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    Why did the Communists win the Chinese Civil War in 1949 ? The Chinese civil war was one of the major conflicts in 20th century Asia. This conflict cost China approximately 6 million casualties (including civilians). Most fierce battles were fought after the Second Sino-Japanese War‚ which comprises the last 3 years of the Chinese Civil War (1946-1949). In this essay‚ we will focus on this period‚ by contrasting two rival sides‚ CPC (Communist Party of China) and forces loyal to the Kuomintang (KMT)-led

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    Candida - Candida is Morell’s wife and mother of their two young children. Shaw explains that "she possesses the double charm of youth and motherhood. Her ways are those of a woman who has found that she can always manage people by engaging their affection‚ and who does so frankly and instinctively without the smallest scruple." She deeply loves her husband Morell‚ but is quite taken with Eugene Marchbanks’ naïve‚ poetic nature. "This comes of James teaching me to think for myself‚ and never to

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    Why did Stalin win the struggle for power after Lenin’s death? Leading up to and following Lenin’s death in 1924‚ Leon Trotsky‚ the logical successor to Lenin‚ was outwitted from becoming leader of the Communist Party. Trotsky had been second only to Lenin since the Revolution he masterminded‚ yet it seemed Joseph Stalin was better suited from 1924 to assume the role because he was more politically adept and had more success in out manoeuvring and taking any opportunity to usurp Trotsky. His success

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    Andre Sanchez Course: ENG494 Assignment: The Rats in the Walls Annotation March 3rd 2018 Set/Setting: The discovery of an underground city left by the protagonist’s family drives hime insane and ends up in a mental institution. After moving back home to England‚ the protagonist and his cat hear rats in the walls. After a night of nightmares of a swine heard‚ the protagonist discovers an underground city which his old family had created of human trafficking. This city satisfied the protagonist’s

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    serpentine creature is noted in the lines‚ “She had no quarrel with the snakes. They kept down the rats and the frogs.” The narrator’s hint at the importance of the ecological food chain in the lines cannot be overlooked. We find the narrator referring to a large group of animals portraying the exotic reserve of the highlands. We note the mention of not only snakes but also that of black scorpions‚ rats‚ frogs‚ hyaena‚ elephants‚ somber stag‚ python and simultaneously that of the domestic goats

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    Endangered Species Kangaroo Rat Habitat The Kangaroo Rat lives in arid areas. Many live in the western and southwestern deserts of the US such as California‚ and between the Sierra Nevada /Cacscade and Rocky mountains from southern Canada to central Mexico. The type of habitat Kangaroo Rats live in are sandy‚ rocky soils in deserts with little vegetation. They live in underground burrows that go in at an angle. Some Kangaroo Rats prefer to live in grass-land habitats that are well developed

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    conditioning in rats. The purpose of the experiment was to condition rats to suppress certain hunger behaviors such as water licking. Burdick and James paired the neutral stimulus of white light with shock in a “test chamber” to see if rats would develop an association between the two stimuli. Naturally‚ shock induces a fear-like freezing behavior‚ and after being conditioned the rats displayed the same behavior but only to the white light. Furthermore‚ they would then place the rats back in their

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    On December 2012‚ the news came from Henan Industry and Informatization Hall that DSMAC crusher hammerhead was rewarded to Henan provincial key industry product. Henan Industry and Informatization Hall is subordinate to Henan Provincial government‚ and is in charge of industry management‚ industrial economy operation and informatizaiton related responsibilities. Its goal is to promote the industrialization of relevant scientific achievements‚ and propel the development of software industry‚

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    The tactical actions of General George Washington were a key factor in the outcome of the War of Independence. Washington’s foremost principle was to constantly be on the offensive‚ as America did not possess a comprehensive strategy for the conduct of the war.10 Often times‚ Washington’s aggressive military instincts were shot down by councils of war. Washington once convened a council of war to consider a strike against the British garrison in Staten Island before it was reinforced.11 Washington

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    War. One reason is that the North not only outmanned the South but also at almost every point‚ militarily. The South was also outclassed industrially. If it was not for European recognition and military aid the South would have never had a chance to win. Industrially the South could not keep up in out put and in manpower. By the end of the war the South had‚ more or less‚ plenty of weaponry still‚ but it just did not have enough men to use the weaponry. They certainly did not lose for any lack of

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