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    How Did America Get In WWI? As most of the people believed that America joined WWI and they very first‚ however‚ it was not accurate at all. At the outbreak of WWI‚ President Wilson actually adopted a neutral position in an effort to keep America from being pulled into the war in Europe. Despite President Wilson’s attempt to stay neutral‚ how did America get into WWI exactly? America got pulled into WWI because Germany was sinking American ships; German troops marched on Belgium; and Germany made

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    Hurricane Dancers is primarily poetic fiction. For example‚ Bernardino de Talavera‚ the pirate who captures Quebrado‚ Ojeda‚ and other slaves‚ says “I offered the illusion of mercy/and Ojeda was desperate enough/to believe me.” (10) The author portrays Ojeda as an assassin killing for glory. But Ojeda seems weak in Talavera’s flashback‚ falling for his “fake mercy”. If the author kept Ojeda’s killer trait‚ Ojeda wouldn’t have certainly fallen for Talavera’s lie. But instead‚ Ojeda does fall for his

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    between Tsunami and Hurricane Tsunamis and hurricanes are nature’s furies. They both create disasters and destruction in the world. But‚ tsunamis and hurricanes are different in their respective ways. A tsunami is a series of ocean waves‚ which is caused by surges of water reaching heights of 100 feet or more. A hurricane‚ on the other hand‚ is a powerful storm. When talking of the origin of tsunamis and hurricanes‚ they are formed by two different forces. Hurricanes are formed over warm

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    The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900 still stands as the most devastating natural disaster in the history of the United States‚ with casualties reaching at least six thousand. Many houses and buildings did not stand a chance against the high velocity winds that the storm put out‚ and the huge waves caused massive damage‚ nearly submerging the entire island. To prevent such devastation again‚ Galveston had two engineering marvels put in place‚ the seawall and the grade raising of the island. This

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    the most important issue of the 20th century. This paper examines how the ’race problem ’ has unfolded in 20th century America‚ from the immigrations and United States imperialism to the Ku Klux Klan. The paper looks at what happened to help the issues with race why it took so long for America to pass the Civil Rights Act. Finally‚ the paper looks at the progress made in America in the latter part of the century. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination that was based on your race‚ color

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    Hurricanes are powerful atmospheric vortices that are intermediate in size. Hurricanes are unique and powerful weather systems. The word "hurricane" comes from a Caribbean word meaning "big wind". Views of hurricanes can be seen from a satellite positioned thousands of miles above the earth. Hurricanes originate as tropical disturbances over warm oceans with trade winds. The tropical turbances intensify into tropical depressions‚ and eventually into a tropical storm. They only originate

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    Colonization DBQ Colonial America showed democratic growth socially and religiously‚ but was also undemocratic because of restrictions on some social groups and unequal politics. In the beginning of the American colonies‚ the people started creating new ways of government. One of these ways was democracy. The colonies were democratic because they began allowing the citizens to have a say in government (Doc 3). If the people did not like how their government was run they could produce their own

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    In the texts‚ of To kill a mockingbird‚ The Hurricane and Hairspray‚ the themes of race‚ injustice/justice and friendship are shown. Tales of conviction of blacks or any race of that kind are seen throughout life. With strong friendship embraced when supporting convicted innocent people. It makes you wonder‚ if all these characters have been found innocent‚ how many other people have been charged for a crime that they didn’t commit? Starting off with race‚ this theme is thoroughly seen as the

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    I don’t think the USA was better off for entering world war 1 for I think it cause the people of America more harm than good. When the US enter the war there was a lot of jobs unfilled because of the movement of men going Europe to fight the war. As a result manufacturers had to keep production up to support the war‚ this led to new technologies to help manufacturers meet the needs of the government and people. This also led African Americans and women to fill many needed jobs‚ this helped with the

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    "Crack!" Down goes an immense tree. Hurricanes and Tornadoes are lethal catastrophes that are strong enough to destroy anything in their paths. They have similarities but have differences as well. To start off‚ Hurricanes and Tornadoes are similar because they scaled on a one to five scale. Also‚ wind‚ rain‚ and hail are crucial fragments of these fatal natural disasters. Likewise‚ they both are cyclonic‚ and they contain harmful rotating winds. Similarly‚ they both spin counterclockwise in the

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