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…also ardent Vietnamese nationalists who fought first to rid their country of the Japanese and then, after 1945, to prevent France from reestablishing its former colonial mastery over Vietnam and the rest of Indochina. Harry S. Truman and other American…

…Summary This story opens with the main character named Jim Nolan leaving behind his former life and going to meet Harry Nilson, a leader of the “Party.” Jim had a father killed in a riot, a mother who died, and a sister that was missing. He wants…

…it ready as soon as possible. In the spring of l945, Groves accelerated the production of fissionable materials. On April 12, 1945, President Roosevelt died unexpectedly in Warm Springs, Georgia. Vice President Harry S. Truman, in office for less than three…

…, American scientists completed development of and successfully tested the world’s first atomic bomb, a new weapon of massive destructive power that could potentially bring an end to the war by delivering a crippling blow to Japan. President Harry S. Truman faced…

…Politics. Seattle: Bay Press, 1985. 112-36. 4. Hebdige, Dick. "Postmodernism and the Politics of Style." In Art and Modern Culture, ed. F. Frascina and J. Harris, 331-41. London: Phaidon, 1992. 5. Williams, Raymond. "When Was Modernism?" New Left…

…. However, the court held that the law is constitutional. It declared, the state need not fund a woman's exercise of her right to choose abortion even though it pays the costs of childbirth. Then in 1980, in Harris v. McRae 448 U.S. 297, the Court heard…

…to men. And in both works Updikes uses a specific naming designation to name his characters; each name in both works have a certain meaning to themselves. One character, Harry Angstrom, who is referred, as “Rabbit” in Updike’s “Rabbit run” is a coward…

…named Joseph Juneau and Richard T. Harris found large deposits of gold in the Gastineau Channel, in southeast Alaska. This gold discovery led to the founding of Alaska’s capital, Juneau. Three other gold discoveries in 1846, 1848, and 1902 led…

…Capulet. On the other hand, Susan Surandon will play the role of the Lady Montaque, while Ed Harris will play the role of the Old Montaque. The intention here was not to have old parents, to make it a bit more interesting and to attract the younger audience…

…on the Ford Motor Company, he made himself President once more. He was old now, and in 1945 he relinquished all responsibility to Edsel's son, Harry II. The Ford Company took on new life under young Henry, but Ford was not around to see it. In 1947 Henry Ford…