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Causes Of The Civil War
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... 865. This war was one of the most destructive
events in American history, costing more than 600,
000 lives. It was thought to be one that helped
shape the character of the American individual
today. From the Southern point of view, this war
was a War of Rebellion, or a War for Southern
Independence. From the Northern point of view this
war was seen as a revolution. This unfortunate war
started as a result of many years of differences
between the Union and the Confederacy. It erupted
after ma...
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Collective Bargaining Labor Unions
752 words
A labor union is as defined in the dictionary, an
organization of wage earners formed for the
purpose of serving the members' interests with
respect to wages and working conditions. Today
there are about 16 million workers in the U. S.
that belong to a labor union. The pressure upon
the employers to raise wages and improve working
conditions in a major goal of the labor unions.
Labor unions have been around for a long time. The
earlier unions were called craft unions,
consisting of only a couple...
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Book Encyclopedia Volume World Book Encyclopedia Volume Map
856 words
Cartography is described by Webster's as the art
of making maps, but how is it done? A cartographer
doesn't just sit down and draw a map free hand. He
has to have techniques and equipment to do the job
right and accurately. Maps can be made in three
different ways: cylindrical projection, conic
projection, and azimuthal projection. These
different ways vary the quality and the accuracy
of the map. No matter how a map is made it is
going to have geographic grids, which help us find
and describe l...
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World War Ii Army Corps
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For women, wartime was considered the best years
of their lives by some people and historians. Not
only did women come to the countrys aid in time of
need, they also started the concept of women
having a job. The idea of women at work during
World War II was not utterly new. In the previous
years of World War I, women were nursing sisters,
volunteers, and there were even some women in the
Navy. Before the war to end all wars, work was
considered a mans job. Normally, a womans place
was in the ho...
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War With Japan Bloody Sunday
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At the beginning of the 1900 s, Russia was still
being run by nobility, while the peasants made up
more than half of the population. The Russian
people didnt see much of the rest of the world
outside of their commune way of life. They were
hard workers who farmed the land while struggling
against the cold and hardships of their life. Czar
Alexander II hoping to bring Russia out of the
dark ages signed the Emancipation Manifesto. Which
freed the serfs from ownership to the nobles. The
unwillingne...
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Real Interest Rates Federal Reserve System
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(Rukeyser 114). A final tool of monetary policy
are foreign currency operations. Purchases and
sales of foreign currency by the Fed are directed
by the FOMC, acting in cooperation with the
Treasury, which has overall responsibility for
these operations. The Fed does not have targets,
or desired levels, for the exchange rate. Instead,
Fed intervention aims to counter disorderly
movements in foreign exchange markets.
Intervention operations involving dollars, whether
initiated by the Fed, the Trea...
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Cold War Communist Nation
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Media and Propaganda Media and propaganda have
played an important role in swaying and pacifying
the opinions of the people of nations throughout
wars in the twentieth century. Media is
information and news that is brought about by an
organization, which is set to inform the public of
ongoing happenings and events nationally and
internationally, (World Book, vol. 13). Propaganda
is a form of media, newspapers, radio, television,
posters, books, and other publications, any
systematic, widespread ...
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Pineal Gland Autoimmune Diseases
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Set deep in our brains is a tiny gland called the
pineal gland. This tiny gland is in charge of the
endocrine system, the glandular system that
controls most of our bodily functions. The pineal
runs our body clocks+, and it produces melatonin;
the hormone that may prove to be the biggest
medical discovery since penicillin, and the key to
controlling the aging process. The pineal gland
controls such functions as our sleeping cycle and
the change of body temperature that we undergo
with the changi...
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Symptoms Of Schizophrenia Obsessive Compulsive
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There are many diseases and disorders that may
affect the human mind. Some of these are serious,
while others are minor and may not even be
noticed. Some of the disorders and diseases to be
covered in this report are delirium, dementia, and
schizophrenia, also a discussion of specific
symptoms and treatments available for the
different disorders. A mental illness is defined
as any disease that affects a persons mind,
thoughts, emotions, personality, or behavior. For
any mental illness, as in a p...
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People Per Square United States Of America
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Mexico, the United Mexico Mexico Mexico, the
United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos),
is bordered on the north by the United States of
America; on the south by Belize and Guatemala; on
the east by the United States of America, Gulf of
Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the west by
the Pacific Ocean. Mexico? s borders stretch
approximately 1, 958, 201 square kilometers or
756, 066 square miles. That figure includes 5, 363
square kilometers or 2, 071 square miles of
outlying islands. F...
