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    artist but when he got rejected to go to art school twice. People wonder why Hitler was a horrible person. Maybe because people thought he was not good enough. Maybe because he just was not in anybody's liking. During the 1930s, Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, wrote a book, and started a war with a Nazi party. Hitler also tired to overthrow the German government, but failed and was sent to prision. He was supposed to spend five years but he only spent nine months. In those nine months, he wrote

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    and historical accomplishments were made especially during the antebellum period. From the first president of the United States taking presidency, to the decleration of independance occurring. When elections are occurring and one has to vote people wonder how is this person going to better the country, what achievements is this person capable of performing to make our country a better place. That is why when society looks back at a presidents presidency and base them on how well or good of a president

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    Betsy Ross Research Paper

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    Betsy Ross was a remarkable person who made a mark in history. Betsy was inquisitive, inspiring, compassionate, and much more. Betsy made the first American flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes alternating from red to white. Elizabeth Griscom was born on January 1, 1752, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents are Rebecca James Griscom and Samuel Griscom. Elizabeth ’s nickname,that everyone calls her, is Betsy. Betsy is the eighth of seventeen children. Whenever Betsy was six years old her brother

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    lasted six years, beginning with Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939. As the Allied Powers (mainly the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union) and the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) were in direct conflict with each other, many wonder if the cost of victory was too extreme. In late 1941, the process of creating the world’s first, most deadly weapon began. The production of the first atomic bomb was code named “the Manhattan Project.” After months of production, August 6, 1945,

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    The five events I have chosen are the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Moral Majority, and the Kenneth Starr investigation of President Bill Clinton. The Great Depression, which lasted from about 1929 to 1939, began when the American Stock market bottomed out. Even though only three present of Americans had money in the Stock Market, banks at that time were allowed to invest in the stock market . Therefore many banks fell , which included the

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    The first Chinese immigrants flooded to America, in the hopes of “striking gold” during the California Gold Rush of 1849. Unfortunately, the citizens of California greeted these newcomers with many unfair laws. Beginning with the Foreign Miner’s License Tax Law of 1850, the Chinese experienced nothing but bigotry from the citizens who surrounded them. This inequality peaked when President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, barring the immigration of Chinese workers for ten

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    Charles is considered to be an interpreter of music, offering his distinct personal vision of many classics. Over the course of his career, which spanned five decades, he recorded over 60 albums and sold millions of records worldwide. Ray Charles was born on Sept. 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia, and grew up in Greenville, Florida. At the young age of five, he began losing his sight, and became completely blind by the time he was seven. However, this did not hinder Ray Charles at all, as he continued

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    I Am A New Place

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    I awoke to the sound of the morning paper banging onto the door as the paper boy passed on bike. I got up, changed, and stepped outside to the world of light and bustling city streets. I greeted Ms. Janice across the street and she said something lost in the sound of horns honking as a sea of cars flowed along the street. “I need to get a new place,” I thought to myself. After I returned from my brother’s house, the construction of newfangled ‘Skyscrapers’ had begun. The country was deep into a depression

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    office when he died in 1923 (Faue). While on a trip to Alaska and California in 1923 President Harding died suddenly do to bad medical treatment and a heart attack, he was buried but strangely it was without an autopsy, this fact left many Americans to wonder what actually happened (Faue). The next president of the three was President Calvin Coolidge. President Coolidge took office in 1923 after the death of President Harding, becoming the thirtieth president of the United States. President Coolidge was

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    The Sole Global Power Is America 's exalted position of dominance sustainable? In 1865, when the Civil War ended with the victory in the North, the ball began rolling in America with the help of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. The industrial boom occurred, generating the United States into being the most dominant nation in the world. The likelihood of America losing its world dominance is very minimal for several reasons. The United States will continue to be a massively powerful, secure, and

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