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Joint Venture Graph Shows
625 words
phone rings. Your pager vibrates off the bed
stand. Your PowerPC boots up for the day. Your
boss calls you on your cell phone claiming that
youre late. The supercomputers that operate the
streetlights in your neighborhood continue to keep
your streets safe. If not for Motorola, none of
these everyday occurrences would be possible.
Motorola, Inc. is headquartered in Schaumburg,
Illinois with other offices throughout Illinois
and the US, plus offices in China, Japan and
throughout Europe. Motorola...
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Dred Scott Decision Constitution Of The United States
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Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Convention. If
we could first know where we are, and whither we
are tending, we could then better judge what to
do, and how to do it. We are now far into the
fifth year since a policy was initiated, with the
avowed object, and confident promise, of putting
an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation
of that policy, that agitation has not only, not
ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my
opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall
have been reache...
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Indian Tribes La Belle
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... xp loring the hinterland of the Lavaca River,
still hoping that it was really an outlet of the
Mississippi. Finally, conceding that he had
settled on the wrong river, he decided to try to
find the Mississippi by hiking east along the
coast, with the help of the ship La Belle sailing
offshore. La Salle selected twenty soldiers to
accompany him. On October 31, 1685, the group set
off with their weapons, provisions, and Indian
trade goods slung from their backs. Other
soldiers, commanded by the...
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Jane Addams Hull House
1,362 words
Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on
September 6, 1860, and the eighth of nine
children. Her father, John Addams, was a
prosperous miller and local political leader who
served for sixteen years as a state senator and
fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was a
friend of Abraham Jane's mother dies when she was
only two. Her father remarried and her new
stepmother brought along two new stepbrothers to
add to the already large family. With the fact of
Jane's mother passing away she w...
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Black And White Alfred Stieglitz
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Alfred Stieglitz, was born in January 1 st, 1864,
in Hoboken, New Jersey, and died in July 13 th,
1946, in New York City. In 1902 Stieglitz founded
the Photo-Secession Group, as a protest against
the conventional photography of the time. He took
pictures in a time when photography was considered
a only scientific curiosity and not art. The
controversy over the art value of photography
became widespread. Stieglitz began to fight for
the recognition of his chosen medium. Alfred
Stieglitz, one of t...
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Federal Income Tax Sales Tax
850 words
In the United States, the history of taxes goes
far back in time. During the Civil War, there was
a tax on income for a short period of time. In the
1890 s, the tax was ruled unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court. In 1913, the 16 th Amendment was
passed which gave the United States the power to
tax personal income. Congress imposed taxes to
help raise money to fight wars. Before, the
government relied on excise taxes on liquor and
tobacco for its revenue. These taxes benefited
American manufactu...
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Censorship And The Catcher In Rye
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Katie Johnson sent me the exact info about the
censorship of "The Catcher in the Rye." She found
it in "Banned Books: Suppressed on Social Grounds"
by Dawn B. So. vol. 2. New York: Facts on File, c.
1998. 'The novel has long ignited disapproval, and
it was the most frequently banned book in schools
between 1966 and 1975. Even before that time,
however, the work was a favorite target of
sensors. In 1957, Australian Customs seized a
shipment of the novels that had been presented as
a gift to the g...
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Large Amounts Great Lakes
407 words
This report is about the lifestyle of my own life,
which would seem like an easy one but everyone
today is so different so I had to dig a little
deeper into the roots of the Midwest. The
Midwestern states include Ohio, the Dakotas,
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana,
Illinois, and Nebraska. South of these states is
the great Mississippi River and to the north is
the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes were formed by
the glacial ice cap that moved down over large
parts of North America so...
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Abraham Lincoln Civil War
681 words
Fun Fact: During the Civil War, telegraph wires
were strung to follow the action on the
battlefield. But there was no telegraph office in
the White House, so Lincoln went across the street
to the War Department to get the news. Fast Fact:
Abhorring war, Abraham Lincoln accepted it as the
only means to save the Union. Biography: Abraham
Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address:
"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen,
and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil
war. The go...
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University Of Chicago Chinese History
468 words
Herrlee GlessnerKate Chopin China Herrlee Glessner
Creel wrote The Birth of China. The book was
published in 1937 at Frederick Longer Publishing
in New York City. Creel was born in Chicago,
Illinois on January 15 1905. Both Creels mother
and father were writers. Creel attended the
University of Oklahoma, Creighton University, and
finally the University of Chicago where he
received his Ph. D. in 1929. In 1922 he worked as
a newspaper reporter and later became a Sinologist
discovering oracle bones...
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Emily Dickinson Life After Death
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With the thought of death, many people become
terrified as if it were some creature lurking
behind a door ready to capture them at any moment.
