Could Pearl Harbor been prevented? Some people believe that the attack on Pearl Harbor could have been prevented from happening. Others believe that the attack was a surprise and that we didn’t see it coming. Actually Pearl Harbor could have been prevented in many ways and we did see it coming we just weren’t prepared. If we would have had better communication‚ used our resources‚ and believed that the Japanese would attack us we might have been able to fight back. If we would have had better
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•Should Nixon have been impeached? The Watergate scandal was the first of its kind in United Stated history. The scandal created an uproar in the country between the people and most of all the government and the powers that be. President Nixon along with high ranking members of his staff at the time were have said to be involved in the stealing of equipment and cash and planting evidence on June of 1972. During this time some of Nixon’s high ranking staff were charged with being involved with
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want to fit in with the crowd at high school. According to Jay Asher‚ “Teens in the ‘90s had the same basic desires as they do now.” In his 1999 teen comedy Never Been Kissed‚ Raja Gosnell shows how teens judged their peers by appearance‚ gossip‚ and status in high school. Much like the cruel insults and judgments expressed in Never Been Kissed‚ there are several ways that teens judge their peers by their appearance in high school. Teens are self-conscious about the way they dress because of the
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powers proved deadly in the long term. Hitler got stronger as time went on and his racism against Jews was pushed further with the start of Concentration Camps. Some might claim that even if the major European Powers did interfere Hitler could not have been stopped‚ this was because of the strong support he had of his people. All the countries in Europe were stronger than Germany as a whole so they could have stopped Hitler and his racist approach. Because of WWI other countries in Europe were mainly
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History Assessment: How Has WW1 Been Remembered? WW1 has‚ and always will be seen as one‚ if not the most significant war in all of history. One of the reasons for it being such a tragic event was that it was deemed at the time to have been ‘the war to end all wars‚’ however that tragically was not the case. World War One was caused by several contributing factors‚ which resulted on Britain declaring war on Germany. They are: The alliance system‚ Imperialism‚ The Naval Race‚ The Schlieffen Plan
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the Civil War could not have been avoided because it seemed like the only way to stop the South from seceding from the Union. The South developed their wealth from the slaves that picked cotton and tobacco. They sold these crops to other countries who needed them and developed wealth from these other countries. If the North stopped this‚ the South would not be able to make as much money. The Dred Scott Decision was a deciding factor about the war. If Dred Scott had been admitted as a free black then
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Have you ever been to a college class? Did that class only consist of two exams‚ a midterm and a final throughout the entire semester? How much stress did you feel around the time those exams came around? These are the types of problems that Patrick O’Malley argues against in his essay “More Testing‚ More Learning”. In this essay‚ O’Malley takes the stand presenting the fact that there are courses in college that provide infrequent testing. He lets it be known that this is not the most effective
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has been Gender-blind’ rather than Gender neutral’. Discuss It has been argued that the gaze of criminology has been primarily focused on male offenders‚ Cain (1989) argues that criminology is in fact incapable of speaking in gender neutral terms (cited in Walklate 2001: 19). A reason for this includes that history has been prepared to offer universal explanations of crime achieved by the study of the male offender. Feminists such as (Naffine 1997: 18) believe that criminology has been dominated
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Could Have the American Revolution Been Avoided? As Benjamin Franklin once said‚ “No gains without pain.” This could not be more of a true statement when speaking of the American Revolution. There are so many factors that are said to have caused it‚ that it’s hard to determine what never needed to happen. Because of the French and Indian War‚ the British were suffering from debt. They needed the find a way out; therefore‚ new laws and acts were established. If the British would have treated the
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can completely avoid the legacy of 500 years of oppression and slavery. People tend to argue that racism is no longer a serious issue today. But the truth is‚ there is still an undercurrent of racism influencing the culture of America. Had that not been the case‚ why is it that an African American is more likely to be represented as a perpetrator of crime in the news or the media? Not just the news but Why is an African American more likely to be unemployed? Why is an African American more likely
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