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    D-Day: An Invasion That Changed the World 29‚000 Americans dead; 106‚000 wounded and were missing after months of fighting in a place called Normandy (Ray). After reading this sentence‚ one may think of this as a dark time in our history‚ but the facts to follow will tell you otherwise. This historical event required months of critical planning and preparations. Several significant events‚ occurring during the invasion‚ had a major impact on the remainder of World War 2. The aftermath of D-Day would

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    The Industrial Revolution changed the world forever. It helped progress us forward to how things are ran today. It made work faster and more efficient. A thought process that we will have forever. Moving the textile business out from people’s homes and in to the factory was a big necessary step. While some aspects of a factory are different‚ the process that was used during the Industrial Revolution is the same. The industrial Revolution changed the way we fought our wars‚ interacted with other countries

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    discovery ever it must follow certain criteria. I ’m defining the word discovery to be synomous with invention in that it is something that was "happened upon" and developed and didn ’t necessarily exist for all time. In order to be the most influential it must permeate every part of our lives‚ from leisure‚ education‚ business‚ and travel‚ to the very social system itself. It must be capable of world wide use and also improve life both orally and visually for all members of society. The most important

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    How the Attacks on September 11th Changed the World In order for a country to fight crime there must first be crime‚ which there always is‚ but specifically there must be enough of a certain kind. My topic is terrorism as this recently changed the face of America and created multiple government agencies and plans for action. Other examples are the drug trade‚ human trafficking‚ and gun running. September 11th‚ 2001 marks the day that most of were alive for and remember well. America was rocked

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    Miguel P. Paul McCartney: The Man Who Changed the World Paul McCartney is one of the most recognizable icons since the 60’s. Through his work with “The Beatles‚” His solo career‚ or his works for animal right‚ he is one man who has changed society as we knew it. “I was born in Walton hospital on 18th June 1942‚” (McCartney 2000) in Liverpool‚ England. In 1953‚ at the age of 11‚ Paul started attending the Liverpool Institute. Later on he met George Harrison on a bus ride home. They both attended

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    older the issue only grew because at that point I began to resent them for putting me through what I believed to be embarrassing moments of confusion‚ but all of this changed when I finally realized that my parents did the best they could with what they had.

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    Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World. “President Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao Tse-tung were well aware that they were making history that day in 1972” (Macmillan‚ 2008) Margaret Macmillan’s book Nixon and Mao is a wonderful moment to moment portrayal of what had happened between the United States and China in “the week that changed the world”. The book not only captures the meeting between the two world leaders who were taking a giant leap in the diplomacy between these two nations but

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    China impacted the world in many ways with their many great inventions‚ that they brought along the Silk Road. The great inventions were paper‚ printing press‚ compass‚ gunpowder‚ kites‚ etc. Only one of the magnificent inventions stand out from the others. That one would be‚ the compass. The compass helped introduce new parts of our Earth that we could not find ourselves. The compass was made of magnetite‚ which was magnetic. The magnetite aligned north and south because the of the magnetic fields

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    things during his presidency and settled the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sadly‚ Kennedy was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22nd‚ 1963. The entire world mourned his death when he was buried three days later on the 25th. Oswald was killed on the 24th while being transferred The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy changed the world‚ for he was a great‚ charismatic leader. 100 Point 1: Before his assassination‚ John F. Kennedy became a very accomplished president. Kennedy became a member

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    and inventions of the entrepreneurs in the 19th century. To give one a perspective of how influential 19th century inventions are to American life‚ one billion seven hundred thousand servings of Coke are consumed ever day. These inventions have allowed companies obtain so much dominance that the American life would be vastly different without them‚ despite being created two centuries ago. Even in our modern society‚ Americans are still influenced‚ controlled‚ and manipulated by the inventions that

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