Unlike many, Emily Dickinson was infatuated with
death and sought after it only to try and help
answer the many questions which she pondered so
often. Her poetry best illustrates the answers as
to why she wrote about it constantly. She explains
her reason for writing poetry, ? I had a terror I
could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does
by the Buryi...
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Long Run Three Articles
783 words
Critical Review Ecstasy makes an interesting topic
for public discourse due to its increasing
popularity and questionable side effects. The
public as consumers of the media must decide if
any information given about this topic is accurate
and reliable. In this paper three articles will be
analyzed. The first one, ? Bill to Increase
Penalties on the Drug Ecstasy? by AnneMarie
Tavella, deals with the legal aspects of the drug
and argues that a bill should be passed to change
possession of 15 grams...
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Jane Addams Ch 1
435 words
9; Even Jane Adams 9; 9; 9; Jane
Addams 9; Even as a little girl in the serene
community of Cedarville, in northern Illinois,
Jane Addams was busy with the old question
eternally suggested by the inequalities of the
human lot. (Pg. 47 Ch. 1) There were not many
inequalities in Cedarville, but even there were
poverty and frustration: the war widows, the
desolate old couple who had lost all five of their
sons, the farmers who were victims of the postwar
depression, and the newcomers...
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Illinois At Urbana Champaign Illinois At Urbana Nuclear
519 words
Personal Statement: Interests, Experiences, and
Goals in Nuclear Engineering Money and fame do not
motivate my goals. Engineering in all forms is a
field of innovation and invention. Aspirations of
any great engineer should be to introduce to the
world a new idea, product, or service that will
make people happier and the environment safer.
Success in these challenges is a reward greater
than any dollar amount or public recognition.
Engineers bring societies to new levels of
civilization through ...
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Museum Of Modern Art Quot Quot
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Mark Doty Urbane, ironic, sometimes genuinely
celebratory and often wildly funny, OHara would
allow a realm of material and associations alien
to academic verse to pour into his poems: the camp
icons of movie stars of the twenties and thirties,
the daily landscape of social activity in
Manhattan, jazz music, telephone calls from
friends; anything seemed ready material for
inclusion into the particular order that the
moment of composition would call for. Dadaist even
in his approach to his own wo...
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Gun Control Laws 2 Nd Amendment
532 words
People against gun control often argue cars kill
more people than guns. But ask yourself, can a gun
get you to work quickly? Or does a gun have room
to take a 4 member family to Florida? No, it is
obvious that guns have one purpose. To kill. Al
Gore agrees. Weve got an epidemic of violent crime
and a lot of members of the NRA have told me,
these assault weapons were not made for hunting
deer or squirrels or for homeowners. They shouldnt
be in the hands of our children on the streets of
our citie...
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Gwendolyn Brooks First Chicago
212 words
Biography Criticism Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn
Brooks was born to Keith Corine Wims and David
Anderson Brooks on June 17, 1917 in Topeka,
Kansas. Her family moved to their permanent
residence on Champlin Avenue in Chicago when
Brooks was four. Shortly after their move (at the
age of seven), Brooks began rhyming and by the
young age of thirteen she had her first poem
published. She became a weekly contributor to the
Chicago Defender and attended Wilson Junior
College from which she graduated in 1...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar Library Of Congress
842 words
" Sympathy" On " Sympathy"
Jean Wagner " Sympathy" is a heartfelt
cry of a poet who finds himself imprisoned amid
traditions and prejudices he feels powerless to
destroy from Black Poets of the United States,
from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973.
Copyright? 1973 by the Board of Trustees of the
University of Illinois. Peter Revell A poem like
" Sympathy" with its repeated line,
" I know what the caged...
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Modern American Poetry Poetry Quot
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We Syllabi We invite people to submit course
syllabi based on Anthology of Modern American
Poetry disk to Cary Nelson or by e-mail (to) for
us to place on line. We are especially interested
in courses that use both Anthology of Modern
American Poetry and the web site. Courses may
range from broad surveys to concentrated
treatments of specific modern American poetry
topics. They may focus on all or part of the
century. Since each course will have its own link,
you may include not only a syllabus ...
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Hiv Infected Women American Medical Association
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Prevention of HIV Transmittance to Babies Last
year, it was cause for celebration. The cause of
celebration was for the results that several
clinical trials of zidovudine cut the risk for
mother to child transmission of human immune
deficiency virus (HIV) by two thirds. Although,
this year, it is the basis for new federal
recommendations that all pregnant women should
receive HIV testing and counseling. But, these
findings have been cause of protests by several
activist groups. Activists fear th...
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