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Open The Door Sporting Goods
1,432 words
Born into a wealthy and well- known family
Patricia Hearst had luxuries that many kids never
grow up with. She lived in a mansion and grew up
in catholic schools. Her Parents Randolph and
Catherine Hearst were strict with their five
daughters. As Patty grew up she became more
distant from her parents and decided to go to a
public high school. There is where she met Steven
Weed; he was a young teacher who had just
graduated from Princeton University. He became her
math tutor, but not long after t...
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Loud Car Horn Twenty Cents Nice
546 words
My two-year-old nieces favorite phrase is Be nice.
Anytime she is crossed, does not get what she
wants, scolded or reprimanded, Be nice is her
response. It is just a quiet, innocently spoken Be
nice; almost like she is trying to remind you how
to act. Two little words can go a long way. Be
nice. Why is that so hard for some people to do?
It makes every ones day go a lot more smoothly
when people show common courtesy. It does not have
to be something prolific, things like holding the
door open fo...
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The Impacts Of Chernobyl Nuclear Accident In Us
752 words
The Impacts of Chernobyl Nuclear Accident in the
US Nuclear energy used to be a dream energy source
because it did not emit air pollutants as long as
they were operating properly. The US government
and Utility Companies invested billions of dollars
to build and develop nuclear power plants.
However, its magic was collapsed on April 26,
1986. A series of explosions in a nuclear power
plant in Chernobyl blew the massive roof off the
reactor building and flung radioactive debris and
dust high into ...
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War Of 1812 President Of The United States
914 words
My name is Andrew Jackson, and I was the 7 th
president of the United States. People tell me
that I have a lot to be proud of, because I wasnt
just a president, I worked as a prosecuting
attorney, and I fought in the war. Ive heard
people say that I was the best-loved and
most-hated president the young nation had ever
known. I named a era after myself, and always
lived according to the rugged, straightforward
code of the American frontier. In 1802, I was
elected major general of the military for...
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Books New York Heinrich Himmler
874 words
Heinrich Himmler was Reichsfhrer-SS (Reich SS
Leader) and Chief of the German police. In this
capacity, he was responsible for the
implementation of the Final Solution - the
extermination of the Jews - as ordered by the
Fhrer, Adolf Hitler. He was born in Munich on
October 7, 1900. His father was the son of a
police president, a former tutor to the princes of
the Bavarian court, and a headmaster by
profession. Himmler originally intended to be a
farmer and in fact acquired a degree in agronomy.
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Washington D C Grand Jury
1,171 words
The Watergate Affair, is the worst political
scandal in U. S. history. It led to the
resignation of the president, Richard M. Nixon,
after he became implicated in an attempt to cover
up the scandal. The Watergate Affair refers to the
break-in and electronic bugging in 1972, of the
Democratic National Committee headquarters in the
Watergate apartment, and office building complex
in Washington D. C. The term was applied to
several related scandals. More than thirty
administration officials, campai...
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Espionage Act Judiciary Act
702 words
The United States democratic system includes
certain features that are intended to protect
against the abuse of the power by the government
and public officials. Some protective features
include: judicial review, impeachment process,
freedom of expression, protection against
unreasonable searches, equal protection under the
law, and the rights of the accused. One important
protective feature is judicial review. Judicial
review is the power of the courts to review laws
and determine whether or no...
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Narrative Life Of Frederick Douglass
1,500 words
Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass Frederick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe,
Maryland, near Hillsborough. He doesnt know for
sure of his age, he has seen no proof and his
master will not inform him. Most masters prefer
for their slaves to stay ignorant. He believes
that he was around twenty-seven and twenty-eight
when he began writing his narrative - he overheard
his master say he was about seventeen years of age
during 1835. His mother, Harriet Bailey, was
separated from him w...
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Government Of The United States Fort Sumter
1,034 words
... attack (Hutchinson Encyclopedia). Repeated
demands were made upon Major Anderson, and upon
the President, for the relinquishment of Fort
Sumter. All demands were refused. Finally, Major
Anderson was summoned to evacuate the fort, for
the last time. The Hutchnison Encyclopedia
explains that, accordingly, on April 11 th,
General Beauregard sent him the following
communication: Sir: The government of the
Confederate States has hitherto forborne from any
hostile demonstrations against Fort Sumte...
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Machine Guns Supreme Court
1,596 words
The Great Depression was started on October 24 th
also known as Black Thursday when the Stock Market
crashed. When this happened many thousands of
banks failed, sending millions of people to the
unemployment line. Also at the time there was an
extensive drought in the United States of America.
The Hindenberg was another disaster that happened
in the 1930 's, the Hindenberg was the length of
three football fields and was held aloft by 7
million cubic feet of hydrogen gas. It also had
giant Swasti...
