On April 2‚ 1917‚ President Woodrow Wilson asked a special session of Congress for a declaration of war against Germany‚ stating that "The world must be made safe for democracy." For three years‚ the United States had managed to remain neutral in World War I‚ which was wrecking widespread destruction on Western Europe. U.S. relations with Germany had deteriorated throughout that period‚ however‚ particularly as German submarines had torpedoed many American merchant vessels crossing the Atlantic Ocean
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Breathing in snowflakes Burnt lungs‚ sour taste Light’s gone‚ day’s end Struggling to pay rent Long nights‚ strange men And they say She’s in the Class A Team Stuck in her daydream Been this way since 18 But lately her face seems Slowly sinking‚ wasting Crumbling like pastries And they scream The worst things in life come free to us Cos we’re just under the upperhand And go mad for a couple of grams And she don’t want to go outside tonight And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
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Perez as he places the catalytic event the sinking of Maine‚ to the Spanish American War. Through his essay‚ Perez gives an explanation of how America is an expansionist nation by questioning the sinking of Maine which catalyzed American people to want expansionism. According to Perez‚ the destruction of Maine “had immediate repercussions and lasting implications” on the
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Book Review: In the heart of sea: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex‚ written by Nathaniel Philbrick‚ recounts the mystery surrounding the sinking of the whaleship Essex in the South Pacific. The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819‚ the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later‚ the unthinkable happened: in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific
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Daughters of the American Revolution It is November 11th‚ 1918. I live in Nebraska. I’m 12 years old. My mother and my siblings were coming home from Britain to visit my grandmother on the Lusitania RMS‚ but they haven’t ever come home. I was taking care of of our farm. We usually get a profit of eight million dollars a year from our farm. My father fought in the war‚ he never came home either. I think it will be a whole new beginning for me
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Ely Moore P3 Mr. WILLIS The involvement of the United States in The Great War. World War 1 was the war to use advance weaponry in combat and chemical warfare. This war was worldwide which many country’s fought each other. At that time period it was the bloodiest war for them. This war was centered in Europe‚ no one in the war advance. America did not enter the war until the third year. Although it was a war that really no country wanted but seem that were not able to stop it. The total
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Germans proclaimed that their submarines would use cruiser tactics for the Americans and rise from the sea and then fight‚ but they never actually followed through due the dangers of rising and then fighting (history). On May 7‚ 1915 a British vessel‚ Lusitania was shot and sunk off the coast of Ireland‚ killing a hundred and twenty-four Americans (notes). In December of 1915‚ President Wilson sent an advisor to Europe‚ seeking to find if he could settle peace between Britain and Germany‚ but failed
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TITANIC intorduction The sinking of the RMS Titanic occurred on the night of 14 April through to the morning of 15 April 1912 in the north Atlantic Ocean‚ four days into her first journey from Southampton to New York City. The largest passenger liner in service at the time‚ Titanic had an estimated 2‚224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 11:40pm on Sunday‚ 14 April 1912. Her sinking two hours and forty minutes later on Monday‚ 15 April resulted in the deaths of more than 1‚500
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get repaid. 3. The presence of a sinking fund Effect on the coupon rate of the bond issue: A sinking fund reduces coupon rate because it provides a kind of future guarantee to bondholders. The company must make payments into the sinking fund or default so it must have positive cash flow. Advantages: For the organization retiring debt‚ it has the benefit that the principal of the debt or at least part of it‚ will be available when due. For creditors‚ sinking fund reduces
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The British Empire after the War There was no more than four great empires. The empires were Germany‚‚ Ottoman and Russia. In 1918 the British empire was the beginning of the end. The expectations of the British colonial subject have been raised during the war‚ the empire and the self-governing territories of the British Commonwealth had helped to fund. India for example paid 146 million pounds toward the war effect. Importing raw materials from the colonies helped the allied victory.The self-governing
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