The Tet Offensive is an important event in American history because it was a battle that marked a climacteric turning point in American participation in the Vietnam War. It was a series of attacks against South Vietnam. Tet is a holiday on the Vietnamese calendar that has been valued by many people. It had been an occasion for an unofficial peace agreement in the Vietnam War between the South and North. On the eve of the holiday, South Vietnam found themselves caught up in war. North Vietnam
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Achebe is a Nigerian writer who would probably be familiar with the sight of vultures, which are scavenging birds, feeding on the carcass of a dead animal. This is the image that he explores in the first section of his poem entitled 'Vultures'. A miserable scene is set with grey weather, and Achebe uses alliteration in the phrase 'drizzle of one despondent dawn' to emphasise the depressing atmosphere. There is no sign of sun at the start of the day, as the phrase 'unstirred by harbingers of sunbreak'
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At the dawn of Wednesday, June 23rd, 1506, the body of Lord Capulet’s only daughter, Juliet Capulet, was found dead next to her bed in Verona, Italy. She was less than 2 weeks away from turning 14 years old. Angelina, Juliet’s nurse, discovered the body at around 5:15 AM while trying to wake up Juliet to prepare her for her wedding with County Paris, which was scheduled to take place later on that day. There was no physical injuries found on Juliet Capulet’s body, and investigators are suggesting
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land. 2 years passed and the war wasn’t settled yet. Fighting till death, only 2 brave warriors remained. Brave and exhausted warriors. They were surrounded by their dead army that was covered in blood. They stood facing each other. Both warriors were too drowsy that they could barely move. One warrior said, “Let us rest until dawn, and then we will finish this battle. Only one will be going home.” The other battler agreed. After taking off the dented helmets, unstrapped their rusty shields, and
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did not end out that way. Booths plan also failed because even with what he had accomplished (which in his eyes was great) the Confederacy never fought back. Booth was even surprised to see that he was being villainized because now that Lincoln was dead, weirdly enough, more people were warming up towards him or even supporting him. Finally Booth plan failed because of a single bullet that caused him to bleed to death. It was such an anticlimactic death for an actor but he tried to make the best of
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of the Victorian London scene on a summer morning. The reader is taken by surprise by the opening sentence where “The streets of London on a summer's morning” are described to be “most striking”. Dickens' interesting choice of words places the pre-dawn London scene in the summer, a time of warmth and sun, however we are offered a nineteenth century London that is typically portrayed with a bleak, grey backdrop. Few people roam this neighbourhood apart from those “whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure
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As we danced above the fires and wounded earth, I flitted about lightly, clouding the skies and welcoming our new kinsmen, born from those powerful bombs and humans chipping and plowing away at Mother Earth. A yell sounded and we swarmed with delight. While watching those now little pawns charge across No-Man’s land, a round of bullets were fired, and yelling, metal clanking, screaming, and all forms of chaos rushed forth. Sprays of blood and heavy bodies fell to Mother and clouds of us flew upward
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November 11th marks the day we recollect all the brave soldiers that had passed away protecting and fighting for our country both then and now. We wear poppies and encounter parades and silences as we remember an important occurrence in our Canadian history. Ninety-eight years ago, on November 11th, 1918, the countries fighting World War I called a ceasefire. The war officially ended on the 28th of June, 1919 due to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, signed by Germany and the Allied Powers
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Over the intercom the young students heard the gunshots and the glass shattering during their morning announcements. Six supervisors attempted to stop the violent shooter, but ended up being shot to death. The brave supervisors were Dawn Hochsprung, Anne Marie Murphy, and Mary Sherlach. He went to another office in the school but it looked empty so he continued on his way to take more lives because killings them was not enough, so he walked through the vacant halls of the school.
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and the approach road (National Park Service). Burnside had four divisions (12,500 troops) and 50 guns east of Antietam Creek. Facing him was a force that had been greatly depleted by Lee's movement of units to bolster the Confederate left flank. At dawn, the divisions of Brig. Gens. David R. Jones and John G. Walker stood in defense, but by 10 a.m. all of Walker's men and Col. George T. Anderson's Georgia brigade had been removed. Jones had only about 3,000 men and 12 guns available to meet Burnside
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