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Late Eighteenth Century Slave Trade
2,973 wordsFrom the 1520 s to the 1860 s an estimated 11 to 12 million African men, women, and children were forcibly embarked on European vessels for a life of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Many more Africans were captured or purchased in the interior of the continent but a large number died before reaching the coast. About 9 to 10 million Africans survived the Atlantic crossing to be purchased by planters and traders in the New World, where they worked principally as slave laborers in plantation eco...
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Chemical Reaction Living Things
502 wordsWhy is knowledge of chemistry important to biology? Biology is the study of all living things and chemistry is the study of chemicals and their interactions. So, how are they related? Our bodies are made up of hundreds and hundreds of chemicals. We just dont think of them like that. Did you ever wonder how your body turns food into energy? Its a chemical reaction. Thats chemistry involved in biology. Our bodies have hundreds more chemical reactions. A chemical reaction is one chemicals response ...
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Nation Of Islam Malcolm X
741 wordsHero is defined as many things. One is a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability. A hero could also be a man admired for his achievements and noble qualities. A hero is a person that shows great courage and is an object of extreme admiration and devotion. When people think of a hero, they usually think of a strong and big man like Superman and Batman. Their whole life is dedicated to saving lives and helping people. To me someone who helps ...
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Crude Oil Carbon Atoms
2,303 wordsThe Statistics and History of Crude Oil 4 The Statistics and History of Crude Oil A mixture of comparatively volatile liquid hydrocarbons (compounds composed mainly of hydrogen and carbon with some nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen) that occurs in the Earth's crust and is extracted for use as fuel and various petroleum products, what is this? Crude oil. Because crude oil is a mixture of widely varying constituents and proportions, its physical properties also vary widely. Crude oil is first pumped up...
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Place De La Concorde De La Concorde Champs
525 wordsThe Champs Elysees is a beautiful avenue in Paris, connecting the place de lemoine to the place de la Concorde. It is 1. 17 miles long, and divided into two parts by the rond-point. The Champs Elysees is laden with hundreds of shops, ranging from fashion stores, to restaurants and movie theaters. It even hosts a couple of dance clubs. The Champs Elysees is host to the Arc De Triumph and the Place Charles de Gaulle. The Champs Elysees, Elysian fields is Paris most famous avenue. It is located on ...
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Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World
1,892 wordsThroughout earths history hundreds of thousands of great structures have been built. Due to fires, earthquakes, conquests, and the ravages of time (cnn) most of them, unfortunately, have been destroyed. However, there are a select few that have made a significant impact in history by either withstanding the test of time or imprinting its memory within the majority of todays cultures. The seven Wonders of the ancient world are a large part of this extremely selective group. Though built in ancien...
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Capital Punishment And The Death Penalty
1,638 wordsThere have been over 55, 000 homicides committed in California since the death penalty was re established. This is the equivalent of killing every citizen in the towns of Carlsbad, Ca. or the town of Pensacola, Fla. There have been over 467, 000 homicides committed in the United States since the U. S. Supreme court allowed executions in 1976 up to 1994. This relates to the fact that every hour in the United States 2. 8 people will be a victim to a homicide. If you have 4 people at your dinner ta...
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Atomic Bomb Was Dropped Hundreds Of Thousands
1,609 wordsIt began in the desert of New Mexico on July 16, 1945, with the first U. S. atomic test called Trinity. The device was comprised of 19, 300 tons of TNT explosive. There was an intense light that brightened the distant mountains, a sudden wave of heat, and then a tremendous roar as the shock wave echoed in the valley (Bolt 1). This was the first atomic test recorded in the history of the world. The man who invented the atomic bomb was physicist Albert Einstein. Two months after Einstein's incredi...
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Should We Have Dropped The Atomic Bomb
1,547 wordsThe atomic bomb killed many innocent people, but it was necessary to end World War II. After World War II began in 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the neutrality of the United States. Many people in the United States thought that their country should stay out of the war. The people wanted the Allied Forces to have the victory. President Roosevelt also wanted an Allied victory because an Axis victory might endanger democracies everywhere. The United States equipped nations fig...
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Hundreds Of Thousands End Of The Story
1,631 wordsEveryone agrees that something must be done about the tremendous physical and emotional health problems that drug abuse causes. Concern about the abuse of drugs is so widespread that recent polls indicate it to be one of the most serious problems in today's world, threatening the security and freedom of whole nations. Politicians, health experts and much of the general public feel that no issue is more important than drug abuse. America's other pressing social problems- disease, poverty, child a...
