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Prisoners Of War Concentration Camps
1,397 words... The scientifically planned crematoria should have been able to handle the total project, but they could not. The whole complex had forty-six retorts, each with the capacity for three to five persons. The burning in a retort lasted about half an hour. It took an hour a day to clean them out. Thus it was theoretically possible to cremate about 12, 000 corpses in twenty four hours or 4, 380, 000 a year. But the well-constructed crematoria fell far behind at a number of camps, and especially at ...
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Chesapeake Bay Second Largest
1,326 wordsGeorge Calvert was the first Lord of Baltimore. His oldest son, Cecil Calvert, was the second Lord Baltimore. George Calvert, after a visit to Virginia, petitioned King Charles I of England to grant him permission to colonize the land north of the Potomac. He died in 1632, at age 52, just 66 days before the colony's official charter was issued, but his son Cecil Calvert carried out his father's dream. Cecil Calvert had the difficult task of planning and carrying out the colonization of Maryland....
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Ho Chi Minh Tet Offensive
1,316 wordsThe Tet offensive was certainly the decisive campaign of the war, but lost in these set of battles was the real underlying reason why the grossly underestimated NLF and North Vietnamese army could actually succeed in this undermanned set of attacks. I think the real success of this campaign was not the effectiveness and the planning of the NLF and NV army, but the lack of preparation of the US forces. The NLF and NV army have received too much credit on this suicide mission. The credit should ac...
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Bad Weather Horse Power
1,102 words... hey needed to design a propeller that would supply the thrust. No big deal, right? Wrong! No one had designed a propeller for flight through air. All that there was to go on was marine propellers. The Brothers did not have the time or money to test many designs. They decided to scrap the theory used for marine propellers, and make up their own. After long discussions they realized that the only way to test the propeller is to try it on the plane. The decided two things about the propeller: f...
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Persian Empire Battle Field
1,486 wordsAlexander the Great, a patient and often devious man; had never struck without careful planning. The youthful, headstrong Alexander liked to settle problems by immediate action. Making decisions with great speed, he took extraordinary risks; his success was achieved by the amount of sheer force and drive to overcome these risks. Alexander was educated as a student by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. The philosopher imbued Alexander with a love of Greek art and poetry, and instilled in him a last...
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Cross Country Finish Line
784 wordsIt was the seventh week of my junior year in high school. My competitive spirit was teeming with excitement as I woke up at 4: 30 in the morning to go sleep on a bus for the next two hours. It was not until the bus ride was almost completed that my conscious mind fully realized what it was about to force my body do. The bodys cries for help took the form of nervous pains in my stomach, yet I continued to ignore them by ingesting more water and salted pretzels. Walking up to the starting line, I ...
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000 Square Miles Acid Rain
1,060 wordsThe Adirondacks are a group of mountains surrounded by many lakes and rivers, that cover over 5, 000 square miles in the northeastern part of New York. There are a lot of large tourist villages on every lake. Motor boating and other water activities take place on almost every lake in the area. It is a vacation paradise for thousands. But, industrial emissions from Canada and the Ohio river valley always drift to this area and cause acid rain. This silent killer is destroying these beautiful lake...
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Effects Of The Atomic Bomb
787 wordsThe effects of the atomic bomb were terrible. Theres no doubt in my mind that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a costly mistake. Atomic bombs produce heat millions of degrees high, and visible ultraviolet and inferred rays. (Lapp 844) Everyone and everything exposed to their blast is affected. No one is left untouched, whether it be emotional or physical; in many cases both. However, many members of the science community argue that the atomic bomb was a great advance in te...
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Fluid Glacial Action U Shaped Valley Glacier
818 wordsThere are many different glacial landforms created by glacial erosion, one of these landforms is U-shaped valleys or glacial troughs. This glacial landform has many distinct characteristics. One of these characteristics is that it has very steep valley sides caused by the glacier as it moves down the valley eroding the sides of the valley by the processes of abrasion and plucking. Abrasion is when the boulders and moraine carried by the glacier rubs and erodes the valley side as it physically mo...
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Hiroshima Nagasaki And The World
653 wordsEinstein first told president Roosevelt about the tremendous power of fused uranium in the late 1930 s. Soon after this news from Einstein the atom bomb was built and tested. With bombs ready, Truman is faced with a decision. America is in the middle of World War II with no end in sight. He decides to deploy two atomic bombs on two Japanese cities. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two fateful cities. The atomic bombs give relief to America because it ends the war. Even though America wins the war...
