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Ny Times Federal Troops
1,401 wordsOn July 16 th several firemen and brakemen on The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad refused to work the trains and caused a massive buildup of train traffic in Camden Junction just outside of Baltimore. The strikers gave their reason for striking; a 10 percent wage cut taking affect that day. (NY Times) The strikers overtook trains and there was even a report of a beating taking place of a fireman who continued to work. The company had been prepared for a strike and a force of 40 police officers was s...
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Coal Miners Arnold Palmer
1,187 wordsImagine being woken up in the early morning and having your life be changed by a single horrific even. This situation was like no other coal disaster. This was the result of the irresponsibility of big business not caring for the well being of regular citizens. This case was a first in that the coal miners were not the victims, but their families were. The coal miners were not going to sit around and let this go by, they are ready to fight back. On an early February morning in 1972, one of the c...
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Million Dollars Mining Company
1,180 words... der taking. Sterns next problem that he was going to be faced with was, other lawyers being mad that he was representing clients from out-of-state. It wasnt until Stern talked to someone from the West Virginia Bar Ethics Committee, his problems were solved. The person explained to him that there was no problem with him doing this. The only way that it would be a problem if any type of soliciting of business were occurring. The next step was for Stern to get the true stories from witnesses of...
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West Virginia English Language
1,088 wordsAny 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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Coalwood Homer Hickam Jr
1,769 wordsHomer Hickam, Jr. had a dream too big for his small coal mining town of West Virginia, however, with the collective will of he and close friends, he fulfilled his dream. Coalwood is located in the southern most tip of West Virginia in McDowell County. It was a coal mining town founded by George Lafayette Carter in the early 1900 s. Carter built the model town of his time, if a man was willing to come to Coalwood and offer his complete and utter loyalty to the coal company, he would receive in re...
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733 wordsOctober Sky was written by Homer Hickam. Describes Homer growing up in the small mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. He became fascinated with rockets and began the BCMA (Big Creek Missile Agency), to make rockets and discover what made them fly. Written as an autobiography about his life. The story takes place in a small coal mining town in West Virginia from 1957 on. The main form of conflicts in October Sky are man vs. man. Homer Hickam wants to fallow his dreams and be successful in his ...
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Plants And Animals Time Of Year
613 wordsThere is a place that is very special to me. A place where life is created and ended as time stands still. This is a place where someone can relax and can also have fun here. One might wonder how such a magical place could exist. This place is not my room, or on some over populated beach, my special place would have to be in the forest. Forests are a great place to ride dirt bikes, they are full of spectacular beauty, and forests are peacefully secluded away from the world. As one can see, fores...
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African American Women People On Welfare
985 wordsIn the article, So How Did I Get Here? : Growing Up on Welfare, Rosemary L. Bray raises some important issues dealing with the welfare system and peoples beliefs. Brays family had to turn to welfare after her father was gambling most of his paycheck at the races in the year of 1960. At that year Bray states that the poverty threshold for a family of five in the United States was $ 3, 560 and the monthly payment to a family of five from the State of Illinois wasa total of $ 2, 190. 72 a year. Bra...
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Peace Of Mind Court Of Justice
1,202 wordsPrivacy issues have taken centre stage in Canada in recent weeks with the public's attention focused on the major privacy breach at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. As of February 4, 2005, CIBC is now facing a $ 9 million class action lawsuit from customers whose confidential RRSP and other personal and financial information was made public. A Toronto law firm has filed the suit in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, after revelations that CIBC had been faxing thousands of their client...
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Freedom Of Speech Pentagon Papers
1,524 wordsSpeaking Freely Chapter 1 In this chapter Floyd Abrams discusses the Pentagon Papers Case that starts a series of trial narratives. In 1971 Nixon administration tried The York Times Co. (New York Times Co. v. United States case). The New York Times Co. was represented by the legal scholar Alexander Bickel and Floyd Abrams. Floyd Abrams recalls the events of that case when Attorney General John N. Mitchell used Section 793 of the Espionage Act to sue the newspapers for publication of stories rela...
