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… sad watching a powerful political figure overstay his welcome. Helmut Kohl, German chancellor for sixteen years, has done just that. On Sept. 27, German voters opted for Gerhard … few years? Let’s review Adenauer’s record first. Adenauer, one of the few German politicians with experience in German …

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… 3 presidential election in oil-rich Venezuela, the time has come for an overhaul of the Bush administration’s … coup, U.S. policymakers met with the plotters and funneled money to the opposition through the U.S. taxpayer-funded … for Democracy. Chavez has accused his electoral opponent, Manuel Rosales, the governor of the western state of …

… giant leap forward for their cause. Both activists and news commentators have compared this ruling to Brown v. Board of … is this a valid comparison? The Brown ruling of 1954 was one of the truly great Supreme Court decisions of the last … again? Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a …

… former French Minister of the Interior and staunch opponent of France’s far right movements. That right-wing … hardly in question. The mystery was how high the plot went. Commissioner Charles Chenevier and Superintendent Georges … Popular Front that governed France from 1936. German soldiers parade on the Champs Élysées on June 14, 1940. Less …

… The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in 1993, but encompasses a long history of African American and African … diaspora through technoculture and science fiction, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared …

… raw materials drastically decreasing. The students will become aware of the possibility that they will experience a … to guide their learning. After two of the stations are completed, the teacher will do a brief check for … used during the activity. Lastly, the students will answer one final question on the last page of the graphic organizer …

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… with a Think Pair Share activity that asks students to compare what they know about the COVID-19 response to a … governments at the time, instead focusing on World War One. Station 2 is designed to show the varied responses to … to reflect on how they think the United States have done responding to COVID-19. Instructional Strategies: - …

… powers had de facto sovereignty over Chinese territory, was one of the most degrading aspects of Western imperialism in … to foreign rather than Qing law.  These extraterritorial zones served as bases for  Christian  missionaries, who were … northern China. Amid this misery, a mysterious group that combined traditional Chinese folk culture, including martial …

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… the dramatic images of the descamisados , or shirtless ones, marching through the streets and hundreds of thousands … became known as Peronism and the Justicialist Party embodied it. Perón’s program “New Argentina,” advocating social … for nothing less than a total redefinition of the social compact. Written by Steven Hyland. Narration by Dr. Nicholas …

… the standard and article by highlighting the importance of Communism, one key aspect of the Cold War, and also analyzing the … trying to prevent the spread of Communism, and the damage done through bombings and Agent Orange on Vietnamese …

… jurors, taxpayers, members of the armed forces, petitioners, protesters, and office-holders) This lesson plan … spending to build its infrastructure, asking its readers to come to their conclusion of what works best. I chose to use … the most recent “grade” the United States has received for one facet of its infrastructure. Students will collaborate …

… elsewhere indicate that the slavery lawsuit could become an invaluable tool for bridging the racial divide in … since 1865. Some people object to the court filing because none of the potential beneficiaries of any reparations that … system, and perhaps even reaches the stage of exploring remedies, public discussion is likely to provide momentum for a …

… the Obama administration. Why should the world’s greatest superpower worry about small groups of pirates? Because, … substantial profits by ransoming American and European prisoners.   Then, as now, the United States was coming out of a long and costly war (with England). Then, …

… Guiteau, a disgruntled political hopeful. Garfield later died from an infection which ravaged his body for two and …

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… of Ukraine: Russia cannot be an empire without Ukraine and coming to terms with Ukraine’s separate nationhood is a … Both Russians and Ukrainians look back to the mighty medieval empire of Kyivan Rus′, which accepted Christianity in … Kyiv (Kiev in Russian). Moscow, by contrast, is first mentioned in the historical Hypatian Chronicle only in 1147 as a …