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    the second step‚ you cannot live among us. In 1939‚ 850 Jewish refuges attempted to enter British-controlled Palestine illegally. Germans then decided that they couldn’t live with them so they sent Jews to the ghetto. The ghetto was surrounded by barbed wire or walls. In the ghetto‚ food and jobs were scarce and many died. Lastly‚ Jews cannot live. Many deaths occurred on the trains to the concentration camps by exhaustion‚ starvation‚ dehydration and suffocation. Once Jews got off this train‚ they

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    This Summer This summer was bad. I had a few incidents occur. So the first one was not as bad as the second one. I rode my bike to the Iowa Falls pool. It was a great day just hanging out with my friends and chilling in the cold water. I did multiple things like riding the waterslides and going off the diving boards. I had to leave around five o’clock. Once five o’clock rolled around I packed up my things and headed on my way. I decided to take a shortcut so that I would get home faster. The shortcut

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    hardships. Many things are compromised‚ and Eliezer has to learn to survive in this new environment. The religion of the Jews is one alienating factor. In the ghetto that Eliezer was first living in‚ Jews were separated from the rest of the world by barbed wire fences and security guards. In the first working environment that Eliezer is in‚ he mixes with civilians to do the work. The civilians are given food‚ but the Jews are not allowed to eat anything other than their meager meals of bread‚ coffee‚ and

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    defence‚ Oskar‚ Grass’ main hero‚ and his fiancée compose a little sarcastic poem that sums up the situation of the German soldiers and‚ more generally of the liberal population in times of war. Despite living in concrete fortifications and among barbed wire; despite extreme violence and death becoming mundane events‚ the bourgeoisie continues to dream of landscaped gardens‚ refrigerators

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    responsible for Nevada entering the Union in 1864 Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882- acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States‚ signed into law by Chester A. Arthur on May 8‚ 1882 Barbed wire- type of wire that consists of a twisted strand of wire with sharp barbs occurring periodically along the strand‚ invented in the 1870s by Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb‚ Illinois‚ some people protested it because it seemed like a harsh type of fencing‚ called “The Devil’s Rope”

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    Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American boy who was murdered by white men. Those that knew Emmett said he was funny and responsible. He had polio at the age of 5‚ but was able to recover with only a slight stutter(source 3). Emmett’s nickname that only some of his friends called him was Bobo‚ and he was also a little chubby but he didn’t let it affect him. He lived in a haven for black businesses‚ houses‚ and people‚ and went to a segregated school in Chicago. Emmett went to Mississippi to

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    March‚ Congress criminalized insubordination of military rules issued pursuant to the executive order. By December‚ an well-organized‚ powerful military had determined nearly all Japanese on the West Coast into ten isolated camps‚ encircled by barbed wire and armed sentries. All this without the affirmation of martial law and all this without

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    Battle of Somme July-November 1916 Why did the British decide to launch an offensive on the Somme? The French were fighting the Germans alone at Verdun‚ in an attempt to retain control of the historic fortress town. The French Commander in Chief‚ Joffre‚ asked the British to mount an offensive on the nearby Somme‚ to deflect the Germans. The offensive was planned by the British Commander‚ Douglas Haig. What was the Plan? The plan was to launch a week long bombardment of the German trenches

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    Descriptions of the battles of Verdun and Somme The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest battle of World War One‚ which yielded many casualties and was the catalyst for the British starting the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. The objective of the Battle of Somme was to help alleviate the pressure on the British that the Germans had been exerting at the battle Verdun. “The attack on Verdun (the Germans code-named it ’Judgment’) came about because of a plan by the German Chief of General

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