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    War Without Mercy

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    paper from: http://www.kevincmurphy.com/dower.html John Dower‚ War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War. List: 20th Century. Subjects: World War II‚ Race‚ Popular Culture. John Dower’s War Without Mercy describes the ugly racial dimensions of the conflict in the Asian theater of World War II and their consequences on both military and reconstruction policy in the Pacific. "In the United States and Britain‚" Dower reminds us‚ "the Japanese were more hated than the Germans before

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    without seeing the dawn

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    What Fires Motivation? Babies are born with an inherent drive to learn. Your challenge as the parent of a child with learning or attention problems is to help him build what Drs. Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein (Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength‚ Hope‚ and Optimism in Your Child) call "islands of competence‚" to offset the frustrations and low self-esteem that can result from his learning struggles. The goal is to find subjects or activities where he is self-motivated to learn‚ enjoys

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    An Event Without A Witness: An Analysis of the Distortion of Eye Witness Testimony to Victims of the Holocaust at Auschwitz This European study will analyze the narrative distortions of first-person eyewitness testimony in the killing of SS-guard‚ Josef Schillinger‚ in the Auschwitz concentration camp.. The theoretical premise of “an event without a witness’ will define the distortions of Schillnger’s role and death (by being shot by Franceska Mann) that arise through the “insider testimonies”

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    Living without parents

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    Growing without Parents Sometimes I don’t understand why people take their parents for granted. I see that not everybody appreciate what parents do in order to get what you want or what are your needs. I just don’t understand why? When I was a kid‚ I didn’t have the chance nor the opportunity of having my parents ask me what I want or what I need‚ I didn’t even have the chance of knowing parents. I did not had that feeling of being loved‚ that feeling that if something happens to me‚ there is someone

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    Sex without Love

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    Just Sex‚ Nothing Else “How do they do it‚ the ones who make love/ without love” (Olds‚ 1-2)? As time goes on‚ the value of love and intimacy in sex diminishes further and further. In the past‚ becoming intimate with another person had very strong meaning and was frowned upon outside of marriage. Although there are still people who value sex in its purist form and value the meaning of the action‚ more people desire only the pleasure that comes from sex instead of the love and connection that it

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    Accusations Without Proof

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    Dakota Marschner English III Mr. Hedtke Crucible Essay May 8‚ 2013 Accusations Without Proof In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible‚ he tells the story of Salem‚ Massachusetts during the witch trials. He does this to draw a comparison between the red scare of the 1950s and the false accusations of the girls and the community in Salem in 1692. In his play the little girls who are about twelve to eighteen‚ they were dancing naked in the forest with a black caldron with Tituba. Paris is the one

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    Love without love

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    Love Without Love 1. According to the first four lines‚ the speaker loved this particular person because they never saw this person coming into their life‚ therefore it was a surprise and they saw a drastic change something called love. 2. The metaphor in lines 5-6 is "I’ve fly you flying through my soul in quick‚ loft flight" and this means that this special person came into their life very quickly like a plane‚ it was in and it was out. The extended metaphor is that this person was looking

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    Jews Without Money

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    Jews Without Money Jews Without Money is based on its author’s own childhood‚ Michael Gold. It re-creates the Jewish immigrant Lower East Side in Manhattan in which he lived‚ and it provides insight into the life of first- and second-generation Jewish Americans around the turn of the twentieth century. Gold does a wonderful job at putting the reader right in the middle of the sights‚ smells and sounds of people who may be materially poor‚ but very rich emotionally. The book paints for the most

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    Without Air Conditioning

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    Cox seems to believe that without air conditioning everyone would be happier‚ come closer together‚ and move slower. He might be right‚ but to some extent. Without air conditioning‚ many problems would arise in our comfortably cool country. Like Cox said‚ without AC businesses and schools might have to close for days‚ weeks‚ or even months at a time. While this might mean that people would have more time off to spend with their families and friends‚ it also means that those people are not making

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    World Without Colour

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    No doubt‚ a World without Colour will be extremely boring. But‚ one many of us will gasp in disbelief when we understand that various colors seen in this world of objects are actually non-existent. Every object is basically colorless but when it is exposed to solar rays these objects absorb certain colors from the rays and reject others. It is only on this basis that we see ‘colored’ objects. That color not absorbed by an object is sent back i.e. reflected. This reflected light enters our eye

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