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George Washington Father Of A Nation
1,591 words
George Washington: Father of a Nation A desolate
wind swept over the American encampment at Valley
Forge. Freezing temperatures and blinding snow
storms accompanied by heartbreaking defeats had
taken their toll on these young freedom fighters.
The cry for freedom could no longer be heard over
hunger pains and the freezing wind. One lone
figure could be seen walking through the camp
trying to re-ignite that fire in his dwindling
troops who were huddled together for warmth. We
can only wonder what...
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Pectoral Fins Lower Jaw
1,728 words
The hump-back whale gets it's name from the
distinctive hump in front of the dorsal fin and
from the way it raises it's back high above water
before diving. They are a member of the order
Cetacea. This order is of aquatic mammals and the
hump-back belongs to the suborder of the
Mysticeti. The Mysticeti are the baleen whales
which have three families and several species. The
family in which the hump-back belongs is the
Balaenopteridae, the true fin backed whale. The
thing that separates this genu...
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Strong Central Government Aaron Burr
1,198 words
The events surrounding the Burr Conspiracy were
among the first tests of the effectiveness of the
United States democracy. Aaron Burr was born in
Newark New Jersey on February 6, 1756, and Burr
was educated at what is now Princeton University.
Burr joined the Continental Army in 1775, and rose
to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Burr was
appointed attorney general of New York in 1789 and
served as a United States senator from 1791 to
1797 (Onager CD-ROM). In the Election of 1800,
Aaron Burr was t...
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World Wide Public Works
798 words
Living only a few miles from the great Atlantic
Ocean, the beach is a place where I have spent
many days of my life. I have watched tremendous
storms with powerful surf and fierce winds eat
away the shoreline. But, to society there is no
cost comparable to beach's pleasures. It seems in
the 1990 s everyone wants that exclusive ocean
view, but few realize the potential costs in
lives, money, and property. And the ultimate cost
of such coastal development, experts say, is the
beach itself. (Warren...
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West Virginia English Language
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Any new coming freshman to West Virginia
University is certain to hear a larger variety of
accents and dialect in the English language than
they have ever before encountered. West Virginia
University has a diverse student body, which
includes students from all fifty states and over
one hundred different nations. West Virginia
University's webpage statistics show that
approximately twenty-nine percent of the students
are non-residents of West Virginia, and five
percent of the students are from ot...
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Enhanced Emissions Test Car And Truck Vehicles
733 words
I Bet that most all of you like classic cars. I
mean, what's not to like. If it's not the rumble
of a big block underfoot, then it's the feel of
the wind in your hair when you drive your restored
1971 Plymouth Cuda Convertible. It's manly, it's
American, it's just plain cool to be seen in any
of the muscle car era vehicles. Everyone has had
an older car. If you " re not driving it because
it's cool, then you " re driving it because it's
the only thing you can afford. No matter why you "
re drivi...
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Laurie Lanzen Harris Jersey Prentice Hall
1,087 words
... with inconsistent views on the limits of
involvement by a government. Later, he contradicts
his principles by suggesting not at once no
government, but at once a better government.
(Thoreau 1705). Thoreau contends that men have
lost the free will to make individual decisions
regarding war, slavery, and domestic issues
because government imposes on its citizens only in
its own self interests. (Thoreau 1706). He states
government loses its integrity when willing to
consider profit over the int...
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Boys And Girls Sexual Intercourse
1,262 words
Teenagers in the United States are experimenting
with sexual activities more and more today than
ever before, and the sad thing about this issue is
that it is becoming common-place in our society,
because it is not being frowned upon as it were
just a couple of years ago. It is now a known fact
that majority of high school aged boys and girls
would have engaged in some sort of sexual activity
by the time they graduate high school. 50 % of
girls and women aged 15 to 19 told the National
Center fo...
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Infected With Hiv Living With Hiv
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HIV and AIDS are one of the leading causes of
death among 24 to 45 year olds and yet so many
Americans seem to know nothing about it. So many
people in the world believe HIV and AIDS are the
same thing, but they are sadly mistaken. HIV is a
virus. The letters stand for Human Immunodefiency
Virus. HIV is a virus that attacks your immune
system. What it attacks are important
immune-system cells called T-cells. HIV is a
retrovirus, which means it is slow moving. By
attacking and killing the immune ...
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Upstate New York Millions Of Dollars
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... s responsible for the thefts, he declared war
on Diamond's gang. The gang war claimed several
casualties from both sides. Because he lived
through numerous attempts on his life, Diamond
became known as the "clay pigeon of the
underworld. " For a while it looked like he was
impossible to kill. But on December 19, 1931,
Diamond was killed when two Schultz gunmen tracked
him to upstate New York, burst into his hotel
room, and repeatedly shot him. Schultz later told
reporters that the dead gangs...
