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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B Anthony
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2,224 wordsThomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, was one of the most brilliant men in history. His interests were boundless, and his accomplishments were great and varied. He was a philosopher, educator, naturalist, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, pioneer in scientific farming, musician, and writer, and was the foremost spokesmen for democracy in his day. He was born at Shadwell in Goochland County, Virginia on April 13, 1743, to Jane Randolph and Peter Jefferson. Jefferson Gr...
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Profiles In Courage Strong Morals
698 wordsJFK: A Hero For All Americans John Fitzgerald Francis Kennedy was a sparkling president with alot of wonderful traits. He was committed to working towards his goals, was a strong leader, and was incite ful, and educated. John Kennedy was also a role model with strong moral values. Although he was young, he left a dynamic impact on America, and will be remembered as a great hero. One quality that John Kennedy possessed was his vigorous, hardworking determination. He wanted to help the citizens of...
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2,816 wordsUlysses S. Grant rose to command all the Federal armies in the Civil War and lead them to victory. He was respected so much that he went on to be president of the United States for two terms. His time of glory didnt last forever though, he developed cancer and died bankrupt. Ulysses Hiram Grant was born April 27, 1822, in a two room frame house at Point Pleasant, Ohio (Ulysses S. Grant 1). His father, Jesse Root Grant, was foreman in a tannery and a farmer. His mother, Hannah Simpson Grant, was ...
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National Drug Control Marijuana As Medicine
895 wordsLogical Reasoning For The Legalization Marijuana Essay, Logical Reasoning For The Legalization Marijuana 1 Last year there were more than 695, 201 marijuana arrests in the United States. Of those arrests 87. 2 % were for possession not for sale or manufacture of marijuana. There have been over 11 million marijuana arrests in the United States since 1965. 12. 7 % of today? s overcrowded federal prison population is made up of people incarcerated for marijuana offenses, with an average sentence of...
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538 wordsLucretia Rudolph Garfield 1832 - 1918 In the fond eyes of her husband, President James A. Garfield, Lucretia " grows up to every new emergency with fine tact and faultless taste. " She proved this in the eyes of the nation, though she was always a reserved, self-contained woman. She flatly refused to pose for a campaign photograph, and much preferred a literary circle or informal party to a state reception. Her love of learning she acquired from her father, Zeb Rudolph, a leading citiz...
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Political Leaders Pay Attention
2,039 wordsAmericans have never been truly fond of their press. Through the last decade, however, their disdain for the media establishment has reached new levels. Americans believe that the media have become too arrogant, cynical, scandal-minded, and destructive. Public hostility shows up in opinion polls, through comments on talk shows, in waning support for news organizations in their showdowns with government officials, and in many other ways. The most important sign of public unhappiness may be a quie...
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2,033 wordsJust Jackie: Her Private Years Edward Klein: author Like many other Americans, my fascination with Camelot and with the Kennedy family has been apparent since I first heard of the legacy. One of the most breathtaking and admiral women to grace the earth in the last century has been Jacqueline Lee Bouvier whom married the most famous of all the Kennedy? s, Jack. When Jack was inaugurated president in 1961 the White House and nation was brought a beautiful young wife and the first young children o...
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Iran Contra Affair National Security Council
1,188 wordsIn October and November 1986, two secret illegal U. S. Government operations were publicly exposed. In addition to naming other people as illegal operatives, the scapegoat of it all was Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North. Only months before he was being herald in the New York Times as President Reagan's Man of Action, and now North was being handed the blame of all guilty of illegally negotiating deals with Iran and Nicaragua. As the Iran-Contra Scandal was led into the national spotlight, so wa...
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Lot Of Money Monica Lewinsky
654 wordsTHE BIG QUESTION by: Martin Rate Bill Clinton is the President of the United States. He is very famous and not just due to the fact that he is president. Bill Clinton has been in the news as all presidents before him have and has been publicized greatly. Yet there is another reason that President Clinton is famous, not just due to his job as president. A much different reason but still related to him being a politician. Not too long ago our current president, Bill Clinton, was the governor of Ar...
