of the mill, one of Sutter's carpenters, James Marshall, saw something glistening. He picked it up,examined it, and picked up a few more. He was sure he had found gold. James Marshall took a 40 mile journey to Sacramento where Sutter was dwelling, and told him about his fabulous discovery.The rise of the gold rush Word got out about this wild discovery. Everyone was screaming"Gold!Gold fr ...
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