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West Virginia Congress Passed
2,142 wordsBluefield Bluefield, Wv BLUEFIELD, W. V. Bluefield is located in southern West Virginia along the foothills of one of the most beautiful mountain valley settings to be found anywhere. The city stands at 2, 612 feet above sea level in the East River Mountain, making it West Virginias loftiest incorporated community. (Greater Bluefield Area Community Profile) With the average temperature in January at 35 o F and July at only 71 o F, Bluefield is nicknamed Natures Air Conditioned City. In fact, a t...
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Coal Miners Million Dollars
2,387 wordsImagine being woken up in the early morning and having your life be changed by a single horrific even. This situation was like no other coal disaster. This was the result of the irresponsibility of big business not caring for the well being of regular citizens. This case was a first in that the coal miners were not the victims, but their families were. The coal miners were not going to sit around and let this go by, they are ready to fight back. On an early February morning in 1972, one of the c...
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University Of California Helter Skelter
2,149 wordsAir section of southern California. On Saturday, August ninth, nineteen sixty-nine, all hell broke loose with more than six dozen plunges of a carving fork and knife, and the peaceful dell was shattered. Out of the chaos caused by the senseless, horrific murderers, Charles Manson emerged as one of the most feared notorious criminals of all time. In the twenty-nine years since the so-called Tate-La Bianca murders, many people have speculated about what caused Charles Manson to become the monster ...
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Y 2 K 2 K Problem
5,297 wordsWelcome to the year 1999. I graduated from high school from a Midwestern city in Iowa. While I was still in high School many of my classmates and I did not believe that we would ever live to see the year 2000. It seemed so far away in those days. I would be 32 in the year 2000. My days were filled with, trying to get the most out of my life. Along with my friends we felt that nuclear war would happen with the USSR. Our city was in between two points on the map which they labeled as the top 10 pl...
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Day To Day Gay And Lesbian
1,881 wordsDiscrimination is the Voice of Ignorance Marriage is one of the fundamental establishments of the United States. As a young person, one looks forward to many goals in their lifetime: career success, a good life, and very often marriage to the person they love and a family together. This is one of the biggest parts of our American life and culture. Very few heterosexuals would be willing to put their right to marry on a ballot for voter approval, or even in their wildest dreams [nightmares? ] hav...
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Diesel Fuel Oil Spill
1,486 wordsJames M. CrunkletonWeek Six: Ashland Oil Inc. Case Study Excellent Press Release. Good ethical analysis, but pretty light on legal analysis. Watch sentence construction, review assignments before submittal. 25 points. Ashland Oil Case Study On Saturday, January 2, 1988 at 5: 02 pm. a four million gallon storage tank at the Florence terminal outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, collapsed while being filled, releasing a 3. 9 million gallon wave of diesel fuel. As the fuel gushed, it slammed into a...
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Informative Entertainment Speech Talking About Drinking Decided
1,106 wordsInformative/Entertainment Speech The Hazards Of Drinking Informative/Entertainment Speech The Hazards Of Drinking And Walking BEER! Oh my god, I love beer. I could drink it all day and all night. Beer, wine, vodka, rum, whiskey, anything with an alcohol content I could guzzle in an instant. But that does get dangerous, and Im not talking about drinking and driving. Im talking about drinking and walking. Take, for example, the man in West Virginia, who was at a party drinking, and managed to blow...
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Muriel Rukeyser Quot Quot
1,236 wordsRobert Shulman In " West Virginia" Rukeyser takes the river and locale back to their colonial sources. This abrupt imaginative leap begins to fill in the history she started with John Marshall. At the start " they saw rivers flow west and hoped again. " At first we do not know who " they" are but we soon understand that this hope for the sea is disappointed. The powerful rivers flowing west are nonetheless connected with the vital promise of America, an organizing m...
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Lend Lease Act World War Ii
1,929 wordsThe tragic events that took place on December 7, 1941, is a story that is in American History books everywhere. It is the date of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese just before America entered World War II. In this paper, I will describe the events that eventually lead to Pearl Harbor, the attack itself, and the outcome of the attack. Before the attack, American Officials were becoming concerned about the rising power in the Far East. Because of this, the United States invited G...
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