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Lewis And Clark Clark Expedition
547 wordsSacajawea was born sometime during 1786 in a territory located in todays Idaho. She lived in her Rocky Mountain homeland the first 12 years of her life, up until she was kidnapped from her Shoshone people by an enemy tribe, the Hidasta's. Sacajawea was then sold to a French-Canadian fur trader named Toussaint Charbonneau as a slave, and was soon after claimed as one of his wives. During this time an expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory was being formed by Meriwhether Lewis and William C...
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Drug Legalization Drug Addicts
777 wordsDrug Legalization Dear Drug Czar, I understand how busy you are, so I will try to be as brief and precise as possible. My name is Mike and I am 32 now, though I look as a very old and sick man. Out of my thirty-two years I have really lived only sixteen. My life stopped when I was in high school and tried marijuana for the first time. I will never forget that day! It was such an unusual feeling. I felt so exhilarated, so happy and so independent. How cruel this life is! The very first time you f...
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Bubonic Plague Infectious Diseases
1,096 wordsThe Bubonic Plague Devastating epidemics and infectious diseases took place in all periods of the mankind's history. The number of the victims at times considerably exceeded losses during military actions. Plague was one of the terrible general illnesses of the classical Middle Ages period. 3 enormous plagues are known in the history. The first is Justinian's plague (sixth century A. D. ), which, having left Egypt, has devastated almost all the countries of the Mediterranean and it was kept abou...
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Foster Dulles Cold War
1,257 wordsHist. 5240 james martel H. W. Brands claims that, the burden of responsibility for the cold war rested on the United States, the more powerful of the two countries, and the one with less to fear from the other. (The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War, 1993) This statement stems from the idea that America had no evidential basis for a foreign policy that called for a containment of Soviet expansion. Brands is claiming that the US had less to fear because an aggressive foreign force did not...
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President Of The United States Years Ago
351 wordsChet Arthur, President of the United States? Good God! That is what many of us were saying when former President Garfield died and Republican Chester A. Arthur took over. However, Chet Arthur has proved us all wrong. We are living in a time of prosperity, well after the Civil War. Arthur, even though he will not go down into the history books as one of our greatest presidents ever, Arthur has done nothing to stop to progress of our great society. Even the recent miniature scandal has been proved...
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People Per Square People Of China
1,218 wordsChinas Population Problem The Chinese government has taken the enforcement of family planning and birthrate laws to an extreme by violating the civil rights of its citizens, which has had bad effects on the morale of its people (Whyte 161). Chinas population has grown to such an enormous size that it has become a problem to both the people and government. China, the most populous country in the world, has an estimated population of about one thousand-one hundred-thirty three point six million (H...
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Ottoman Turks Pope Urban
1,421 wordsLater Crusades Essay. After the first Christian Crusade that begun in 1095 there were eight classified crusades that generally aimed towards the area of Sir and Palestine that lasted untill the 1270 s. Yet after much humiliation and the repeated defeat of the Crusaders in the Lavant, most of the European powers understood the fact that the Holy Land was unattainable. Most the crusading efforts were aimed at the enemies of Catholics such as the Turkish invaders who sought to destroy Christianity ...
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World War Ii United States And Russia
1,106 wordsAfter World War II, a struggle between the Communist nations and the democratic nations occurred which is known as the Cold War. The United States had a policy set up that clearly stated that any nation invaded by a communist country would have the assistance of the United States Government in controlling Communism expansion. This theory was known as containment. Containment was used throughout the Cold War, and the policy appeared to be a success by stopping communist Russia. Was the United Sta...
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Civil War Long Range
657 wordsThe artillery crews of both armies of the Civil War worked with the first guns that would eventually come to be the long-range killing machines that are used by the modern armies of today. The Civil War saw the beginnings of rifled barrels and breech loading artillery, with limited service however these new concepts were not fully developed and perfected until the years after the war. On the battlefields of the Civil War the smoothbore guns reigned supreme. There were three types of field ordina...
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World War Ii Book Was Written
1,201 wordsSecrecy: The American Experience? By Senator Daniel Secrecy: The American Experience? By Senator Daniel P. Moynihan According to a survey performed for the Defense Department in 1996, it was found that the majority of U. S. citizens believe that the government withholds too much information by classifying it as a secret. In this book, ? Secrecy: The American Experience? , Senator Daniel P. Moynihan reinforces that view. This is a distinctive book with numerous weaknesses, some errors, and one gr...
