Dear Diary‚ Though this is a treacherous sin I am making‚ I must find a way to clear the thoughts and images that reappear constantly in my consciousness. Today something quite horribly interesting happened in our small town‚ Salem. After our midnight dance with the girls‚ Uncle Parris found us in the woods making all of us scatter immediately. All of us except Betty who collapsed on the ground. She was screaming about how she could not move. Uncle Parris’ face was nothing like I have ever seen
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Portfolio Entry #2 Introduction During his trial‚ Socrates stated that ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ True to his words‚ without reflection‚ we would never know where we erred and get back on the right track. The opportunity to be able to complete this ID Unit has given me a chance to learn more about working in a team and more importantly‚ about myself. Positives Working in my ID Unit team has many positives. First‚ we learnt how to cooperate well as a team as we paid attention
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First they had an emperor a Kaiser‚ abdicated because the War went bad. So they created a republic. They formally created it in the town of Weimar so the period was called Weimar Republic. Post-war Germany 1919-1933 Hyperinflation (in Germany)- Extreme inflation. Inflation is when money loses its value. 1921-1924. German workers had to be paid twice a day. Blackshirts – A fascist paramilitary armed squads in Italy during the period from the end of WW1 to the end of WW2. Mussolini’s fascists‚ his
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Dear Diary‚ Looking back on the trial about Emmett Till it is hard to support the way that everything turned out. I remember the terrible amounts of discrimination that occurred. Going back the story went as told. Emmett Till to me was just an innocent boy. The two men who murdered him should not have been innocent. Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy who was brutally murdered. The reason was horrific and completely not understandable. Emmett Till was from Chicago and wasn’t used to the tremendous
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First settled by Polynesians sailing from other Pacific islands between A.D. 300 and 600‚ Hawaii was visited in 1778 by British captain James Cook‚ who called the group the Sandwich Islands. Hawaii was a native kingdom throughout most of the 19th century‚ when the expansion of the sugar industry (pineapple came after 1898) meant increasing U.S. business and political involvement. In 1893‚ Queen Liliuokalani was deposed‚ and a year later the Republic of Hawaii was established with Sanford B. Dole
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know about Jewish was from the history class. At that time‚ my Chinese teacher told me that Jewish were persecuted by Nazi during the Second World War‚ and the reason is because the ruler of Nazi-Hitler hated Jewish. From the video and books‚ there are many pictures about how Nazi persecuted Jewish such as the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. However‚ there always is a mystery puzzled me‚ why were Jewish persecuted by Nazi? From the videos which are talking about the Second World War‚ they are only saying
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Journal 5 Jodie Wang (D) When we talk about something about concentration camps‚ we all consider that the Nazi concentration camp‚ former Soviet Union political labor camps‚ and even in China we have the storm which blew throughout China and left with a social memory which is now called “Ten –year Calamity” .Every country has their own blemish‚ in China we missed a major development opportunity because of this huge policy mistakes which is called the ten-year-long “Cultural Revolution” ‚ but anyway
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(Asawa)” Adversity is defined as difficulties or misfortune. In the years from 1942 to 1944 over 120‚000 American born citizens‚ of Japanese descent faced an overwhelming amount of adversity when they were placed in a few different internment camp along the west coast of the United States of America. This reassuring quote comes from a girl named Ruth Asawa who was a victim of the Executive Order 9066. What caused these camps to be created? In 1941‚ December 7th‚ hundreds of Japanese fighter planes
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than the actual war. Every day we face rats‚ hundreds of millions of rats‚ scurrying through the trenches. Since we don’t have a proper waste disposal system‚ the rats eat the trash that lay on the floor and the soldiers who have died in combat. It’s a gruesome sight‚ watching a fallen solder’s surrounded by flies and the rats consume the decaying corpses. Trench foot is almost just as bad‚ a couple of my closest friends have died from it. They told us that we developed trench foot from standing
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give any money to the owners of the slaves for compensation. January‚ 1863 – March‚ 1865 – The War Continues Over the next few years‚ the battles continue. There has been so much death‚ it is making me sick. First there was the Battle of Gettysburg‚ Pennsylvania in July of 1863 where we lost 51‚000 people‚ over half of them from the southern states. This was by far the worst battle of the entire war. The Battle of Chickamauga was in Georgia in September of 1863 and we lost over 34‚000 people
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