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Confederate Army President Lincoln
1,208 wordsThe Civil War was one of momentous proportion. It was disastrous in terms of human life, because more Americans died in this war that any other war in history. This paper is mainly about and around those involved on the battlefield in the final months of the civil war. It will also refer to the leading men behind the Union and Confederate forces. The war was coming to an end by January of 1865. At that time, Federal, Union, armies were spread throughout the Confederacy and the Confederate Army h...
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Trail Of Tears And The Five Civilized Tribes
1,042 wordsTrial of Tears and the Five Civilized Tribes During the early years of 1800 s, valuable gold deposits were discovered in tribal lands, which by previous cessions had been reduced to about seven million acres in northwest Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and southwest North Carolina. In 1819 Georgia appealed to the U. S. government to remove the Cherokee from Georgia lands. When the appeal failed, attempts were made to purchase the territory. Meanwhile, in 1820 the Cherokee established a governmental ...
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Kappa Alpha Lecture Notes
637 wordsOn September 25 of last year, one female student attempted to rush the Alpha Gamma Delta (AGD) sorority at the University of Georgia; she was never invited back. The sorority was an all white sorority and she was black. The sorority was said to have discriminated against this potential member because this student was black. Outraged, that she would not even be considered for membership, the young black woman made the university aware of the situation (Hohman). The allegations were answered with ...
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Second Hand Smoke Smoking In Public
1,831 words"A blockbuster study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) examined the impact of exposure to ETS on the progression of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and concluded, in part, that the arteries of non-smokers exposed to ETS thickened 20 % faster than non-smokers with no second-hand exposure" (JAMA). Another study published in Pediatrics in January estimated that, "about half of the cases of early childhood cases of asthma, chronic br...
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North Carolina Black English
927 wordsEbonics, which stands for Ebony + Phonics is a new term that Linguistics use to describe Black Dialect or Black English or many of the other names that it has been given for more that 350 years... has been in the news recently but it is definitely not a new topic. Ebonics is a "language" that is a combination of "proper English" and a combination of African languages. Because of this combination a pattern was formed on how certain words are said such as this and that, would be pronounced dis and...
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Back To Our Rooms Valleys Of Flowers One
987 wordsWhen I was in the seventh grade, our class went on a field trip to Cherokee, North Carolina. The trip lasted four days and three nights, but the adventure would last a lifetime. The experience allowed me to learn many things about myself and to reflect on the beauty that was all around me. We departed at six-thirty in the morning, and I was so excited. I had never been away on a school trip for longer than a few hours. I tossed my purple duffel bag into the storage compartment, found my seat by ...
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Death Penalty Information Center Cruel And Unusual Punishment
828 wordsCapital Punishment has been one of the most controversial topics in the past decade, and for that I will only be addressing certain aspects of the argument, due to its broadness. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Is having a man shot in the head or hung by a rope until he dies cruel and unusual? Also, why is it that the unknowing American tax payer has to blow there hard earned money on non human like criminals who feel no remorse for what they have done. The answer is elementary, Capital Pu...
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Should Drug Testing Be Allowed In Schools
485 wordsOn June 26, 1995, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in Vernonia School District (Oregon) v. Wayne and Judy Acton that school drug testing was allowed. Since then, many schools have initiated drug-testing programs, and North Carolina is taking it into consideration. If it was the law for drug tests to occur, then this state would be violating the rights of students. We are juveniles, but the rights stated in the Constitution apply to us just as any other citizen. There are two possible roads that Nor...
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Criminal Justice System Life Liberty And Property
1,089 wordsResearch Project Whenever the word 'death penalty' comes up, extremists from both sides of the spectrum begin to wildly express their opinions. One side says deterrence, the other side says there's a potential of executing an innocent man. One says justice, retribution, and punishment, the other side says execution is murder. However, all arguments aside, the best way and the only way to truly make a rational decision about capital punishment is to examine the purpose of our criminal justice sys...
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The Laws Of Invisible Things
883 wordsTHE LAWS OF INVISIBLE THINGS One of the limitations of much modern fiction is the fact that its authors spend so much of their lives sitting alone in a room. Thus fiction fashioned by practitioners of another profession can be refreshing for the information and insights that experience outside a book-lined room provides. Frank Huyler is a medical doctor, and his first novel, The Laws of Invisible Things, benefits enormously from combining familiarity with medicine with a fine writers perceptiven...
