Angelina Jolie Biography Angelina Jolie‚ born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4‚ 1975‚ in Los Angeles‚ California‚ is an American actress famous for her tattoos and her acting ability. Jolie‚ which in French means pretty‚ was born to an Academy Award-winning actor‚ Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand with only one brother named James Haven. Just like any other children at her age‚ she also had a favorite cartoon character that she liked very much‚ which was the flying elephant Disney character
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The ‘attack’ on the S.S. Maddox was what triggered the series of events that lead to America losing and joining the war. They could be seen as over eager in the sense that they didn’t hesitate to retaliate. The US weren’t always as informed as they would like to be. Psychological
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and unpopular. However the USA supported it since Diem was anticommunist. The north wanted to unite Vietnam under a communist nation; however Americans were determined to prevent this. The gulf of Tonkin incident. An American destroyer‚ the USS Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats while it was making some intelligence reconnaissance missions in the gulf of Tonkin. Americans took this as a serious act of war. North Vietnamese actions violated the UN charter‚ which enable president
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Angelina Jolie Pitt‚ is an American actress‚ filmmaker‚ and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award‚ two Screen Actors Guild Awards‚ and three Golden Globe Awards‚ and has been cited as Hollywood’s highest-paid actress.Angelina Jolie is the daughter of famous Hollywood actor Jon Voight.Jon Voight is an Oscar winner and three time Golden Globe awards winner.Angelina and her dad had a fairly poor relationship throughout their lives‚ following her father’s infidelity.It is a little known fact
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Henceforth in the Conduct of the War”. This policy meant that the Japanese pledged to “prosecute the war to the bitter end‚ in order to uphold the national polity‚ protect the imperial land and accomplish the objectives for which we went to war” (Maddox). This policy‚ this pledge meant nothing other than what it said. Leaving President Truman in a tough situation. This policy meant that the Japanese were going to fight and die fighting. They were going to continue this war until they had gotten what
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describe the people of the 1920 ’s who rejected American post World War I. The three best known writers among The Lost Generation are F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. Others are: Sherwood Anderson‚ Kay Boyle‚ Hart Crane‚ Ford Maddox Ford and Zelda Fitzgerald. Ernest Hemingway‚ perhaps the leading literary figure of the decade‚ would take Stein ’s phrase‚ and use it as an epigraph for his first novel‚ The Sun Also Rises. Because of this novel ’s popularity‚ the term‚ "The Lost
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Angelina Jolie’s interest in humanitarian affairs was piqued in 2000 when she went to Cambodia to film the adventure movie‚ "Tomb Raider." Named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in 2001 In 2003‚ she started the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation project dedicated to conservation in Cambodia‚ which later expanded to agriculture‚ education‚ health care‚ vocational training‚ infrastructure In 2003‚ she was the first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association
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ethics essay Plato/Aristotle/Existentialists By Amy Maddox Socrates said‚ “No one ever actually chooses evil‚ they only mistake it for good.” I do not agree with this theory. For Socrates‚ the key to a virtuous life was knowledge of the GOOD. He believed‚ if one knew the Good one would choose it. One always chooses the best of the options available. The question is what is the Good? He would say‚ evil is the result of ignorance
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The Vietnam war brought many changes to the United States in the 1960’s and the 1970’s. Some of the changes were for the better of the country‚ take the rediscovered Women’s Rights movements and the ever growing Free Speech movements inspired by New Left‚ while most of the other changes brought on tensions between government and their people. The Domino Theory pushed our leaders to the edge. In order to stop the Domino Theory in Vietnam‚ the U.S. invaded. The war was useless for the American government
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html ! The Star (2013‚ Nov 18) Angelina Jolie receives her Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award Nytimes (2013‚ May 14) My Medical Choice. nytimes.com Retrieved September 11th‚ 2014 from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medicalchoice.html?_r=0 Maddox Jolie Pitt Asia. (2008‚ May 2). MJPAsia. http://www.mjpasia.org Retrieved September 12‚ 2014‚ from http://www.mjpasia.org ! Lifetime TV (2014‚ April 29) Angelina Jolie Biography lifetimetv.co.uk/Retrieved September 12‚ 2014‚ from http://www.lifetimetv
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