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    Well Done Since the Vietnam War was fought in Southeast Asia, it is difficult for many Americans to imagine what the people of South Vietnam experienced during the Vietnam War. To better understand, the American people had to rely on eye-witness accounts, film clips, and photographs. One photograph in particular captures the horror of the Vietnam War. It is the image of Phan Phuc, a naked, nine-year- old, South Vietnamese girl, taken on June 8, 1972, by Nick Ut. The photograph shows the horrors of

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    Knowing the needs that your community has is an important step that is necessary when developing programs for an organization. To learn what needs are within the community a human service professional can use the logic model to take the steps for development. The need is recognized and supported by the community which at this point enables the agency to create the program to address the need. Creating the goals and objectives will assist in the success of the program. Need That Was Determined

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    Besieged from 1394 to 1402, Constantinople was miraculously saved by the Mongol invasion of Tamerlane. The respite was to fall short. The advent of an energetic Sultan, Mehmet II, at the head of the Turkish army, precipitated the denouement. In 1453, a powerful Ottoman army moved under the walls of the city. Constantinople finally falls under the pressure of janissaries. The fall of Constantinople, apparently, did not upset the West: the Christian sovereigns left the old Eastern Empire. However, this

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    El Capitan When you enter the valley, the first thing you probably notice after all of the people is the great granite giant rising up from the meadow and riverbank of the Merced River. This monster is known as El Capitan, my first introduction to this “rock” was when The Guide told me a story about Ozzy and Sharon Osborne’s kid, Jack. Apparently, his idea of going through a rebellious period, and seriously, as the kid of the front man of Black Sabbath, how do you even define rebellion, was to train

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    assassinated, and many others in the community were threatened and terrorism. The journalists were assassinated because they work for the Vietnamese newspaper with circulation of small communities served Vietnam refugees in the United States after the fall of Saigon in late April, 1975. Frontline and ProPublica were investigating, exploring and finding the evidence to give a general point of the murderous event. Many Vietnamese newspapers that have criticized a famous anti-communist organization called

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    He modified this traditional form for Doctor Faustus and fitted it to the legend where conventionally the hero invariably comes to the conclusion of the play a wiser and better man, but due to the satanic nature of Faustus's rebellion he inevitably falls to his doom and is dragged screaming to Hell. But what were his motivations for such a seditious rebellion with inevitably disastrous consequences? Was he just bored and wanted more of a challenge so cast aside any previous knowledge of religious

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    monarch in terms of his throne's security, leads Denmark into an age of sin. Shakespeare's language emphasizes the sickness in nature that seeps out of Elsinore and into natural world after the murder. In Hamlet the King's murder is akin to the Fall of Man; Claudius' Original Sin stains Denmark and creates an unstable and diseased nation. At the time of it's original performance, Shakespeare audiences would have understood the world in terms of The Great Chain of Being. All beings in the universe

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    The grisly axe murder of two people go unsolved. Many people think Lizzie Borden was the killer of her dad and her stepmother, evidence was found that proved her guilty but she was never found guilty beyond reasonable doubt. Many believe it couldn’t have been her based off her upbringing and her clean past. However many people thought it was impossible for anyone else to murder the two, based off the information given by the people in the household at the time. Lizzie Borden was the murderer her

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    In 1890 a massive environmental pollution struck a neighborhood within Niagara falls, New York, called The Love Canal. The love canal was originally intended to e a model plan community, the love canal was a residential area before being purchased by the Hooker chemical company. The problem began after its sale to the local school district project. The toxic waste dumped under grounds affected the health conditions that lasted a lifetime to numerous families. The neighborhood demolished and according

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    colonialism that causes a war. To begin, Pearl is a poem that is contemporary to Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales of which this novel is loosely based on. But Pearl is a dream-vision/debate poem about a father who laments the death of his daughter. He falls asleep and has a vision of her as a queen in heaven. They debate about rationalism, but ultimately the debate does not have a real conclusion that comes to a satisfactory end. The emphasis of the poem is that all things are rational through faith whether

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