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    Space Shuttle+ ISS. Digital image. Blogspot.com. Web. 12 Jan. 2012. . "Space Shuttle Retirement." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ 05 Apr. 2012. Web. 3 Apr. 2012. . "Space Shuttle." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ 05 Dec. 2012. Web. 8 Mar. 2012. . Sputnik. Digital image. Wikimadia.org. Web. 12 Jan. 2012. . Sun ’s Atmosphere. Digital image. Wikimedia.org. Web. 12 Jan. 2012.

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    The American people feared the Soviet for two reasons. One reason was why the American people feared the Soviet was because the Soviet had nuclear bombs. The other reason was that the Soviet was the first to put up an orbiting satellite‚ which was Sputnik. However‚ the American people greatest fear was communism (Doc B.). Communist influence spread to China as well as Eastern Europe‚ and soon made is way to Cuba. From this advantage point‚ the U.S.S.R. started exporting nuclear missiles and this was

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    girl named Linda. Linda was O’Brien’s first love in the fifth grade‚ who died due to brain cancer. The author also uses two other women‚ who are adults‚ to convey more mature messages throughout his book. One of the women is Mary Anne‚ Fossie’s sweetheart. Mary Anne is said to have come to Vietnam to visit her boyfriend. Martha‚ Jimmy Cross’s love‚ is another significant woman in his book. Martha was always on Cross’s mind and he looked forward to seeing her when he made it back home. O’Brien

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    the boys are still playing football. The narrator responds with‚ “Ay the ball is flying‚ the lads play heart and soul”. Then‚ the man wonders if his “girl” has stopped crying over his death and the tone changes. The narrator and his dead friends’ sweetheart have moved on and are already in a relationship together. Uneasily‚ the narrator answers that “Your girl is well

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    October 5‚ 1957; this is the day that went down in history as the day the Space Race between the United States and the USSR began. On this day the USSR successfully launched the Sputnik satellite into orbit around the planet. Close to a month later the USSR launched the Sputnik 2 which held the first living organism to orbit the planet; Laika the dog. The series of events that followed brought change to the Cold War and to the world that could not have been foreseen in terms of international relations

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    it apart from all the rest. As you walk into the front door of the house you notice a long‚ slender stairway that led up into the main hallway of the house. The strong smell of cigarette smoke is quite evident when you reach this point. Yes‚ my sweetheart did smoke. My beloved had a very softhearted voice that I remember sung me to sleep when I was restless from work. She would wait next to me‚ cuddled so very close until we fell deep asleep and in the morning she would wake me with the smell

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    Annotated catalogue ‘Development of screen persona; Rachel Mcadams’/‘the American sweetheart’ Focus films; ‘The notebook’ (Nick cassavetes) (2004) This is my focus film; I have chosen this as my focus film because the character traits that Rachel Mcadams performed displays the trademark character traits she goes on to be known for. The character traits consist of: * Sweet * kind natured * soft spoken * feminine mannerisms * Beautiful appearance Support films

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    National Missile Defense Architecture; Land or Space-based Defense systems-deciding which system(s) are the most efficient for our nation’s defense Submitted in partial fulfillment for the requirements for course (AW570 National Missile Defense) Caesar A. Garcia American Public University System April 8‚ 2006 Over the past four decades the need for designing comprehensive national missile defense system(s) has been argued in our

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    favouritism and sibling rivalry towards Homers brother. Homer’s father John saw rockets as a childish thing and a waste of time as did quite a lot of the town’s people. Most of them didn’t like the idea that Sputnik could be used to drop bombs or as a spy satellite‚ Homer however was intrigued by Sputnik and wanted to build his own and go into space. John wanted homer down in the coal mine working the way that he did‚ because to John that was what a man without a football scholarship did in Coalwood. (Homer:

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    ambiguity in different ways. In “On the Rainy River”‚ Tim writes about facing the decision to fight in a war he didn’t believe in or flee to canada. In “How to Tell a True War Story” Tim writes about what he believes a true war story is all about. In “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” Rat Kiley tells a story about a woman who gets sent to Vietnam on request of her boyfriend‚ a medic in the war. Each of these stories has instances where there is no right or wrong answer in different ways. “On the Rainy River”

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