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    After the arrival of information age and the development of mass communication technology‚ the political arena has also been changed in how to deal with public opinion. The role of media in the process of crisis management has risen at the same time‚ since the media has considerable influence on forming public opinion. In some crisis‚ the media can expand or reproduce the possible danger. In other crisis‚ the institution related to the crisis can manipulate and control the information so that it

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    Great white sharks are large carnivorous fish that dwell in the oceans. Great white sharks live in temperate waters and are found along the coastlines of south Africa‚ Australia‚ New Zealand‚ California to Alaska‚ the east coast of USA and the gulf coast‚ Hawaii‚ most of south America‚ The Mediterranean sea‚ west Africa and Scandinavia‚ japan and the eastern of china and southern Russia. The Great white shark lives mainly in the upper part of the water column‚ near the shore but sometimes they will

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    describes America’s vengeful retaliation in response to the attack. The article first explains how the attack on Pearl Harbor was conducted in two significant “waves” which were used to target the Pacific Fleet. The first wave included the use of 91 torpedo planes which were armed with torpedoes that could run in shallow water and effectively inflict damage on massive ships. The second wave consisted of dive-bombers and fighter aircrafts known as “Zeroes.” Thornton expresses the immense threat that these

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    THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC AND EAST ASIA: JAPAN ON THE OFFENSIVE: 1941-42 When the nations of Western Europe became embroiled in World War II‚ Japan began to expand into the Southeast Asian colonies of the European powers. After the United States retaliated with economic sanctions‚ Japan planned a concerted attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbour‚ Hawaii‚ and other Pacific and Asian targets. For a time Japan was master

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    ABSTRACT: The electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction is the attack of a benzene ring on an electrophilic species resulting in the substitution of a proton with a functional group. The electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction nitration is used to nitrate methyl benzoate and acetanilide with a nitronium ion. Crystallization was used to purify the product. The melting point was used to determine its purity and the regiochemistry of the products. The methyl benzoate reaction product‚ methyl

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    Pearl Harbor was an American naval base based in Honolulu‚ Hawaii which harbored eight American battle ships. Just before 8:00 AM on December 7th‚ 1941‚ Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese fighter planes. The attack lasted just two hours but left severe damages too many people stationed there‚ ships‚ planes‚ and the American people. The attack came as a surprise for the people of America and the men and women stationed at the naval base. Japanese fighter planes successfully destroyed twenty American

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    Jira

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    GYMNOSPERMS - phlya Ginkgophyta‚ Gnetophyta‚ Cycadophyta and Coniferophyta - vascular plants with true roots - gymnosperms = “naked seeds” - cones/strobili - have seeds that develop on the surfaces of sporophylls instead of in ovaries like angiosperms - microsporangium produces pollen grains (sperm) and the megasporangium produces the egg - sporophyte generation is dominant - no water needed for fertilization – pollen travels with the wind Pine trees

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    When historians are asked when the birth of modern warfare occurred‚ they would all say World War II. World War II updated how war is fought to the way that many subsequent wars are fought even to this day. The Second World War was the first major war that involved many naval battles in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The four major players of such naval warfare were Britain‚ Germany‚ United States‚ and Japan. Only these countries set up navy forces of any significance‚ which to the surprise of

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    noncommunist Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). North Vietnamese and Communist-trained South Vietnamese rebels sought to overthrow the government of South Vietnam and reunite the country. The United States became involved in 1964‚ when North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the U.S. destroyer Maddox‚ which was monitoring off the coast of Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. Although there is discrepancy over whether this event actually occurred‚ it was because of this event that President Johnson ordered air

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    Jfk Assassination

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    our 35th President‚ and he was still assassinated even though he was liked by many people. In 1941 JFK joined the U.S. Navy‚ after two years he was then sent to the South Pacific. While he was there he was given order of a PT boat‚ or a Patrol-Torpedo boat. “In August 1943‚ a Japanese destroyer struck the craft‚ PT-109‚ in the Solomon Islands. Kennedy helped some of his marooned crew back to safety‚

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