Rachel Mathews H 102 A 3/30/18 Reading Response 7 I. Quote a. “We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good distance in ten years. Either we do it‚ or they crush us.” b. This quote from the excerpt of Joseph Stalin‚ “On Soviet Industrialization Speech to Industrial Managers‚” February 1931 is significant because Stalin talks about how they will not have the chance of rising to the top and keeping their independence if they lower their tempo at all. He states
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President Joseph Jobrani’s numbers had been sliding in the polls for a second consecutive year. He had to do something to stop his increasing unpopularity. After the glory of winning a historic and improbable election‚ things had gone south. Not only was Joseph Jobrani the first president of Middle Eastern descent‚ no one outside of his friends foresaw him beating a very powerful superdelegate from Missouri with very powerful friends no less. He had to fight an up-hill battle from the beginning
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In the novel‚ The Orenda by Joseph Boyden‚ power is a central theme‚ and is a hugely important aspect of conflict present in the lives of the male main characters. The aspiration to have control over enemies‚ and allies plays a crucial role in the thoughts and actions of the protagonists. Both these men‚ Bird and Christophe‚ have strong connections to the notion of power and dominance. This desire is can be seen throughout their culture and spirituality‚ particularly in their war time traditions
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deal with the situation. They didn’t want another world war‚ but they had to do something. The more people that converted to Nazism‚ the harder it was going to be to stop Germany. The man in charge of all the anti-Semitic propaganda at the time was Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels was responsible for the dehumanization of millions of Jews in the 1930s to 1940s. Once he accomplished this‚ the elimination of Jews didn’t seem like murder at all to the people he brainwashed. Joesph Goebbels discovered Nazism
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If we are asked to think about the cruelest leader in history‚ the first person to pop into our head would probably be Adolf Hitler. He is an obvious choice‚ having killed about 11 million noncombatants. However‚ the actions of Joseph Stalin are comparable and maybe even worse than Hitler. Stalin‚ leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics‚ or the Soviet Union for short‚ was responsible for 7-8 million deaths of his own country’s citizens. There were social‚ economic‚ and cultural influences
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Dr. Joseph Wolpe‚ born in 1917‚ he was a South African Psychiatrist‚ and during wartime he worked in a military psychiatric hospital. There he observed soldiers who mentally suffered from what they went through and observed while in war‚ better known today as post-traumatic stress syndrome. Dr. Wolpe decided to dedicate his work at the time‚ towards finding more effective means of dealing with this mental problem. Dr. Wolpe also founded the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy and the
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Grant Kiepper Mr. Anderson U.S History 12-10-12 Joseph Mengele Interview Q. When and where were you born? A. Guenzburg‚ Germany and March 16 1911. Q . When did you first start as a military “doctor”? A. In May 1943‚ I replaced another doctor who had become ill at the Nazi extermination camp Birkenau. On May 24‚ 1943‚ I became medical officer of Auschwitz Q. Did you ever go into battle in WWII? A. Yes‚ from 1937-1942. Q. Did you earn any metals while in battle? A. Yes‚ In
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Irene Joseph Anatomy & Physiology Band 3 December 19‚ 2012 Townsend Harris High School Irene Joseph Anatomy & Physiology Band 3 December 19‚ 2012 Disease Paper: Alzheimer’s I/II. What is Alzheimer’s and What Causes It? Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia that causes problems with memory‚ thinking‚ and social/behavioral skills. The direct cause of it is not yet fully understood‚ but based on studies‚ the disease seems to be a result of the
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Joseph Plumb Martin was born “upon the twenty-first of November‚ in the year of 1760” (Martin 6). His grandparents raised him on their Connecticut farm. Inspired by the Battles of Lexington and Concord he decided to enlist into the army. He was eager to help for the patriotic cause. In June of 1776‚ at the age of 15‚ Martin was able to enlist but didn’t want to sign up for a long enlistment. Soldiers at the time were enlisting for a year’s service but he did not like that and thought it was
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the praise and promotion of the imperialistic ideas. However‚ unlike other times in history where a nation had taken over another‚ there was criticism written by some of the writers living in the imperialistic countries. Two of these writers were Joseph Conrad‚ who wrote Heart of Darkness‚ and George Orwell‚ who wrote “Shooting an Elephant”. Both of their pieces comments on the dark side of imperialism and the effects it has on the colonized states and the people of the states. In Heart of Darkness
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