to erupt as it did when the war began‚ the united states were in the box of isolationism. The United States deemed the war as Europe’s problem and stayed away from it. However‚ Japan surprisingly bombed Pearl harbor‚ December 7‚ 1941‚ and congress declared war on Japan and Germany. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ the turning point in the pacific came in June 1942 at the Battle of Midway‚ the Soviet Union defeated Germany at Stalingrad which destroyed much of the German army‚ and Japanese
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Civil War not only because of the battle itself‚ but what prevailed with civilian opposition‚ and the events that changed the trajectory of the battle. The Turning Point of the War on July 1‚ 1863‚ the Union Army of the Potomac engaged the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia which had advanced into the north. Gettysburg was the turning point of the American Civil War. It was the most famous and important Civil War Battle to occur over three hot summer days in July in the humble market town of Gettysburg
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and moved them from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter. Once Anderson arrived at Fort Sumter‚ a merchant ship with supplies and reinforcements for the
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in a new type of writing instrument. To avoid clogging his pen up with thick ink‚ he proposed a tiny metal ball that rotated at the end of a tube of this quick drying ink. The ball would have two functions: * It would act as a cap to keep the ink from drying. * It would let ink flow out of the pen at a controlled rate. In June 1943‚ Biro and his brother Georg‚ a chemist‚ took out a new patent with the European Patent Office and made the first commercial models‚ Biro pens. Later‚ the British
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Kaylin Cantor “Turn the Nightmares Off” After reading Kaylin Cantor’s “Turn the Nightmares off” I immediately liked how Kaylin used Narrative form in her poem because it felt from beginning to end like a story. The theme if story I could sense from the beginning that it would be of someone in captivity. And what came to mind at that moment was of a man as a slave on the ship in the years that slavery existed. This was a reoccurring theme throughout the entire poem. I believe that the larger meaning
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A force can do one of four things to an object: 1. Make it speed up - accelerate. 2. Make it slow down - decelerate. 3. Change its direction. 4. Change its shape. If something is doing one of these four things there must be net force acting upon it. Newton’s First Law ’Every body continues in a state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force.’ Something without net force acting on it will either stay still or move at a constant speed in a straight line until
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In the book‚ Frankenstein‚ Victor Frankenstein is the protagonist. Victor is about twenty to thirty years age‚ he is from the city of Geneva and attends the University of Ingosladt where he studys chemistry and natural philosophy. Whilst studying Victor discovers the secret to life and decides to create a grotesque monster with his newfound knowledge out of rotten body parts he finds in a cemetery‚ which he goes on to regret immensely. Victor also has a family who is also situated in Geniva which
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One Good Turn Deserves Another When someone does you a good deed‚ you must never forget it. You must look out for the opportunity to do a good deed to that person. If you do not get that opportunity then you must pass on the good deed to someone else. It is quite a strange fact of life‚ that a good deed done to another always bring some kind of reward to the person who has done the good deed. Hence you must always return good with good. People go throughout their day encountering random acts of
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At the turn of the twentieth century‚ the United States used coal‚ oil‚ and wood as a natural resource to produce energy. Around the beginning of the twenty-first century‚ those same energy resources are routine today as they were a hundred years ago. The U.S. has refined our ability to use new sources of energy that we have discovered over the last hundred years. However‚ “Annual consumption of petroleum and natural gas exceeded that of coal in 1947 and then quadrupled in a single generation. Neither
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Chapter 1 I - Background of the study Point of sale is the place where a retail transaction is completed. It is the point at which a customer makes a payment to the merchant in exchange for goods or services. At the point of sale the retailer would calculate the amount owed by the customer and provide options for the customer to make payment. The merchant will also normally issue a receipt for the transaction. Base in our research‚ the oldest‚ simplest POS system is the cash register‚ but there
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