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Electronic Commerce E Commerce
1,083 wordsElectronic Commerce the slogan of our time seems to be the most popular subject of any business discussion today. International experts are sure that in the year 2000 at least about 10 % of the world s trade will be handled via on-line services. All over the world companies will use electronic commerce solutions and will try to profit from this new potential. There is no doubt that Electronic Commerce needs a highly functional and effective network for communication. That s why in the sixties, w...
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Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air Act
1,937 wordsIn the past century, one of the greatest threats to North Americas aquatic ecosystem has been the widespread acidification of hundreds of thousands of waterways. Acid rain has effected plant and animal life within aquatic ecosystems, as well as microbiology activity by affecting the rates of decomposition and the accumulation of organic matter. What causes this poisonous rain, and what can be done to improve North Americas water quality and prevent future catastrophes? To answer these questions,...
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African American Community Place To Live
901 wordsProblem Within A Problem Within today s society, there is a new form of hate which is beginning to brew. This hatred has been present in some form or another for hundreds upon hundreds of years. Throughout the world, people are drawn toward a specific group with whom they can relate. Hispanics generally socialize more with other Hispanics, Black people tend to stick to there own group of other black friends and Males and Females tend to form groups of buddies with other Males or Females. All of ...
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Eric Clapton Electric Guitar
1,177 wordsThe History of Guitar By Four hundred years ago the guitar was invented. Since then, guitar has been a great innovative instrument. It serves as the heart of a song, or sound. From Jazz, and Blues, to Heavy Metal, and punk music guitar has been perhaps the biggest factor in modern music. Between acoustic guitar, and electric guitar there is a lot of history. When guitar was first invented, it looked nothing like the guitars that we know. The first guitars were lutes. Lutes evolved into vihuelas,...
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Guy Fawkes November 5
1,726 wordsGunpowder History Of Gunpowder GUNPOWDER Gunpowder is the oldest of all explosives. It was used by the ancient Chinese, Arabs, and people of India first. But exact directions on how to make it were not known to the western World until 1242, when Roger Bacon of Oxford University, in England published a book in which he told the ways to make gunpowder. Today gunpowder is not used as much as more powerful explosives After Roger Bacon published his formula for gunpowder, Berthold Schwarz, a German m...
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World War Ii Atomic Bombs
1,228 wordsEleven million precious lives were lost during the Holocaust of World War II. Six million of these were Polish citizens. Half of these Polish citizens were non-Jews. On August 22, 1939, a few days before the official start of World War II, Hitler authorized his commanders, with these infamous words, to kill without pity or mercy, all men, women, and children of Polish descent or language. Only in this way can we obtain the living space [lebensraum] we need. Heinrich Himmler echoed Hitlers decree...
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Puerto Rico Puerto Ricans
2,055 wordsA very massive group of levees may be all that is in the way of lower lying New Orleans and destruction with a visit from Hurricane Georges. Without the levee system and concrete flood walls Georges could have catastrophic effects in New Orleans. But with this man-made hurricane protection system protecting the city people. New Orleans is spared the casualties and damage past storms have wrought. The levee system is important because the city is like a saucer 6 feet below sea level and is surrou...
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Quot Quot Ethnic Albanians
1,766 wordsThe Balkans have been a very unstable region for hundreds of years. The reason for contention is because of ethnic origin and disputes of which race owns which land... That is the reason for the dispute over Kosovo is because of the same thing. This is a very complicated situation, that I dont really know everything about. I just kind of know the basics. Back in the 1500 hundreds, the Serbs conquered the Kosovo area, slowly and gradually over the years the Ethnic Albanians started occupying the ...
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Kevin Mitnick Chat Rooms
1,544 wordsThe popular definition of a hacker has a negative connotation in todays society, but computer hackers arent criminals by their definition of the word. Their definition deals with how someone approaches an activity in life, not just when dealing with computers. Hackers feel a certain depth of commitment and an enhanced level of excitement at hacking a system. Hacking basically means learning all there is to know about a system, becoming immersed in the system to the point of distraction, and bein...
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Hundreds Of Years People Of Color
757 wordsThe Construction of an Institution For hundreds of years, it has been truth that the races were biologically different. The differences that separated society were based on scientifically based genetic differences that gave reason for the separation of races. However based on recent findings, it is known that this is not the case. In 1974 Richard Lewontin dispelled this myth with a study he did that proved that there are no genetic differences between races. In fact he discovered if anything, th...
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