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19 Th Century Peoples Party
1,419 wordsFeeding The Wolf John B. Rayner was one of the most prominent leaders of Peoples party in the South during the last decade of 19 th century. His figure is being largely forgotten now and the main reason for this is that, even during his lifetime, he had lost all credibility for easily switching his political ideas, in order to please public. This approach proved to be failure only historical prospective gives us a proper insight on the importance of any politician. According to this approach, Ra...
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Support His Family Houghton Mifflin
955 wordsCharles W. Chesnutt Though born in Cleveland in 1858, the grandson of a white man and the son of free blacks, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina where his family, having left the South originally in 1856, returned after the Civil War. Chesnutt who had little formal education taught himself and also received tutoring from family members. Chesnutt is known as one of the great American novelist and short-story writers of the late 19 th century. Chesnutt lived most of his ch...
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Child Abuse Prevention First Degree Murder
2,480 wordsChild Abuse Laws David A. delpezzso ABSTRACT Child abuse is a social problem that affects millions of children each year. Not only does child abuse have multiple societal repercussions, but also individual repercussions that produce lifelong scars. There are many forms of child abuse; sexual, physical, verbal, and emotional. Some of the facts presented in this paper will be painful to absorb. That does not change the fact that these problems must be addressed. It has been reported that one out o...
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Child Abuse Prevention First Degree Murder
2,456 wordsChild abuse is a social problem that affects millions of children each year. Not only does child abuse have multiple societal repercussions, but also individual repercussions that produce lifelong scars. There are many forms of child abuse; sexual, physical, verbal, and emotional. Some of the facts presented in this paper will be painful to absorb. That does not change the fact that these problems must be addressed. It has been reported that one out of three girls, and one out of seven boys are ...
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Cold Mountain Civil War
1,223 wordsThis novel chronicles the long journey home of a Civil War soldier, Inman, to Cold Mountain in North Carolina. The story begins in a military hospital, and Inman's neck wound, a long difficult-to-heal horizontal slice received in battle, is drawing flies. Inman is a moral man, and the brutality and killing he has witnessed on the battlefield lead him to leave the hospital AWOL and journey secretively, by foot, back to Ada, his love. The trip is perilous; Inman is subject not only to the difficul...
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Metric Tons Rocky Mountains
2,028 wordsGold Gold Antwan Lucas Gold Gold, symbol Au, soft, dense, bright yellow metallic element. Gold is one of the transition elements of the periodic table (see Periodic Law); its atomic number is 79. Pure gold is the most malleable and ductile of all the metals. It can easily be beaten or hammered to a thickness of 0. 000013 cm (0. 000005 in), and 29 g (1. 02 oz) could be drawn into a wire 100 km (62 mi) long. It is one of the softest metals (hardness, 2. 5 to 3) and is a good conductor of heat and ...
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U S Citizens War With Mexico
2,267 wordsJames Polk: Young Hickory and Dark-Horse Polk was born on a farm in Mecklenburg county, N. C. , on Nov. 2, 1795, the oldest of the ten children of Samuel and Jane Knox Polk. The Polk's had moved from Pennsylvania a generation earlier, among the first pioneer settlers in that part of North Carolina. James great-uncle, Thomas Polk, was the most prominent leader in the community. His maternal grandfather, James Knox, was a farmer and a blacksmith who had distinguished himself in the Continental Arm...
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Back To England Women And Children
2,668 wordsThe story of Jamestown was one of Americas first documented mysteries. There are clear facts about this voyage that have been documented. In 1587, John White did make a temporary establishment on or near Roanoke Island, and that after leaving for three years did return to the island in 1590. On his return, all traces of the colonist having lived there for those three years had vanished. No Jamestown colonist is known to be seen from again. So what happened to them during those three years? &# 9;...
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Civil Rights Movement Jesse Jackson
609 wordsThis book is about a virtuous leader, Jesse Jackson. It explains how he grew up in a hard time for blacks and how he was committed to being somebody. When Jesse was a little boy his grandmother urged him saying, ? Jesse, promise me you? ll be somebody. ? The Reverend Jesse Jackson understood the power of hope. Jesse? s childhood was tough for him. His mother and father weren? t married when she had Jesse and the community? s disapproval was felt. Another reason for the tough times in Jesse? s gr...
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University Of North Carolina Nba Finals
1,061 wordsMichael Jordan was born on January 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in Wilmington, North Carolina. He has two brothers, is married, and has three kids. He is considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all time (Kornbluth). My focus will be on his hardships, accomplishments, and people who influenced him. First, I would like to touch on some general information about Michael. He wears number 23 on his jersey because he considered it to be half of his brothers number, ...
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