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    The “Tornado Town, USA” article, published on May 26, 2016 by Maggie Koerth-Baker enlightens us about the menacing natural disaster known as tornado. The purpose of this piece, or how I viewed it, is to inform us about how tornadoes form and what their capabilities. Mrs. Baker, through her writing, pursues to better educate us on the terrifying and chaotic nature of a tornado. I believe Mrs. Baker exquisitely uses the logical and emotional appeal in order to hook and sedate readers into her writing

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    Chapter 26- Radio Tokyo propositions Louie again, but this time to read a message they wrote. Louie doesn't want to be made into a propaganda tool, so he refuses, then they threaten to send him to a punishment camp. Back at camp, the Bird is going crazier and crazier as B-29s cross overhead every day. Meanwhile, Phil and one-legged Fred Garrett have been transferred to Zentsuji, it’s about as bad as Omori: contaminated rice, dysentery, abuse, but Phil is allowed to send letters home and tell his

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    to make one of the toughest decisions a president has ever been faced with. This decision, of course, being whether to drop the atomic bombs on Japanese cities, not drop the bombs at all, or do a demonstration by dropping a bomb in the ocean near Tokyo. Truman eventually chose to drop the atomic bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. This choice to drop the atomic bombs was right because these bombings assisted in slowing the expansion of the Soviet Union, changed the Japanese never-give-up

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    What if Army bombers could take off an aircraft carrier? Low tried his idea on Admiral King. King thought the idea had potential so he sent it on to Captain Donald Duncan to turn his plan into fact. This he did, and the Tokyo Raid became fact instead of fiction.      The first step in the plan was finding a leader. General Arnold requested Lieutenant Colonel James Dolittle as the man to select the plane and the men for the mission. Dolittle accepted

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    Executive summary----------------------------------------------------------------(2) 1. Introduction---------------------------------------------------------------------(4) 2. Different financial investment methods in overseas Theme park 2.1 Tokyo

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    Lois Lowry 's The Giver

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    moved to New York where she began elementary school. Then, when the war started, her father-- a dentist and Army Officer--went overseas while she went back to Pennsylvania. After she finished elementary school she moved to Tokyo to spend time with her father. When she lived in Tokyo she attended Meguro school where most of the students with military families went. After she moved back to the USA.

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    Yasujiro Ozu has created many films which have garnered critical acclaim from top directors such as Tokyo Story and An Autumn Afternoon. The themes that he focuses on in many of his films include the interaction between generations and families. The films that Yasujiro Ozu makes is social commentary on the middle class family life in Japan and comparing between the generations. Social commentary is the act of using metaphorical means to give commentary on problems in a society. Although films often

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    colleges. The largest University is Nihon (Japan) University in Tokyo, which has about 80, 000 students. The country has 90 National Universities, which are supported by the government. Some of these universities--such as the University of Tokyo and the University of Kyoto--have exceptionally high reputations. Highly regarded private universities include Doshisha University in Kyoto and Keio University and Waseda University in Tokyo Senior high school graduates who want to attend a college or university

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    reign, Tokugawa ruled from Edo, the location of present day Tokyo. Under the Tokugawa Shogunate the Edo period was a time of stability for the Japanese people, but there was little or no development when compared to other nations in the rest of the world during the same period, setting it apart from western settlements. From 1852-1854, Commodore Matthew Perry arranged a trade agreement between Japan and the United States. The government at Tokyo was forced to agree to the demands of the United States

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    2 Mount Fuji otherwise known as Fuji-san is a volcano in Japan located just 100km southwest of Tokyo. Mount Fuji is the tallest mountain in Japan, towering in at 3,776m high; Mount Fuji is also the most active volcano in Japan, on average having an eruption every 50 years on average after 761 CE. This geological feature has historically affected nature and humanity as well as several similarities with other geographical features like Mount Kilimanjaro. Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Fuji have many

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