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    <b>1945</b><br><li> Ho Chi Minh and his People’s Congress create the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam to form a provisional government following the surrender of Japan to Allied forces and Japan transfers all power to Ho’s Vietminh. <br><li> President Roosevelt dies<br><li> Making good on his threat to unleash "...a rain of ruin the like of which has never been seen on earth...‚" President Harry Truman authorizes the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan -- one on Hiroshima on August 6‚ and

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    Math Studies Spring 2013 Table of Contents: Introduction/Purpose……………………………………………………………..p.3 Data Collection Method……………………………………………………….....p. 3 - 4 Data Analysis: Chi-Squared Statistic Frequency Table…………………………………………………………p. 4 - 5 Contingency Table……………………………………………………….p. 5 – 6 Chi – Squared Statistic…………………………………………………...p. 7 Degrees of Freedom………………………………………………………p. 7 Critical Value……………………………………………………………..p. 7 – 8 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………

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    In my Sigma Chi career‚ the most contribution I’ve made is owning every position that I’ve held. Up until my term‚ no one had ever done anything with the positions of Tribune/Public Relations. In my tenure‚ I started a bi monthly alumni newsletter‚ and completely redesigned our website. We were able to better involve alumni in chapter operations as well as increased our web traffic six-fold. In Quaestor‚ I was able to redesign how we operated collections from brothers. With this we were able to utilize

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    Apart written by Chinua Achebe it focuses on the Igbo people. The Igbo people are from Nigeria‚ a country in Africa. The Igbo is one of three ethnic groups located in Nigeria. The Igbo are situated in the southeastern part of Nigeria (3). The Igbo people can also be referred to as the Ibo people‚ this is due to some of the Europeans‚ who came over to Nigeria in late 19th century to spread Christianity‚ struggled to pronounce the igb sound. The Igbo had an unique language. It was based off of the

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    Chiang Kai-shek‚ a disciplined man of high virtue was a Chinese military leader who was the front man that led the Chinese in World War II and battled Mao Zedong and his communist forces with his party the Kuomintang (the Nationalists). As an influential member of the Kuomintang and close alley of Sun Yat-sen‚ the first president of the Republic of China and founder of the Kuomintang party‚ he sought out to mainly expel Chinese communists and regain unification in China‚ Chiang Kai-shek took over

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    Igbo’s land‚ their culture‚ values and their beliefs changed. These changes were extremely evident‚ but in the end the Igbo were unable to doing anything to stop the changes that had already start taking place in their society. As soon as the whites arrived‚ they introduced a new religion that was completely different than the natives were accustomed to. The white man told the Igbos that‚ “they worshipped false gods‚ gods of wood and stone‚” (145) also‚ he mentioned that there was only one God‚ the

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    Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: An Analysis of Christianity and Igbo Tradition The Mbaino tribe in Things Fall Apart practice many traditions that the Western culture would deem superstitious. The Western religion allows for the Christian ideals to prove many of the native traditions superfluous when infiltrating the native’s land during colonization. This disassembling of traditions is introduced by Christianity’s unshakeable stance that native deities have no power because they are mythical. However

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    affects a country. It also helps the reader visualize the drastic changes the Igbo culture had to experience when another country decided to expand their reign into Umuofia and the surroundings clans. Characteristics such as Okonkwo‚ who was the fearless leader of Umuofia‚ were immensely afflicted. After all‚ Things Fall Apart is a work about loss of culture and tradition. During the on-going conflict between the Igbo and the missionaries‚ clns started to lose members to Christianity. This new‚

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    desperate attempts of religious dominance. Today‚ one of the most followed religions are christianity/catholicism. In “Purple Hibiscus”‚ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‚ Papa is used as a religious icon to demonstrate the silencing and exclusion of traditional Igbo practice and culture through the theme‚ characters‚ and setting. One of the biggest religions in Nigeria is Catholicism. It all started when Nigerians became colonized by the Europeans. Because of this‚ colonialism is a

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    Ho Chi Minh City Background Ho Chi Minh city‚ formerly known as Saigon‚ has a population of 7.163 million. It is the most populous city in Vietnam‚ and located on Saigon River‚ north of Mekong River Delta. It was once under the French Colonial Rule‚ and was transformed into a major port city and metropolitan centre. Large scale rural-urban migration took place during the Vietnam war‚ with the percentage of population residing in Ho Chi Minh city increasing from 4 percent in 1950 to nearly 6 percent

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