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Mohandas Gandhi British Rule
611 words
Satyagraha. Meaning force or firmness of truth,
Mohandas Gandhi worked and lived by this word. By
peaceful, non-violent demonstrations he, little by
little, took hold of the people of Indias love and
honor and freed them from British rule. This is
his story: On October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India,
a region of Queen Victoria, Mohandas Gandhi was
born Mohandas Gandhi died in January of 1948. (The
actual date is in dispute. The information from my
book said that his death was on the 30 th, but the
...
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Napoleon Bonaparte Britannica Junior
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Napoleon Bonaparte This book report will explain
why Napoleon Bonaparte is known as one of the
greatest military masterminds in the history of
mankind. It will show the life of Napoleon from
when he was a young boy, till he died in 1821. It
will show how he made the French into giving him
power, and how he used this power for his own
interests. It will also reveal how he almost
killed an entire generation of French people, and
again prove that all good things must come to an
end. Napoleon Bonapa...
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Fort Sumter Civil War
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The United States of America is these days the
most powerful country in the world but back in
1861 the tide was different due to an incredible
event in which 660, 000 (Encarta 1997
Encyclopedia) people died in a war which was just
because of a difference in opinion. Throughout
this essay I will talk briefly about how the civil
war started then mainly what led to the end of
this terrible event. The American civil war was a
military conflict between the United States of
America (the Union) and the...
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World War Ii Chicago Tribune
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Poland's, or any other countrys, problems of today
are linked to the past, scholars must take a look
at the countrys background. This paper aims to
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Isn T Doesn T
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Who was Prometheus 2 Prometheus Who was
responsible for bring fire to mankind, who was
chained to the top of a mountain and had his liver
devoured by an eagle every night? The answer:
Prometheus. This god was part of a mighty group of
gods called Titans. The poet Hesoid described
Prometheus as a trickster, and a troublemaker.
Aeschylus described Prometheus as a tragic hero.
Many plays have been written about Prometheus,
including Prometheus. Prometheus was a cunning,
intelligent being. During th...
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Swing Era Cool Jazz
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The Rise of Jazz Throughout this paper I will take
you through some of the different styles and eras
of jazz. Such styles as be-bop, cool jazz,
dixieland, swing, and fusion emerged define jazz
music. Along with these different styles there
were important eras that molded jazz music, such
eras as the golden ages, and the swing era. Jazz
is a kind of music that has often been called the
only art form to originate in the United States.
The history of jazz began in the late 1800? s. The
music grew f...
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Sam Houston Santa Anna
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Samuel Houston Samuel Houston is considered by
most Texans to have been the greatest man to ever
live. While this is their opinion, it is a fact
that he was one of the most important men in Texas
path to becoming a state. Samuel Houston was born
near Lexington, Virginia on March 2, 1793. His
parents started sending him to local school at the
age of 8, but he was a very rebellious child and
rarely attended class. Later in life, he was known
to have said, By the time I was fourteen years of
age I ...
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Lucent Technologies Japanese Culture
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Trip to Tokyo, Japan Trip to Tokyo, Japan Purpose
of Trip: I will be traveling to Tokyo, Japan for
six months on a business trip. I will be traveling
with five other members of my organization at
Lucent Technologies to assist Lucent- Japan in
their process of developing and implementing an
Indirect Channel in their country. Since I will be
living in Tokyo for six months, it is expected of
me to research and learn as much as possible about
the Japanese culture and the proper etiquette
expected of...
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20 Th Century Discovering Authors
724 words
Stephen Edwin King, a popular American writer, was
born in Portland, Maine on September 21, 1949. He
is a storyteller who plots to explore the effects
of evil and fear (Academic American Encyclopedia
81; World Book 323). Stephen King goes by many
names or pseudonyms and they are Richard Bachman
and John Switches (Major 20 th Century Writers
1626). He said, I just want to scare people. I m
very humble about that. He has won both critical
acclaim and enormous popular success (Academic
American Enc...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
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The accounts from soldiers describing combat in
general present images are of hellish nightmares
where all decency and humanity could be lost. For
men who fought under these conditions, coming home
was a very difficult switch. Over all, these men
wanted to return to normalcy, to come back to a
life that they had been promised if the war was
won. This would turn out to be harder to gain then
first expected, problems ranging from the openness
of jobs in the work force to child raising and
post-tra...
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