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    Tet Offensive Failure

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    ground war ended and the active search for an American exit from the war began. In terms of both conventional and revolutionary warfare‚ the Tet Offensive was a tactical failure. In an intelligence memorandum circulated on January 31‚ the CIA soberly described the Tet Offensive as designed to demonstrate North Vietnamese and Vietcong strength and resiliency and at the same time deal a psychological

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    “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” - Abraham Lincoln. After the Civil War‚ America was in the era of Reconstruction‚ which was to bring the eleven seceding states back to a self-government and to be reseated in Congress‚ civil status of the former leaders of the Confederacy‚ and the Constitutional and legal status of freedmen. As people focused to attack on these issues‚ there was also people who thought the opposite was better for America such as‚ the South did not like some of the

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    Washington Mutual Failure

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    Intra/Entrepreneurship and Business Management Business Failure Case Study Washington Mutual Failure Failing in business isn ’t fatal. It ’s often a precursor to success. It ’s not uncommon for successful entrepreneurs to fail before achieving success. During turbulent economic times‚ such as now‚ we can easily find ourselves shifting the blame for the failure of our businesses to factors outside of our control. Similarly in economic boom times we can find ourselves being quite proud

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    AS History – Unit 1 A World Divided: Communism and Democracy in the 20th Century Revision Guide Edition 5: January 2010 Contents Page: Content: | Page: | How to use this book | 3 | How to answer the questions | 4 | Writing Frames | 5 | How your essays will be marked | 11 | Previous Exam Questions and predicted questions | 12 | Unit 1: Signs of change by 1955 | 14 | Unit 2: Martin Luther King and Peaceful Protest | 23 | Unit 3: Black Power and the use of Violence

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    Reconstruction was a missed opportunity regarding efforts to help ex-slaves that resulted in chaos‚ economic loss‚ and social isolation to the South. First‚ Reconstruction was a lost hope because instead of restoring law and order and reconciliation‚ the South became a land of chaos due to lawlessness. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)‚ a white-supremacist organization‚ brought terror to the south as members of the organization used violence as their weapon to bring about the collapse of the Reconstruction

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    Simón Bolívar's Failure

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    Simón Bolívar “dreamed of a land governed by reason”‚ and although he spent an enormous amount and resources on his dream it was still a failure (Tignor). He was born in Venezuela in 1783 and his father was wealthy and socially powerful (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). While in Europe a former tutor told him about the writings of “European rationalist thinkers such as Locke‚ Hobbes‚ Buffon‚ d’Alembert‚ and Helvetius as well as Voltaire‚ Montesquieu‚ and Rousseau” (The Editors of Encyclopædia

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    Democracy vs. Communism Democratic and communist political systems are based on different ideological principles. Although superficially they seem to share the "power to the people" philosophy‚ in practice the two systems of government structure the economic and political fabric of society in markedly different ways. In the economic sphere‚ communism calls for the government to take control of all the capital and industry in the country in an effort to get rid of economic inequality. On

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    forces. But also some letters showed the depression of the war. Such as letters foretelling future deaths of the soldier’s writing or wills. This happened all too regularly. The lessons learnt from this campaign were that war causes depression and pain but only the victor’s write the history. So it was written that war doesn’t cause much pain but that only applied to those who came back. Despite the Gallipoli campaign being an inglorious failure. It marked a moment for Australian’s and New Zealand’s

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    The Prohibition: Success or Failure? Despite the polarizing effects of alcohol‚ many people are very reliant on alcoholic beverages in today’s society. With this dependency‚ it is unclear how today’s society would react if the law prohibited alcohol sales today; however‚ this would not be the first time this has occurred in history. As early as 1826‚ when Reverend Lyman Beecher preached against the evils of alcohol in Sermon 1: Nature of Occasions of Intemperance‚ harmonious prohibitionists began

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    Starbucks Failure in Australia Introduction There are a number of different reasons why Starbucks failed in Australia and will be spoken of in more detail over the course of the report. Since World War II‚ Australians have developed a taste for coffee that many of the European migrants that moved to Australia brought with them. Starbucks first began in 1971 its main goal was to offer a coffee experience that no other coffee shop has done before. As stated in the case study‚ Starbucks

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