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Puerto Ricans Mexican Americans
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Hispanic American Diversity Hispanic Americans are
a large ethnic group that can be divided into four
big sub-groups: Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans,
Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. The
representatives of these groups can be known as
Latinos, and have Spanish roots. First people of
Hispanic background have appeared in the United
States since 17 th century. It is the
fastest-growing minority group in the United
States. Though the representatives of four groups
belong to the same Hispa...
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Number Of People Census Bureau
1,200 words
The Census, it is not just scientific but always
political because it always has an outcome and
part of the outcome is how districts are set to go
to congress and also how Federal funds are divided
up to go to programs in states and counties. So
the stake in a census is never just a matter of
shall we fairly count all the heads. Its always
about people who have the power using the power to
maintain a privilege that they may have or those
that dont have that privilege nor the power
attempting to ...
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Jersey Prentice Hall York Random House
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DRY SEPTEMBER William Faulkner claimed he was
trying to fit the whole world between the capital
letter at the beginning and the period at the end
of a sentence, and that s why his sentences tended
to be so long. In the very first sentence of his
short story Dry September, he manages to establish
the beginning of a world, its dark mood, and point
the reader in the direction of the story s theme.
Through the bloody September twilight, aftermath
of 62 rainless days, it had gone like a fire in
dry g...
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Police Invasion Higher One
411 words
Economy, Jobs, and You 1. If the government were
to tax alcohol on volume alone we would see a rise
in consumption of higher grained alchohol. People
would be able to buy a less amount and reach the
same effect due to a higher concentrate of ethyl
alcohol. The governments current system helps
reduce drunkenness a bit because it puts a greater
price tag on alcohol that is higher in potency. 2.
I would believe that the quality of liquor in a
speakeasy that was less prone to police invasion
would b...
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Walt Whitman Allen Ginsberg
660 words
Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark,
New Jersey on June 3, 1926. His father, Louis
Ginsberg, was a published poet and a high school
teacher. His mother, Naomi, was a radical
Communist, paranoid, psychotic, and died in a
mental institution in 1956. Ginsberg also had a
brother who became a lawyer in Paterson, New
Jersey. Ginsberg s childhood was very complicated.
Ginsberg s mother only trusted him and thought
that the rest of the family and the world was
plotting against her. Ginsberg...
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Violence Against Women Works Cited
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Silenced by their culture large populations of
women in India tolerate abuse and subsequent death
because they have provided insufficient dowry. In
a culture that is male dominated women are raised
to be servants to their husbands often arranged to
marry a man that they have never met. Women that
are beaten or just unhappy must suppress their
feelings to keep their husbands blissful or face
shame and be turned away by their own families.
Indian womens household must pay a dowry for the
privilege...
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Pulitzer Prize John Updike
925 words
John Hoyer Updike was born March 18, 1932 to Linda
Grace Updike and Wesley Russell Updike in Reading,
Pennsylvania. Wesley Updike was originally from
New Jersey where he worked as a telephone splicer
and was laid off from his job during the
depression. Wesley Updike met his wife Linda
Updike in New Jersey. After Wesley Updike was laid
off in New Jersey they moved to Shillington,
Pennsylvania where Linda Updike was from. Wesley
Updike became a teacher at the local High School.
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State Of The Art John Cage
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Nam June Paik was born in Seoul, Korea on July 20,
1932. He was the fifth and youngest child of a
textile merchant. In 1947, at the age of 14, he
studied piano and composition with two of Koreas
foremost composers. The family moved to Tokyo,
Japan in 1950 to avoid the havoc of the Korean
War. Paik studied music, history, art history, and
philosophy at the University of Tokyo from 1953 to
1956. He did his graduate dissertation on
Schoenberg. In 1956, he moved to Germany to pursue
his interest in ...
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Foul Language Author
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Portnoy? s Complaint was Philip Roth? s third
novel. It was a story about a young man? s search
for freedom using forbidden sex as his way of
escape. This book was found by many readers to be
offensive and pornographic because of its
protagonist? s use of obscene language and sex
scenes. The story records the intimate confessions
of Alexander Portnoy to his psychiatrist. Portnoy
goes through his adolescent obsession with
masturbation and his relationship with his over
possessive mother, Sophie. ...
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States Is Not A Healthy Race As A Factor Officers
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The United States is not a healthy democracy The
United States is not a healthy democracy. A basic
requirement for any healthy democracy is its
founding on the basic principle that all men are
created equal. This means that man is judged on
the fact that he is man, and only that. There are
no other means or factors brought into account.
This is not the way men are judged in the United
States. In the United States, ethnic and racial
generalizations often influence judicial
execution. The attorney...
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