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American Red Cross Women And Minorities
1,571 wordsTHE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF MRS. ELIZABETH DOLE As President of the American Red Cross, Elizabeth Dole has led an extraordinary public service career in which she has served six United States Presidents and has been named by the Gallup Poll as one of the world s ten most admired women. Born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina, Elizabeth Dole was apparently always diligent. She obtained excellent grades and won the prize in an essay writing competition offered annually by the Daughters of th...
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West Bank And Gaza Causes Of The War
2,449 wordsOur views of world conflicts such as war are influenced by the part of the world in which we live. When exploring media coverage of discord, it is important to think about where the author is from and how it has influenced the way he / she has portrayed disharmony. Reports on a world conflict can express extremely different views depending on the social values and understandings of the writers. One must read articles that address the issue of war with cultural relativism by taking into account t...
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D Tente Soviet Union
2,066 wordsThe breakdown of the 1970 s d tente can be attributed to many different issues and events. In researching these events the varying opinions from both superpowers would establish the failure of d tente in history, as a breakdown in communication and talks between the White House and the Kremlin with the collapse of d tente marking the end of the 1970 s. During the 1976 presidential campaign, the tension between the objective of transformation and the importance of coexistence became crucial. Cons...
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Makes The Story Red October
1,803 wordsMarko Red October 2) Outline: Marko Ramius is the captain of the Russian super-submarine Red October. The Red October is a modified submarine of the Typhoon-class and is nuclear powered. The October can carry twenty-six nuclear missiles, enough firepower to blow up the city of Washington for about twenty times. To test this very expensive submarine (billions of dollars! ), the Russian navy has to find the Red October in the Atlantic Ocean. Because the Red October has a new propulsion-system that...
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Younger Voters Ross Perot
1,452 wordsFor the past 25 years it has been wondered why the young people of America have shared the same apathetic attitude towards politics as the older generation of Americans. Indeed, the issues concerning young voters are just as important as those concerning older voters. Why the newest voters choose to abstain their right has long been studied. While it has been proven that the vote of young people can make or a break an election, most candidates are reluctant to relate themselves to young people. ...
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Bluest Eye Red Dress
631 wordsThe Bluest Eye The three passages that begin The Bluest Eye appear to be from a Childrens book. They show a family's life in the same terms, but they differ in punctuation, capitalization, and spacing. The first passage is normal in all of these aspects: Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the green-and-white house. They are very happy. See Jane. She has a red dress. She wants to play. Who will...
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William Randolph Hearst Heart And Soul
3,882 wordsCitizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal Of William Citizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal Of William Randolph Hearst? Many have called Citizen Kane the greatest cinematic achievement of all time. It is indeed a true masterpiece of acting, screen writing, and directing. Orson Welles, its young genius director, lead actor, and a co-writer, used the best talents and techniques of the day (Bordwell 103) to tell the story of a newspaper giant, Charles Kane, through the eyes of the people who loved and hated...
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Welfare To Work Five Years
511 wordsJanuary 19, 1999 BY JUDITH HAVEMANN AND WALTER PINCUS WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON President Clinton will propose in his State of the Union address tonight a $ 1 billion expansion of the federal governments efforts to help the nations most disadvantaged families move from welfare to work, White House officials said Monday. The officials said the initiative will help about 200, 000 welfare families get jobs. Despite the enormous progress we have made in the last few years in moving people from welf...
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Twenty Five Percent Centers For Disease Control
1,930 wordsForty-eight million Americans smoked in 1997 which is equivalent to about twenty-five percent of the nation s adult population, according to a U. S. government survey released in November, 1999 (Cooper n. p. ). According to Michael Ericsson, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s Office on Smoking and Health, the smoking rate among young adults ages 18 - 24 rose about four percent because of the increase in teen smoking seen over the next ten years. He said, As these teenag...
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Flexible Response Soviet Union
858 wordsStrategies Of Containment A Critical Appraisal Of Strategies Of Containment A Critical Appraisal Of Postwar American National Security Policy Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy In Strategies of Containment, John Lewis Gaddis looks to analyze the United States national security policy since World War II. Gaddis divides the postwar years into five distinct geopolitical codes, which he analyzes in depth. Gaddis systematic analysis asks the f...
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