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    Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

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    Over time and across cultures‚ art is a representation of self – either individual self or a more socially representational self. People create art for any number of reasons. Early cavemen created their archaic drawings to tell stories and represent history. Political painters create pieces to make statements about the world. Other artists use different forms of expressionism to expose their personal sentiments and release accrued emotions. Art long outlives its creators to lend advice or warnings

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    internment was a result of the Pearl Harbor bombing. The bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred just before 8:00 a.m. on December 7th‚ 1941. The Japanese bombed the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu Hawaii on the island of Oahu. The Japanese bombing left more than 2‚000 American soldiers and sailors dead and 1‚000 wounded. The bombing nearly destroyed 20 naval vessels‚ including eight battleships‚ and more than 300 airplanes. As a result of the bombing President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared

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    provided a place for allied pilots to train and supplied a large amount of money. The Air Force helped protect the convoys going across the Atlantic and helped develop new anti- naval weapons. Another contribution was defending Britain from German bombings and bombing Germany. For all these reasons‚ the RCAF made a very significant contribution to the victory of World War II. Firstly‚ the RCAF provided a place for pilots to train that was far away from the enemy‚ had a wide open space and a supply of airplanes

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    1945‚ marked a turning point in warfare and set the stage for the tragic events to come. The bombing of Hiroshima unleashed an explosive force that forever changed the lives of those in its path. The city was engulfed in

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    1945‚ marked a turning point in warfare and set the stage for the tragic events to come. The bombing of Hiroshima unleashed an explosive force that forever changed the lives of those in its path. The city was engulfed in

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    1945‚ marked a turning point in warfare and set the stage for the tragic events to come. The bombing of Hiroshima unleashed an explosive force that forever changed the lives of those in its path. The city was engulfed in

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    After the bombing there was no food available and the water was contaminated. The population was desperate‚ this resulted in the loss of even more lives due to the poisoning. Another issue was pregnancies due to the bombing if a mother had been subjected to the bomb their baby would most likely be deformed‚ and for those who wanted kids they couldn’t have any because they would be at the same risk of deformity due to the affects the bombing causes in a person’s body. This poisoning

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    Virginia Lee King‚ witnessed the most terrifying events from 1922 to the year she died‚ 1983. The major events that she witnessed are in the following order: The Brown vs. Board of Education‚ the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ the Temple Bombing in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ the Birmingham Bombing‚ the March on Washington‚ the New York School Boycott‚ and the Martin Luther King Assassination. The first event started the civil rights movement. On May 17‚ 1954‚ the U.S. Supreme Court struck down racially segregated

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    All Is Fair in Love and War

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    There’s a lot of bombing the bejeezus out of all sorts of people around these days and Webdiarists seem to be much keen on discussing it recently so I am grateful both to SWMBO and the Librarian at St Vincent’s College Potts Point for bringing to my attention AC Grayling’s Among the Dead Cities: Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in WWII a Necessity or a Crime? Bloomsbury Publishing‚ London 2006. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College‚ University of London and he raises some interesting

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    Leonard Mrs. Howell Honors English 2 May 11‚ 2014 The Bombing of Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor‚ started by Japanese air craft‚ was a gruesome beginning of a terrifying war between Japan and the United States of America. Pearl Harbor is located on the south side of the Hawaiian island of Oahu and is the home of a United States naval base. (“History”) December 7‚ 1941‚ is when the bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred. The bombing lasted form seven fifty five in the morning till nine forty five

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