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Chinese Exclusion Act 20 Th Century
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San Francisco Maximum Security
1,111 words... n working in the industry buildings was a privilege. Life on the rock was not always as gruesome as is commonly supposed. alcatraz would allow certain freedoms for those who respected the rules and did as they were told. These freedoms were called privileges, and for some prisoners they were their reason for living, and an escape from imprisonment and the confines of their cells. Such privileges included the right to ask for a light or heavy portion of food in the mess hall (however an inmat...
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Bubonic Plague Black Plague
1,135 wordsThe Black Plague was one of the worst and deadliest diseases known to man in the history of the world. The Plague originated in Italy and quickly spread throughout Europe killing more than one hundred thirty seven million people. Early treatments for the Plague were often bizarre but eventually came in a vaccine and through isolation. The symptoms of the Black Plague were swellings called buboes and dried blood under the skin that appeared black. The Black Plague changed the world in several dif...
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Golden Gate Twenty Nine
1,516 wordsAlthough Alcatraz sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay, only a little over a mile from the city, the island seemed as distant as if it were a thousand miles out to sea. The island seems uninviting and because of its un appeal, it played an important role in the history of California. The island had a number of uses. Alcatraz was the site of a powerful fortress, a military prison and a federal prison. The island is surrounded by treacherous cross currents and five-knot tides with a deadly unde...
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Austria Hungary Triple Alliance
1,463 wordsMussolini and the intervention crisis Benito Mussolini was born in Predappio, near Forli, in Romagna, on July 29, 1883. Like his father, Benito became a fervent socialist. He qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901. In 1902 he emigrated to Switzerland. Unable to find a permanent job there and arrested for vagrancy, he was expelled and returned to Italy to do his military service. After further trouble with the police, he joined the staff of a newspaper in the Austrian town of Trento in 1...
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Viet Cong Tet Offensive
1,071 wordsThe greatest tragedy is war, but so long as there is mankind, there will be war. -Join The Art of War On March 16, 1968, Charlie Company of the American Division moved into the hamlet of My Lai and committed one of the most brutal atrocities in the Vietnam War and American history. However much their actions resulted from inherent stresses of the war, their brutal targeting of noncombatants was said to be an exceptional deviation from orders. Some 500 civilians were killed and it was not until a...
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Washington D C Brendon John Feel
760 wordsThere are some people out there who are genuinely great people. Sometimes it is easier for me to pick out the negative in others. It was impossible for me to do that when I met Brendon John Collins. He was beaming with beautiful qualities. After a few days I came to adore just how silly, loving, and ambitious he is. For a grown man Brendon is the silliest I have ever met. My co-workers would crack up when they found the all too familiar post-it notes Brendon left laying around. Scribbled on them...
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Teacher Crisis Effects Of Classroom Management
1,002 wordsChildren are very good at reading attitudes, especially when it is an "I don't care" attitude. When they get a sense that an adult does not care about them learning, they think, "Well why should I care. " This is the reason for looking at the teacher crisis and its effects on classroom management. How does this crisis affect classroom management and what can be done to solve this issue? Management according to the dictionary is defined as the act of directing and controlling the affairs of busin...
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Rival Gang Organized Crime
1,138 wordsAlphonsus Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. Capone quit school in the sixth grade at age fourteen. He became part of the notorious Five Points gang in Manhattan and worked in gangster Frankie Yale's Harvard Inn as a bouncer and bartender. While in New York Capone murdered two men and hospitalized a rival gang member, however he was tried for his crimes. With a reputation for a willingness to kill, Yale sent Capone to Chicago to work as a bodyguard. # Capone arrived in Ch...
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Routes To Asia Fleets Of Ships Renaissance
504 wordsThe Renaissance was the most influential time period in the discovery of America. During the Renaissance, which lasted from the 14 th century to the 17 th century, great advancements were made in methods of navigation. Also, the greatest goal of almost every nation and empire was to claim new lands and seize its riches. The desire for the land motivated some to move westward. Another motive to expand during the Renaissance was the will to convert the native 'heathens' into Christians. The Renais...
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Cq Researcher Violent Crimes
886 words... who work there. Still, 'the world's oldest trade has always outwitted attempts to suppress it' ('Street Cleaning' 24). Another reason why some citizens are calling for the decriminalization of prostitution is that it would greatly reduce the transmission of STDs. Legalized prostitution has shown that 4 prostitutes who work in brothels practice safe sex and are less likely to contract and transmit STDs. As indicated in the article entitled, 'Prostitution': George Flint, director of the Nevada...
