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Christian Temperance Union Alcoholic Beverages
1,157 wordsIn Illinois during the year 1900, temperance and prohibition were prominent issues on the social and political stage. The temperance movement found most of its adherents in middle-class women. Urban women saw the linkages between poverty and alcoholism, while many rural women were aware of how the isolation of farm life amplified the horrors of alcohol abuse. The temperance movement was directly related to the women's suffrage movement going on across the country. The temperance movement enabled...
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Jeffrey Dahmer Los Angeles
1,378 wordscircumstance across the country may not affect you personally, but it can affect your thoughts or views on a particular subject. No year is flawless, happy times and tragedies create a roller coaster in which the world has no choice but to ride out the twists and turns. But 1991 seemed to be a "plague" year, where the bad seemed to far outweigh the good in every possible way. The entire world was affected by tragedy but the United States seemed to be hit the hardest of all by mishaps. During the...
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Uncle Tom Cabin William Lloyd Garrison
1,790 wordsSlavery in America can be traced as far back as when Europeans began settling the North American continent. The first town established in the New World was Jamestown in 1607, and the first slave arrived on the continent in 1619. European pioneers that colonized North America brought slaves with them to help settle the new land, work their plantations growing valuable cash crops such as tobacco and sugar, and to cook and clean in their homes. Most people didnt see slavery as a problem at this tim...
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Merriam Websters Collegiate Websters Collegiate Dictionary
1,516 wordsMerriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary defines piracy as, an act of robbery on the high seas or an act resembling such robbery (885). From this we can define software piracy as an act of robbery on the information superhighway. Many people do not see it as such. Even though the average person would never consider going into a convenience store and stealing a stick of gum, many have no qualms about stealing thousands of dollars worth of software. In a study done by the Canadian Alliance Against S...
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Television Stations News Corp
1,025 wordsThe weekly periodical TV Guide needs to both create and market two new products, TV Guide On Screen, and TV Guide Online. These two new forms of the periodical should be worked on and made available to the consumer as soon as possible, as there are several companies working to undermine TV Guides dominance in the industry and are threatening to beat them to the new and informative mediums. Perhaps the most logical way to have the new products gain recognition is to heavily advertise through vari...
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2,128 wordsSabbath Chapter I Introduction In the manner of history, Seventh-day Adventists have argued that the perpetuity and the meaning of the Biblical Sabbath should be considered not only significant from the standpoint of theology, but also in the capacity of potentially eschatological encouraging presage of the loyalty to the Creator God in the future, as they were taught that the second coming of Jesus Christ will be definitely preceded by the global crisis with the Sabbath as a central and importa...
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The Influence Of Discourse On Artwork Cindy Bernard
2,344 wordsThe Influence of Discourse on the Artwork of Cindy Bernard Over nearly two decades, Cindy Bernard's artwork has progressed and she has become one of the truly accomplished contemporary artists of today. Writings and discourses of her work have appeared in LA Weekly, Flash Art, The Serpentine Gallery, and the New Times. For Cindy Bernard, the discourse of her work has not created or transformed her art, but rather, her art has transformed and created the discourse. Cindy Bernard was born and rais...
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1,409 wordstraining & development. Memorandum To: CEO of Xenon Corporation From: [put your name here] & Sons Consulting Subject: Training programs at Xenon Importance: High Date: Feb. 20 th, 2004 It is very smart for the Xenon Company to start thinking about the human resource development programs before the actual need for the given programs appears. First of all one should understand that the budget of $ 1500 /year per employee results in only some $ 28. 85 per week per employee. Therefore, here we shoul...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Roger Maris
3,191 wordsStatement of the Problem In the passed few years there has been an increase in the popularity of performance-enhancing supplements that are used by athletes. Some of the most popular of these supplements are creatine and androstenedione. They are used by some very famous athletes in professional sports. There are many problems that go along with using these supplements that are not only health-wise, but also the message that is being sent to children involved in youth athletics. Athletes today a...
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Film Industry York Times
2,122 wordsOver the past decade the independent film industry has grown and is now considered a staple in the film industry as a whole. Many filmmakers find more artistic freedom in this side of the industry. They are not bound by a studio s politically correct and profit driven decisions, although recently production companies have been heading in that direction. By raising the money for the picture on their own the filmmakers give themselves artistic control over the film and have to answer to no one. Th...