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Iv Scene Iii Act Iv Scene
1,301 wordsRomeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare A pair of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. From the opening scenes of the play these two children of feuding families were destined to fall in love together and eventually die together. How does the reader see this? How do we know it was fate, which triggered these events? Coincidence caused the death of these two lovers. For this reason Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies. For coincidence to have caused the death of Romeo and Ju...
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Vikings Lived Boots Made
842 wordsCulture topic from Norway Much of the culture from Norway during the period of the 10 th to the 11 th century came from the Vikings. They came from many villages and military camps from all over Scandinavia. They were excellent seamen and warriors. Because of their geography the people were forced to use the sea as their transportation. The traveled in long boats decorated with dragonheads on their prows and used for raiding, warfare, and exploration. According to many historians, the Vikings li...
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Sire Sven Troile Latched Onto Sven Magnetic James
1,948 wordsWorld War I left many families dead, creating large numbers of orphans. Jamaie (later to become James) Decartes was one of those orphans. His father died in the trenches in France, and his mother was stolen away, never to be seen again. James was 14 when this happened, he hid under floor boards when his mother was taken away. His humble french hometown village, was over run with german foot traffic, traveling to and from the front line. James? decided this was no life for him, so he ran south, t...
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God Does Not Exist Concept Of God
1,718 wordsFor being accustomed in all other things to make a distinction between existence and essence, I easily persuade myself that existence may perhaps be separated from the essence of God, and thus God might be conceived as not existent actually. PROP. XI. God, or substance, consisting, of infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality, necessarily exists. Proof. If this be denied, conceive, if possible, that God does not exist: then his essence does not involve existe...
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Dna Testing Court Cases
794 wordsStudies say that even though 50 % of eyewitness testimonies are wrong, the information given to the jury by a confident eyewitness beats the reliable facts of fingerprints and DNA. Researchers have studied the affects of eyewitness testimony and it is said that incorrect eyewitness identifications account for more convictions of innocent people than any other causes combined. Two studies have shown that after being questioned for a crime, positive feedback by police enforcers or other investigat...
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Major Difference Research Paper
1,284 wordsCompare &# 038; Contrast While comparing and contrasting information from, The Shaped Ski Revolution, by Sonoma County Ski and Snowboard Guide, and an article written by Rich Taylor of Popular Mechanics called Shaped Skis I found information on many aspects of the new shaped ski technology. Information ranged from safety to ski technique. Rich Taylors article is a better source for my final research paper because of its relevancy, accurate depiction, and it is a reliable and accurate resource. T...
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Mohandas Gandhi Civil Disobedience
664 wordsCivil disobedience and passive resistance was morally superior to all other types of resistance to unjust laws. The philosophy of Mohandas Gandhi did not incite violence and was the safest and best way to resolve and abolish unjust laws. An example of this can be found in the incident at the Dharassana Salt Works, a British factory. The aspects of his philosophy were all peaceful and did not incite violence. The aspects were civil disobedience, live simply and serve others. The most important of...
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Violence On Television Violence On Children
861 wordsMedia Violence and? Real-life? Violence There is a general consensus among people that media violence fosters deviant behavior in children. However, some argue that media violence has no effect on its audience. Nevertheless, there has been a tremendous amount of research that proves that violence on television and other forms of mass media profoundly influences the minds and actions of children. Some may argue that violence in the media does not have a detrimental effect on children. Instead, it...
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Published His First George Gershwin
1,284 wordsGeorge Gershwin (1898 - 1937) George Gershwin, born in Brooklyn, New York on 26 September 1898, was born the second of four children of Morris and Rose Gershovitz, Russians who immigrated to New York in 1891. George and his family lived on Manhattans lower east side in a poor Jewish community. After settling down in New York, his father changed the family name to Gershwin. It was George who later altered his last name to Gershwin when he entered the professional world of music. Most of his famil...
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Electromagnetic Radiation Electromagnetic Waves
538 wordsJames Clerk Maxwell Introduction James Clerk Maxwell was a British physicist. Maxwell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 13, 1831. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy from 1841 to 1847. He then entered the University of Edinburgh, and went on to study at the University of Cambridge in 1850, graduating with a bachelors degree in mathematics in 1854. In 1860, he moved to London to become a professor of philosophy and astronomy at Kings College. Due to the death of his father in 1865, Max...
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