National Front

As the Sandinistas adjusted to their new position of power, they made decisions that put their own political agenda ahead of the welfare of Nicaraguan citizens. They controlled everything from menu prices to water to electricity. Sandinista policies angered the newly instituted Regan administration in Washington, and they were determined to overthrow them. The counter-revolution offered the perfect opportunity and the CIA agreed to secretly fund the contras (over $15 million between 1981-1982). Argentina

nationalism has been revived since the demise of communism. Unlike civic nationalism, which stresses equality and solidarity, the exaggerated, chauvinistic, and aggressive nationalism of the extreme right upholds the significance of the nation and national identity against any other value. Each person is defined by membership in ancient ethnic and cultural groups that are hierarchically arranged according to the "natural order." In the extreme rights’ view,

pressure on their beliefs and confidence in society. Following his leave, Dartemont was sent back to war. He ended up with a job behind the front lines mapping out trenches. He didn’t mind this job so much because it kept him dug-in, where he was safer. For the rest of the war Dartemont went back and forth, from having jobs behind the lines, to serving on the front line in the trenches. This section of the book is heavily riddled with the constant bombardment of artillery, misery, and battle. Chevallier

It became accepted to see both women and children join the troops during those chaotic times. In 1979 to 1981, an estimated 30,000 people were killed by death squads formed by the anti-government organization known as Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) as explained by Info Please (2017). The United States Army sent their Green Berets to help intervene and

air, then the front will be calm, while the warm air progresses upwards. On the other hand, if the colder air meets the warmer air, the colder air will weaken the warmer air, and force it to form a steep rising front (“What Happens When Air Masses Collide”). If there is a scenario in which either one of the fronts do not move when in the same area, that is called a stationary front. A stationary front can be recognized by precipitation and clouds, too (Brugge 94). An occluded front occurs when a

January 2015 War in All Quiet on the Western Front World War one was a war of severe tribulation. resulting in over 50 million deaths, it was one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. Known as the “Western Front”, the border of Germany and France was the site to some of the bloodiest battles of the war. There are very few novels that truly exemplify the events that took place along this front. Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Displays important themes, imagery, and

causes them to fall. The pattern or occurrence of rainfall in the United States or basically anywhere in the world depends on several factors such as ground elevation, wind directions, location within a continental mass, areas of low pressure, cool fronts, jet streams and even mountain ranges. For instance mountains have an influence on wind and wind is an important feature in rainfall, “The windward sides of mountainous islands in the trade wind regime are among the rainiest places on earth, where

Canada's Involvement in World War One The events of July and early August 1914 are known as the sparks that lit the explosion of World War I. Uneasy tensions that had been boiling beneath the surface of Europe for many years soon erupted and with that several alliances that were formed over the past decades were invoked, so within weeks the major powers were at war; via their colonies, the conflict advanced rapidly. When war officially broke out in 1914, Britain joined in the defense of Belgium

fisherfolks from Kabinga-an, Tapul Island. According to friends, Nur was so poor that he could never have gone to college were it not for a kindly teacher in Jolo who recognized his potentials and pulled off a scholarship for him as a Commission on National Integration (CNI) scholar at the University of the Philippines (UP) in Manila. Nur recalls being an "ordinary child without ambition. All I wanted was to go to school and serve my family." In 1958, Nur left Jolo to attend the university, where

In 1941 Germany was clearly winning their single front war against Western Europe. France had been defeated and Britain was kicked off mainland Europe, and to the East there was a truce with Russia. Hitler wanted more living space for his new super breed of humans and was looking to the East for new land for his new German Empire. While the Wehrmacht high command suggested to focus on finishing off Britain before evading the USSR to a single front; Hitler again ignore his advisors and went on with