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Quot Quot Communist Manifesto
2,314 wordsEurope began the nineteenth century dominated by the romanticists. The realists changed the face of Europe once more by the middle of the nineteenth century. The importance of science and the industrialization of Europe characterized their movement. Where the romanticists believed in feelings, intuition, and imagination, the realists believed in a movement known as positivism, which applied the scientific method to the study of society. The authors of this period also changed their style of writ...
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Twentieth Century Interpretations Jersey Prentice Hall
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Pope John Paul Hate Crimes
2,351 wordsUCLA Asian Pacific Coalition Mai Pham Another Senseless Hate Crime March 5, 1997 Another Senseless Hate Crime Tragedy befell the Vietnamese community on Jan 29, 1996, when Thien Minh Ly, a 24 -year old Vietnamese man and former graduate of UCLA, was murdered while rollerblading in his Tustin hometown high school tennis court. Ly was found lying in a pool of blood the following morning by a janitor, maimed by an excessive number of stabbing wounds to various parts of his body, as well as slashing...
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Freedom Of Speech Benjamin Franklin
1,832 wordsHistory of Journalism When you wake up in a bustling city like Toronto or a small rural town like Sarnia, what do you do? You probably pick up the latest copy of the Toronto Star, Globe &# 038; Mail or Toronto Sun from your doorsteps or closest newsstand. What do you listen to on the radio on the way to work? You listen to the news. What do you watch at 11: 00 oclock at night? You watch the news. News is everywhere. Some people even call it JOURNALISM! From the days of EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABO...
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Writing Skills Indian Land
1,295 wordsIndex of /members / papers /Psychology Indian land rights Tribal Affiliations Index of /members / papers /Psychology Indian land rights Tribal Affiliations The injustices that happened long ago are still not fixed and need to be, because they are visible everyday through the hardships these people face. Introduction Ever since Europeans discovered America Native Americans began losing their land progress Information Rules Information Rules I. Chapter 1 In this book Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian...
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Electric Chair Death Row
1,038 wordsIs the electric chair a cruel and inhumane way to punish criminals for the crimes they have committed in the past? This is the huge controversy that has been stirring up in Florida news lately. The electric chair has proven to have malfunctions and is not killing people instantly. The criminals have been feeling pain from the evidence that has been found. Recently the electric chair has been reconstructed. The original electric chair was made out of oak wood in 1923. The new electric chair is al...
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Fossil Fuels Population Growth
1,963 wordsTwo hundred Malthus MALTHUS Two hundred years ago, Thomas Robert Malthus, a British economist, wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population in which he argued that the world population would increase faster than the food supply, with disastrous results for the general human welfare. A world population of 250 million at the time of Christ has now grown to 5. 7 billion in spite of wars, plagues, famine, and epidemics. World food production has been keeping pace with population growth until recent...
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University Of Toronto Margaret Atwood
999 wordsCanada has had It s fair share of great author s like Farley Mowat, Steven King, Stanley Burke, and many more. But one Author that stands out from the rest is a woman who is not afraid to speak her mind. A feminist by the name of Margaret Atwood who has written poems, novels, short stories, children s books, and television scripts. Atwood was also the president of the writer s Union of Canada. Most would say that Atwood is the greatest Canadian writer of all time. Margaret Atwood was born in Ott...
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Christian Science Monitor Film Industry
1,357 wordsAlfredo Room Prof. Lawton English 102 25 Apr. 2000 Minorities and the Film Industry Its September, the kids are back in school, and its time for another new season of television. Another round of must see Felicity, Friends, and Frasier, with a side of ER and some Nash Bridges for dessert. Loads and loads of Caucasian males and females making us laugh, and cry. What you do not see are Black, Hispanic, or other minorities making us laugh, and cry. In this day and age, where everyone gets a fair sh...
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Congressional Quarterly Weekly Unit Cohesion
2,338 wordsWest 1 In this report, I will present the information Ive discovered concerning whether allowing women to serve in combat units will reduce a units effectiveness. Women in todays military serve in more jobs and constitute the largest percent of women in the military then ever before. Four years ago women only made up 12 percent of the military, this has climbed from 1. 6 percent in 1973 (Armed Forces and Society, 1996, p. 17). They also hold more jobs than ever before. In 1991, congress passed a...
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