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Lai Massacre Social Structure
464 words
Reading # 21: The My Lai Massacre: A Military
Crime of Obedience By Herbert Kelman and V. Lee
Hamilton. Under Topic: Social Structure. In this
article the events that occurred during the
Vietnam War in the village of My Lai 4 are
discussed. In this village the murder of innocent
women, children and unarmed old men of the village
had occurred for no apparent reason. The My Lai
massacre is one example of a crime in which
individuals claimed that they were simply
following the orders of someone who...
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Dollars A Month Music Industry
732 words
Napster is a music sharing program freely
downloaded from the Internet. It allows you to
search for song titles and download them to your
computer into files called mp 3 s. The Recording
Industry Association of America has sued the
creators of Napster with the premise that they are
encouraging music piracy. On March 6 th, 2001 a
federal judge in San Francisco posted a
preliminary injunction that ordered the music
industry to provide Napster with a list of
artists, song titles and the specific fi...
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Spanish Inquisition Catholic Church
1,072 words
The Spanish Inquisition and Christianity The
Spanish Inquisition began as a quest to purify
Spain of heretics, but it soon became much more
than that. There are two very distinct views of
what really happened during the time of the
Inquisition. One longstanding belief is that of
the terror of the Inquisition as a thing of
nightmares where thousands of people were
subjected to cruel torture. The other, more
modern, view is that the Inquisition was no where
near as terrible as it had been proclaim...
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U S Military North Vietnam
590 words
The Vietnam War was a military struggle fought in
Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. It began as a
determined attempt by Communist society (called
Vietcong) in the South, backed by Communist North
Vietnam, to overthrow the government of South
Vietnam. The struggle widened into a war between
South Vietnam and North Vietnam and eventually
into an international conflict. The United States
and about 40 other countries supported South
Vietnam by supplying troops and munitions for
their fight, and the USSR an...
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Lord Of The Flies William Golding
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Lord Of The Flies: A Shocking Tale Of The Darkness
Of Mans Heart At first, William Golding's novel,
The Lord Of The Flies, seems little more than a
tale of a group of boys, the sole survivors of a
plane crash, and their adventures on a deserted
island. However, as the story unfolds, it becomes
more than a mere tale of survival. The island is
no longer simply a place for an adventure but a
metaphor for the entire world, with each of the
characters representing important aspects that
make up this ...
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School Uniforms School Boards
352 words
School Uniform Throughout the Japan, numerous
school boards have been attempting to standardize
the clothing that students wear. The school
superintendents who are in favor of uniforms will
argue that the children who wear them will
experience many benefits. I disagree with this
idea. I feel that the use of uniforms will strip
identity, stifle creativity and unnecessarily
burden the families that cannot afford them. The
use of uniforms has already been implemented in
several long-standing social...
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Work Outside The Home Secret Police
892 words
Stalin: Did His Rule Benefit Russian Society
Stalin: Did His Rule Benefit Russian Society And
The Russian People? Another change under Stalin
was that there was an equality of rights for
women. They were urged to work outside the home
and to liberate themselves sexually. Divorces and
abortions were also made very easy. Young women
were constantly told that they should be fully
equal to men, that they could and should do
anything men could do... (McKay 932). Most women
had to work outside the hom...
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Millions Of People Napster Users
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Shutting Down Napster is Not the Solution Almost
everyone has heard of Napster and its long debated
issue s of file swapping and sharing. Considering
Napster s short-lived existence of about a year
and a half, they have certainly opened many people
s eyes. Some say the file swapping that Napster
allows everyone to do is illegal; others says it s
just another thing to do on the internet. Napster
has done much good for the internet, adding one
more good thing that the internet can do for us.
Napst...
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Mary Ann Police Officers
1,386 words
Mary Spook (Book Report) SPOOK Mary Ann Nelson has
never been to school. She is fifteen years old.
Her and her mother, Muriel live in an old house.
No one has ever seen what Mary Ann looks like in
years because she always wears a hood to cover her
face. The other children used to make fun of her.
They called her the Spook. An educator comes to
town. Her name is Lola Aragon. She hears of Mary
Ann and wants to help her. Lola wants to get Mary
Ann into school. But she has to hurry because by
law af...
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Delta Force Movie Theater
592 words
Suicide in Chinatown There was a normal afternoon
in Chinatown. Everybody was really interested in
Silvester Stalone s new action movie that was
being played for the first time this weekend.
Delta Force was the movie. Stalone was acting as a
very famous cop. He became popular because one
year before he killed all a group of terrorists
that was planning to put a bomb in the Empire
State Building. Now he is fighting against some
bank robbers. The critics and also the public were
complaining about ...
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