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Chimney Rock Mesa Northern San Juan Anasazi
1,312 wordsGrade: Chaco Canyon CHACO CANYON Grade: 84 Language: english System: COLLEGE Country: USA Authors Comments: ABOUT THE ANASAZI INDIANS Teachers Comments: WELL WRITTEN jim barry 11 / 4 / 96 The Anasazi, who were named by the Navajos, knew how to chart the seasons by observing the sky. The biggest mystery of Chaco Canyon is why the Anasazidecided to leave the home that they had built over so many years. the one thing that is quite interesting is that they were able to construct such a magnificent p...
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Chimney Rock Mesa Northern San Juan Anasazi
1,281 wordsThe Anasazi, who were named by the Navajos, knew how to chart the seasons by observing the sky. The biggest mystery of Chaco Canyon is why the Anasazidecided to leave the home that they had built over so many years. the one thing that is quite interesting is that they were able to construct such a magnificent piece of architecture without the use of metal tools or any devices with wheels. CHIMNEY ROCK Chimney Rock is located about 20 miles west of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The construction is co...
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Spirit Of St Charles Lindbergh
779 wordsA small one-engined plane with The Spirit of St. Louis painted on the side lands at Le Bourget field, in the midst of thousands of cheering spectators. A tall, thin, sandy haired, twenty-five-year-old man emerges from the cockpit and timidly smiles. Modestly, he says well, I made it. (http: // 141. 224. 128. 4) What this man has just accomplished is something nobody had done before: fly nonstop over the Atlantic ocean alone. This was one of the many achievements of this man we call Lindbergh, wh...
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Maltese Falcon Sam Spade
1,161 wordsDashiell Hammett? s Detective Influence In writing? The Maltese Falcon? , Dashiell Hammett took advantage of his previous occupation as a Pinkerton detective in order to make his novel the masterpiece that it is now known to be. Although the most famous, this was not his only fine work to be placed in a genre of literature known as? hard-boiled detective fiction? . Each novel, such as Red Harvest (1929), The Glass Key (1931) and The Thin Man (1934) are well recognized as masterpieces of detectiv...
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William Randolph Hearst Wanted To Make
1,209 wordsWilliam Randolph Hearst &# 038; Marion Davies: The Truth of their Relationship Things are not always as they seem. People who are always in the public eye often have their live stereotyped because they are rich and famous. This was the case with William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies. Many people believed that because of his power and money she was using him to advance her career and that the relationship would not last due to the 34 -year age difference between them. The truth is that their ...
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Helter Skelter San Francisco
1,127 wordsPIG was the word smeared in blood on the door at 10050 Cielo Dr. on August 8, 1969. Beyond the door lay the bodies of Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Vote Frykowski and Jay Sebring all with multiple stab wounds and bullet holes. A couple of them had electrical cords around the necks and were hanged from the rafters of the Tate residence, the rest of the house had blood on the ceiling, blood on the walls, and blood on the floor. The following night at 3301 Waverly Dr. came the discovery of more bodi...
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Call Of The Wild Jack London
538 wordsJack London s characters and settings reflect his life in his works. This is most obvious in his novels The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden, and To Build a Fire. Jack London was born in 1876 in San Francisco, California. He lived with his father and mother. His father was an astrologer and his mother supposedly talked to the dead. He grew up not being cared for and with very little education (Adventures 482). Jack London finished school through the 8 th grade (Wilson 1). When he turned eighteen he...
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Maya Angelou Caged Bird
1,318 wordsA poet, an author, a play-write, an actress, a mother, a civil-rights activists, historian and most important a survivor. Perhaps Maya Angelou, award winning author of many books is one of the most influential African Americans in American history. I believe that she rates at the top of the list of American authors, with Hemingway, Hawthorne, and Voight. I believe through my research and reading of Maya Angelou that she should be among the members of The American Authors Hall of Fame. Maya was b...
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San Diego Greenhaven F Scott Fitzgerald
1,074 wordsThe Great Gatsby? F. Scott Fitzgerald s Great Gatsby tells a story about the American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its illusionary goals. The American Dream has always been based on the idea that each person, no matter who he is, can become successful in life by his hard work. The dream also embodies the idea of a self-sufficient man, an entrepreneur making it successful for him. Jay Gatsby, the main character, embraces this dream of happiness in order to recapture his p...
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