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Costa Rica Roman Catholicism
905 wordsCosta Rica, a country of Central America, covers an area of 19, 730 square miles. The capital is San Jos. Extending from northwest to southeast, Costa Rica is bounded on the north by Nicaragua, along its 185 -mile northeastern coastline by the Caribbean Sea, on the southeast by Panama, and along its 630 -mile southwestern coastline by the Pacific Ocean. Costa Rica has a narrow Pacific coastal region that rises abruptly into central highlands. The highlands, forming the rugged backbone of the cou...
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Lightning Bolt Positively Charged
1,447 wordsThere are many violent forces in nature: such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and volcanoes. Although, most weather-related occurrences can be seen in the magnificent thunderstorm. Thunderstorms are not just seen as one product of nature, because so many things can happen with a thunderstorm. One single thunderstorm can include tornadoes, high winds, hail, rain, and lightning. These are all products of just one thunderstorm. One of these products that a storm creates is lightning. Lightning is also li...
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Medium Sized Charles Lindbergh
2,097 wordsThe Effects of Deregulation As long ago as 1884 a machin within 8, 000 pounds demonstrate its power both to lift its from th ground and to maintain a spd of from 30 to 40 mils pr hour, but find of success owing to th inability to balance and str it property. noirs hav, until rent yar's, fought shy of anything rating to arial navigation. Thos who venture, in studying was satisfied knowing th grant obstacle in th way was th lack of a motor sufficiently light to sustain its wight and that of an air...
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Jesus Christ John Coffey
617 wordsThe Green Mile Set on Death Row in a Southern prison in 1935, The Green Mile is the remarkable story of the cell blocks head guard, who develops an emotional, and unusual relationship with one inmate who possesses a magical gift that is both mysterious and miraculous. This inmate is John Coffey, who beyond his simple naive nature possess a supernatural gift. This gift is what introduces the correlation between Coffey and Jesus Christ. The easiest similarity to find between the two characters is ...
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People Per Square Mile Opening Scene
543 wordsFILM TECHNIQUE ANALYSIS OF THE MOVIE SMOKE SIGNALS In this essay, I would like to go into a bit more detail about the first questions in both the first viewing questions and the study questions, since they are very similar in nature. The scene in question is the opening scene of the motion picture Smoke Signals, when, after a fade-in, we see a radio station broadcasting out of a trailer / mobile home-like structure. In this scene, the trailer cum radio station is filmed in a rather deep field mo...
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Square Mile Square Kilometer
1,377 wordsLions Lions are big animals with no fear of anything. They are harsh predators and will do anything to kill a prey for food. Some key facts about lions are that adult males grow approximately 9 feet from nose to tail. The females are a lot smaller than the males. Males usually weigh up to 350 - 550 pounds. The female lions weigh up to 250 - 300 pounds which is much smaller than the male lions growth. It takes most lions 3 to 4 years to sexually mature. The lions mating patter is non- seasonal wh...
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Electric Chair Green Mile
677 wordsOr Schwartz 28. 1. 00 Book: The Green Mile (Part 1): The Two Dead Girls Author: King, Stephen Number of pages: 92 Short Summary: Paul Edgecombe tells his story as the head jailer of Block E (where people who got the death penalty stayed waiting (definitely not impatiently) for their execution) at the state penitentiary, Cold Mountain. He tells about how sad it was being in charge of the electric chair (Old Sparky The Big Juicy as prisoners called it) executions in the 1920 s and the 1930 s. He a...
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Central Station White Man
1,543 wordsATTN: im not sure if youve already gotten this but i lost connecting when it was loading onto the next page. -ven Heart of Darkness, a novel which explores how man reacts when experiencing a world unlike his own; a world without any rules or regulations; a world that is uncivilized. The story starts out on a sailboat, the Nellie, that is anchored in the Thames River. There, on the ships deck sits five men: the owner of the boat, an accountant, a lawyer, the narrator, and, one of the main charact...
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Ferry Dock Heard Karley Wed
1,241 wordsAs I, woke up, fuzzy from lack of sleep, I crawled out of the tent to see where we were. It was so dark the night before when we arrived, I wasnt sure. Our campsite was on a hillside terrace, and the campground was empty except for our Barbie sized blue plastic pup tent. I heard Karley moan from inside the tent. I looked at my watch, 6 oclock, it was time to go. The ferry would be leaving in an hour and I wanted to get there early. I called to her to get up and proceeded to look for a bathroom. ...
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Three Days First Day
808 wordsIt was the summer of 94 when I took a Wilderness Leadership Semester from the Colorado Outward Bound School. Needless to say that it was the most emotional, challenging, and rewarding experience that I have had in all of my 19 ears of existence. One week spent running the Upper Green River in western Colorado and northern Utah. Through The Gates of the Labour Canyon and Dinosaur National Monument, we floated to end where the Green meets the Colorado River just beyond Echo Canyon. The high desert...
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