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Iranian Hostage Crisis

The Iranian hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Iran which started November 4th, 1979 and ended January 20th, 1981 in which fifty-two Americans were held hostage for four hundred and forty four days. This occurred when Islamist students and militants took over the American Embassy in Tehran. This situation occurred under President Carter (United States) and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (Iran). In the middle of November in 1979 the Iranian hostage-takers released thirteen women and African Americans claiming they were sympathetic to the minorities. The hostages were initially held in one building until the rescue mission Operation Eagle Claw (which failed) then the hostages were scattered all over Iran to make any other sort of rescue mission impossible. The American hostages were finally released into United States custody minutes after President Ronald Reagan was sworn into office. The whole Iranian Hostage Crisis was described as an entanglement of vengeance and mutual incomprehension. Even though the casualty rate was low; the two air-crafts, eight American Service men and Iranian civilian it was still a very tragic situation. In Iran the hostage taking was widely seen as a massive blow against the United States of America. During the hostage crisis the United States attempted a rescue mission called Operation Eagle Claw off the USS Nimitz and failed. That was where the only casualties in the whole Iranian Hostage Crisis occurred (eight American Service men, 2 American aircraft and an Iranian civilian)

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My name is John Long and I am 18 years old. I was born in Santa Cruz, California. I come from a family of four and I have a Dog named Cowboy. Cowboy is a Queensland Healer (also know as an Australian Cattle Dog) and he is twelve and a half years old. He has had his fair share of health issues but he's still running strong. I am a very active person, I mountain bike and skateboard a lot. I am also a concert enthusiast. I have been to many concerts and I have at least three concerts that I am going to in the next few months and one of them is Vans Warped Tour 2013 and the other two are Pierce the Veil and Green Day. I might also be going to see Dropkick Murphy's next month with my lovely girlfriend of two years Savannah! When I was young I attended Twin Lakes Church Preschool, I had a very good time there even though I hardly remember any of my childhood from age four and below. After Twin Lakes Preschool I went to Soquel  Elementary School to attend Kindergarten through fifth grade. That is where I met my best friend Aaron Stewart! He is actually in this class with me and I am very excited about that. After Soquel Elementary I went to New Brighton Middle School and in all honesty that was by far my least favorite school I ever went to. The office faculty were horrible and so were the teachers. Seriously, one of them thought I had a learning disability. Oh well. After New Brighton I went to Harbor High School. That place was really a funny story. My junior year American Literature teacher was a complete nut. She barely even taught the subject, she would rather do palm readings and talk about her personal sex life than teach us. I remember one time she got so fed up with the class because we were trying to work on our projects that she actually LEFT the class and went to the office because we were "working ahead of her." We finished the in-class project in ten minutes when it would have taken her forty-five minute to get half way through the "lesson" where she would have talked about her personal life.