The "Iron Curtain" was a metaphor that Winston Churchill used to describe the dark times that had fallen on Europe. Much of Eastern Europe had fallen to Soviet Control‚ from East Germany and Poland to Russia. This had to do with the Cold War because the cold war was a rivalry between the USSR and the USA‚ which resulted in Western Europe being a part of NATO (US Allies) and Eastern Europe was part of the Warsaw pact (USSR). The iron curtain severed the ideologies of Communism and Democracy. Because
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Abstract An individual is typically referred by numerous name aliases on the web. Accurate identification of aliases of a given person name is useful in various web related tasks such as information retrieval‚ sentiment analysis‚ personal name disambiguation‚ and relation extraction. We propose a method to extract aliases of a given personal name from the web. Given a personal name‚ the proposed method first extracts a set of candidate aliases. Second‚ we rank the extracted candidates
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My name is Erica Vargas I am a 24 yr old college graduate student; I attended Brookline College for 9 months. I live with Zach. I was 23 when he took me into his home; I depended on my mother a lot before Zach. My mother liked to move a lot and I didn’t graduate from high school because of that‚ so when I had an opportunity I left home at 17 and enrolled into job corps in Roswell N.M. I lived there for two years; I struggled to get my GED‚ I wasn’t getting the help I needed. I did graduate with
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Happy Independence Day 2013 Speech Model: 1 Independence day speech Honourable Chief Guest of the day‚ distinguished guests f or the occasion‚teachers‚ parents and all my dear f riends‚T his day 15th August of every year is a golden day engraved in the history of the world. We got f reedom on this date and it is a day worth a celebration. When we celebrate it hoisting the f lag‚ playing our National Anthem with f ervor‚ distributing sweets‚ we need to sail back into the past to remember and pay
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the education system was not the best. Many of these neighborhoods were shared with other groups such as African Americans‚ but segregation
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What would you do if one country’s dominance over your country changed your life for the worse? This is what was occurring to the lithuanians. During Stalin’s rule‚ There were many things he did to ensure soviet dominance. Stalin had a five year plan. This five year plan was to gain complete soviet dominance through the secret deportation of Lithuanians to siberia. The lithuanians faced many hardships not only in Siberia but on the way there as well. The first part of the plan was to deport them
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• What was the progressive movement and what did it aim to do? Protecting Social Welfare • Who was Florence Kelley and what did she advocate for? Promoting Moral Improvement • What was the Prohibition and what led up to it? Creating Economic Reform • What were muckrakers? Fostering Efficiency • Who coined the scientific management? Reform Governors • Why was Robert M. La Follette an important figure under the progressive Republican party? Reforming Elections • What was
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for their large empire that stretched across Eurasia. They were brutal and violent‚ but somehow it worked out and they obtained one of the largest empires in the world and what is now known as the second greatest empire to ever exist (after the Roman Empire of course). The most important aspect of the Mongolian Empire’s legacy was the strength of the military organization‚ along with their superior archery skills and their tactics. The Mongols had many important aspects‚ but their strength lay in
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Louisiana Purchase was the greatest land purchase in US History. It nearly doubled the Nation’s size and it would bring much wealth to the nation. For example‚ in time gold would be discovered in the west and farming would be used on the land. This territory had been owned by different nations as a result of the French Indian war. However‚ in the end‚ it was sold to the US by the French. Jefferson had a plan for this land‚ although not everyone agreed with him buying the land. The treaty was still signed
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Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence was written to show a new theory of government‚ reasons why they were separating from England‚ and a formal declaration of war. It gave the 13 colonies freedom from England’s laws to be independent. The man responsible for writing the Declaration was Thomas Jefferson. He wrote the Declaration between June 11‚ 1776 and June 28‚ 1776. But what was the purpose of the Declaration being written? The founders wrote the Declaration of Independence for ideological
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